We recently bought a house in a nice middle class neighborhood. My wife and I are both disabled veterans who receive healthcare through the VA. From where we live, the VA is 5 minutes away, making my weekly visits for my PTSD group therapy very easy. However, before we bought our home, we researched becoming expatriates and relocating to Europe or possibly to a lake just south of Guadalajara, Mexico's second largest city. A place where some 40,000+ expatriates live already. The idea of living abroad has great appeal, at least to me, and a fear of the huge unknown. To lessen those fears we became friends with many expats who live around Lake Chapala. We found much to like and dislike about the area.
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