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If you are an American or Canadian thinking about moving to Mexico, you will eventually have to confront the reality of what is really like to live here. What I mean is that all of the books, websites, and numerous online articles speak to only half of the story. They will tell you of all that’s good and right in the expatriation adventure but will tell you none of the warts, none of the bumps in the road, none of what life will be like on a daily basis.
My wife and I have lived in Mexico now for over four years. We do not for one nanosecond regret coming and have absolutely no intention of ever returning to America apart from being forced out of the country through some pol
My wife and I have lived in Mexico now for over four years. We do not for one nanosecond regret coming and have absolutely no intention of ever returning to America apart from being forced out of the country through some pol
According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product
itical disaster. What we do wish is that someone, somewhere, would have had the integrity to report the whole story of expatriating to Mexico. We read all the books on the market. We cruised the websites, stayed hours in Mexico chat rooms, and read all we could until we could read no more. None of the sources we came across told the complete picture of what life would be like in Mexico in general and in small, provincial Mexican towns in the heartland of Mexico in particular.
I began writing soon after moving to Mexico. Now mind you, I have absolutely no delusions of the literary magnitude of what I write. I want to be a good writer and have had some successes. I constantly st
I began writing soon after moving to Mexico. Now mind you, I have absolutely no delusions of the literary magnitude of what I write. I want to be a good writer and have had some successes. I constantly st
; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.
Examples of combination products may in
Examples of combination products may in
ive to improve and let me say, you cannot improve if you listen to naysayers that you are a Talent-less Hack. I was recently told this, to my face on the streets of the Mexican town in which I live. And, here’s why:
I wrote a series of columns dealing with two issues. One was the fact that when gringos move to Mexico they tend to go about changing Mexico into something more suitable to their American tastes. They want to implement everything from American brands in stores where none previously existed, forcing the local government to allow the celebration of American holidays, force the cab drivers to take “be nicer to the Americans lessons,” and generally behaving very badly
I wrote a series of columns dealing with two issues. One was the fact that when gringos move to Mexico they tend to go about changing Mexico into something more suitable to their American tastes. They want to implement everything from American brands in stores where none previously existed, forcing the local government to allow the celebration of American holidays, force the cab drivers to take “be nicer to the Americans lessons,” and generally behaving very badly
lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.
ost of the time. I am speaking of the gringos in both San Miguel de Allende as well as Guanajuato.
Disclaimer: Not all gringos do this, of course. However, they have done so in sufficient numbers to have earned a reputation for doing so.
I’ve been writing about these issues for the past four years in an online publication that is little more than Blogging. The journalistic standards for this type of publication is not a strict as in print papers or magazine. I also write for print publications however, I do not write about expat issues in the print venues.
The second issue I also have been writing about is the locals in Guanajuato and how my wife and I have had to discover a
Disclaimer: Not all gringos do this, of course. However, they have done so in sufficient numbers to have earned a reputation for doing so.
I’ve been writing about these issues for the past four years in an online publication that is little more than Blogging. The journalistic standards for this type of publication is not a strict as in print papers or magazine. I also write for print publications however, I do not write about expat issues in the print venues.
The second issue I also have been writing about is the locals in Guanajuato and how my wife and I have had to discover a
here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe
l the many cultural surprises that no one bothered to write about in all the available expat guides. Not long after showing up to begin our expat adventure we began discovering little oddities such as:
· Getting shoved out of the way at meat and store counters by Mexicans shouting their orders over you.
· Getting yanked off of a bus so a local can get ahead of you to get a seat and not have to stand.
· Getting knocked off the sidewalk and literally into the path of oncoming bus that promptly hits you and send you flying through the air.
· Being refused service in restaurants because you are a gringo.
· Being served last in a store or restaurant because you are a gringo.
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· Getting shoved out of the way at meat and store counters by Mexicans shouting their orders over you.
· Getting yanked off of a bus so a local can get ahead of you to get a seat and not have to stand.
· Getting knocked off the sidewalk and literally into the path of oncoming bus that promptly hits you and send you flying through the air.
· Being refused service in restaurants because you are a gringo.
· Being served last in a store or restaurant because you are a gringo.
