content: My husband and I looked into buying land in Mexico once. Somewhere along the coast, as a retirement plan. Land and homes much cheaper down there but still out of our budget to get anything anywhere remotely near place like cancun or playa. So I started doing some research and found a little place just a bit on the interior but not too far from the coast and the cost was extremely worth it.  It's just that, you find a good decent place like that, and then the rest of your neighborhood is what you see in the left of that photo. Plus, you can't outright buy land in Mexico, you have to do it through a proxy.  Ended up being not worth the hassle and we just retired in the US on the coast.