It has been pretty easy for us here.. we live on the 8th floor of a 12 floor condo building in Mazatlan Mexico. Most of the snow birds have flown back to America and Canada. We do have a few neighbors who decided to stick around for various reasons but not many.
The pool is still open but the bar, the saunas,hot tub, lounge and other public areas are closed. The Mexican beaches are all closed and being guarded by life guards, police and military guys. Easter is the busiest time of year here in town but with the beaches and hotel closed NO ONE IS HERE. It's very quiet.
We've been home for over two weeks and our friends here have also been alone for two weeks so.. Friday we are doing dinner together. We have a large kitchen table and will sit spread apart. They will bring food from their condo and I fix some here for us. It'll be nice to see people again. Hubby and I are pretty much hermits and we like it that way though being forced to be a hermit is different than choosing to be one. I feel a little trapped but... we have a nice deck to sit on and a beautiful view out our window to gaze at. Pelicans fly by all the time and that makes us smile.
Keep safe, keep healthy and keep happy!
Smiles, Trish
Mexico!! I can only tell you about Mazatlan...
It is wonderful in so many ways. It is a real working Mexican town.
There are tourists but we are not over run with them.
There are a few touristy type things to do but not a lot. We do not get spring breakers. We do have some major holiday crowds (mostly Nationals) and things get very busy. Very very busy and crowded.
The people here are kind and helpful and happy! The middle class is growing but there are many many poor folks but they seem to find happiness easily. Their family values are strong.
Transportation is easy and inexpensive. The bus system is very easy to use. Taxis, uber and polmanias are also available. We have a car but you don't really need one.
The food!!! ����♥�� Need I say more??
Shopping, there are fresh veggie markets on every corner.
Seafood is easy to find and fresh. We have walmarts, Sam's, Sears, Home Depot, Starbucks and many other choices. AmazonMx works perfectly.
The beaches are beautiful and calm. And mostly clean. We watch whales, dolphins and stingrays from our condo window. And this year we were finally lucky enough to watch a turtle laying her eggs!! ��
It's not perfect... Things move much more slowly here and it can get very frustrating...some times you have to go to the bank three times to get a simple thing done. Appointments scheduled for Monday at 10:00am may not happen until 4:00pm the following day and if you are at home waiting for a repairman...well you just wait and wait then they show up with out tools or supplies. There are good reasons for them not being prepared but it's hard to deal with. Also they don't always have the training they need to to a proper job. Your ac repairman may have been a gardner yesterday and a plumber the day before that. The Mexicans have learned to make do with very little and are so used to not having high quality or well built items that they think anything is good enough so not everything is up to our gringo standards.
Hubby and I came here in 2005.. We fell in love with the town and it's people and their traditions. We bought our condo (preconstruction) after only being here for three days.
The condo was delivered on the day they promised in April 2007. It was the longest two years ever!! We used the condo as a vacation home until four years ago when Paul retired. We sold everything we owned in the states, loaded up our few remaining items and our cat in the back of our truck and moved here two days after his last day of work.
We have never regretted our choice. This is home sweet home now and forever.