Book signing 
The Best How-To Book on Moving to Mexico
By Carol Schmidt, Norma Hair & Rolly Brook
Tue, Nov 3, 3-5 pm
Campanario 12, Mexiquito* 
Free

Let me tell you How
By Carol Schmidt

San Miguel de Allende expats will pick up many tips on daily living in my new book. So join me and co-authors, Norma and Rolly, at the home of Jon Sievert, the book’s designer, for our launch party. For US and Canadian citizens thinking about moving to Mexico, we say this is the best book available for in-depth answers about costs of living in Mexico, health care and personal safety.

It’s not only the laws and technicalities that expats need to learn but the ways to handle and maneuver the bureaucracy and inconsistencies—rules often are applied differently from one official to the next, one day to another.

This guide describe all 31 states and the Federal District (Mexico City) and how readers can find the best part of Mexico for them—whether they’ve got to have a beach, they love big cities, they want top-level cultural activities, they need the support of a region with many other English-speaking expats, or living their dream means finding an area undiscovered by tourists.

Readers will find out how to make the move—passports, visas, car permits, pet regulations, furniture shipping. They'll see what daily life is like—the ins and outs of keeping a car, finding an inexpensive apartment, building or remodeling, hiring employees, learning Spanish, staying in touch with family, educating their kids, getting a work permit, starting a business. 

Norma Hair and I have lived in San Miguel for more than seven years and wrote Falling…in Love with San Miguel: Retiring to Mexico on Social Security. And we are still surprised that the website, www.fallinginlovewithsanmiguel.com, has had more than a quarter million hits. It includes nearly a thousand registered forum members, SMA and Mexican news and activities, 1,400 SMA photos, SMA FAQs, cooking tips from Norma, and my blog on daily SMA life.

Rolly Brook is the only gringo in Lerdo, Durango, and his authoritative website is www.rollybrook.com. Together we share a wide range of very different personal experiences and knowledge, from my two knee replacement surgeries in Querétaro to Rolly’s personal handling of mordidas (bribes) and his sample menaje de casa.

Readers will even learn some geography, history, and cultural differences, which can be a jolt or a delight for those exploring complex, contradictory, charming, and always exhilarating Mexico.

Atención is now running occasional excerpts from The Best How-To Book on Moving to Mexico, and here is this week’s tip:

“….Sometimes you’ll find that you can’t get through to a US business from your computer. The problem may be that the particular website you want does not allow connections from foreign countries. There are several paid and free software programs that you can use to hide your foreign Internet address. (One is at www.hidemyass.com.) Click into one of these programs first, and then type in the Internet address that you want where the program tells you…”

The book is on sale at the Biblioteca’s La Tienda, Insurgentes 25; Libros el Tecolote bookstore, Jesús 11; and La Conexión, Aldama 3; on Amazon.com and at www.fallinginlovewithsanmiguel.com.  

*Directions—take Calzada de la Aurora to the end and turn left across from Pollo Feliz onto Fray Juan de San Miguel, then left on Claustro, and right on Campanario.