One big advantage that nobody has addressed is space.

SWMBO and I are downsizing considerably when we move to Mexico, in that we will have less than 20% of the floor space we had in our two recently inhabited separate households. We don't have room for our large collection of books.

Truth be told, I am not-completely-facetiously hoping that some enterprising burglar will steal my school bus full of household goods and on his way out of town stop by our apartment and strip it down to the wallpaper. It would be SO much simpler to go to Mexico with nothing but the clothes on our backs and my Visa card... Not surprisingly, SWMBO sees things differently.

tanstaafl.