Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Reason #6 for retirement in Mexico


A FIRST-CLASS BUS, WITH SNACK AND (PROBABLY BAD) MOVIE


PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

For quite some time I've been wanting to live without a car. Not easy outside major cities in the USA. When we moved to this pueblo 12 years ago we bought a house within walking distance to my job, downtown, and the grocery store. So we could actually live here without a car--several of our friends do. But. . .we still have one.

We're going to move to a pretty big city in Mexico (1 million) and we want to live in the historic centro. There will be public buses to wherever we want to go and taxis are cheap. For longer trips there are first-class buses that are quite comfortable. In our many trips to Mexico we've found easy-access public transportation in both cities and small pueblos. In short, you can get where you want to get without owning a car.

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