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A bright side for Mexico is the huge amount of remittances coming from the US in dollars now buys a whole lot more pesos for the recipients. A couple of years ago I read an astounding statistic: After oil revenues, remittances from abroad were the second leading component of the Mexican economy, ahead of tourism, manufacturing and mining. That may or may not still be true.

It has definitely changed. Here's a chart to show the rise and fall of remittances to Mexico between 1995 and 2015.

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/mexico/remittances

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Last case of beer in returnable bottles at Corona distributorship was $289p. Dining out, most places are $20 or so for light beer and $25 for dark and $50 for microbeers.

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If one is talking about US/MXN rates of exchange for transactions in Mexico (rents/sales of property etc) this is the only legal rate of exchange to be used in any transaction

http://www.banxico.org.mx/portal-mercado-cambiario/foreign-exchange-markets--exc.html

It does not matter what any other bank (or any other person) says.

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A bright side for Mexico is the huge amount of remittances coming from the US in dollars now buys a whole lot more pesos for the recipients. A couple of years ago I read an astounding statistic: After oil revenues, remittances from abroad were the second leading component of the Mexican economy, ahead of tourism, manufacturing and mining. That may or may not still be true.

http://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/remittances-totaled-oil-income/

I think this says it all as far as returns from abroad.

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Dave,

Not sure how applicable that quote is relative to most if not all ATM transactions we use. Visa's posted rates are here that that is what we transact: https://usa.visa.com/support/consumer/travel-support/exchange-rate-calculator.html/

I find Chase and Citi have very good rates with no foreign transaction fees. When I got 18.54 net on a Chase transaction the morning of Feb 3, the closing fx rate on Feb 2 as quoted by the WSJ was 18.48. Yesterday's WSJ close was 18.17. Today's Visa rate is 18.15

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Canadians snowbirding to US might end up in Mexico .(due to high US$) Canadian $ keeps in pace with MXN. Most of our Canadian friends are snowbirding to Arizona right now.

If one looks about for Canadian vehicle plates it is plainly evident that Canadians are not returning to Mexico as long are rents are in US dollars. If they are, it is for a shorter period that they usually stay. They are on budgets also and with the current exchange rate they are very wary. It is time for rents to be in pesos, sales also.

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Dave,

Not sure how applicable that quote is relative to most if not all ATM transactions we use. Visa's posted rates are here that that is what we transact: https://usa.visa.com/support/consumer/travel-support/exchange-rate-calculator.html/

I find Chase and Citi have very good rates with no foreign transaction fees. When I got 18.54 net on a Chase transaction the morning of Feb 3, the closing fx rate on Feb 2 as quoted by the WSJ was 18.48. Yesterday's WSJ close was 18.17. Today's Visa rate is 18.15

Tom: I agree with you , but many people want the ATM rate of exchange for transactions. Too bad the Bank of Mexico is the legal rate for transactions in Mexico

Get what you can from US banks but don't expect to get that for transactions in Mexico.

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If one looks about for Canadian vehicle plates it is plainly evident that Canadians are not returning to Mexico as long are rents are in US dollars. If they are, it is for a shorter period that they usually stay. They are on budgets also and with the current exchange rate they are very wary. It is time for rents to be in pesos, sales also.

I see all the usual suspects again this year and the traffic would indicate there are as many as ever.

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Same in PV. We are loaded with Mexican tourists mostly by far but no fewer Canadians spotted this year so far. They seem to slightly outnumber Americans here.

Easy to spot differences in most as Canadians often wear their flag on their clothing, they dress somewhat different and the accent is easy to hear most of the time. They mostly all seem to be enjoying the warmer weather. The permanent folks are all complaining about the cold winter.

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