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Guadalajara was named myNational Geographic as one of
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the top places to visit in 2025.
And yesterday, if you werescrolling around travel
Instagram, you were seeing thatGuadalajara was also named the
most beautiful city in the worldfor 2025.
We lived in Guadalajara, you forthree years.
Me for two years.
So we're gonna tell you why thiscity actually lives up to the
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hype.
In case you wanna visit, or ifyou're interested in moving to
Mexico, maybe Guadalajara is afit for you.
Welcome to Entrepreneur Expat.
I'm Justin, and this is Amanda,my wife.
And on this channel we talk allabout moving overseas, living
the life of your dreams in adifferent country, and how you
can get all of your immigrationpaperwork, your legal paperwork,
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accounting businesses set up inanother country.
Everything you need to do to getyou relocated to outside of your
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else.
To another country where you'regoing to fit in better and just
generally enjoy life quite a lotmore.
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how we can help you move thatprocess forward.
So let's get into it.
Guadalajara, Mexico in the stateof.
Jalisco.
So in case you've never heard ofGuadalajara before, first of
all, I'm kind of excited thatGuadalajara's getting its
flowers.
Mm-hmm.
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Because everybody always hearsabout Mexico City M Puerto.
Lake Chip, which is where we arenow.
Everybody a Cabo, everybodyalways hears about those.
But you never really heard aboutGuadalajara, and in the last two
or three years, Guadalajara isstarting to get its flowers.
So I'm excited about thatbecause Guadalajara is actually
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considered kind of thebirthplace, so of a lot of what
it's considered Mexican culture.
So for example, I bet you didn'tknow that tequila and mariachi
were both born in Guadalajara,or at least Jalisco near
Guadalajara.
So that's exciting to seebecause Guadalajara was
definitely a little bit moreunder the radar, uh, for a
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while.
I mean, it does have a lot oftourism, but it was mostly from
other Mexicans or people fromSpain or Europeans.
Mm-hmm.
Now we're seeing more and moreAmericans, uh, interested in
Guadalajara.
We've even done real estatetours for some of our clients in
the area.
So let's talk about, you know,why Guadalajara is getting the
hype.
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And why it's, it's well deservedbecause it is called the Pearl
of the West.
Absolutely.
So one of the first reasons thatGuadalajara is such a cool city
to visit or to live in isbecause of the friendly people.
Now, I know you guys haveprobably heard about in Mexico
City how sick they are of a lotof expats in different areas,
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especially the ones mostfrequented by Americans.
You just don't really get thatkind of vibe here.
I think that because it's stilla little bit less discovered
than let's say Cancun or MexicoCity.
People are a lot more friendly,especially to expats here.
And on that note, it feels,unless it's social media, but
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social media is a dumpster fire.
Yeah, exactly.
We, we won't let those TikTokcomments affect us too much.
Um, but people are superfriendly here and I think it's
also just kind of in, in theirnature.
I would say that Guadalajara,compared to Mexico City is
definitely a lot slower paced.
Um, people do seem to befriendlier, at least from
everything that we've heard,from people that either.
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Have moved here or that havebeen a lot to Mexico City or
Mexicans from Mexico City.
Yeah, exactly.
To Guha.
They're like, yeah, it's a muchslower pace.
Uh, much friendlier people here.
Overall, the taps are friendlyand it's also just, just in
general, like much slower paced.
I would say it's still a city,but not as fast paced as Mexico
City and not as touristy assomeplace like Cancun or Play Al
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Carmen.
So that's really our secondpoint is it just strikes a
really good balance.
In terms of not being supertouristy, but also not being
like too far off the beaten pathwhere you're like really trying
to figure out how to find allthe things you need and whatnot.
It's kind of got everything thatyou need in a city, really.
Yeah.
We really enjoyed living there.
The time that we were there, incase you missed it, we moved to
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Lake Chip Paulo.
We did a whole other video onhow that magically happened
because we weren't even planningit.
Uh, that'cause we were like,well, LA Hot is cool, we'll stay
here.
And then the opportunity to moveout.
To the Lake Chip area showed upand we took it.
Otherwise we would've stayedprobably in Guadalajara'cause we
enjoyed, uh, life there.
Um, it is slower than the UnitedStates.
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I will say one of the otherthings that's really great about
Guadalajara, and this issomething that was going around
Instagram, uh, yesterday, wasthe fact that it's this
beautiful mix of liketraditional Mexican culture
mixed in and the modern and themodern mixed with the European.
So like if you go to Centro.
It's colonial.
I mean, it's full on European,in Centro in terms of the
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architecture.
They have the beautifulcathedral, they have the
beautiful, uh, theater, theyhave the art museums.
It's stunning.
Uh, in Centro and actuallyCentro Plaza, they have several
plazas that come together andmake a giant cross.
And I think I read somewhere itwas like the giant biggest cross
in the world.
Uh, wow, I didn't even knowthat.
Yeah.
Yeah.
'cause it's four plazas puttogether and they make a, you
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see a cross from.
Mm-hmm.
Uh, like if you're flying.
You see across.
So it's, it's absolutelybeautiful with all the
cathedrals, the colonialarchitecture, so you can get
that vibe.
And then at the same time, youcould go over to que, which is
in kind of like the Guadalajaraarea, which is in Pueblo,
Mexico.
It's colorful, it's beautiful.
I think the best drink I had inGuadalajara was there.
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When we went there, there'sArtisanals everywhere in Ock.
And then if you want a bit of amore modern vibe, well you can
go to like what's more thefinancial district or you go to
Colonial Americana.
Yeah.
Which Colonial Americana wasnamed the most, the coolest
neighborhood in the world lastyear?
Year I think.
I think that might be a littlebit a st.
Overstatement.
I think it's a stretch.
There's nice survey.
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They're marketing it hard.
They really are.
Um, and all that brings, itbrings me to our next point.
Which is the food there is topnotch, uh, everything from local
Mexican cuisine all the way toEE.
There's even like, uh, Russianpastry places and, and other
Eastern European restaurants,food and Middle Eastern.
Middle Eastern and Frenchrestaurants.
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There's a lot of Lebanese food.
Yeah, there's just such avariety of foreign cuisines that
you'd be hard pressed to find inalmost any other city in Latin
America.
I definitely think they're doinga better job of all the
international cuisines thanlet's say a place like Metagene.
