Moving to Ajijic with a Very Outgoing Teen - Page 2

Isla Verde · #11 (**permalink**) 15th May 2012, 10:16 PM

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Originally Posted by conorkilleen

wow. Just wow. Maybe you guys are right. Maybe Americans should be afraid and not come to Mexico. Heck, they found 49 bodies just 17 kilometers from where I live. THATS IT! I'm packing up my bags, career, and dreams, then heading back the USA where everything is hunky dorry!

It doesn't surprise me that the Bubble Pats are worried. Nothing ever happens and everyone is living happily ever after in some crazy middle world limbo like in the Movie "The Truman Show".....then when something does happen...its like the end of the world.

DON'T COME! IF YOU DON'T HEAR FROM ME IN 2 DAYS SEND HELP! TELL MARYLOU AND FRANKIE I LOVE THEM!!!

Conor, you should thank your lucky stars that you'll be moving to Mexico City in a few months, where, so far, the sky is not falling, just some out-of-season rain

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conorkilleen · #12 (**permalink**) 15th May 2012, 10:23 PM

I have been reading that Chapala residents have been saying about "Things are starting to happen!". What things? Killings and drug cartel activity?

Its always been there, you just have not seen it till now. Its like the first spider you see in your house. You would like to believe that its the only one and you killed it for good. You can now rest at night. What you don't want to believe is that your house probably has many, many, many, more and that and they live there too. Cohabitation at its finest.

I think Bubble Pat is more of a frame of mind. Those that are lulled into the false sense of security because they have been blinded, physically or emotionally, by their surroundings.

conorkilleen · #13 (**permalink**) 15th May 2012, 10:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Isla Verde

Conor, you should thank your lucky stars that you'll be moving to Mexico City in a few months, where, so far, the sky is not falling, just some out-of-season rain

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Sure I'm excited...but not because of the violence. Its because of this damned HEAT! It gets hot here!

Isla Verde · #14 (**permalink**) 15th May 2012, 10:32 PM

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Originally Posted by conorkilleen

Sure I'm excited...but not because of the violence. Its because of this damned HEAT! It gets hot here!

The weather is much nicer in Mexico City than where you are now. Just think of all the money you'll be saving when you won't need AC any more.

conorkilleen · #15 (**permalink**) 15th May 2012, 10:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Isla Verde

The weather is much nicer in Mexico City than where you are now. Just think of all the money you'll be saving when you won't need AC any more.

no kidding. The bill this month was almost 2k pesos. Actually down from last year at this time.

kcowan · #16 (**permalink**) 19th May 2012, 09:20 PM

That is really high. Are you sure that was not for 2 months.

Isla Verde · #17 (**permalink**) 19th May 2012, 09:24 PM

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Originally Posted by kcowan

That is really high. Are you sure that was not for 2 months.

That's a good point. My electricity bills come every two months.

conorkilleen · #18 (**permalink**) 19th May 2012, 09:47 PM

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Originally Posted by kcowan

That is really high. Are you sure that was not for 2 months.

Nope. 1 month. My electric bill comes every month. Usually about 2 days before the last date that you can pay it before you need to go to the actual CFE office.

Thats life in the big city.

johnmex · #19 (**permalink**) 20th May 2012, 01:58 AM

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Originally Posted by conorkilleen

Nope. 1 month. My electric bill comes every month. Usually about 2 days before the last date that you can pay it before you need to go to the actual CFE office.

Thats life in the big city.

All residential CFE bills are bi-monthly.

AlanMexicali · #20 (**permalink**) 20th May 2012, 02:11 AM

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Originally Posted by johnmex

All residential CFE bills are bi-monthly.

In San Luis Potosi the CFE bill comes every 2 months. In Mexicali the bill comes every month about 2 days before you can pay it at an OXXO, Soriana, banks etc. and we get 10 days to pay it [8 days more to get to a CFE payment location] and then the disconnect order goes in and within 5 to 7 days it is turned off. I asked the CFE cashier why and she said Baja Norte doesn't have a contract with CFE as of that time and there was a several year long dispute going on and the CFE wants money every month. Many years ago in Mexicali we could forget to pay for several weeks and it never got turned off.

Again this is a regional thing going on here which I see more times over the years within the Federal Gov't. operations.