Before moving to Mexico, Maggie lived in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, where she worked in Banking. She and her husband immigrated from Great Britain thirty years prior, but their dream was to retire someplace warm. They vacationed in Puerto Vallarta five times before they visited Huatulco. “To be honest, when we arrived we thought we’d made a huge mistake. The place was almost empty, there were very few other buildings near our hotel, and in March, Huatulco was awfully dry and

Before moving to Mexico, Larry was an assistant wine maker in Sonoma County, Russian River appellation. Many of the people he worked with were Hispanic as were, over half his wife’s students. “Doreen and I got to know a lot of them and enjoyed their culture. After several visits to Mexico we developed a ten-year retirement plan that included moving to Mexico.” The couple had not made any decisions as to where they would ultimately live until a Mexican American colleague at Do