Although I'm sure in the fewyears since I've been there,
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that's, that's grown as well.
But Guadalajara, it's justreally this, this mecca of.
So many different cultures.
Even Indian food, you can getgood Indian food now in
Guadalajara.
'cause there's a lot of peoplefrom India.
Exactly.
There's just such a, a meltingpot there.
Very much like the, the UnitedStates has been, you know, over
many years.
Uh, and it's just, there's justso much international influence.
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So the food is.
Absolutely amazing.
Yes.
You're not gonna get as goodThai food as you might in LA
Sure.
But in Thailand and, and, andit's, yeah, but it's, I mean,
it's, and they have their ownMexican flavors for certain
dishes, like pad Thai, right.
It's a little bit mexicanized.
They put lips, Mexican spices,and just about everything in
Mexico.
But still, in terms of thequality of food, the freshness
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and the variety, it's really,really, really top notch.
One of the other things I reallyliked about Guadalajara is that,
I mean, we didn't get a chanceto do much of this'cause we're
kind of homebodies, which is oneof the reasons, it's like we're
weird.
We're either like traveling orwe're homebodies, but like we
don't go out.
Yeah.
Does that make sense?
I don't know if that makessense.
It's like we're not really likewith, so with the, the party
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culture or nightlife or anythinglike that.
I'm pretty happy if I'm in bedby like about eight or 9:00 PM
but then we'll get on a planeand go somewhere or a road trip.
Like that's kind of our thing.
Right, exactly.
We, we like the daytimeadventures more.
Um, sure.
I mean, when we go to Europe,I'm sure we're gonna party a
little bit and Budapest andother, other cities and meet
people and go out and have funand like, sometimes we'll do
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that, you know, for business.
We'll, we'll, we'll stay up alittle later and, and go to some
events and things like that.
But the day to day we're notreally checking out the
nightlife.
With that said, well, what I wasgonna say was, even though we
weren't checking it out, youknow, there's so many festivals
and music concerts and, uh, artexhibits mm-hmm.
And there's so many nighttimeevents and bars and things, bars
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and clubs and everything.
Restaurants and restaurants andeverything, uh, going on in
Guadalajara that if that issomething that you are
interested in.
You're definitely gonna getyour, your fill there if you are
into arts and culture andtheater and, uh, uh, you know,
they have the, there's a lot ofamazing theaters there.
There's a lot of amazingtheater.
You know, they have the, the,uh, Orozco murals.
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They have the CAAs Museum.
Um, they have the, I alwaysforget the name of the theater.
De Dega Dega.
Dega Dega.
Something like that.
No, I always, I don't know,we're probably messing up the
pronunciation, but probably I'llput it here because I always,
yeah, I don't know.
I have like, dyslexia with thename of that theater for some
reason.
I have no idea why.
Um, and it, it, it's just so,there's always something to do
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or even something as simple as,and this was a surprise, we're
running errands.
Last year in Centro, we wereactually shopping for our
wedding rings in Centro lastyear, which you can find some
pretty good jewelry in Centro.
They have the that giant threestory building.
San Juan Centro Horia.
Yeah, San Juan Di, or somethinglike that.
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And one of the things that was asurprise to us, well no surprise
number one, was we ran intoYouTube subscribers that
recognized us, and we were like,whoa.
Right?
But that surprise in the middleof Guara, in the middle of
Guadalajara.
And then number two.
Um, we were hanging out with oneof these subscribers and then
suddenly a light show startsmm-hmm.
On the, the facade of thecathedral and you just see
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everybody out in the plaza withtheir families enjoying, you
know, PTAs or taco or whatever.
Right.
Just enjoying the light show onthe facade of the cathedral.
And it was really nice.
It was like, this is what peopledo in like Europe.
Like they just don't hang out inthe plaza.
You don't, you don't see thatanymore in the us.
No things like that.
Well, I mean, almost we, we'vealmost never seen it.
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'cause the, the ways that citiesare built and things like that,
it's just not really conduciveto that community vibe.
Like in a lot of cities inMexico and in Europe.
But, but now especially, youjust don't have people like
gathering in a town center and,and that kind of neighborliness
that you see with people comingtogether around these events.
Another thing that we reallylove about Guadalajara is that
there's so much nearby that youcan take a day trip to.
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For example, tequila, there's alot of Pueblo Mexicos.
There's places like Lan, whichare up and coming towns that are
probably going to be Pueblo,Mexico soon.
Lake Chip, lake Chip.
An hour towns around there.
Yeah, exactly.
So you can get lake, you can getbeach actually too now in about
a couple hours you can be inVallarta on the new highway.
So it took us about two to twoand a half hours.
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To drive from Guadalajara to thebeach.
Yeah, to Ari, which is, yeah,which is pretty amazing.
Yeah.
So you can go to the beaches inJalisco, the beaches in Ari.
There's Manza also a couplehours away.
So there's just really so manythings outside of Guadalajara
that are within a two to threehour drive that you really can,
can keep yourself busy andentertained.
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And you know, maybe you like thebeach, but you don't like the
beach enough to actually livethere.
Kind of like us, we're like, youknow, we wanna be near the
Pacific Coast or near eightcoast, but we don't necessarily
like all the riffraff and noiseand uh, party gringos that are
on the beach.
Well, we can be at the beach injust a couple hours Yep.
From Guadalajara.
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So getting small doses.
Exactly.
Get, get in little doses, thengo back home and.
Kind of relax where things are alittle bit more normal.
Yeah.
Another great thing aboutGuadalajara, we loved this about
living in Guadalajara, is thefact that all the neighborhoods
are so walkable.
So whether it was CIA or welived in Alta or Colonial
Americana, it really didn'tmatter If you were in a
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neighborhood, you could walk toanything that you needed.
Yeah.
Um, now, now that we're out ofGuadalajara, we're like more out
by the lake and there's smallertowns, especially on the part of
the lake that we're in.
There's a little bit moredriving to go get stuff done.
You know, like we gotta go intotown, uh, for, you know, hair,
nails, uh, everything elsepretty much comes to you, I
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think.
But Yep.
For certain things here andthere, we'll have to go into
town.
Um, but over there, you know,you could, I mean, everything
was within, within a 10 minutewalking radius.
Yeah.
Whether that's coffee shops,bars, restaurants, grocery
stores, convenience stores.
Uh, even doctors andspecialists.
