Mexico travel, expat life, relocation and culture from a family who lived there for five years.
Spain vs Mexico for family relocation — compared by a family who has actually done both. Five years of Mexican residency, now moving to Andalusia. The honest side-by-side on cost, climate, food, visas, healthcare and schools.
We navigated Mexican residency as a British family — temporary residency, renewals, the CURP, banking, schools and everything nobody puts in the official guides. Here’s the complete honest breakdown.
In 2021 we packed up our lives and moved to Mexico as a family of three — no job waiting, no roadmap, no guarantee it would work. Five years on, here’s the honest story of what happened next.