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d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.
Combination pro
Combination pro
Getting sexually assaulted in Guanajuato.
· Getting ripped off by Guanajuato landlords who have an entire bevy of scams ready to use at their pleasure. (I am not talking of every landlord without exception.)
As the result of writing about these things, and much more, the gringos in Guanajuato launched an attack against me ranging from wishing me death, threatening to come to my house to educate me on the benefits of living in Guanajuato, email viruses sent to me, calling me vile names, and telling me my name is mud and that I am a Talent-less Hack. Mostly, they accuse me of exaggerating everything I’ve written. To say these people have a major screw loose somewhere is a gross
· Getting ripped off by Guanajuato landlords who have an entire bevy of scams ready to use at their pleasure. (I am not talking of every landlord without exception.)
As the result of writing about these things, and much more, the gringos in Guanajuato launched an attack against me ranging from wishing me death, threatening to come to my house to educate me on the benefits of living in Guanajuato, email viruses sent to me, calling me vile names, and telling me my name is mud and that I am a Talent-less Hack. Mostly, they accuse me of exaggerating everything I’ve written. To say these people have a major screw loose somewhere is a gross
ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc
understatement.
Let’s take these points one at a time and see what we’ve got, shall we?
1. Getting shoved out of the way at meat and store counters by Mexicans shouting their orders over you—Within the first week of living here my wife came home from the corner store and told me of Mexican women shoving her out of the way and shouting over her their orders even though my wife was being obviously waited on by the store clerk. After a while, my wife asked the lady, Lucy, just what this meant and the woman told her that these people, the ones doing the shoving and shouting, were malcriados, or ill-raised. Now noticed very carefully what I am going to say: Never onc
Let’s take these points one at a time and see what we’ve got, shall we?
1. Getting shoved out of the way at meat and store counters by Mexicans shouting their orders over you—Within the first week of living here my wife came home from the corner store and told me of Mexican women shoving her out of the way and shouting over her their orders even though my wife was being obviously waited on by the store clerk. After a while, my wife asked the lady, Lucy, just what this meant and the woman told her that these people, the ones doing the shoving and shouting, were malcriados, or ill-raised. Now noticed very carefully what I am going to say: Never onc
easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi
in my reporting this did I say this was my spin on the observed behavior. I wrote what we were told by a Mexican woman her explanation for this behavior. From the nasty emails the gringos in Guanajuato sent me you would think they were not fully capable of reading the entire article I wrote…I simply reported what we were told. You would also think, from the reaction of the gringos here, that they’ve never seen this behavior. One very histrionic woman told me that I must be talking about another Guanajuato. Indeed we must be! If this woman, and all of her gringo cohorts in Guanajuato have never seen this in stores then what this means is that they can’t be shopping in the stor
nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically
s in Guanajuato. You might find this interesting: Some Mexicans told us this is not a universal practice in Mexico. We’ve gone to other regions in Mexico and do not find this “shove-you-out-of –the-way” behavior. Is this not newsworthy or not?
2. Getting yanked off of a bus so a local can get ahead of you to get a seat and not have to stand.—This is another thing about which I wrote that the gringos here went ballistic over. I wrote three articles on this issue of public transportation and the fact that Mexicans in Guanajuato do not queue—they do not stand in lines. At bus stops all over this city, when the bus comes up the street, sheer pandemonium breaks out a
2. Getting yanked off of a bus so a local can get ahead of you to get a seat and not have to stand.—This is another thing about which I wrote that the gringos here went ballistic over. I wrote three articles on this issue of public transportation and the fact that Mexicans in Guanajuato do not queue—they do not stand in lines. At bus stops all over this city, when the bus comes up the street, sheer pandemonium breaks out a
and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ
Mexicans will shove and push to get ahead of you to get a seat and not have to stand. All one has to do to see the proof of this is try riding the buses in this town. You have to act as they do and push and pull your way into the bus door because, by God, if you aren’t quick enough you will get shoved right out of the way and get left behind. I’ve been pushed, yanked, pulled, Mexicans have ducked under my arms, and one old man grabbed my right ass cheek and pulled me off the first step of the bus. And yet, this is another item of this culture that the lovely and kind American gringo expats have cursed me wildly and wished my death for mentioning. All they have to do is, probab
ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi
y for the first time in their car-cult lives, is ride the bus. But, oh, I almost forgot, these are Americans who drive their cars everywhere and wouldn’t be caught dead in a city bus. So, how would they know what goes on in the city buses?