I mean, where we lived inChopta, you could walk to pretty
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much anything you needed at thepharmacy, whatever it is, uh,
within about 10 to 15 minutesand that was pretty cool and
something that you don't seemuch.
Of in the us.
Yeah.
Another thing I really likedabout Guadalajara, although this
may be Mexico in general,'causewe're experiencing it out here
in the lake as well, is therewas always some sort of like
community event.
Like if you wanted to go takeart classes, your neighbor
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taught art classes, if youwanted to go do flamenco, uh,
your other neighbor taughtflamenco classes if you wanted
to, um, if you wanted to go, uh,do.
To beauty school.
You bought me beauty schoolclasses to learn how to do like
hair and makeup and stuff likethat.
You could go do that.
Uh, we became certified holistichealers while we were in Mexico
because they were holistic.
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Just for fun.
Just for fun because there wereholistic healing centers
everywhere.
Now, every time someone in ourlife has an ailment, you could
probably see the binders backthere.
We have like an encyclopedia,like this big of like, now I've
got an AI that's based off of ittoo.
Yeah, well, of what it could beand what herbs and, and all that
kind of stuff.
So there was always something tolike do.
And one of the things that Ifound, at least in the United
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States is everything was alwaysso far apart that it was
difficult to, I don't know, havehobbies and learn things, you
know?
Yeah.
You know, every time you'dwanna, let's say, go out
somewhere or do something in theUS or or other places where the
cities are really spread out andyou have to drive.
It's just like this.
This extra effort that'srequired to do it, that a lot of
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the time you just sort of say,you know what?
Screw it.
I've already had to work andlet's say commute to the office,
or go and visit clients anddrive there and drive back.
And if you're working a job, youknow, a corporate job in a,
let's say LA or San FranciscoBay Area or Dallas, I mean, you
might be spending two or threehours a day in your car on
average, and you're not reallythat excited to go and then
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drive somewhere else, versus ifyou live where.
You also work, you know, you'reworking remotely like, like we
are, uh, you work from home andyou've got everything within
about a 10 or 15 block radius.
It makes it a lot more likelythat you're actually gonna go
and do activities and learn anddo things that might enrich your
life, um, because it's just somuch more accessible.
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Yeah.
I think another thing inGuadalajara, for those of you
who are interested is you canget some pretty good shopping in
Guadalajara.
Uh, for those of you who areinterested in that, I mean,
you're not gonna get like, youknow, Polanco and Mexico City.
Anything like that.
But you can find luxury brandsall over Guadalajara because
there's people with money.
Nomad capitalist talks aboutthis thing called DTLV, distance
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to distance to Louis Vuitton.
We have DTS, distance to spa,distance to spa.
That's kind of what we have herein the chip area.
But yeah, you can find, you canfind, uh, very famous luxury
brands there.
They have h and m, maybe two.
They actually just built anIkea.
That just opened in Guadalajara.
Yeah.
Mexicans.
Well, la Latin Americanstypically, we'll call that ikea.
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I'm not sure why in the US it'sIkea, but each to their own, I
suppose.
Um, but yeah, you find you canfind Ikea there, you can find
pretty much anything.
Everything, yeah, anything.
A lot of the American brandsthat you're used to, you're
gonna find in Guadalajara.
We found a cat on FacebookMarketplace.
Yeah.
We rescued her there.
She, you can find, is she comingback?
Find pets.
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Uh, maybe she's gonna come aheadof her.
Is she coming to Papa?
Papa?
I don't know.
Oh, nope.
She's just perusing, she'smaking, she's supervising, she's
down here supervising and makesure, making sure we're, we're
doing our job correctly.
And it's easier too.
Yeah.
Our constant companion, um, ohyeah.
And pet care too.
Yeah.
Maybe that's, you know, alignedwith the, the places.
But pet care, same sort ofthing.
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You can, you can walk to a, to avet.
We actually had mobile doggrooming.
People that came to us most ofthe time.
Yeah.
And they would give our dog abath and cat bathes yourself,
which is pretty cool.
They're self-cleaning.
Yeah.
Alright.
This is my first cat.
For those of you interested inhealthcare, you can find very
good hospitals.
Yep.
Uh, private hospitals in Guha,especially there in Alta, there
were some of the best hospitals.
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Very close by, uh, you can findspecialists of doctors from all
over the world.
Yeah.
Uh,'cause there's a medicalschool in Guadalajara that's
pretty well known.
Um, so it has very access tovery good private healthcare in
Guadalajara for those who askabout that.
Um, what else would you say?
Right?
Because there's just so muchgoing on in that city all the
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time.
It's kind of like difficult to,unless you've like been there
and actually experienced it.
Because I know when I first gotto Guadalajara, I was like
surprised and totally shocked,number one.
'cause I'd never really heard ofit.
I mean, I had, I knew there wasa city in Mexico called
Guadalajara.
Um,'cause my grandfather used towatch like those Mexican Nola,
golden era.
Oh yeah.
No.
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Well the Nobel has two.
My grandparents watched those,but also like that golden cinema
era.
Mm-hmm.
Of Mexico.
My grandfather used to watchthose all the time.
Uh, when I was little.
And so I, obviously, I knew of aplace called Guadalajara, but
like, no one ever really talkedabout it.
Everybody always talked aboutMexico City and Bia.
They never really talked about,well, it's, it's kind of cool
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that it's, it's a little,little, uh, less known because
it's not as saturated and thingslike that.
But, um, well, they're marketingit hard, so they they definitely
are starting to, yeah.
Yeah.
So when I got to Guadalajara, Iwas like very pleasantly
surprised.
'cause I'm like, whoa, this islike a, like a real.
International metropolitan citywith everything you could
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possibly need and you know,different strokes for different
folks.
And I think it just surprises alot of people who maybe didn't
know about it.
'cause it's more under the radaruntil now.
Right.
And then they go visit andthey're like, whoa.
And the people are typicallyvery surprised.
Yeah.
Another thing I'll add, and thisis a little bit more niche, but
if, let's say you're looking tohave the next.
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Cool tech startup and you'relooking to build a startup
around AI or something elserelated to technology?
Um, Guadalajara is actuallyconsidered the Silicon Valley of
Latin America.
So you can find very, very goodtech talent.
And if you're an investor, forinstance, there's a lot of, uh,
startups there.
