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  1. Story was that it had been purchased, but I have no info on that. I do know that if it isn't owned by an entity, it still belongs to Chapala. That however, doesn't make it "public land," and someone cannot simply declare it a Public Dog Park.
  2. True enough about being an official Fracc. We are, however, a distinct neighborhood and we are NOT the location of a dog park sanctioned by the city of Chapala. If they ever decide to make the empty lot into a dog park, they will certainly let us know and publicize it as they did the new one on the malecon. Whatever the resident told you, he/she was wrong. It is simply an empty lot in our neighborhood, and people do NOT pick up after their dogs. We are constantly watching out for piles of poop, picking up litter left by people and workers having meals there and leaving food trash and paper and beer bottles behind. It is NOT a park, much less a dog park!
  3. Sorry, but there is NO dog park in Mirasol. It is simply a vacant lot. I am a resident of Mirasol, and I can speak for my neighbors when I say that as a neighborhood, we are dismayed by the number of outsiders who come into our Fracc to walk their dogs, and let their dogs run off leash ( which most residents do not), and leashed or not, often make piles of poop which the owners do NOT pick up. Beware. The lot is not as big as it looks, and can be dangerous to those who do not know the lay of the land. There is a GIANT hole that takes up almost 1/2 of the lot, apparently intended long ago for a swimming pool. It is overgrown and hidden by thick brush. If you don't know where it is, you could easily take a bad tumble into a deep hole with big rocks and lots of thorny bushes. It is NOT an approved dog park, but just an empty lot in our neighborhood.
  4. Fly them back. If you can't go, buy a cheap ticket and send someone. Maybe they could even take some dogs to Canada for one of the shelters.
  5. I order ALL my printer paper from Amazon. i work on genealogy and print a LOT. So many choices there. I don't have a car, so I do not like chasing things around.
  6. cstone

    Chicken thighs

    I order mine from CostCo.
  7. Take a pic and post to classifieds and let us know to go and check things out. Put $$, too.
  8. Many places online ship to Mexico. Go to their websites and look to see if they ship to Mexico. I have no idea how much additional customs/fees it might be, though.ColdWater Creek, Talbot's, just check through all the sites and look for international shipping.
  9. Fred, You can also contact Julie and Wayne Hensley. They are specialists in garage and estate sales. In addition, there are a number of local sites on FaceBook that sell such items. Another possibility is to approach some of the nicer "boutique" shops in Ajijic that cater to tourists and see if they might buy them from you.
  10. For my GP, if it is an urgent matter, I call to find out if he is in, and if so, I just go in and wait. Otherwise, I make an appointment within the week. I have never waited longer than that. He has also made evening house calls when my husband could not travel to his office, and it was not "ambulance/ER" worthy. For my orthopedist, if I use the one at the Ajijic Clinic, it's dependent on the day of the week that he is there and his surgery schedule. Usually a week, because he is there 1x a week. For my GDL orthopedist who is either in his office or in surgery, it depends on his schedule. For non emergencies, 1-1.5 weeks, and they will call me if there is an opening earlier. Dentist - We schedule cleanings, etc., in advance, but in an urgent need, she will open up her office immediately. It helps that she lives in the neighborhood behind us, but I have heard the same about most dentists. For routine fillings, crowns, etc., an appointment is usually available within the week. For more complicated work that requires the assistance of an oral surgeon who will come n from GDL, usually a week. My ophthalmologist can usually fit a person in within one week, at most 1-1.5 weeks. He does surgeries and on occasion has emergencies. I had a retinal detachment in progress and he saw me withiin 30 minutes, asking the room full of patients heading to GDL for surgery to please be patient, that he would be about 40 minutes late for all of them, but it might save my eyesight. It did. He saw me on a Friday morning and I was in surgery the next Monday morning. Had I not eaten breakfast, I would have been whisked to the eye center in GDL and operated on ahead of his cataract patients. Hope that helps .
  11. I have had 3 foot surgeries with Dr. Gustavo Tafoya Arreguin, Puerto de Hierro Sur, GDL. His specialty is traumatological orthopedic surgery. I am very pleased and highly recommend him.
