Retirement in Querétaro, Possible? Now looking better than ever.
We’re putting the finishing touches on Querétaro, the next of our Featured Locations of terrific places to Retire in Mexico. And there’s truly lots to be said about Querétaro as a retirement location. Querétaro is one of those unique, relatively big cities that could almost fit somewhere in Arizona or Nevada. For many visitors, at first sight, it is the last thing you’d think a Mexican city might look like. From a distance you might spot a colonial church spire, but more likely your eye will be caught by the shiny, almost brash, modern shopping centers and office buildings that line the near perfect inner-city expressways.
Still this is not Tucson. Your editor was once turned away from the tortilla line at a Querétaro Mega supermarket on Christmas Eve, with hungry family in the car. Just too many people buying tortillas. Right outside though, an independent tortilleria was quickly able to load us up with a good kilo of tortillas, still warm, wrapped in clean paper. At 9:30 PM, Christmas was saved.
Querétaro is relatively new at welcoming foreign retirees, vacationers and second home seekers, but it has been one of Mexico’s largest recipients of internal Mexican migrants. They, like plenty of people, are attracted by the city and state’s rock solid economy, high-tech businesses and the sound management of the city that keeps it clean with good working schools and services. We’ll be writing more about Querétaro as the next few weeks pass and we get ready to start talking about the amazing real estate. You won’t believe some of the houses springing up there.
3 comments December 19th, 2006
Flores de Noche Buena, or Flowers of the Holy Night. Most of us have known them all our lives, and they are just one more of those special things that come to us from Mexico. Like a lot of those things, like the word “mustang,” or even chocolate, their origin is something we might take for granted or hardly think of. Once we get to thinking about Mexico, though, it is hard not to see how its beautiful culture and history affect us every day.