Where to Live in Mexico

I've told family and friends, "If I had to choose, right now, where to live in Mexico, I'd make it San Luis Potosi. It's Mexico's geographical center. It's an historic, colonial, cultural, and university center. It's a large city with the feel of a small town. But what I like most is how quickly from San Luis Potosi you can take side trips and show friends the variety of Mexico. Real de Catorce, the desert ghost-mining town is three hours north. Xilitla, Edward James's surrealist garden is east, over the mountains in the Huasteca where you find a paradise of waterfalls, rivers, scuba diving in mineral springs, and lush vegetation. You can make a day trip to Queretaro, or Zacatecas, or San Miguel de Allende, or Guanajuato or Dolores Hidalgo. Jarral de Berrios is a neglected hacienda that looks like a scene from a fairy tale with conical stone structures, columns and towers. If you feel you must find a beach, join the bathers in the hot springs resort at Gogorrón. There is no beach, there is no sand, but you'll have large pools, thermal baths, green grass, and shade trees."