This magical Mexican city is a magnet for older women

Published March 5, 2023

I’ve never seen so many older North American women in one place before. At age 60, I feel positively youthful in San Miguel de Allende, a city of about 70,000 people high in the mountains of central Mexico that’s considered the most charming in the entire country.

And the most feminine. Senior expat women are drawn here by some sort of magnetic pull it seems. Maybe it has something to do with the legend that the city is built on a vast magical bed of quartz crystals.

The place is rooted in machismo history, from the early Spanish matadors to the American ex-servicemen who came here on the G.I. Bill after the Second World War to writers such as Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsburg who travelled here in the ’60s looking for a new way of life.

Today it bursts with feminine energy.

They call San Miguel the city of fallen women.

It’s not for reasons you might think.

It’s not because bordellos once used to be as common as cantinas in this 16th century Spanish colonial city.

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