CDMX (Mexico)

• IMSS enrollment (legal residents) — public-system backstop
  500-700/year; excludes cancer, chronic degenerative disease, HIV, addictions, mental illness $/year
  Common expat pattern: private out-of-pocket for routine care plus IMSS or private insurance as catastrophic backstop, not one system exclusively
• Pet import (cat) — species-specific requirement verification
  Not yet researched
  Whether cat rabies-titer timing or quarantine requirements differ from the dog findings above has not been checked
• Pet import (dog) — rabies titer / quarantine requirement
  No rabies titer required; no quarantine if compliant
  Current rabies vaccination, parasite treatment within 6 months, tick treatment shortly before entry, ISO microchip (recommended) — a materially easier process than many destinations in this project
• Private health insurance — new-enrollment age ceiling
  ~65 (some plans 60-65)
  Existing policyholders typically keep renewing past the ceiling; someone not already enrolled loses access to most standard plans past it; premiums rise sharply from the early 60s regardless; international (non-domestic) insurance is the named workaround. Archetype/age-neutral fact — a real compound gate for some readers, irrelevant to others
• Private health insurance cost (expat)
  520–1230 $/year
  Range driven by age; national, applies uniformly to all five scored locations
• Residency visa — mandatory health-insurance requirement
  No nationwide INM mandate; consulate-dependent, increasing for Europe/Canada/some US jurisdictions
  Checked directly this pass rather than assumed — a real but not uniform compound-gate risk on top of the age-enrollment-ceiling row above; INM can also request updated proof at renewal
• Distance to emergency care
  No real gap — high hospital density
  Médica Sur, Hospital Ángeles, ABC Medical Center all English-staffed, US-comparable-quality, within the city — no "how far is the nearest ER" question the way a smaller/more remote location has
• Kidnapping/cartel-extortion risk specifically targeting foreigners
  Not yet researched
  Distinct mechanism from CDMX's own ejido-fraud/Judicial-Reform findings (property/institutional, not personal targeting) — not specifically searched for at CDMX

How you'd actually get to stay — the real routes, their income floors, and how long they realistically take, not the marketing version.

• Ejido-land fraud rate (Quintana Roo specifically)
  15–20 % of foreign transactions
  Anade (Quintana Roo chapter): 7 in 10 who come to them post-purchase turn out defrauded; concentrated in Playa del Carmen/Tulum, not CDMX/Mérida/Oaxaca
• Permanent Residency direct-from-abroad restricted to retirees/pensioners
  Yes
  Mirror image of Guatemala's Rentista advantage — no direct-to-permanent shortcut for non-pension passive income
• Property tax (predial) rate
  0.05–0.3 % of assessed value/year
  Remarkably low by US/European standards — a real, durable structural advantage
• Restricted Zone (coastal/border)
  50km coast / 100km border
  Fideicomiso bank-trust workaround inside the zone; ~$500-3,000 setup, ~$500-1,000/yr ongoing, ~21,650 MXN SRE permit fee
• Tax residency trigger / worldwide-income taxation
  183 days/year
  Unlike Guatemala's territorial system — worldwide income taxed once resident
• Temporary Resident Visa accepts passive income as qualifying proof
  Not yet checked
  Source file's own open question: whether passive/non-employment income qualifies as documentable "income" under this route vs. requiring the savings-based alternative
• Temporary Resident Visa converts to permanent residency
  Yes
  4 years continuous temporary residency converts without re-proving solvency — a real on-ramp, not Colombia's V/M dead-end shape
• Temporary Resident Visa income threshold
  4300–4800 $/month
  Roughly triple Guatemala's Rentista threshold
• Temporary Resident Visa savings/investment alternative
  73000–85000 $
  Income or savings, not combined — this route's own structure requires one pool to clear the bar, not two separate ones

Can you buy here, and what it actually takes to do it — ownership rules, structures, and real price bands, not listing-site optimism.

• Citywide median purchase price
  ~3180 $/m²
  Citywide median runs well below the Roma Norte/Condesa premium — a comparable-quality purchase further from the gentrification-pressure zone costs substantially less per m²
• Closing costs
  5–8 %
  Lower end of Mexico's national range since no fideicomiso applies
• Condominio regime (compound/group-model fit)
  Yes
  Arguably the cleanest purpose-built legal fit of any country researched for a small-group compound, since it doesn't interact with the Restricted Zone question at all in CDMX
• Restricted Zone applies
  No
  Inland, entirely outside the 50km coastal band — direct personal-name title, no fideicomiso
• Purchase price
  251000–782000 $
  30-140% premium per m² over the citywide median; World Cup 2026 named as a further price tailwind elsewhere in this project's Mexico research

What a month here actually runs, in real numbers — not a nomad-blog average built for a lifestyle that isn't yours.

• CDMX-specific inflation
  4.37–4.4 % (Jan 2026)
  Above the 3.79% national rate same month — official INEGI-sourced figure, not an aggregator estimate
• Comfortable digital-nomad budget
  1600–2400 $/month
  Upscale tier runs $2,500-3,200+
• Rent — 1BR
  830–1390 $/month
  Numbeo/Expatistan cross-check converges on utilities/internet; rent specifically rising sharply, tied to gentrification

Who else lives here, how you'd actually meet them, and what it's like once the novelty wears off.

• Compound-shaped current listing
  Not yet researched
  Roma Norte/Condesa's dense urban core isn't the typical setting for this shape; not searched outside it
• Established foreign/digital-nomad population
  Largest of any Mexico location researched
  Concentrated in Roma Norte, Condesa, and Polanco — every subculture from career expats to short-term nomads to long-settled retirees represented; no precise headcount found, unlike Mérida's or Oaxaca's sourced figures

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