Most people arrive in Mérida excited but unfocused — and leave without the answers they came for. This guide gives you our Top 10 Tips for making every day of your research trip count.

We recommend 7 to 10 days minimum and keep the focus entirely on the lived experience — what it feels like to grocery shop, commute, socialise, and settle in. Tourism and real estate are deliberately excluded. This is about living vs. visiting.