Any Expats in Tepic?

[JoParsons]

I'm checking out lower elevations now. Uruapan is perfect climate but turned out, high altitudes are bad for me. If anyone knows anything about this city, I'd love to hear from you.

[kcowan]

My Spanish teacher is from there and visits her family regularly. What do you need to know?

[JoParsons]

Originally Posted by kcowan

My Spanish teacher is from there and visits her family regularly. What do you need to know?

Well, I need to, for health reasons, trade elevation for heat. I'm going to visit there on the 22nd of March for a few days to see if I can take the heat. Actually, I don't find as much on Tepic as I'd like so anything she can tell me about the place will be most welcome. Where are you located now? How does she travel back and forth? Thanks muchly.

[TundraGreen]

Originally Posted by JoParsons

Well, I need to, for health reasons, trade elevation for heat. I'm going to visit there on the 22nd of March for a few days to see if I can take the heat. Actually, I don't find as much on Tepic as I'd like so anything she can tell me about the place will be most welcome. Where are you located now? How does she travel back and forth? Thanks muchly.

You probably know this but, a visit in March will not give you much of a sense of the temperature throughout the year.

[JoParsons]

Agreed; but isn't this the hot season? So if it's livable now, I'm good to go.

[Isla Verde]

Originally Posted by JoParsons

Agreed; but isn't this the hot season? So if it's livable now, I'm good to go.

I don't know about Tepic, but in most of the central highlands of Mexico, the hot season is the period before the summer rains starts. In Mexico City that is usually May and the early part of June.

[Kimpatsu Hekigan]

Originally Posted by JoParsons

Agreed; but isn't this the hot season? So if it's livable now, I'm good to go.

Be sure to ask the locals if the Molino Menchaca sugar mill in Tepíc is still in operation.

The last time I was there in autumn, during the sugar cane harvest season, the mill was burning the spent cane to fire their boilers to run the mill. The air pollution was pretty bad. Left a brown haze over the entire valley.

Not so livable then.

Suerte,

-- K.H.

[JoParsons]

Thanks I'll check

[chicois8]

Here is the website of an expat and the Tepic message board:

THE TEPIC AND NAYARIT, MEXICO JOURNAL

[JoParsons]

Originally Posted by chicois8

Here is the website of an expat and the Tepic message board:

THE TEPIC AND NAYARIT, MEXICO JOURNAL

I've been on the board for a little while now. It hasn't been very helpful so far; but thanks very much.