A lot of businesses that arebeing formed in the tech space.
Yeah.
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'cause they have such gooduniversities around and such
good talent.
And it's becoming known as a hubfor.
For a lot of, uh, techprofessionals there.
Yeah.
It's like, so you can find good,good employees if you're looking
to form a business.
Yeah.
It's like Monte Re andGuadalajara are like competing
for that Silicon Valley Mexicotitle.
Um, so that's a reallyinteresting thing.
Oh, the weather.
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We didn't even talk about theweather.
Oh yeah, we didn't talk aboutthe weather.
The weather is actually quitenice in Guadalajara.
We only ever had to use thespace heater maybe for a week or
two a year.
And that was like at the end ofDecember, early January.
And that was only'cause we livedin an older house that wasn't
super well insulated.
So it did get kind of coldinside.
But most of the time you're noteven really gonna need heating
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of any sort at all.
In Guadalajara and the ac,depending on how hot a
particular year is, maybe you'regonna wanna have that just to
use it for.
Sleeping on and off for like ifyou really needed to sleep or
during the day for like a monthor two.
During May and May and June andperhaps July.
Yeah.
And then, but other, otherwisethough, I mean it's very similar
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to California weather.
Yeah.
It's a little bit warmer with,uh, not as many cold fronts as
you would get somewhere, like inLA or the Bay Area.
So it's a little bit more, moretemperate, but on the hotter
side, but it's still like verypleasant.
Um, and the summers are, arerelatively mild.
It's not like you're, you'rehumid and in the a hundred
degrees, uh, in the summer, likeyou are in a lot of the beach
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towns.
Yeah.
The hot season is actually likeApril, may, June in this area of
Mexico.
So we just got out of thehottest part and this year was
not as hot as last year.
Last year was brutal.
Yep.
Um, but this year was a bit moremoderate, uh, in that regard.
And then final thing I'll say isit's actually a pretty decently
connected airport.
Um, it's a very well connectedairport.
Yeah, you can fly.
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It's very remodeled.
Yeah, you can fly.
Uh, it's a beautiful airport.
I think it's actually quiteconvenient.
I like it Way better than LAX,uh, way better than, um, like
SFO be better than a lot ofairports in the us.
Um, better than a lot of, uh,Latin American airports for
sure.
Panama City is kind of awful.
I don't like it very much.
And Mexico City is just purechaos.
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Chaos.
Mexico City is chaos.
Chaos.
But Guadalajara, you can get toa lot of places, but you don't,
it doesn't feel overwhelmingwhen you're at the airport
there.
No, it, it's, it's just, justvery, very laid back.
It's a very, very reasonable,it's not like you're walking.
A mile like in Miami.
From one, from one terminal orone gate to the other when you
Exactly.
When a five, the custom's 5K iswhat I call it.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The Miami International Airport.
Yeah.
It's a very well connectedairport.
They have nonstop flights tolike 10 different cities in the
us.
You can have nonstop flights, Ithink, to just about anywhere
else in Mexico you can fly to,uh, south America via Panama
City.
I think they have now, theyactually do have flights to
Bogota.
So you can get to Columbia aswell.
They have, there's a lot ofMexicans vacation in Columbia.
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Yeah.
To Columbia and even fly directto Spain from Guadalajara.
Yeah.
And because the city's growingvery rapidly.
So to give you context, lasttime we checked, it was a city
population of about 5 millionpeople in the Guadalajara
metropolitan area.
So one thing for those of youwho are interested, like if we
were to compare that to MexicoCity, Mexico City's like 22
million people.
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So if you don't like people,you're going to hate Mexico City
and maybe Guadalajara is more ofa vibe, um, for you.
I never felt like it was supercrowded when we went out
anywhere.
No, and it obviously depends onthe neighborhood a lot as well.
If you're in somewhere likeColonial Americana, you're gonna
see a lot more people versus ifyou're in Alta, things are a
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little bit more spread out even,or even in Providencia where
it's not as, you know, people onjust, just everywhere on top of
one another.
No.
Um, and, and based on, dependingon the neighborhood too, you'll
almost feel potentially likeyou're in a small city, uh, when
you're in your neighborhood.
Because I don't know what it isexactly, but they're laid out so
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well that they're almostself-sustaining with their
little butcher shops and cornerstores.
Laundry and corner stores andsalons.
Exactly.
Yeahs dentists and doctors andpharmacies and banks.
Like we said, you could justgyms, you could walk to
anything, uh, that you needed.
But all of that to say like thecity keeps growing.
Very rapidly.
So then they had just, uh,remodeled the airport and
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they're adding new routes andthings like that.
Mm-hmm.
So it may not be as wellconnected as like Mexico City or
Cancun.
Those are, I think, the two mostwell connected, uh, in Mexico.
So if those of you who areinterested in relocation, if you
need access to, like, I need tobe able to go fly anywhere in
the world, then you know, MexicoCity's probably for you.
But if that's not a concern,then maybe Guadalajara could be.
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A good second choice for thoseof you who tell us that you're
retired but not dead.
Mm-hmm.
You like Guadalajara, you stilllike the city vibe, but not
necessarily something as chaoticas somewhere like Mexico City or
one of the touristy beach towns,Guadalajara for the size of city
that it is, and for all of theamenities in conveniences and
things that it has in, in thecity and the airport and
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everything else, it, it's, itdefinitely does not feel, um,
too overwhelming.
No.
No, no, no, no.
I think the only reason itstarted to feel that way for us,
right, was because we, ournervous system's, like down
regulated to like Mexican pace.
Mm-hmm.
So if we were like on Americanpace, then Guadalajara seems
slow to us, but after a coupleyears, I think our nervous
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system's down regulated to thepace in Mexico and, hey, we, we
work from anywhere.
We don't really, yeah, we goanywhere we want, need to be in
a big city.
And so we're enjoying the lakehere right now, about about an
hour from Guadalajara, we haveLake Chapala, literally in our
backyard.
Literally, yeah.
Like quite literally.
And the mountains surrounding,uh, the lake.
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So those are some of the reasonswe really enjoyed living in
Guadalajara.
It's definitely worth visiting,uh, whether you're planning on
spending a lot of time in Mexicoor not.
Guadalajara is a city worthvisiting.
Uh,'cause there's a lot going onhere and you're gonna be very
pleasantly surprised.
