Retiring in Sayulita, MX | What I learned and 5 ways it changed me
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
- After significant midlife changes, we left Silicon Valley and retired to Sayulita, Mexico. This is the story of what happened, what I learned, and how it changed me.
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00:00 Introduction
00:22 Context
00:54 Early Retirement
02:27 What I learned
03:34 How it changed me #1
04:04 How it changed me #2
04:43 How it changed me #3
05:08 How it changed me #4
05:34 How it changed me #500subs
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Just found your channel (from Katie's comment section :) - I got sucked in by your great storytelling and visuals! I love that about becoming more intentional and that your mindset was turned off of auto-pilot, that is so huge. Subbed and look forward to more videos! keep it up.
Wow! Thank you so much. You absolutely made my day. I'm looking forward to digging into your channel as well. Katie's community is amazing.
@@RobinsonKris Thanks! Yeah the community is awesome, and I always get nuggets from her videos.
What a great life story, from cancer to retirement to living life to the fullest, they way YOU want! Congrats on beating cancer and your retirement.
Thank you! And thanks for stopping by. I've been very much enjoying your channel!
Living my dream!! Good for you!!❤ Sayulita is great!
Always nice to run into a fellow Sayulita fan. It's a special place. Thanks for stopping by.
This video is so inspiring. Thank you for sharing! ♥
Thanks for stopping by!
Oh Wow, Kris! This was beautifully written and narrated. ❤. So many important messages regarding how living life to the fullest requires more simplicity than we think. I enjoyed this video diary immensely! 😊
Thank you, Jen! That means a lot to me.
What an inspiring video. Thank you for sharing your journey.
Aw! Thank you.
Aawww I love you already ❤😢😊...Im moving to Mexico soon😮I understand everything you said ❤️
Oh WOW! Congrats! How exciting. I miss it terribly and hope to return again soon for long periods of time. Best of luck to you. Thanks for stopping by.
Love this!
Thanks!
I love hearing about the people who loved you supported you the most. I’m so glad you did this! We just have this one life and you were brave and did it!!
This video is inspiring and thank you for sharing.
Thanks, Tracie! I've been lucky in so many ways AND I've worked hard, too.
I sure do miss Mexico...but you captures our transition very well. It is amazing how slowing down and changing your latitude can show you what is really important. I strongly suggest anyone with the means...and it doesn't take that much...to experience getting out of their comfort zone and significantly slowing down for a year plus. I guarantee you, it will change your life for the better.
Awww thanks, honey! I'm so glad we did this together.
What a great video! Decision fatigue is so real! I am still working at 65, and wanting so much to shed all the external obligations. Fear os holding me back but everyday I am "inching" my way closer to the decision. You and your husbando took a big step that turned into a wonderful decision. Perhaps I gain courage from you. I too have had cancer, twice, (2020, 2022). Yet, ss a single woman without children, I am tethered to my work identity. I guess I derive meaning from it. Any suggestions or words of wisdom will be appreciated. Keep up your great content. It speaks to me. (I subscribed!)
Hello, fellow cancer warrior! Twice, ugh. I hope you are on a healing journey. I walk beside you in that. I think it is really helpful if you can envision or even start to create what life looks like after you retire. Being able to see what the future could look like helps you find the courage to let go of the present. It was helpful for me to start with what a perfect day or week looked like, post career. I didn't realize how much of my identity was tied up in my work. It took a lot of introspection for me to identify the pieces of it that I could address. The want and need to feel valuable, capable, and needed surfaced for me and as soon as I realized that I could find new ways to accomplish those things. Starting this RUclips channel is a part of it. Also, maybe see if you can ease into it. Go part-time, or consulting? I consulted for a couple of years for about 10 hours a week on and off and it really helped.
Thanks for stopping by and I look forward to getting to know you here!
@@RobinsonKris Thank you for your reply. Imagining how I want my retirement to look like is where I struggle. I live on my own and the idea of spending more time alone (solitude time I cherish) is what worries me. And, there is the financial side. I need to sit snd jpurnal about all of it. I am sure I will figure it out. I always do...🤗👍
Ah Sayulita. Last time I was there was 1991. Stopped to get a chicken for dinner. Enjoy!
It's a totally different town, I'm sure. I know people who have lived there since 2000 and even they say it's a bit unrecognizable. 1991, wow. I would LOVE to go back in time and see what it was like then. This video doesn't even begin to capture the love I feel for it and why.
What are you Doing now in Mexico about health insurance? I was 1 month into our 6 month winter vacation in Bucerius when I was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer. The Dr' s there said get back to Canada now. Treatments here will break you. Retirement in Mexico for me now is over. Every few talk about insurance costs for people in their late 60s and up. Great video enjoyed it glad you beat cancer.
First, I'm sorry to hear about your diagnosis, especially so early into your stay in Bucerius. I think the advice you got was spot on. I would have done the same thing.
I hope you are finding a path forward and I'm sending you all the healing vibes I have to give.
I'm not there anymore, not for health reasons, but for family reasons.
I was lucky that I had stage 1 cancer, so after my surgery and chemo, the only thing I have needed for follow up care is blood work and an exam every 6 months. We kept our US health coverage while in Mexico, so I timed my check ups with travel back to the states for holidays. If I had a recurrence of cancer, I would have gotten back to the US as soon as possible. We never had a rent commitment of more than a few months at a time in Mexico, so we were tied there. For other emergencies, our plan was to pay out of pocket at local hospitals. We did have "travel insurance" as well, but had we decided to stay longer (which we really wanted to do), we would have pursued temporary residency and then gotten more local insurance. The cancer diagnosis made me not want to let go of my US insurance, though. It was a safety net I didn't want to let go of at that point.
Are you mindful about gentrification?
That's a GREAT question and yes. Of course, just by being there we were in danger of contributing to that. We tried to actively combat it by not eating or shopping at places that were clearly headed that direction and instead, favoring the very local mom and pop places. We contributed with time and money to local needs (schools, recycling programs, hurricane relief for families etc). I also try to dissuade people who think they want to go there, but I know are more into the all-inclusive, chain store experience. There are only a couple of chain stores in town right now, but I fear it will happen more and more.
Thank you!