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Originally Posted by Zeke
The main draw to areas with very high real estate prices are weather and job market.
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There is also the consideration of who you are going to talk to. I have a friend who bought an OK place, maybe 1000 square feet on a small lot on the side of a hill, in an ex-pat community in Ajijic, Mexico. He had all the potential other English speaking friends from the US and Europe he could ask for. It was a dinner party every night (which I hated - not into idle chit chat) but it was a vibrant community.
Another friend (who owned a now-deceased hard cover car oriented quarterly magazine) had a FABULOUS place on the Baja with a picturesque native village down the street, dirt cheap servants, and one of those swimming pools where the the water flows over the edge and looks like it goes on forever. He had to practically BEG friends to come visit. I was there twice, it took 12 hours door to door to get there. It was a great place, gorgeous, but it just cost too much time and $$ to go to go visit him often.