By Doreen Cumberford In summer, a familiar conversation ripples through San Miguel's expat community: where will the children go to school next year? Parents compare curricula, fees, class sizes and commutes. What we discuss less often is the truth underneath: choosing a school here is not simply choosing an education. We are consciously or unconsciously choosing a culture, and not only for our children. For the whole family. The options around San Miguel are remarkably varie

By Doreen Cumberford San Miguel de Allende has never been afraid of a contradiction. Indigenous and Spanish. Sacred and commercial. The deeply rooted and the recently arrived mingling together. For centuries this city has been a negotiation, absorbing artists and mystics, retirees and revolutionaries, the intentional and the accidentally permanent. Excellent preparation for the world we are navigating right now. Because we are, whether we realise it or not, in the middle of y