3. Getting knocked off the sidewalk and literally into the path of oncoming bus that promptly hits you and sends you flying through the air.—The young and stout in this city apparently think nothing of shoving your gringo butt into the street and watch while you get knocked senseless by a passing bus or cab (Nor do they care that they might hit you with their cars as told to me recently by another gringo). This happened to me t
3. Getting knocked off the sidewalk and literally into the path of oncoming bus that promptly hits you and sends you flying through the air.—The young and stout in this city apparently think nothing of shoving your gringo butt into the street and watch while you get knocked senseless by a passing bus or cab (Nor do they care that they might hit you with their cars as told to me recently by another gringo). This happened to me t
ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.
Following aspects would a
Following aspects would a
ree times. I shared this with two other expats, who are walkers and not car drivers, and they too have been shoved off the sidewalks and hit by buses or cabs. Once I got this confirmed as happening to others besides myself, I wrote about it. For this, I am told by these over-indulged Guanajuato gringo expats that I am lying. I am just making this stuff up. Also, after writing about this, I got an email from a Mexican lady in Vallarta who told me when she visited Guanajuato she too was knocked off the sidewalk multiple times. Let me make mention again, those gringos who doubt what I am saying drive their cars everywhere and walk nowhere. How would they know whether or not anyone
dd to the challenges in developing combination products:
Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod
Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod
at all gets shoved off the sidewalks if they are never on the sidewalks? I just have to ask, thank-you very much!
4. Being refused service in restaurants because you are a gringo.—This hasn’t happened to me. I do know two very reputable individuals, however, who went into a local restaurant and were told they had to eat downstairs where the kitchen was because the owner did not like gringos. My friends wanted to eat in the upstairs portion of the restaurant where the Mexicans were but were denied this request based on the owner’s, Anti-Gringo Sentiment. The waiter told my friend to his face that the owner made this rule because of his hatred of gringos. This too,
4. Being refused service in restaurants because you are a gringo.—This hasn’t happened to me. I do know two very reputable individuals, however, who went into a local restaurant and were told they had to eat downstairs where the kitchen was because the owner did not like gringos. My friends wanted to eat in the upstairs portion of the restaurant where the Mexicans were but were denied this request based on the owner’s, Anti-Gringo Sentiment. The waiter told my friend to his face that the owner made this rule because of his hatred of gringos. This too,
cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin
the angry and fuming gringos in this town, absolutely deny takes place. My friends were hurt and devastated over this treatment. It happened and I do not think they lied to me when they told me this story. The gringos here told me in their vitriolic emails that I was making this up. They told me that since it has never happened to them, since they’ve never experienced it, that it therefore could have never happened to anyone. Lovely logic, don’t you think? Another friend, I just recently learned was also denied service in another restaurant in an other part of the city. But, according to the gringos who want to string me up with a rope, I am making it all up.
5. Being se
5. Being se
tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen
ved last in a store or restaurant because you are a gringo.—We’ve experienced this so often in one particular restaurant that we will no longer even go there to eat. It is all too obvious that when gringos go into this place, the Mexicans who will come in AFTER you are served first and you last. All one has to do to test this is go into this place as see for yourself.
6. Getting sexually assaulted in Guanajuato.—I am touchy about this since my wife was the victim of one of the fine and upstanding Guanajuato Mexican males who thought it ok to assault my wife sexually. What is particularly heinous is that these gringos in town, those who currently want my h
6. Getting sexually assaulted in Guanajuato.—I am touchy about this since my wife was the victim of one of the fine and upstanding Guanajuato Mexican males who thought it ok to assault my wife sexually. What is particularly heinous is that these gringos in town, those who currently want my h
t?
