It's high time Mexico earned the tittle "world's top retirement haven", as published in IL's 207 Global Retiremente Index. (After having lived in Ecuador... and trying to live in Panama and Nicaragua, I have some experience on which to base that statemente). But there are a lot of stereotypes that exist about Mexico --mostly among people who get the bulk of their "headline news" fro the US media... or from a friend of a friend of a friend who claims to know something about Mexico.

Mexico has changed a lot in recent years. If you get information from friend who lived here 20... or even 5 or 10 years ago.. you can be sure it is outdated. Much of that outdated information continues to be posted on Internet websites, so no wonder many people are misinformed about Mexico....

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