And then if you are consideringrelocating to Mexico and you
want more of a city vibe, butyou don't want chaos.
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Guadalajara, Mexico in the stateof.
Jalisco.
So in case you've never heard ofGuadalajara before, first of
all, I'm kind of excited thatGuadalajara's getting its
flowers.
Mm-hmm.
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Because everybody always hearsabout Mexico City M Puerto.
Lake Chip, which is where we arenow.
Everybody a Cabo, everybodyalways hears about those.
But you never really heard aboutGuadalajara, and in the last two
or three years, Guadalajara isstarting to get its flowers.
So I'm excited about thatbecause Guadalajara is actually
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considered kind of thebirthplace, so of a lot of what
it's considered Mexican culture.
So for example, I bet you didn'tknow that tequila and mariachi
were both born in Guadalajara,or at least Jalisco near
Guadalajara.
So that's exciting to seebecause Guadalajara was
definitely a little bit moreunder the radar, uh, for a
(02:50):
while.
I mean, it does have a lot oftourism, but it was mostly from
other Mexicans or people fromSpain or Europeans.
Mm-hmm.
Now we're seeing more and moreAmericans, uh, interested in
Guadalajara.
We've even done real estatetours for some of our clients in
the area.
So let's talk about, you know,why Guadalajara is getting the
hype.
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And why it's, it's well deservedbecause it is called the Pearl
of the West.
Absolutely.
So one of the first reasons thatGuadalajara is such a cool city
to visit or to live in isbecause of the friendly people.
Now, I know you guys haveprobably heard about in Mexico
City how sick they are of a lotof expats in different areas,
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especially the ones mostfrequented by Americans.
You just don't really get thatkind of vibe here.
I think that because it's stilla little bit less discovered
than let's say Cancun or MexicoCity.
People are a lot more friendly,especially to expats here.
And on that note, it feels,unless it's social media, but
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social media is a dumpster fire.
Yeah, exactly.
We, we won't let those TikTokcomments affect us too much.
Um, but people are superfriendly here and I think it's
also just kind of in, in theirnature.
I would say that Guadalajara,compared to Mexico City is
definitely a lot slower paced.
Um, people do seem to befriendlier, at least from
everything that we've heard,from people that either.
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Have moved here or that havebeen a lot to Mexico City or
Mexicans from Mexico City.
Yeah, exactly.
To Guha.
They're like, yeah, it's a muchslower pace.
Uh, much friendlier people here.
Overall, the taps are friendlyand it's also just, just in
general, like much slower paced.
I would say it's still a city,but not as fast paced as Mexico
City and not as touristy assomeplace like Cancun or Play Al
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Carmen.
So that's really our secondpoint is it just strikes a
really good balance.
In terms of not being supertouristy, but also not being
like too far off the beaten pathwhere you're like really trying
to figure out how to find allthe things you need and whatnot.
It's kind of got everything thatyou need in a city, really.
Yeah.
We really enjoyed living there.
The time that we were there, incase you missed it, we moved to
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Lake Chip Paulo.
We did a whole other video onhow that magically happened
because we weren't even planningit.
Uh, that'cause we were like,well, LA Hot is cool, we'll stay
here.
And then the opportunity to moveout.
To the Lake Chip area showed upand we took it.
Otherwise we would've stayedprobably in Guadalajara'cause we
enjoyed, uh, life there.
Um, it is slower than the UnitedStates.
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I will say one of the otherthings that's really great about
Guadalajara, and this issomething that was going around
Instagram, uh, yesterday, wasthe fact that it's this
beautiful mix of liketraditional Mexican culture
mixed in and the modern and themodern mixed with the European.
So like if you go to Centro.
It's colonial.
I mean, it's full on European,in Centro in terms of the
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architecture.
They have the beautifulcathedral, they have the
beautiful, uh, theater, theyhave the art museums.
It's stunning.
Uh, in Centro and actuallyCentro Plaza, they have several
plazas that come together andmake a giant cross.
And I think I read somewhere itwas like the giant biggest cross
in the world.
Uh, wow, I didn't even knowthat.
Yeah.
Yeah.
'cause it's four plazas puttogether and they make a, you
(06:05):
see a cross from.
Mm-hmm.
Uh, like if you're flying.
You see across.
So it's, it's absolutelybeautiful with all the
cathedrals, the colonialarchitecture, so you can get
that vibe.
And then at the same time, youcould go over to que, which is
in kind of like the Guadalajaraarea, which is in Pueblo,
Mexico.
It's colorful, it's beautiful.
I think the best drink I had inGuadalajara was there.
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When we went there, there'sArtisanals everywhere in Ock.
And then if you want a bit of amore modern vibe, well you can
go to like what's more thefinancial district or you go to
Colonial Americana.
Yeah.
Which Colonial Americana wasnamed the most, the coolest
neighborhood in the world lastyear?
Year I think.
I think that might be a littlebit a st.
Overstatement.
I think it's a stretch.
There's nice survey.
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They're marketing it hard.
They really are.
Um, and all that brings, itbrings me to our next point.
Which is the food there is topnotch, uh, everything from local
Mexican cuisine all the way toEE.
There's even like, uh, Russianpastry places and, and other
Eastern European restaurants,food and Middle Eastern.
Middle Eastern and Frenchrestaurants.
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There's a lot of Lebanese food.
Yeah, there's just such avariety of foreign cuisines that
you'd be hard pressed to find inalmost any other city in Latin
America.
I definitely think they're doinga better job of all the
international cuisines thanlet's say a place like Metagene.
Although I'm sure in the fewyears since I've been there,
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that's, that's grown as well.
But Guadalajara, it's justreally this, this mecca of.
So many different cultures.
Even Indian food, you can getgood Indian food now in
Guadalajara.
'cause there's a lot of peoplefrom India.
Exactly.
There's just such a, a meltingpot there.
Very much like the, the UnitedStates has been, you know, over
many years.
Uh, and it's just, there's justso much international influence.
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So the food is.
Absolutely amazing.
Yes.
You're not gonna get as goodThai food as you might in LA
Sure.
But in Thailand and, and, andit's, yeah, but it's, I mean,
it's, and they have their ownMexican flavors for certain
dishes, like pad Thai, right.
It's a little bit mexicanized.
They put lips, Mexican spices,and just about everything in
Mexico.
But still, in terms of thequality of food, the freshness
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and the variety, it's really,really, really top notch.
