I am American and my partner is from Mexico, we started off long distance but now she has been with me in the states for a bit with her work visa. I am quite frankly tired of living in the US, there are a lot of things I love about my country, like the national parks, and the safety and security of the community I currently live in but I’m just so tired of “grinding” for it. I want to live in a place where work life isn’t so prioritized, and you can get the basic necessities with a basic job.

Back in June, I spent an entire month in my girlfriends hometown in Mexico, which is just outside of Mexico City, I quickly fell in love with the culture, the food, and being able to walk everywhere. If we were hungry, we would walk to a bunch of different food stands to buy fresh ingredients and would have a delicious meal, it is small things like that I am missing here in the states. It just doesn’t feel possible in the US to have all those things I fell in love with in Mexico…

I have been with my partner for two years now, and I’ve went to visit her in Mexico 3 different times before she eventually came here to work and live with me. We have already decided that we want to make a more permanent situation together, our relationship is really important to us. We discussed where we want to end up living together, and i told her that I feel like I want to go live in Mexico with her. She basically told me “You need to realize that even though you have spent some time there with me, it was a vacation, you don’t really know what it is like to live in Mexico”. Basically telling me that I got a skewed view of the country while I was visiting because I didn’t need to work there or do everyday normal things. I honestly disagree, I feel like my month there was more than enough time to get a scope of things, and I like what I saw…. But now she has me wondering if I really don’t know what it’s really like… She tells me that where we were was “dangerous usually” but I never sensed any fear or danger