I train at six in the morning, because that is what the heat here decides for you. Where to work out in Puerto Vallarta, what a Mexican gym contract actually says — including the five-business-day cancellation window and the 2025 rules on automatic renewals — and why the gym inside the building is usually not worth the premium.
The power in Puerto Vallarta is reliable and outages are uncommon — but the voltage swing around a rare one is what kills compressors. The difference between a regulador and a no-break, and how to claim from CFE if something burns out.
The supermarket and the mercado are two different economies operating four blocks apart, and most newcomers only find one of them. How the markets work, how to buy where nothing has a price tag, and why you go back to the same stall.
Public charging in Puerto Vallarta is a handful of locations, not dozens — so home charging is the real answer. Here is what exists, what it costs on a CFE tariff, and why installing a charger in a condo is a governance question before it is an electrical one.
A document issued in another country has no standing in Mexico until it has been apostilled and translated by a certified perito traductor. Here is how both steps work, where each has to happen, and the mistakes that cost people a wasted week.
What the cuota de mantenimiento really pays for, why a low fee can be the expensive option, how special assessments and asambleas work, and the seven documents to ask for before you make an offer on a Puerto Vallarta condo.
An honest comparison of Puerto Vallarta against Merida, Lake Chapala, Mexico City, Costa Rica and Ecuador — including the places that really are cheaper, and the four costs the comparison charts leave out.
For expats who have held residency in Puerto Vallarta for years: what Mexican citizenship actually changes, including owning coastal property without a fideicomiso, and what the process requires in 2026.
Mexico has three different kinds of closed day and they do not overlap the way you would expect. The seven legal holidays, the bank calendar, the cultural days nobody legislated, and how to plan a closing around all of them.
Rockets before dawn, roosters on the hillside, and a truck that buys refrigerators. Here is what each sound actually is, what the city noise ordinance says, and how to choose a home for sound before you sign.
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