One of the other things I reallyliked about Guadalajara is that,
I mean, we didn't get a chanceto do much of this'cause we're
kind of homebodies, which is oneof the reasons, it's like we're
weird.
We're either like traveling orwe're homebodies, but like we
don't go out.
Yeah.
Does that make sense?
I don't know if that makessense.
It's like we're not really likewith, so with the, the party
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culture or nightlife or anythinglike that.
I'm pretty happy if I'm in bedby like about eight or 9:00 PM
but then we'll get on a planeand go somewhere or a road trip.
Like that's kind of our thing.
Right, exactly.
We, we like the daytimeadventures more.
Um, sure.
I mean, when we go to Europe,I'm sure we're gonna party a
little bit and Budapest andother, other cities and meet
people and go out and have funand like, sometimes we'll do
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that, you know, for business.
We'll, we'll, we'll stay up alittle later and, and go to some
events and things like that.
But the day to day we're notreally checking out the
nightlife.
With that said, well, what I wasgonna say was, even though we
weren't checking it out, youknow, there's so many festivals
and music concerts and, uh, artexhibits mm-hmm.
And there's so many nighttimeevents and bars and things, bars
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and clubs and everything.
Restaurants and restaurants andeverything, uh, going on in
Guadalajara that if that issomething that you are
interested in.
You're definitely gonna getyour, your fill there if you are
into arts and culture andtheater and, uh, uh, you know,
they have the, there's a lot ofamazing theaters there.
There's a lot of amazingtheater.
You know, they have the, the,uh, Orozco murals.
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They have the CAAs Museum.
Um, they have the, I alwaysforget the name of the theater.
De Dega Dega.
Dega Dega.
Something like that.
No, I always, I don't know,we're probably messing up the
pronunciation, but probably I'llput it here because I always,
yeah, I don't know.
I have like, dyslexia with thename of that theater for some
reason.
I have no idea why.
Um, and it, it, it's just so,there's always something to do
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or even something as simple as,and this was a surprise, we're
running errands.
Last year in Centro, we wereactually shopping for our
wedding rings in Centro lastyear, which you can find some
pretty good jewelry in Centro.
They have the that giant threestory building.
San Juan Centro Horia.
Yeah, San Juan Di, or somethinglike that.
(10:22):
And one of the things that was asurprise to us, well no surprise
number one, was we ran intoYouTube subscribers that
recognized us, and we were like,whoa.
Right?
But that surprise in the middleof Guara, in the middle of
Guadalajara.
And then number two.
Um, we were hanging out with oneof these subscribers and then
suddenly a light show startsmm-hmm.
On the, the facade of thecathedral and you just see
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everybody out in the plaza withtheir families enjoying, you
know, PTAs or taco or whatever.
Right.
Just enjoying the light show onthe facade of the cathedral.
And it was really nice.
It was like, this is what peopledo in like Europe.
Like they just don't hang out inthe plaza.
You don't, you don't see thatanymore in the us.
No things like that.
Well, I mean, almost we, we'vealmost never seen it.
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'cause the, the ways that citiesare built and things like that,
it's just not really conduciveto that community vibe.
Like in a lot of cities inMexico and in Europe.
But, but now especially, youjust don't have people like
gathering in a town center and,and that kind of neighborliness
that you see with people comingtogether around these events.
Another thing that we reallylove about Guadalajara is that
there's so much nearby that youcan take a day trip to.
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For example, tequila, there's alot of Pueblo Mexicos.
There's places like Lan, whichare up and coming towns that are
probably going to be Pueblo,Mexico soon.
Lake Chip, lake Chip.
An hour towns around there.
Yeah, exactly.
So you can get lake, you can getbeach actually too now in about
a couple hours you can be inVallarta on the new highway.
So it took us about two to twoand a half hours.
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To drive from Guadalajara to thebeach.
Yeah, to Ari, which is, yeah,which is pretty amazing.
Yeah.
So you can go to the beaches inJalisco, the beaches in Ari.
There's Manza also a couplehours away.
So there's just really so manythings outside of Guadalajara
that are within a two to threehour drive that you really can,
can keep yourself busy andentertained.
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And you know, maybe you like thebeach, but you don't like the
beach enough to actually livethere.
Kind of like us, we're like, youknow, we wanna be near the
Pacific Coast or near eightcoast, but we don't necessarily
like all the riffraff and noiseand uh, party gringos that are
on the beach.
Well, we can be at the beach injust a couple hours Yep.
From Guadalajara.
(12:33):
So getting small doses.
Exactly.
Get, get in little doses, thengo back home and.
Kind of relax where things are alittle bit more normal.
Yeah.
Another great thing aboutGuadalajara, we loved this about
living in Guadalajara, is thefact that all the neighborhoods
are so walkable.
So whether it was CIA or welived in Alta or Colonial
Americana, it really didn'tmatter If you were in a
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neighborhood, you could walk toanything that you needed.
Yeah.
Um, now, now that we're out ofGuadalajara, we're like more out
by the lake and there's smallertowns, especially on the part of
the lake that we're in.
There's a little bit moredriving to go get stuff done.
You know, like we gotta go intotown, uh, for, you know, hair,
nails, uh, everything elsepretty much comes to you, I
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think.
But Yep.
For certain things here andthere, we'll have to go into
town.
Um, but over there, you know,you could, I mean, everything
was within, within a 10 minutewalking radius.
Yeah.
Whether that's coffee shops,bars, restaurants, grocery
stores, convenience stores.
Uh, even doctors andspecialists.
I mean, where we lived inChopta, you could walk to pretty
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much anything you needed at thepharmacy, whatever it is, uh,
within about 10 to 15 minutesand that was pretty cool and
something that you don't seemuch.
Of in the us.
Yeah.
Another thing I really likedabout Guadalajara, although this
may be Mexico in general,'causewe're experiencing it out here
in the lake as well, is therewas always some sort of like
community event.
Like if you wanted to go takeart classes, your neighbor
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taught art classes, if youwanted to go do flamenco, uh,
your other neighbor taughtflamenco classes if you wanted
to, um, if you wanted to go, uh,do.
To beauty school.
You bought me beauty schoolclasses to learn how to do like
hair and makeup and stuff likethat.
You could go do that.
Uh, we became certified holistichealers while we were in Mexico
because they were holistic.
