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Officially, there is not a worldschool hub in Guanajuato City, Mexico, but there are a number of worldschoolers who live there nonetheless. Lainie Liberti, the famous worldschool influencer, is one of them and she offers a number of worldschool activities (both online and in person) from her domicile in Guanajuato City. Worldschool kids and parents…

When we first moved to Guanajuato City, Mexico, we didn’t realize that OXXO was more than just a convenience store. To be fair, the OXXO looked like any other convenience store, but in fact, it’s so much more. The property for sale in Guanajuato City is located right behind an OXXO which was extremely convenient…

Guanajuato Capital, also known as Guanajuato City, is fairly typical in terms of “neighbors” in Mexico. The Casa en Pueblito is no exception. Let me explain. There are certain advantages sometimes to not speaking a lot of Spanish. It’s good to learn when to speak Spanish and when to “not know how to speak Spanish”…

One property for sale in Guanajuato City that we considered buying was on Panoramica. We were very excited about this property because it was actually several small houses with a space in between them. The property was cheap and though somewhat in ruins, it was big. We could see the possibilities in this property. We…

The night life in Guanajuato is spectacular even for old fogies who don’t really want to party, but just to go out sometimes and be entertained by something other than TV. Our daughter came of age in Guanajuato and became a member of the estudiantinas there, a group of professional musicians and actors who go…

In 2013, when we spent time in our first rental property in Guanajuato City, we had to walk up over 100 stairs just to get to our front door. The property was located near the Mummy Museum and the big cemetery on the side of a mountain near the train station in Guanajuato Capital. It…

One of the challenges that we’ve faced in selling Guanajuato City real estate is the lack of good real estate agents in the city right now. We’ve listed a number of properties over the years to sell or for rent, but over the past few years since the COVID pandemic, real estate agents have become…

Originally when we left Guanajuato at the end of the pandemic, we simply wanted to buy land to have a farm that we’d tend to for part of the year and then return to Guanajuato for the other part of the year. After we left Guanajuato though, and settled near Mexico City, my dad had…

Guanajuato is one of the most affordable, yet most dynamic cities on the planet! If you love art, theater, and entertainment and the excitement of concerts and a social environment that never sleeps, Guanajuato is the city for you. Our property in Pueblito de Rocha is close enough to the city that you can arrive…