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  1. Well one can purchase a TIP at the Banjericto (Mexican Bank) office AT the ferry terminal in La Paz if heading for the mainland but I don't know if one can cancel/turn in a TIP if coming into La Paz from the mainland. "Normally" one can only do this at a Banjercito when leaving Mexico into either US or Belize. IF you can actually do this cancellation in La Paz, you have one more 'problem'. Although one does NOT have to have a TIP anywhere in the Baja, Mexico does require one maintain a current vehicle registration while there. If you plan on living full time in La Paz you will need to find a state that will give you a title/plate and then let you renew it annually via mail. South Dakota will do this.
  2. Also the "best" way to do B12 is sublingually but that's harder to come by....
  3. Meaning 'if you purchase after 70 the coverage is not good"? Even though the cost is high?
  4. The 'learning process' sometimes takes many years for some folks....
  5. Mostly, my income reference was about the 'ability to pay'.... the financial ability or desire of an expat to pay. Many expats choose IMSS because they do not have sufficient funds to pay for private insurance.
  6. Take all this with a grain of salt..... an overview, not the gospel for all cases. First of all MANY expats at Lakeside do NOT use IMSS at all. Has something to do with income level IMO. Some number of people use IMSS for their 'catastrophic coverage'. Those that do use it often pay out of pocket until all of their benefits kick in. Many expats pay out of pocket regardless of their coverage.... or lack thereof. Many expats purchase private insurance, some of which also choose a high deductible and pay for lesser medical needs out of pocket. (Keep in mind that medical care in Mexico, even in expat-heavy Lakeside, is 'cheap' especially when compared to the US.) Private insurance has a threshold age.... 70, 72, 75?... after which one cannot enroll. Some/all? policies can be continued even after a holder passes that threshold. Dental cost is extraordinarily 'cheap' compared to the US. A filling, a crown, a root canal, a bridge, dentures... even implants... can be paid for by anyone who has the means to actually be in Mexico to begin with! And Lakeside has several very high quality dentists from which to choose.
  7. Just because it 'cannot connect' does not mean it's a brick. It is showing 'disconnected' and many things could cause this and the device still be perfectly sound. I've 'programmed' several of these ATAs..... just not this Cisco one.... and the last thing that I would want to have happen if I were going to try and help is to have had it reset to factory default. I can confidently say that it will not work if set to factory default because it is from there that one starts adding/changing some of the settings that whatever IP phone company this device is going to play with requires. P.S. There is no ATA model. ATA is the generic term for a/any Analog Telephone Adapter, one of which is the Cisco Spa Series. My ATA is a Grandstream HT801.
  8. Don't know why you would rule out them but.... In the past.... I now use Barragan exclusively.... I have used a very competent Doctora Dentista at Dental Del Lago, 27-A Constitución 27 Ajijic. 766-4503
  9. I, for one, would NOT reset the device. There are probably some settings that make it normally work for the OP's environment that will be 'lost' that way. If the OP can get someone to come out and look at it, having the settings that have worked for 10 years might be of some benefit vs seeing 'factory defaults'. Just my opinion....
  10. Having said that... lap surgery for hernia has been around for many years with much success. So why even consider the more invasive surgery?
  11. "Many reports" as in how many? What percentage? "There remains a lack of validated neuropsychological testing for POCD (Post Operative Cognitive Decline), which is required for homogeneous research methodology...."
  12. If money is a factor as stated, this sounds like a no-brainer to me. $9-$11,000 here vs less than $1k in California.
  13. I'm not an Insurance pro, but... Medicare Advantage and a Medicare Supplement to an Original Medicare account are two different animals and cannot be compared in 'any' way. What is fine with one may not be... and probably isn't.... fine with the other. They live under vastly different 'laws'. Both are products of a private medical insurance company but are not similar in most ways.
  14. Careful. Medicare Advantage Plans can only be used in an Emergency while traveling abroad... not if one actually lives or winters in Mexico, and then generally only in a 60-day vacation period. Lakeside Medical may not tell you that part.
  15. 40 foot!! Really? A lot of people's houses are not 40' wide.
  16. Never say never... especially in Mexico! Someone is going to chime in saying, "mine is fine"....
  17. I'm waiting for someone.... Canadian snowbird probably.... to start offering to buy up Shaw 800 series receivers on the cheap and hauling them back to Canada for resale on Kijiji. 😁
  18. I strongly agree that if one can purchase an entire mini split system for the equivalent of $235 US that would definitely be the way to go assuming that installation could be 'simple'..
  19. I agree that if cost is a factor, a 4000 peso AC and cheaper Mexican labor to cut a whole in the wall surely beats the cost of installing a mini-split system. It would take a long time to make up the cost for the loss of efficiency of a standard window unit vs a mini-split. This of course does not address other meaningful considerations like energy conservation but that's for another 'debate'.
  20. I can see that we've got the wrong person in charge of solving all of our problems....
  21. Yes but.... there's a significant cost difference between the two.
  22. Mostly has given exact data to what I was going to only give anecdotal thought... We humans (mostly) just don't remember what we think we can remember. "This is the most snow that I can remember in my life here...." When actual data on snowfall will show MANY times that there was equal or greater amounts here! And it's not just age that causes that to happen. IMO
  23. Maybe 'once tender, always tender'.... until death do us part.
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