Midlife Mavericks

Stories of "unmarried American and Canadian women building better lives for themselves in Mexico's beautiful colonial villages."--Cover

Borderless Broads, New Adventures for the Midlife Woman is written to you, one midlife woman to another. Discover a new vision of yourself as borderless, an edge woman, and explore how to make this phase of your life spacious, resilient and most importantly, option-filled. Why? Because midlife, age 50 to infinity, is a time to expand into the essential truest self that you are. Contraction and Limitation Begone! Learn how thinking of yourself as a mystic, a maverick, and a maven catapults you into embracing a new journey, energized, purposeful and willing to go beyond the borders of who you think you are and what you think is possible. This book is not a RECIPE for living. It is a book to awaken your soul-self through stories, luscious quotes, a dashing splash of humor, and the author's "take" on things that matter. You too can become a Borderless Broad and discover why midlife is a striptease - consider "Pod Living" as the new normal in lifestyles - explore the healing power of harems - come home to yourself - reclaim your Wildness - and live life full out!

In an era where transformation is the only constant, Generation X stands at the forefront of a unique midlife transition. Born into a world on the cusp of technological revolutions, we've navigated the shift from rotary phones to smartphones, from libraries to the limitless expanse of the internet. But “Generation X: The Art of Midlife Mastery with Machiavelli’s The Prince” is not just another tome in the self-help genre. It’s a deep dive into the essence of navigating midlife with a guide who has transcended centuries—Niccolò Machiavelli. This book speaks to the Gen Xer who feels the weight of change yet recognizes the cyclical nature of history. It’s for those of us who’ve laughed, loved, and lived through decades of transformation, only to find that the core of human experience remains unchanged. J. Thorn bridges the gap between the wisdom of the past and the challenges of the present, offering a fresh perspective on Machiavelli’s timeless principles. This isn’t just a book—it’s a conversation. A journey through the trials and triumphs of midlife, guided by the astute observations of one of history’s most influential thinkers. “Generation X: The Art of Midlife Mastery with Machiavelli’s The Prince” is a rallying cry for Gen X. It’s time to embrace the shifts, to understand that mastery over midlife isn’t found in resisting change but in adapting the enduring wisdom of the past to meet the challenges of today. Fellow Gen Xers, this is your guide. This is your moment. Your mastery of midlife awaits. Grab it now!

Lifestyle Migration and Residential Tourism represent a major trend in individualized societies worldwide, which is attracting a rapidly growing interest from the academic community. This volume for the first time, critically analyses the spatial, social and political consequences of such leisure-oriented mobilities and migrations. The book approaches the topic from a multidisciplinary and international perspective, unifying different branches of research, such as lifestyle migration, amenity migration, retirement migration, and second home tourism. By covering a variety of regions and landscapes such as mountain and coastal areas, rural and inland communities this volume productively engages with the formal and analytical variations of the phenomenon resulting in an enriching debate at the intersection of different areas of research. Amongst others, topics like political contest and civic participation of lifestyle migrants, their impacts on local communities, social tensions and inequalities induced by the phenomenon, as well as modes of transnational living, home and belonging will be thoroughly explored. This thought provoking volume will provide deep analytical and conceptual insights into the contested geographies of lifestyle migration and further knowledge into the spatial, social and political consequences of leisure-oriented mobilities. It will be valuable reading for students, researchers and academics from a plethora of academic disciplines.

In a lighthearted, uplifting, yet practical account, Golson details the year he and his wife spent building their dream house in Mexico for this first fun and informative chronicle of the new trend of retiring south of the border. Photos.

A growing number of Americans, many of them retirees, are migrating to Mexico's beach resorts, border towns, and picturesque heartland. While considerable attention has been paid to Mexicans who immigrate to the U.S., the reverse scenario receives little scrutiny. Shifting the traditional lens of North American migration, The Other Side of the Fence takes a fascinating look at a demographic trend that presents significant implications for the United States and Mexico. The first in-depth account of this trend, Sheila Croucher's study describes the cultural, economic, and political lives of these migrants of privilege. Focusing primarily on two towns, San Miguel de Allende in the mountains and Ajijic along the shores of Lake Chapala, Croucher depicts the surprising similarities between immigrant populations on both sides of the border. Few Americans living in Mexico are fluent in the language of their new land, and most continue to practice the culture and celebrate the national holidays of their homeland, maintaining close political, economic, and social ties to the United States while making political demands on Mexico, where they reside. Accessible, timely, and brimming with eye-opening, often ironic, findings, The Other Side of the Fence brings an important perspective to borderlands debates.

The only comprehensive source of information on how to retire in Mexico on a budget, this guide is filled with priceless tips and endless humor.

This book examines the increasing evidence of international retirement migration (IRM) to countries of the Global South. IRM to countries of the Global South points to the increasing global interconnectedness of aging in relatively affluent countries and raises critical questions about its interrelations with global inequalities. This book provides a critical analysis of these global interrelations and their intertwinements with global inequalities and addresses the complex and multi-layered dimensions and implications of this development. It highlights the (ambiguous) everyday lives of retirement migrants in the countries of destination, and the severe impacts on the destination countries that are marked by processes of recolonization, and the reproduction, enhancement and reconfiguration of social inequalities. The growing retirement industry that capitalizes on retirement migration exploiting global differences and structural disadvantages of countries in the Global South is another integral part of this book.