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Originally Posted by shaniac
What's the food delivery situation like?
Boliver, did you ever find someone reliable to cook/clean for you on Sundays?
Are there non high-rise condo/gated development type residences? Or is it either stand-alone house or high-rise buildings?
Overall, are you all finding the living experience to be efficient/fun? Any downsides?
Thanks for the thread...definitely eying this area as a possibility after Canada...the proximity to SoCal is especially appealing.
what up shane,
we were actually like assigned a maid for our place but would rather not use them, as they know the owner of the place. So we need to find another one, which I'm sure is easy if we overpay, but the average daily wage down here is like $4, so I don't see any reason why we should pay more than $30 or so for a 10-12 hour shift. The guys at las olas paid $75 for a maid once, which isn't even bad, but just such an obvious gringo price.
The cool thing about mexico is everybody knows somebody. If you ask your guard, waiter, guy pumping your gas, taxi driver, etc....they will have a friend who is a realtor, carpenter, painter, internet technician, or something you will find useful. So we need to just find somebody's sister or cousin and do it the mexican way...not go through our realtor who will hook us up with some english speaking lady that charges 5x as much.
Lots of high-rises here for sure. I wasn't as into that at first, but you also have to remember that these are vacation homes and nobody is here half the year. There's 2 other people that live in my 8 story building, and then on the weekends a few other rooms will be rented out. I've found that I like being a bit above the ocean, and we have cliffs below us that look pretty sick when the waves crash, so we're like 6 stories on top of a 20 foot cliff above the ocean.
There are 6-7 I'd say condo communities as well, with 2-3 story houses in a more spread out condo complex. These look rad as well and were my first choise, but there is def a little less privacy I would say, as you're just in a house surrounded by other houses, and when you go on one of your patios everyone outside can see.
All places have 24/7 security and parking.
You CAN get a normal home here, not all baller and beachfront but just in a normal neighborhood and it's cheap as balls, but for the extra couple hundred I think most of us prefer to step it up.
So far I'm liking it alot out here. It's a great place to be. Downsides could be there's not a ton of clubbing or anything during the week. Surf could be a bit warmer. Internet seems to go out daily at least once for a few minutes (but we also had a huge power outage in mexico, LA, and AZ....most locals tell us there are never power problems here)
I don't have a place to hang my hammock. sometimes its windy. the tacos don't come with cheese.
upsides are many as well. There's a guy on the beach with a go-cart with wings on it...so for $20 you can fly a go cart over the ocean. parties go off in TJ, occasional weekends here,
felt like I should have PMd most of this, but others may find it helpful as well. starting a session now and im outtt!