robt65
Nov 3, 2011, 1:30 AM
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Re: [TxMex] Looking for mountainous desert area
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Hello TxMex,
You may want to investigate the area between Amealco and San Juan del Rio in Queretaro. It is higher mountainous area and presents itself with a desert like wonderful weather pattern. We (my Mexicana wife and our children have lived in this higher desert elevation (6,900 ft Above Sea Level) for two years now and we truly enjoy the weather and the relaxed pace of life.
Just up the road, I intentionally do not call it a highway; however Mexico calls it Hwy 220 Between the autopista 57 to Mexico City in Queretaro State, and in the other direction to Morelia, in Michoacán, lies a very deep and long natural canyon that we affectionally call Queretaro's "Grand Canyon". The area is filled with lovely mountains at higher elevations than we are located in and that even includes a pine tree level at a slightly higher elevation than where we are actually located. The altitudes here can run as high as 9,500 feet above sea level. In November, December, January and February, it can and does regularly get cold here and the chimney’s are belching their smoke both for heat and cooking, and we really do have four distinct seasons. The hottest times of the year are always dry and with a slight to mid level breeze blowing. The water here is very good and well treated. I have brushed my teeth here with tap water and never been ill from it. We do however use bottled water for every day consumption, probably erring on the side of caution.
Property is reasonable and good craftsmanship in home construction workers provides a good selection of home builders at rather reasonable rates. Quality food here at our local "fruiteria" for example is pretty cheap and very tasty. Some of my friends from NOB find the altitude adjustment a bit hard to deal with from a respiratory standpoint, but amazingly enough it does not bother me much at all and I have a good case of asbestosis as well as asthma and COPD. Oh, I find it a bit difficult at times but not so much so that it affects my daily decisions on any great amount for doing my physical work here.
Our pueblo has about 3 to 4 thousand folks in about a four mile area. Almost all are friendly folks and this part of México is really known by Mexicans to be a very beautiful natural part of Mexico. It is also very clean here in Queretaro. This is an area where many of the Mexico City more affluent comes to “the mountains” for their holidays. It is indeed pleasant to see the taxes one pays being used for good community infrastructure, highway and road construction and repair.
If we choose to go to the beaches on either the Gulf of California side or on the Gulf side of Mexico, all is really within a full day’s drive. If we wish to go to larger metro areas the City of Queretaro is a short 25 minutes away to the city center. We also have a smaller city than Queretaro about 15 minutes away (San Juan del Rio, where we have all the other amenities such as a Sam's club and larger box stores, with excellent dental and medical care available. It's really a nice area, and certainly not gringo infested. There are for sure some minor personal crimes being committed as in any other area but certainly nothing like other areas of Mexico, and none I have heard of being perpetrated upon those few gringos or their families that can be found. For some reason, we do not have a high Narco related crime level. It is very, very low here, for that we are indeed happy. All in all, a truly nice area of Mexico to live in.
robt65
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