Many of you know what it’s like when it’s that time of the month and a bill you know you have to pay or risk being cutoff, doesn’t arrive.  In March we learned that should you not receive your bimonthly electrical bill that you can go online to www.cfe.gob.mx and setup an online account allowing you to check the amount owed via the internet.

I’ve lived along the shores of Lake Chapala since 1997. Each summer during the rainy season, lightning has struck close enough to the cable, telephone and/or power lines feeding local neighborhoods to ensure some of the homes nearby were exposed to electrical surges.

Did you know that Mexico doesn’t have the same line voltage as they do in the United States and Canada?

Did you know that there still is an English language small satellite dish system that provides almost 500 channels of TV, music and radio programming that can be received all over Mexico?  And that unlike DISH USA, where depending upon what part of Mexico you live in, you may need several 6 to 12 foot- diameter satellite dishes just to get some of the channels, Shaw Direct (formerly Star Choice) works well with a single 36.5 by 26.5 inch elliptical satellite dish in most of Mexico, including the greater Guadalajara area. The dish is elliptical so that it can receive programming from two different satellites.