{"id":69,"date":"2016-06-11T05:57:46","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T12:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anadventuretogether.ctsmg.com\/?p=69"},"modified":"2021-06-04T16:18:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T23:18:27","slug":"why-ajijic-expat-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anadventuretogether.ctsmg.com\/why-ajijic-expat-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Ajijic? Expat Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why did we choose Ajijic? Another reason is a relatively large expat community.<\/p>\n<p>(Expat is short for &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Expatriate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expatriot<\/a>,&#8221; which means someone living outside their home country. Having lived as an expat when I was younger, I can tell you that this term can have negative connotations to some in the foreign country you&#8217;re living in. Nonetheless, it&#8217;s a convenient word widely used in expat communities around the world, so I&#8217;ll use it here, too.)<\/p>\n<p>Ajijic has about 1,000 expats living there full time, mostly retired Americans and Canadians. This represents a little less than 10% of the population. While we don&#8217;t want to just move to a gated community filled with American grandparents (which wouldn&#8217;t be the cross-cultural experience we had in mind), it does give us the opportunity to connect with others who share our experience.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/lakechapalasociety.com\/weebly\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lake Chapala Society<\/a> in Ajijic is the focus of a lot of\u00a0expat activity, offering language classes and social events.\u00a0We&#8217;re hoping that the\u00a0large expat community in Ajijic will help Angela find people to connect with to give her a support network and help her feel less isolated during our year abroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why did we choose Ajijic? Another reason is a relatively large expat community. (Expat is short for &#8220;expatriot,&#8221; which means someone living outside their home country. Having lived as an expat when I was younger, I can tell you that this term can have negative connotations to some in the foreign country you&#8217;re living in. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anadventuretogether.ctsmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anadventuretogether.ctsmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anadventuretogether.ctsmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anadventuretogether.ctsmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anadventuretogether.ctsmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/anadventuretogether.ctsmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428,"href":"https:\/\/anadventuretogether.ctsmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anadventuretogether.ctsmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anadventuretogether.ctsmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anadventuretogether.ctsmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}