jerezano
Nov 3, 2009, 8:50 AM
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Hello Frito,
Strange that nobody has yet replied to your post. We have many RV'ers here in Mexico and you should be getting replies from them.
Let me make a stab at your question about how many dollars a month you might need to live here in your RV.
I don't have any experience with RV's or travel trailers but I should imagine your biggest expense other than food will be the cost of the diesel or of gasoline. LP gas is available at any town big enough to have a PEMEX station (diesel, gasoline and kerosene available.) It will be a different facility, however. You should be able to get a 20# or #30 pounder filled without problems.You will probably be able to get free water or at very reasonable cost wherever you might be. Electricity and disposing your waste could be a problem. There is a scarcity of RV or trailer parks here in México which from one point of view could be a good thing as they do cost. Nevertheless, if you speak Spanish you should be able to work out satisfactory arrangements with vacant lot owners, etc. If you don't speak Spanish it will be a bit harder but you will find that almost anywhere you go in Mexico the person you are trying to speak to knows somebody who speaks enough English to help you out. You can usually overnight at a PEMEX or perhaps a supermarket or other parking lot without any problems.
Discounting housing and rental costs which are of course the largest part of any budget you should be able to live comfortably in the northern interior of Mexico for about $1000-$1500 dollars a month including cost of electricity and water, a daily visit or two to a taquería, and your food and miscellaneous costs. A beer for example at a super market or tienda costs less than a dollar. I can get a hamburger, french fries, a glass of milk for $35 pesos (less than $2.70 usd at current exchange rates) where I live. Tourist areas and beach areas, etc. and unfortunately along the highways will be much more expensive. And a lot depends upon costs of maintaining your dogs. Twenty years ago when I brought my Dachshund to México I found that he preferred to starve rather than eat the Mexican dog food then available. But American brands are now available almost everywhere. Automatic laundromats are scarce and hard to find.
If you come into Mexico as a tourist you will not be granted permission to stay for more than 180 days.
If you can prove an established income of around $1500 us dollars a month, you can get an FM3 which allows you to stay here for a year.
Let me make a suggestion: Tepic in Nayarit (Pacific Coast) is an hour from excellent beaches but is at an altitude (about 2000 feet) where the tropic heat is tempered and more comfortable all year round. There is also on Insurgentes a pleasant trailer park with reasonable prices and lots of space. You might start there if you are currently living on the West Coast (you didn't say where you are now living) or find a trip down the Western coast of Mexico more to your liking. I personally don't like the Gulf Coast in winter time, although the coast north of Tampico is very reasonable in cost. Tampico south is more costly and the Yucatán penninsula on the Carribean Coast could be out of your league, although there are some RV'ers living there. Tepic is reachable in two days from Nogales by the cuota.
Oh! For an RV, and perhaps for trailers, the cuotas (toll) on the toll highways could drive you into bankruptcy although those highways are really pleasant and fun to drive, as well as being much less hazardous. So be sure and pick up the Spanish edition of the Guia Roji which is available on the internet. The Spanish edition is much more complete with road maps than the English but if you are language impaired the English edition is also available. Also any routes other than the Gulf Coast or the Pacific Coast will take you over some difficult mountain ranges. Remember that all distances and speeds in Mexico are measured in kilometers not miles so work out an easy conversion.
Dish satellite range depends on the company. Read the technical forum here on Mexconnect.
Hope this helps a bit and also that it bumps your post up to where other posters can see it.
jerezano
Magna gasoline at frozen $7.72 p/l and at 3.785 liters/gal. and $13 p/dollar is now costing $2.25 dollars/gal. More pesos per dollar cheaper gas & viceversa.
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