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Comala s attractive and has lots of greenery.. but still too hot for me..That area is beautiful but as C bob mentioned no thanks.. do not want to be that close to a volcano . It is only cool if you are used to the coastal climate-

The climate here is hard to beat ..Comitan in Chiapas as a similar climate but as an expat you would be isolated and lonely..

We love Comala in the daytime, but the evening mosquitoes can be bad.

So, my current take is that the coastal, and neighboring coastal areas, are hot and oppressively humid - and that will continue to increase - and the highlands of the country are criminally insecure in many areas with growing, manufacturing and transportation routes abundant.

There are a number of beautiful places I'd love to live in Michoacan, but . . .

There are plenty of expats living in Michoacan and no one is getting killed. If you read the papers Jalisco has plenty of cartels as well , at our age, you cannot stop doing what you want to do because you may die...

lol ferret! Yes it does. I'm not afraid of dying or being killed. It's a quality of life thing for me.

and then.......quality of life is an unattainable goal; just a memory, while the quality of one's death comes more frequently to mind.

How many expats have been killed in Michoacan who did not have anything to do with rugs?

If you have a dream do it.. You only live once..