  12. We use camping lanterns. Ours use D cells and are so old they probably count as antique. I recently replaced one via Amazon. If you are interested in one just for reading and not for lighting a general area, look up "Beam and Read." They are hands free as they are for needlework, have an adjustable strap and tiltable beam for work placement. Love mine. In addition, I have a fully charged , lipstick sized charger for my phone. You might consider a rechargeable power back, too.
  13. I stayed at The Hangar Inn a month ago. Fine, basic, clean rooms. Shuttle service. We had to get a Covid test and instead of taking us to the airport, they took us to a testing place down the road and we were in/out in 20 minutes. I would stay there again.
  14. I find taxis quite reliable and a much more economical option to having a car. The trick is to develop good working relationships with several taxistas , plan ahead and tip well. I find the bus to be unreliable, overcrowded and the schedules totally unpredictable. I have lived in this house in SAT for 10 years now and used to ride the us wherever and whenever I wanted. Not now. Sometimes they stop, sometimes they don't/. Sometimes the wait has been as long as 40 minutes. I just waited it out on that one to see how long it took. I typically walk to destinations with 1 mile +/-, but a bum knee has put a kink in that manner of getting about. If you can plan ahead, it almost always works out.
  15. Contact Nursing Home Lake Chapala S. C. +52 376-766-0404 Paseo del Lago, Col. Riberas del Pilar, 45906 nurhome14@gmail.com A friend's husband is receiving excellent care there. I'm guessing $1800-2,000USD/month + meds.
  16. Hubby and I and our cleaning lady all wear New Balance shoes. We both have narrow feet, she has wide feet. I order our usual sizes, usually replacing the shoes we already have in our closet. I order from Amazon USA. No problems.
  17. I just sent my Rx and a new set of frames with plastic "demo" lenses off to a lens company in the USA. I wear trifocals. I CANNOT wear progressives. This lab in the US does make lined trifocals. Sent it off Tuesday at FedEx. DHL refused to take them as they were "medical " equipment. Remember, these frames have plastic lenses with no Rx, just what you see when you try on a pair in the shop. Yesterday I received a call from Customs in the USA. They said I needed some sort of certificate of attestation, a certificate stating the origin of the frames, and wanted to know the reason I was sending them there. Unfortunately, the call dropped and I wasn't able to reconnect. I went to FedEx this morning to try and clear things up. She looked in the computer and it shows the frames are in Memphis. I have no idea what Customs wants or why. Ajijic FedEx will contact the Memphis FedEx office on Monday to see what is going on. I wonder what they think I am sending new frames, a Rx, instructions and a note to a lens making lab for ? Seems pretty obvious to me ! Now I just hope I do not lose the new frames to the black hole of customs. Be careful.
  18. Are you offering to pay fees and costs for your dog or for anyone willing to make the trip? I'm assuming you are looking for a Canadian returning home and are willing to pay fees, etc., associated with the extra cost of the dog. If Canada lets me in, (US Citizen) 1 vax no boosters, I'd make the trip for you.
  19. Dottiejane, you are correct about the fees and care availability in many of the care homes. However, while day to day expenses are affordable, serious medical intervention and hospital care is, as I stated earlier, cheapER NOT cheap. Many retirees thinking about an escape to this lovely area have simply started too late in life for it to be affordable. Many assume that their Medicare or even insurance from a retirement benefits package will cover them here and think no more about it until they find out that it will not. That is sad and puts one in a difficult position, in addition to having to financially qualify for permanent/temporary residency. I am the one that suggested the $250,000 health care slush fund, based upon personal experience. In cases of brain surgery or multiple illnesses, that might wipe it all out in a year or two. There is no need to be confused. It boils down fairly simply. #1 You must qualify for Temporary or Permanente Residency. If you cannot be covered under your current Medicare plan here in Mexico, then you have only a couple options : * After you qualify for residency, go ahead and live life with no insurance, hope for the best and pay for any and all medical care + transportation yourself. There is no safety net here. After you exhaust all your funds, you will be sent home. That is the end of life for many. That is also when we see the Go Fund Me campaigns. * After you qualify for residency, see if you can enroll in the Federal Health Insurance, maybe with exclusions for pre-existing conditions. Be prepared for long wait times, and sometimes you will NOT get to see the DR even if you had an appointment. Expect repeat visits every month for Rxs, but sometimes the meds are available and sometimes they are not. There may be open and mixed sex wards if you are hospitalized, and you will need to bring your own linens, toilet paper, soap, towels, nightgowns, water, even food and your daily care items + pay for someone to be with you 24/7 and they or you will need to speak Spanish. Nurses there do not do that kind of patient care. That is what families are for. Many people come for 6 months, stay as a tourist and use their Medicare. Or, you can buy travel insurance. Problem is that immigration is no longer automatically granting 6 months visas. SKY MED if you are stable enough to be transported back to your home in the USA. Of course, if you have to be in hospital for a while to be stabilized, you must pay. It sounds cruel,but moving to Mexico is certainly not for the poor, not for people on fixed incomes with no cash backup, or even many of the middle class who are tethered to the Medicare System or the insurance in their retirement package. I wish you luck.