(14:17):
Just for fun.
Just for fun because there wereholistic healing centers
everywhere.
Now, every time someone in ourlife has an ailment, you could
probably see the binders backthere.
We have like an encyclopedia,like this big of like, now I've
got an AI that's based off of ittoo.
Yeah, well, of what it could beand what herbs and, and all that
kind of stuff.
So there was always something tolike do.
And one of the things that Ifound, at least in the United
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States is everything was alwaysso far apart that it was
difficult to, I don't know, havehobbies and learn things, you
know?
Yeah.
You know, every time you'dwanna, let's say, go out
somewhere or do something in theUS or or other places where the
cities are really spread out andyou have to drive.
It's just like this.
This extra effort that'srequired to do it, that a lot of
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the time you just sort of say,you know what?
Screw it.
I've already had to work andlet's say commute to the office,
or go and visit clients anddrive there and drive back.
And if you're working a job, youknow, a corporate job in a,
let's say LA or San FranciscoBay Area or Dallas, I mean, you
might be spending two or threehours a day in your car on
average, and you're not reallythat excited to go and then
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drive somewhere else, versus ifyou live where.
You also work, you know, you'reworking remotely like, like we
are, uh, you work from home andyou've got everything within
about a 10 or 15 block radius.
It makes it a lot more likelythat you're actually gonna go
and do activities and learn anddo things that might enrich your
life, um, because it's just somuch more accessible.
(15:42):
Yeah.
I think another thing inGuadalajara, for those of you
who are interested is you canget some pretty good shopping in
Guadalajara.
Uh, for those of you who areinterested in that, I mean,
you're not gonna get like, youknow, Polanco and Mexico City.
Anything like that.
But you can find luxury brandsall over Guadalajara because
there's people with money.
Nomad capitalist talks aboutthis thing called DTLV, distance
(16:03):
to distance to Louis Vuitton.
We have DTS, distance to spa,distance to spa.
That's kind of what we have herein the chip area.
But yeah, you can find, you canfind, uh, very famous luxury
brands there.
They have h and m, maybe two.
They actually just built anIkea.
That just opened in Guadalajara.
Yeah.
Mexicans.
Well, la Latin Americanstypically, we'll call that ikea.
(16:24):
I'm not sure why in the US it'sIkea, but each to their own, I
suppose.
Um, but yeah, you find you canfind Ikea there, you can find
pretty much anything.
Everything, yeah, anything.
A lot of the American brandsthat you're used to, you're
gonna find in Guadalajara.
We found a cat on FacebookMarketplace.
Yeah.
We rescued her there.
She, you can find, is she comingback?
Find pets.
(16:45):
Uh, maybe she's gonna come aheadof her.
Is she coming to Papa?
Papa?
I don't know.
Oh, nope.
She's just perusing, she'smaking, she's supervising, she's
down here supervising and makesure, making sure we're, we're
doing our job correctly.
And it's easier too.
Yeah.
Our constant companion, um, ohyeah.
And pet care too.
Yeah.
Maybe that's, you know, alignedwith the, the places.
But pet care, same sort ofthing.
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You can, you can walk to a, to avet.
We actually had mobile doggrooming.
People that came to us most ofthe time.
Yeah.
And they would give our dog abath and cat bathes yourself,
which is pretty cool.
They're self-cleaning.
Yeah.
Alright.
This is my first cat.
For those of you interested inhealthcare, you can find very
good hospitals.
Yep.
Uh, private hospitals in Guha,especially there in Alta, there
were some of the best hospitals.
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Very close by, uh, you can findspecialists of doctors from all
over the world.
Yeah.
Uh,'cause there's a medicalschool in Guadalajara that's
pretty well known.
Um, so it has very access tovery good private healthcare in
Guadalajara for those who askabout that.
Um, what else would you say?
Right?
Because there's just so muchgoing on in that city all the
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time.
It's kind of like difficult to,unless you've like been there
and actually experienced it.
Because I know when I first gotto Guadalajara, I was like
surprised and totally shocked,number one.
'cause I'd never really heard ofit.
I mean, I had, I knew there wasa city in Mexico called
Guadalajara.
Um,'cause my grandfather used towatch like those Mexican Nola,
golden era.
Oh yeah.
No.
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Well the Nobel has two.
My grandparents watched those,but also like that golden cinema
era.
Mm-hmm.
Of Mexico.
My grandfather used to watchthose all the time.
Uh, when I was little.
And so I, obviously, I knew of aplace called Guadalajara, but
like, no one ever really talkedabout it.
Everybody always talked aboutMexico City and Bia.
They never really talked about,well, it's, it's kind of cool
(18:27):
that it's, it's a little,little, uh, less known because
it's not as saturated and thingslike that.
But, um, well, they're marketingit hard, so they they definitely
are starting to, yeah.
Yeah.
So when I got to Guadalajara, Iwas like very pleasantly
surprised.
'cause I'm like, whoa, this islike a, like a real.
International metropolitan citywith everything you could
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possibly need and you know,different strokes for different
folks.
And I think it just surprises alot of people who maybe didn't
know about it.
'cause it's more under the radaruntil now.
Right.
And then they go visit andthey're like, whoa.
And the people are typicallyvery surprised.
Yeah.
Another thing I'll add, and thisis a little bit more niche, but
if, let's say you're looking tohave the next.
(19:12):
Cool tech startup and you'relooking to build a startup
around AI or something elserelated to technology?
Um, Guadalajara is actuallyconsidered the Silicon Valley of
Latin America.
So you can find very, very goodtech talent.
And if you're an investor, forinstance, there's a lot of, uh,
startups there.
A lot of businesses that arebeing formed in the tech space.
Yeah.
(19:32):
'cause they have such gooduniversities around and such
good talent.
And it's becoming known as a hubfor.
For a lot of, uh, techprofessionals there.
Yeah.
It's like, so you can find good,good employees if you're looking
to form a business.
Yeah.
It's like Monte Re andGuadalajara are like competing
for that Silicon Valley Mexicotitle.
Um, so that's a reallyinteresting thing.
Oh, the weather.
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We didn't even talk about theweather.
Oh yeah, we didn't talk aboutthe weather.
The weather is actually quitenice in Guadalajara.
We only ever had to use thespace heater maybe for a week or
two a year.
And that was like at the end ofDecember, early January.
And that was only'cause we livedin an older house that wasn't
super well insulated.
