Introducing our latest book!  The Best How-To Book on Moving to Mexico and Living Your Dreams is now available in pre-sale! Publishing and shipping date will be early October, 2009.  From the back cover: Thinking about moving to Mexico but don't know where to start? Begin with in-depth answers to your most likely questions--is Mexico really cheaper? Will I be safe? What about health care? Then study the regions and lifestyles of expatriates already living throughout historic, spectacular and always invigorating Mexico. Find out how to make the move--how most expats navigate the complex laws that are often applied differently from one office to the next, one official to another, one day to the next. Learn what daily life is really like for expats in Mexico--keeping a car; renting, buying, building or remodeling a home; working; schooling your kids; learning Spanish; cooking with new ingredients; making friends; staying in touch with family and friends; and adjusting to cultural differences. Rolly Brook's website, www.rollybrook.com, has been the definitive resource for thousands considering a move to Mexico. He's the only gringo in the town of Lerdo (Durango), and his experiences are quite different from those of Carol Schmidt and Norma Hair, who live in the 80,000-population San Miguel de Allende (Guanajuato) among 12,000 other expats. Their first book, Falling...in Love with San Miguel: Retiring to Mexico on Social Security, shared a calendar year's personal experiences, adjustments, discoveries, problems, and joys living in their new home. They've been answering questions and helping people understand the life of an expat in Mexico for years with their website, www.fallinginlovewithsanmiguel.com. Rolly, Carol and Norma bring it all together here with a friendly and informative style to help you make your move to Mexico and live your dream. Even expats who have lived in Mexico for years will learn a lot from this book: upgrading and renewing visas; going for inmigrado status or dual citizenship; getting a work permit; starting a business; navigating Mexico's labor laws; teaching English; mastering the Mexican bus system, and more. Order now at the special pre-sale price of $23.95 with free shipping! Or add a copy of our first book, Falling...in Love with San Miguel: Retiring to Mexico on Social Security, also at $23.95 with free shipping during this pre-sale offer.

Falling...in Love with San Miguel: Retiring to Mexico on Social Security has helped thousands discover the joy of living in Mexico while earning critical acclaim, such as by the Miami Herald Mexico/El Universal: "....you’re getting nothing but the honest truth, an unvarnished guided tour through the minds of a retired couple in a Guanajuato town who do batik and write and participate in a reading discussion group. A thousand New Yorker short story writers try to get at what these two tell us directly. The authors don’t shy away from discussing the controversies." The Midwest Book Review raved: "Falling... in Love with San Miguel: Retiring to Mexico on Social Security is a simple testimony to the joys of retiring in San Miguel de Allende, an art and cultural center 165 miles northwest of Mexico City, named one of the top ten cities in the world to retire by Money Magazine. Written by Carol Schmidt and Norma Hair, two women who came to escape the sweltering Phoenix summer and stayed when they became captivated by the joy of daily life, Falling... in Love with San Miguel is part memoir, part practical guide, as it details the first year of the authors' retirement life in San Miguel, including their expenses on the costs of average Social Security, the problems they encountered and the adjustments they had to make, language issues in a Spanish-speaking country, the excitement of celebrating the fiestas of the Mexican calendar, and much more. Enthusiastically recommended for anyone considering vacationing in or moving to San Miguel, as well as for armchair travelers."  More than 40 customer reviews on Amazon.com give Falling a five-star reader rating. From the back cover: Looking for a place to retire on Social Security? Consider Mexico. Come to learn a new way of life from a culture that goes back centuries before Columbus and Cortez. Find a way to enjoy life more fullly and explore all the possibilities of your future. Follow the story of two women who overcame their fears and found a new life far better than they could have experienced anywhere in the US on Social Security. Carol Schmidt and Norma Hair investigated many cities before discovering breathtakingly beautiful San Miguel de Allende. They came for three months and fell in love with San Miguel de Allende within three days. Carol also fell literally her first day on the irregular cobblestone sidewalks and streets--San Miguel is nicknamed "the city of fallen women." In vivid detail they describe their first year experiencing all of the fiestas that fill the Mexican calendar. They share the problems they ran into, the adjustments they learned to make, what they pay for almost everything, and their new outlook on life. And they're doing it on average Social Security in one of Mexico's most expensive cities. This book is their love story to San Miguel de Allende, and your window into a new way of looking forward to retirement.