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I’m Moving to Platypusyacan, Mexico Where I Can Live on Five Dollars a Month

I’m going to uproot my entire life because I watched a video

Photo by Miguel Urieta on Unsplash

Yep, that’s me, handing a jar to some random guy with a cow so he can fill it up with fresh, hot, bacteria-laden raw milk straight from his cow.

At least, I think that’s a cow. Maybe it’s a bull. Seriously, I have no idea.

I’m down here in Platypusyacan, Mexico, because I stumbled across this video where an older woman said she pays $460 a month to live by a lake in Mexico.

Sign me up!

Look at her, eating unwashed fruit at a farmer’s market and drinking raw milk. And she’s still alive!

At least, she was when the video was made.

Apparently, she was a journalist who relocated to Mexico after she took a “vacation” (I think this is something rich people do), and then “fell in love with the place” and decided to start an English-language magazine.

As one will.

Sorry, I keep going back to watch the video where she hands the jar to the farmer and he squirts it full of milk and then hands it back to…