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Not to mention that HD is usually more expensive on everything than the same item at mom and pop ferreterias. Same with other big chain places like Tio Sam's. I've bought the exact same appliances at small appliance stores that I saw for 1200 pesos more at Tio Sam's.

Yes, I'm well aware that the term notary encompasses different things in Mexico than the US. For instance, Mexican notaries, rather than lawyers, handling property sales. But to say that notaries don't exist in Mexico is absurd and yes, they can notarize documents.

??? Of course they do.

Weather and needing to do something different. Even though I'm from the west coast of Canada, so not that cold compared to other parts of the country, it's still too cold for me most of the year. Unlike others here, I love heat and humidity, which is why I chose to live in coastal Mexico. Places like Lakeside and San Miguel are far too cold for me in the winter. But having lived in Mexico for about 20 years now, I'm leaning towards moving back to Canada in a few years. Too far from daughters and grandkids, and while I have no heath issues now, am concerned about good health care as I age. I can't afford the high cost of private policies here.

What made you ever think only old folks move to Mexico? My town is full of young families who have immigrated and has been for a long time.

If you say so. I'd want to read that law, because I think it does matter. When you have an employee, if you sell your home and don't retain the maid or gardener to continue working for you, then of course you have to pay severance pay. But the property itself is not the employer, a person is. When someone works for a company or business, and the company transfers them to a new branch location, they haven't heen fired and they don't get severance pay- they are still working for the same employer.

No. If the house seller is retaining the gardener at their new home you do not pay finiquito. You have not fired the gardener- he is still in your employ. If you sold the home and didn't want to still employ the gardener, you would pay him finiquito.

Finiquito is paid if you fire someone. You don't pay him severance pay if you aren't firing him. I think you are confusing a home owner having to pay severance pay if they sell a place and move and are no longer going to require his services. Then the seller has to pay severance even if the new owners wish to retain his services.

If you're only half American, I guess you're a "grin" or a "go" 🙂

I didn't say they could tell by looking at me, did I? I said they have told me that gringo means and American, and that if I am Canadian, I am not a gringo. No, they don't call all foreigners gringos, they call them extranjeros.

Not true. Mexicans tell me as a Canadian, I am not considered a "gringo". They say gringo means American.

Comida doesn't translate to "eat". Comida is a noun. Eat is a verb. "To eat" is "comer". Another Spanish lesson for you.

Depends what your preference is. Mine runs to good single malt scotch. Really expensive here- my treat to myself from duty free when I fly back from Canada.

Nice photo of exactly what not to do.

And the moral of these stories is never to have a drink on the surface of where you are working online. If you want to sip a coffee, tea, or glass of wine while you're working, pull up a chair or small table next to you that is lower than the surface where your keyboard is to put your drink on.

Just because others disagree with you, point out the fallacy of a statement, or that a link source is from a conspiracy website that has been fact checked as posting lies, doesn't mean you haven't been able to speak freely. Have your posts been censored or removed?

Have you looked for pet-friendly Airbnbs?

They have to cut the gum to get enough tooth to grab onto.

The tall cylinders are 30 kg, not 20.

Love that post, Natasha. Sounds like me. This is why I do a lot of stuff myself if I'm capable of it- if I have to stand over them every minute (and you do unless you want to end up irritated) I might as well do it myself. And if I have to hire someone, I've learned to watch them like a hawk.

Well, if a person is low income, they aren't paying income taxes, so yes, the medical care is basically free. There is Goods and Services tax, just like in Mexico on most things you buy, but I'm not sure what taxes the medical system is funded out of. The main thing is you don't lose your house or die on the steps of the hospital in Canada because you can't afford medical care or necessary medications.

I was just razzin ya, jilllin. I've always hated cold weather and cold water and the only places I went swimming in Canada is in rivers or lakes in the height of the summer when the air was hot and water not freezing. Friends used to have outdoor parties in Oct. and I'd be freezing apart from the side of me that was facing the bonfire. My standard line was "Only Canadians and Siberians would consider this outdoor party weather". It's really the main reason I live in Mexico, and on the coast. What most NOBers consider to be sweltering hot, miserable, "you can't survive without AC" weather is just fine for me.

That doesn't mean it was warm enough for most sane people to consider warm enough to swim in 🙂

In my case, it definitely isn't psychological, like I'm "focusing" on it- it really does physically intensify pain. I have had pain that is actually quite mild, nothing that's really bothering me at all nor that I am thinking about, I've basically forgotten all about it, but pot will suddenly make it hurt again.

Interesting to read that, as it is exactly the same for me. Pot has never worked for me for pain, it does the exact opposite, makes the pain way more intense. I thought I was just some anomaly. Also pot has never gotten me "high", as in feeling good. It just makes me want to go to sleep and that, in fact, is what I use it for. People have said "Oh, you just haven't had the right strain", but that isn't so. It all just makes me want to crawl under the covers and go to sleep. Another strange reaction I have is to mixing pot and alcohol. I'm not talking a lot of alcohol or a lot of pot. It could be one beer or a glass of wine and one of toke of pot. It will cause me to pass out. If I'm lying down, I'm fine, but if I stand up, I'll pass out.