Lake Chapala - Retiring Is Looking Good
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That’s what 211 respondents reported in a survey conducted by two UTSA professors.
The results of the survey were presented Wednesday as part of the UTSA Mexico Center’s brown-bag luncheon series.
The survey, conducted in 2004, was one of the first to examine why older U.S. residents have moved to Mexico. The U.S. Census bureau estimates that about 7 million Americans live abroad and approximately 1 million live in Mexico.
The study by professors Viviana Rojas and Thankam Sunil of UTSA looked a relatively narrow slice of Americans, surveying U.S. citizens who were 55 or older and who’d lived in Mexico for at least six months.
“There has been a lack of information about international late-life migration,” Rojas said. “What’s happening is quite contrary to what we usually see,” which is a movement of people from an underdeveloped nation to a more developed one. Read more