How Living Abroad Made Me a Better Person
Chuck Bolotin, of Best Places in the World to Retire, provides a perspective of how moving to Mexico can make you a better person.
City of Mérida (Image: Google.com)
When in my early twenties, after crossing the border near San Diego with my friends and driving south in Mexico, I noticed lots of houses in which the construction had begun, but was not finished.
“How stupid”, I thought, viewing what I believed to be evidence of bad planning on a large scale by lots of silly people. “What a waste! Why get started if you don’t finish?” (I may even have harrumphed, but I don’t remember.)
I didn’t think about it much more until, close to the present time, when I was interviewing an expat for our site, Best Places In The World To Retire. We were talking about how, in Mexico…
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