Hound Dog
Jun 3, 2010, 3:22 PM
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You guys are funny and I must try to rise to the challenge regarding living in Mexico versus living in India and, to start with, let me admit that I was only in India for about six months in 1969 at age 29 and only went there of necessity since that year´s journey had been meant as a combination overland, air trek from Cairo to Capetown because I was young and foolish and had just read The White Nile . The reason I changed my plan in Dar es Salaam , Tanzania was because I went to buy new traveler´s cheques at Barclays Bank there and those cheques were issued as non-negotiable in Rhodesia (today´s Zimbabwe) and South Africa because of a financial boycott of those days so there I was in Tanzania and broke if I proceeded to Mozambique and Rhodesia as had been my intention so I returned to Nairobi and flew off nonstop to Bombay (Mumbai) from there. The single greatest flight I ever took. It was a Boeing 707 and I was the only passenger and enjoying quite tasty Indian airline food during the flight. It was amazing to get into Bombay at about 5:00AM after having been chauffeured across the Indian Ocean on my own (by coincidence) private 707 in luxury just to arrive at the Bombay airport and, on the taxi ride into town, observing countless thousands of poor people calling the sidewalks home and sleeping there neck-to-neck with their own complicated class system. A fascinating experience.
I bought a second class (on a three class system) rail ticket from Bombay to Ahmedabad to Kashmir to Delhi to the Nepalese border to Darjeeling to Calcutta to Madras to Bangalore and back to Bombay for - no joke - the equivalent of $13USD. I still don´t believe it. It turned out that second or third class was the way to go then as banditry was fairly common in those days and bandits loved to loot first class.
As for retiring in India, just for the record, there are places in the highlands with climates similar to the highlands in Mexico and by that I mean, quite pleasant places with normally moderate temperatures at altitudes between 5,000 and 7,000 feet. Some of the highlands can be quite beautiful and, once again, the food is wonderful but there are cultural attitudes that, while civilized, are grating at times for westerners but whose fault is that?
Dawg also considered retiring in the Kenyan highlands at about 7,000 feet near Mount Kenya but there are times when Kenya seems to become unhinged and white boys are not beloved there when Kenyans become rattled.
Where else on earth can one find a more pleasant place to live out one´s retirement than in highland Mexico? Tell me about it. Too late for Dawg but someone else may benefit from your experience.
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