A que bueno!! Su conocimiento de español es plenamente suficiente para hacer unos viajes de exploración en América Latina (después de las cuarentenas). Usted ha alistado bien para el futuro.
Claro - los gastos de vivir son altísimos ahora en los Estados Unidos y es muy dificil adelantarse. Yo encontré los mismos problemas cuando estuve alla!
¿Que tipo de clima le gusta Usted? Un parte importante en decidir donde explorar es pensar en cuales lugares que quiere visitar, pendiente del clima. En la zona tropical que extiende desde el sur de México hasta el norte de Argentina y Chile, las temperaturas son algo similares por el año entero pero hay temporada seca y temporada de lluvias que allá se denominan "invierno." Entonces, una persona quién no le gusta el calor de julio (en los Estados Unidos) puede decidir visitar ubicaciones en la Sierra y pasar poco tiempo cerca a la playa. O la persona quién ama el calor puede visitar las costas...
Personalmente, a mi me gusto los climas de la zona Andina, que son templado hasta frio (pero sin nieve). Otros quieren vivir en zonas mas cerca al nivel del mar, donde es calido. En México, hay bastante desierto.
Está pensando visitar fincas o más como pueblos?
Una cosa buena sobre los paises de América Latina es que Sí es permitido tener pollos en el patio o los alrededores de la casa en varias ciudades y en la gran mayoría de los pueblos de América Latina, quizás con unas excepciones en paises ricos como Chile.
Soy Mexicana y vivo en México. La verdad es que sí, si se puede vivir en México muy barato y hasta comprar propiedades por precios bajos (Just as long as you are willing to live outside big cities) what kind of weather are you looking for? Mexico has become a bit more dangerous from when I was a kid, but as long as you're not picking a know dangerous state where there are lots of narcs, then it's not a big problem. I'd recommend researching what the government calls "Pueblos Magicos" known Pueblos that are tourist destinations (they've usually been "given" away ad gifts to politicians in the aspect that those politicians have businesses there and interests or lands and they work to get the towns on the maps for tourist, they're usually places with little to no conflict and people that live in Pueblos are usually nicer than city people, although our people are usually known for not being racist or nasty to foreigners as long as those people are also nice and cordial; but that's everywhere in the world usually).
My husband and I moved close to one of these Pueblos in the Sierra and bought half a hectare (prices range a lot, but if you find someone that doesn't have the mentality that it's now a Pueblo Magico therefore the land is more "expensive" you could buy a hectare for anywhere between 3000 dollars to 20,000). In most of these places you of course won't find sewer systems, running water, or sometimes even electricity really close by. But the sewer you can solve with a biodigester, the electricity you might have to spend in expanding yourself the line (like placing electrical posts and each of these must be laid no more than 50 meters from each other and each one costs usually about 750 dollars.
Sometimes it might be hard to find masons that try to charge you like you are a tourist. But there are also ways to solve that, like building yourself (we went that way and built our "cottage" with the same material they make telecommunication facilities for antenas, my husband worked for Nextel international and knew of this system; would have to check what it's called in english) but we basically put the plumbing, laid the foundation and built it in a week or two because we had to work; and it cost us approx. 5,000-6,000 dollars.
Food here is really cheap. I lived in Providence RI and Boston MA when I did my Associate's degree and Bachelor's in the food industry and know the cost of living in the east coast.
What do you do for a living? Because getting a job here might or might not be an option, salaries can be pitiful or decent depending on what you do. when I worked in Boston in the hotel industry and came back to Mexico City, the same position I had there and got here I got paid 1/4 of what I did in Boston (and Mexico City has the Highest paying jobs in the country) I'd make about 450 dollars a month and it was insulting, but I used to live back then with my parents (which is very common in this culture) so I didn't have to pay rent. Again it all depends and what you are planning to do.
And Mexico isn't all deserts like someone said previously we live in the woods basically and it's a template mountain climate, in winter we get temperatures bellow 0 degrees Celsius. There are water springs, rivers, lakes, we have seasonal rain.
So I've recommend, do your homework.
