Thanks for your thoughtful comment. Xico is indeed a very nice little town and one in which I would gladly settle if I found the right place there.

Cuidate.

Thanks so much for checking in and for your kind words.

I am not one who becomes bored. I spend my time walking around Centro Xalapa and on each excursion discover something that I’ve passed before without noticing. I am also catching up on reading that I neglected during my many years of working at a job and on the thirty acres in Washington state upon which I lived for a bit more than thirty years.

I don’t expect to move to a location without internet service. If I were to, however, there are buses that run to just about everywhere in Mexico, so it would be easy enough to regularly bus to the nearest internet cafe. There is no internet service in Coyopolan, for instance, but buses regularly ply the ten kilometer slow go to Teocelo where there are internet cafes.

I will try to post more information related to the cost of living here.

Thanks again.

Xalapa is a very beautiful city and the folks here have been very nice to me. Traffic here is horrible, consequently I don’t drive except on the weekends. There are, after all, 600,000 folks living in Xalapa proper and I don’t know how many in the surrounding area.

Living in Centro I am able to walk to shop for whatever I need, so really only need to drive to visit other communities. Though yesterday I took the bus to Teocelo, and experience I will report in the next couple of days.

I haven’t spent much time in Veracruz so really can’t make a comparison.

I do want to move to a smaller community. I am one who for the last thirty years before coming to Mexico lived 16 miles from the nearest towns (one of 3,000 folks and the other of 3,500 folks). So I am accustomed to a more rural life and I want a place to garden, grow fruit trees, and keep chickens.

Teocelo is a very nice, quiet, clean town and amongst the small towns in this area I’ve visited I am most drawn to it. I like the size, it is at an elevation conducive to growing fruits and vegetables which can not be grown in Coyolopan, for instance, or other higher elevation places.

Thanks for checking in and for your comment.

Take care.

Now that you’ve lived in Xalapa for six months or so, how do you feel about it? I’m curious since you think a smaller, quieter place like Teocelo would be more to your liking. I don’t know enough about Xalapa to know how bustling and lively it is, but just from my readings, I always got the sense that Xalapa was not as vibrant as Veracruz City.