A couple of days ago, I returned to La Manzanilla, a small beach resort located about 45 minutes north of the Manzanillo Airport on Mexico’s Pacific Coast. Affectionately known as “My Secret Paradise”(a nickname that I coined), La Manzanilla is not really a secret anymore - the cat has been out of the bag for sometime now.

A longtime favorite beach town among Mexicans from Guadalajara, there is increasingly steady flow of Americans and Canadians who vacation here. Not surprisingly, there is a growing expat community of gringos here in La Manzanilla - many of them are snowbirders, which is a popular term used to describe North Americans who fly migrate south during the cold winter months (November – May) before returning home sometime after May. Many of these snowbirders have summer homes situated in the hills overlooking the town.

It seems that everybody is enchanted with “My Secret Paradise”; whenever I go to one of the more popular cafes like El Girasol Bistro, I always overhear conversations about buying property from gringos who are vacationing here for the first time. As expected, land prices are going up as more and more gringos try to set up shop here. Stay tuned…

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