Choose San Miguel De Allende for an Active Retirement

Many retirees who want to stay active during retirement choose to live in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Workers are choosing to retire at younger ages than those of past generations. Retirees are not content to spend their golden years puttering around the house or watching television. They want to meet new people and experience new places. Many want to help others in some way. Retirees want to have active lives.

San Miguel de Allende is an ideal retirement location for many people. The weather is mild year-round, which allows residents to swim, play golf or tennis, hike or horseback ride throughout the year. The cost of living is less expensive than areas of the USA that have equivalent weather. San Miguel de Allende is less than an hour away from an international airport, making trips back home to visit friends and family easy and affordable. In addition, San Miguel de Allende has a well-established expat community with a myriad of clubs, activities, and charitable groups.

The weekly, mostly English-language, newspaper, Atención San Miguel, has a section called "Que Pasa" that lists so many activities you might need to create a spreadsheet on your computer to keep track of all the possibilities. No way could a retiree in San Miguel de Allende complain about being bored!

San Miguel de Allende is said to celebrate more festivals than any other city in Mexico. For June, Atención San Miguel lists four religious feasts, a celebration of the birth of St. John the Baptist, and the Summer Solstice. There is also a celebration of the birth of Ignacio Ramírez (a San Miguel native who was a writer, poet, journalist, lawyer, defender of Indian rights, and a political libertarian) as well as an observance of the anniversary of the death of General José Ignacio María de Allende y Unzaga (a hero in Mexico's war for independence from Spain. After the war, the town's name, San Miguel el Grande, was changed to San Miguel de Allende in his honor).