Our days have recently been spent looking for housing. We are still unsure if we will buy or rent. Our minds change daily! At this very moment, we are more actively seeking a nice rental that will accept our pets. The problem has been that the really nice places don’t want (or have to because the market is tight) to accept pets. Can’t say as I blame them, but it makes it more difficult for us. We were networking at church today and I have a couple leads. We’ll see. We don’t have to leave this place, but we’d like to! We need to give notice by the end of this month if we’d like to leave at the end of March, so we’re heating up the search.

Real estate housing prices are rising quickly and most of the inventory has sold, so pickin’s are slim and if a house hasn’t sold, it may be because the owners want too much or something else is wrong. We just started exploring east of the town of Chapala. Most of the “community” is west of Chapala, where we live now. East there is more space and less Americanization, both of which appeal to us. I have faith that we’ll find suitable accommodations one way or the other.

The climate here is most agreeable and I’m not sure about other areas which might be less “discovered” and have better housing values. I think there is a reason so many people have settled here. Keith wants to explore with the idea of maybe finding a better spot to relocate to, but I’m not as gung-ho, as I think the perfect climate here doesn’t extend too far. As far as not as much humidity, not being too cold in the winter and too hot in the summer. The lake moderates the temps. here and that’s just great!