So it did get kind of coldinside.
But most of the time you're noteven really gonna need heating
(20:14):
of any sort at all.
In Guadalajara and the ac,depending on how hot a
particular year is, maybe you'regonna wanna have that just to
use it for.
Sleeping on and off for like ifyou really needed to sleep or
during the day for like a monthor two.
During May and May and June andperhaps July.
Yeah.
And then, but other, otherwisethough, I mean it's very similar
(20:34):
to California weather.
Yeah.
It's a little bit warmer with,uh, not as many cold fronts as
you would get somewhere, like inLA or the Bay Area.
So it's a little bit more, moretemperate, but on the hotter
side, but it's still like verypleasant.
Um, and the summers are, arerelatively mild.
It's not like you're, you'rehumid and in the a hundred
degrees, uh, in the summer, likeyou are in a lot of the beach
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towns.
Yeah.
The hot season is actually likeApril, may, June in this area of
Mexico.
So we just got out of thehottest part and this year was
not as hot as last year.
Last year was brutal.
Yep.
Um, but this year was a bit moremoderate, uh, in that regard.
And then final thing I'll say isit's actually a pretty decently
connected airport.
Um, it's a very well connectedairport.
Yeah, you can fly.
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It's very remodeled.
Yeah, you can fly.
Uh, it's a beautiful airport.
I think it's actually quiteconvenient.
I like it Way better than LAX,uh, way better than, um, like
SFO be better than a lot ofairports in the us.
Um, better than a lot of, uh,Latin American airports for
sure.
Panama City is kind of awful.
I don't like it very much.
And Mexico City is just purechaos.
(21:36):
Chaos.
Mexico City is chaos.
Chaos.
But Guadalajara, you can get toa lot of places, but you don't,
it doesn't feel overwhelmingwhen you're at the airport
there.
No, it, it's, it's just, justvery, very laid back.
It's a very, very reasonable,it's not like you're walking.
A mile like in Miami.
From one, from one terminal orone gate to the other when you
Exactly.
When a five, the custom's 5K iswhat I call it.
(21:56):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The Miami International Airport.
Yeah.
It's a very well connectedairport.
They have nonstop flights tolike 10 different cities in the
us.
You can have nonstop flights, Ithink, to just about anywhere
else in Mexico you can fly to,uh, south America via Panama
City.
I think they have now, theyactually do have flights to
Bogota.
So you can get to Columbia aswell.
They have, there's a lot ofMexicans vacation in Columbia.
(22:18):
Yeah.
To Columbia and even fly directto Spain from Guadalajara.
Yeah.
And because the city's growingvery rapidly.
So to give you context, lasttime we checked, it was a city
population of about 5 millionpeople in the Guadalajara
metropolitan area.
So one thing for those of youwho are interested, like if we
were to compare that to MexicoCity, Mexico City's like 22
million people.
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So if you don't like people,you're going to hate Mexico City
and maybe Guadalajara is more ofa vibe, um, for you.
I never felt like it was supercrowded when we went out
anywhere.
No, and it obviously depends onthe neighborhood a lot as well.
If you're in somewhere likeColonial Americana, you're gonna
see a lot more people versus ifyou're in Alta, things are a
(22:59):
little bit more spread out even,or even in Providencia where
it's not as, you know, people onjust, just everywhere on top of
one another.
No.
Um, and, and based on, dependingon the neighborhood too, you'll
almost feel potentially likeyou're in a small city, uh, when
you're in your neighborhood.
Because I don't know what it isexactly, but they're laid out so
(23:19):
well that they're almostself-sustaining with their
little butcher shops and cornerstores.
Laundry and corner stores andsalons.
Exactly.
Yeahs dentists and doctors andpharmacies and banks.
Like we said, you could justgyms, you could walk to
anything, uh, that you needed.
But all of that to say like thecity keeps growing.
Very rapidly.
So then they had just, uh,remodeled the airport and
(23:40):
they're adding new routes andthings like that.
Mm-hmm.
So it may not be as wellconnected as like Mexico City or
Cancun.
Those are, I think, the two mostwell connected, uh, in Mexico.
So if those of you who areinterested in relocation, if you
need access to, like, I need tobe able to go fly anywhere in
the world, then you know, MexicoCity's probably for you.
But if that's not a concern,then maybe Guadalajara could be.
(24:02):
A good second choice for thoseof you who tell us that you're
retired but not dead.
Mm-hmm.
You like Guadalajara, you stilllike the city vibe, but not
necessarily something as chaoticas somewhere like Mexico City or
one of the touristy beach towns,Guadalajara for the size of city
that it is, and for all of theamenities in conveniences and
things that it has in, in thecity and the airport and
(24:24):
everything else, it, it's, itdefinitely does not feel, um,
too overwhelming.
No.
No, no, no, no.
I think the only reason itstarted to feel that way for us,
right, was because we, ournervous system's, like down
regulated to like Mexican pace.
Mm-hmm.
So if we were like on Americanpace, then Guadalajara seems
slow to us, but after a coupleyears, I think our nervous
(24:45):
system's down regulated to thepace in Mexico and, hey, we, we
work from anywhere.
We don't really, yeah, we goanywhere we want, need to be in
a big city.
And so we're enjoying the lakehere right now, about about an
hour from Guadalajara, we haveLake Chapala, literally in our
backyard.
Literally, yeah.
Like quite literally.
And the mountains surrounding,uh, the lake.
(25:05):
So those are some of the reasonswe really enjoyed living in
Guadalajara.
It's definitely worth visiting,uh, whether you're planning on
spending a lot of time in Mexicoor not.
Guadalajara is a city worthvisiting.
Uh,'cause there's a lot going onhere and you're gonna be very
pleasantly surprised.
And then if you are consideringrelocating to Mexico and you
want more of a city vibe, butyou don't want chaos.
(25:29):
Mexico City, then Guadalajaracould be a good fit for a lot of
the reasons that we mentioned inthis video.
And if you'd like moreinformation on moving to Mexico,
you can check out our Moving toMexico guide below this video
where we share tips and tricksand things that you need to be
aware of if you're going to moveto Mexico.
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(26:31):
week where we talk more aboutMexico, Latin America, remote
businesses, taxes, al so manyother things.
Thanks so much for joining us.
Expat Dating.
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So.
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Say, bye, Mia.
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