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"If you truly mean to live in Mexico, you will need to qualify, at a Mexican Consulate outside of Mexico, for a residence visa. Otherwise, you would be just a tourist with a 180 day, non-renewable tourist permit &amp; have to leave Mexico before it expired. Those frequent trips would become an agrivation, as well as a great expense.  Also, if you wish to buy property, register a vehicle, or do much of anything within the rules, you would need other government documents &amp; most of them are only issued to legal residents; Residente Permanente, or Residente Temporal visa holders. The financial requirements are available from the Mexican Consulates, but you should plan on being able to prove retirement income of $1400-$1500 per month/individual, or some $90-100,000 in untouched savings over the last 6-12 months, depending upon which visa you desire.  Only the Residente Permanente visa will allow you to work in Mexico without specific immigration permissions. However, if your work is online and based outside of Mexico and paid outside of Mexico, that will not be a concern for you.\n \n\n\n\tFor your trip, you should simply have good debit cards from your home bank, and use local ATMs for your daily cash needs.  Both food and transportation will be about half of what you might expect in the USA, but your habits will determine the baseline in the first day or two.\n \n\n\n\tPractice your Spanish......Enjoy your trip.  We stayed for over 13 years, until age and infirmity forced us to Tucson and the availability of Medicare and the VA. Tucson is more expensive, and more boring, than Chapala, but less expensive than many other parts of the USA, as you seem to have already noticed.\n \n\n\n\t \n \n"
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