Sending gentle hugs and support... I hope you find what you need amigo

Sending support, hugs and prayers your way!

yean, that gringo tax is a definite fly in the ex-pat ointment. it applies to europeans as much as u.s. and canadian ex-pats. i've talked to ex-pats who simply plan on moving once a year in order to avoid it in the housing market.

! ! !WHERE'S MY PERFECT LIFE! ! !

continued support while you work through all those gory details.
always something to keep us challenged, huh?

I feel for you, as my hubby and I are going through the same thing, right here in the Midwest USA. Yep. $300 more per month. No idea how we are going to pull that off. Probably if I stay off of Amazon.
I wish this would not be happening to you. It just makes for more stress.

Oh crap! Big hugs. I hope you can avoid the Gringo Tax on a new place, and I hope you can stay in yoru neighborhood, near your support and care network.

Ping us if you need to vent, okay?

Huge hug Muji..... I'm glad that you've found a new place and I hope that you'll be just as happy there

I don't know about Mexico but the price of everything has soared here and I think it has done in much of the world

People are leaving Ontario and BC in Canada because they can't afford to live here.... I am so fortunate that I have an apt in a good friend's home

Could it be in part due to that???

It's crazy... I've not seen anything like it in my life before

Moving sucks.... I'm sorry that you have to go through this sweetie.... Big hug... xo

Sorry to hear that Muji! I hope you can find something cheaper that's as nice as what you have now.

Thanks, everybody. I walked three times as much as I usually do today scouting around the neighborhood for a place to land. Here in tropical Tuxtla that meant walking in 92 degree heat fahrenheit or 33 degrees celsius, which would be fun on the beach but less fun walking concrete pavements.

I found one in the morning but by the time I got to it, they had rented it already. In the afternoon I found another one, though, with that central feature I need--lodging on the ground floor as I can't do stairs. I'm set to talk to the landlord about it tomorrow! :-)

Then tonight, one of the sisters in the family nearby that provides me home health care joined in and said there's another one for rent at a lovely park nearby, so I'm going to check that one out for sure, too.

Things are looking up then and folks are looking out for me. By the way, arfie, thanks in particular for affirming my experience of that "gringo tax" phenomenon. I agree with your take on how to respond to it, too--accepting a new place every year. as a fact of life. Right on. It kind of fits with that Alanon advice about the wisdom of letting go.

I am grateful that the support y'all have given me here for this upheaval really worked. I don't know about y'all, but just speaking for myself one of my PTSD symptoms is that I can get triggered by change beyond my control. I had 6 flashbacks at the news yesterday, but after taking in your support and getting on with letting go and opening myself up to a new place my PTSD was consoled and I didn't a single flashback. Now that's not perfection but it sure is progress.

Support appreciated.

that gringo tax gets my vote as the most consistent cultural tradition in hispanolandia. all 33 countries of hispanolandia seem to practice the tradition with remarkable consistency.

Big hug Muji.... I hope that you can find a place to call home that stays home for you and the family... xo

Sorry ur going through that situation.

I hope you find a nice affordable place and I am sorry thus has happened to you.

Sorry you're having to deal with this, but glad your in person support network is helping look out for you and that there are options you can look into. Hope you find a new place soon.

hugs amigo....sorry they consider gringo as the prey to steal money from....I thought your gf was a national and lived with you? I do not read this but it popped up before I signed in so I saw it and was concerned.....please reply in PM if to me....as I am not member of this group.....will not get notices of updates.

Yeah, bill, she is a Mexican national, so that means I REALLY notice the difference between when a landlord talks to me without her and when a landlord talks to her without me. Consequently, as you can imagine she makes first contact and then if the place checks out I look at it separately later.

Today we did that with a nice place just around the corner that rents for what my original rent here was before the 1/3 increase. Super place, but the landlady scheduled for me to see it at the same time she scheduled a whole family to view it. They brought grandma, the kids, the whole clan, so I was outnumbered 8-1 and they nearly ran me over.

They seemed to be in a panic to rent right away, though, whereas I can wait all the way until my current place's rental contract runs out Sept. 5th. It got rented to the desperate family, then, and not to me, but it'll be ok. I already heard of an even cheaper place for rent closer to the super nice US-style shopping mall in town. It's got a/c so it'd literally be a cool place for me to get my walks in.