Dear Sir,

We are recent arrivals here in Ajijic. Like all newbies, we are bombarded with information about how to exist in the Mexico milieu. One of the knowledge-based claims was that the carwash guys will steal things from your car – cell phones, GPS, wallets and so on.

Dear Sir,

Two years ago on January 6 I came home from working in the church office to find my partner of 42 years on the hallway floor hog tied with strips of our garden hose and shot in the head.

Dear Sir,

I had always had cats until about a year ago when I adopted two little dog sisters from a nearby Mexican family.  Of course we had our mishaps during potty training and those long months of teething but recently I’ve learned a new respect for having dogs as pets.

Dear Sir,

As part of the effort to publicize our 12th Annual Arts & Crafts Show, the American Legion Auxiliary Unit 7 in Chapala had a bilingual  banner made for display near Chapala’s main intersection.

Dear Sir,

Recently I returned home from a brief absence to learn my house had been robbed.

Dear Sir,

I am interested in the new income requirements for expats to live in Mexico. If the United States were to incorporate the Mexican plan, few if any would vacation or reside there. The minimum wage in the U.S. capital is 8.25 dollars per hour. A minimum wage earner in Washington D.C. earns 17,424 dollars per year. If a Mexican were to attempt to have temporary residence in the United States, he would, using Mexican standards, have to receive 39,666 dollars per year. A Mexican immigrant would have to earn, or have at his disposal, 49,500 dollars per year. I cannot imagine the negative reaction if the United States used Mexican immigration laws.