Friends in Ajijic

One of the things I’ve enjoyed the most from our time here in Mexico is the amount of friendship we’ve generated in the last two months.  Of course, while the local Mexican population here in Ajijic is friendly and accommodating, nearly all our new friends are expats like us.  Sure, the area on the lake is beautiful, the town historically quaint and the weather temperate—all which obviously draws people to this location.  But beyond that, Thom and I seem to have proportionally found more people to connect to here in this small town, and in a surprisingly rapid time period, than we ever do in other travels or back home in the U.S. Naturally that has me asking myself, what is it about this area that seems so conducive to easily finding and then encouraging such relationships? [Read more…]