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Has it ever occurred to you that you may be wrong, or at least that there are other valid and maybe even better ways to live and experience life? For example, many of the people we would meet in Mexico would have had very different experiences than my wife and me, live in a different culture, and come to different conclusions and values.

Chuck BolotinĪs we get into our 50s, 60s, and beyond, it is pretty natural to get grooved in, doing routine things, having routine thoughts and routine experiences with the same people, and as a group coming to basically the same conclusions directing our routine lives. The writer with new friends he met in Baja California. How could we not want to know the answer? Was this just a fantasy cooked up by unscrupulous marketers, or was it possible? If it were possible, achieving it would create an inflection point that would radically alter the trajectory of my wife and my lives for the better. If you’re in this overall 97.5%, like me, you may welcome the possibility of what I was led to believe could be achieved by living in Mexico- “twice the lifestyle at half the cost.” For the remaining 97.5% of us (a percentage I just picked out of the air), even those of us upper-middle class, this is not the case. Some of us have done so well financially that money is absolutely no issue. To Test If We Could Achieve A Lower Cost Of Living As some of my friends’ experiences displayed in stark relief, life can be completely unforgiving in that way. The last thing I wanted was to one day look back and regret never doing the things I wanted to but no longer could. At the same time, like you, I had friends our age who had suffered some pretty bad illnesses that would keep them from ever doing some of the things on their list.