As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel
As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel
ad on a platter, would be the ones screaming like hyenas if one of their women was the victim of this attack my wife had to endure. How dare them minimize and marginalize what my wife and I went through when this heathen attacked her. These Americans had the nerve to write me and tell me I was making it up or exaggerating it. I went to the Spanish schools the day after the attack and asked about this possibly happening with other Gringas. I was told that these attacks are so common with their gringa students who come to Guanajuato to learn Spanish that the attacks actually have a name, “Grope and Go”. At the risk of sounding, “sour grapes” let me point out that these gringos ac
ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.
Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust
Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust
using me of making this stuff up would not be able to confirm what I have written since they would not be able to go to the schools I checked with because they cannot utter enough Spanish to literally save their lives much less make an inquiry using the language.
7. Getting ripped off by Guanajuato landlords who have an entire bevy of scams ready to use at their pleasure.—The beginning of the end of my honeymoon with Guanajuato was when I discovered that our Mexican landlady was wiring the outside security lights into our house’s meter causing us to pay for her outside lights. We unplugged, turned off, and generally de-applianced the house then checked the meter.
7. Getting ripped off by Guanajuato landlords who have an entire bevy of scams ready to use at their pleasure.—The beginning of the end of my honeymoon with Guanajuato was when I discovered that our Mexican landlady was wiring the outside security lights into our house’s meter causing us to pay for her outside lights. We unplugged, turned off, and generally de-applianced the house then checked the meter.
y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products
It was spinning like a top although there was nothing in the house to draw any electricity. She denied it when we confronted her. After we moved she had an electrician come and rewire it to correct the problem. Another expat friend was offered a rental discount if he would pay six months in advance. He agreed. The woman, a different landlady, took his money and flew the coop. She was not the owner of the house but represented herself as so. The real owner eventually showed up wanting some rent money once she took off with my friend’s money and stopped paying the real landlord the rent: A common scam—both incidents. When I checked with some Mexicans I know they told me this was
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As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de
As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de
ot something unusual. They were not shocked. So, I wrote about it and I thought hell would break loose in this town when I did.
It was these seven items about which I wrote and for which the gringos in Guanajuato, those sterling characters from America, sent me death wishes and threats to “educate” me on living in Guanajuato. (We’ll come over and teach you a thing or two, Bubba.)
As a potential expat in Mexico you’ve got to decide. You’ve got to choose what your ultimate goal living in Mexico will be. Do you want to experience genuine Mexico, learning the language and integrating into the culture? Or, do you want to live in a hotbed of American nuttiness where they flip thei
It was these seven items about which I wrote and for which the gringos in Guanajuato, those sterling characters from America, sent me death wishes and threats to “educate” me on living in Guanajuato. (We’ll come over and teach you a thing or two, Bubba.)
As a potential expat in Mexico you’ve got to decide. You’ve got to choose what your ultimate goal living in Mexico will be. Do you want to experience genuine Mexico, learning the language and integrating into the culture? Or, do you want to live in a hotbed of American nuttiness where they flip thei
elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.
Companies that provide selfless information through particip
Companies that provide selfless information through particip
wigs every time you may make an honest observation about Mexican culture?
The American enclaves in Mexico (in Guanajuato now and in other areas for sure) are not fine examples of a Jeffersonian Democracy.
If you think the concept of Free Expression and Free Speech is currently on the rocks in the States, just try moving to an American enclave in Mexico, and see how long free expression lasts you!
My advice: Find an area of Mexico with no gringos and move there. Learn all the Spanish you can, read all you can about Mexican culture BEFORE MOVING HERE and then go to a place in Mexico where gringos fear to tread and truly integrate into the community.
That’s where we’re headed
The American enclaves in Mexico (in Guanajuato now and in other areas for sure) are not fine examples of a Jeffersonian Democracy.
If you think the concept of Free Expression and Free Speech is currently on the rocks in the States, just try moving to an American enclave in Mexico, and see how long free expression lasts you!
My advice: Find an area of Mexico with no gringos and move there. Learn all the Spanish you can, read all you can about Mexican culture BEFORE MOVING HERE and then go to a place in Mexico where gringos fear to tread and truly integrate into the community.
That’s where we’re headed
tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products
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