  20. Well, if it YOUR car and you are properly insured for YOUR care , then yes. If you are riding in an uninsured car, then you are SOL. If you are hit by an uninsured driver, you are SOL. Knowing how slowly things move in Mexico and how many hospitals function, unless you can prove you have the ability to pay your bills (cash,credit card, a guarantor)you can be refused treatment. Even IF the person who hit you is insured, it can take FOREVER to get bills paid and in the meantime YOU are responsible.
  21. I would say that to feel at all comfortable paying for catastrophic care, $250,000USD is a minimum. Day to day and minor surgical/treatments/interventions are reasonable and easy to pay out of pocket, but cancer, brain surgeries, open heart surgeries, kidney failure, trauma from a car accident, etc., can pile up the bills quickly. Then, if you spend $100K the first incident, you need to have enough to cover another one , whether for you or your spouse. At my age, it is highly unlikely that I would be able to easily earn more $$$ to put in the fund.
  22. I retired from international teaching at 60. Japan doesn't care where you go when you retire, as long as you LEAVE the COUNTRY when your work visa expires. We had planned to retire at 65, but an excellent opportunity to leave earlier presented itself and we took it. We had been planning for years and had a list. Whatever country ticked off the most boxes would win: NO MORE EARTHQUAKES - After 15 years in Los Angeles and 11 in Tokyo-no more! NO MORE HURRICANES - I grew up in South Louisiana & Japan has monsoons ! NO MORE HUMIDITY and PINE TREES - VA has too much of both, as did Louisiana. NO HIGH DESERT, NO MORE SNOW/ICE - VA and Tokyo had plenty of that. Low Cost of Living with Affordable Homes to Purchase - I'm a retired teacher. We won't go hungry, but we are not rich. Near to an International Airport, preferably in Western Hemisphere- At the time, we had family still living in the USA, but now we just want it for travel. Please, please let this Covid be over so I can travel while I can still walk! Excellent and Affordable Health Care Decent Infrastructure Near to a Large City with all the amenities that comes with that. Great Weather. We lived in SoCal South Bay not far from the beach and were wanting that kind of weather. Walkable Living Without a Car A Language I Can Speak We now live in San Antonio, in Mirasol, and it ticks ALL the boxes. Happy with the move and plan to die here.
  23. Your friend did not use "Uber," but a private driver who can charge whatever they want. I use legit yellow/white taxis, and if possible I give at least a day's notice. I keep a list of 5-7 on my phone. If we want to attend evening activities, which are quite rare, I give sufficient notice and negotiate the price beforehand. I tip well, and am friendly and respectful. I have overheard gringos talking to drivers as if the drivers were way beneath them. Yes, I do speak Spanish, and sometimes we chat as a "language exchange" as the drive goes along. Gather up a list and try them out. She will eventually find one or two or three she likes and can use on a regular basis. Sr. German Garcia (331 340 0361), Sr. Paulino Contreras (331 406 8685), and Sr. Juan Manuel Ramos (331 439 1407/333 456 1756)all come to immediate mind.
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