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Soros, yawn! We can live without them a lot better than they can live without us.

Funny, just today I saw an old guy putting a lot of useful stuff out on the street, like years worth of lightbulbs. I took the lightbulbs and asked him why he was dumping them.

He said he's moving to Guadalajara and it doesn't make sense to ship them. He was very cheerful about moving. Had an accent, so I asked where he is from originally. Denmark. I asked if he speaks Spanish. He said not much.

So illegals are moving to the US to get higher wages at the same time that US retirees are moving to Mexico to pay lower wages to the help, lol.

I gather that there are some safe friendly places in parts of Mexico. It's really three or four countries divided by mountain ranges/deserts etc. with huge coastline areas. The eastern area is an enormous alluvial bread basket agricultural area.

I wouldn't want to take the chance of living there, though, unless I could also afford the close by landing strip and plane at the ready to high tail it out. If you die, are killed, or kidnapped, tough shit. Life is ultimately cheap there, and so is yours, but it is starting to get pretty cheap here, too.

Some retirees come back because they get tired of living in protected compounds, however nice and full of amenities. Some move back to have El Norte health care when they really start to fall apart. Some move there to be rich, drunken, druggie perverts without meaningful law. Some mormons keep their compounds there so that they can engage in their underage polygamous ways without USA scrutiny.

Footage of Mexicans attacking and vandalizing apartments known for expats in Mexico.

No .12 guage there.

Like Jason Aldean say, try that in a small town(in the US)

I am laughing my ass off at the Schwartz Sticker guy.

"Uno Imperio, mi Mexico! Mi Raza esta el Maestro! Ave Hitler!"

AmericanKulakMaximumTrumper says

Footage of Mexicans attacking and vandalizing apartments known for expats in Mexico.

another good reason to not live around ex-pats besides the fact that they are always omplaining.

I spend considerable time in La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico.
The charm of the Baja peninsula is that it's not very "Mexican" although it's being invaded by people from the mainland.
It was extremely isolated from mainland Mexico for many years, and still is really. It's much easier to get to from California than from the mainland.

I spend considerable money when I am there; in the 9 months I was recently there, I spent $35,000 plus groceries ($3000?), plus a $5000 federal sales tax ("IVA") on a Nissan Frontier truck (the truck was $39,000)

I don't respect the culture particularly, although people are generally nice when you can converse with them; I'm bilingual and considered an oddball foreigner. I judiciously avoid large gatherings; sometimes a random drunk will accost me and say shit because his or her relative was deported, or maybe just resents Americans.

The culture consists of gigantic quantities of beer consumed every weekend and soccer games on TV.
In between are celebrations of all kinds which get tiring, worse if you host a party (a mistake I have made).

A problem I see is people from USA and Canada buying (actually controlling a trust) up several places and using them for income.
This has squeezed many locals out of the nice neighborhoods.

I support a rule that foreigners can just own the place they live in, and not more. But, my idea isn't popular with the foreigners.

Claudia and other Mexican politicians love to blame the USA for their fucked up situation; however, Mexico is unsafe because of gangsters. Trump offered to help clean up the "narcos" and Sheinbaum refused. The Mexicans don't know whether she is 1. in cahoots with the narcos or 2. afraid of the narcos.

A few weeks ago my wife and I went to K-38 in northern Baja for a few days of surfing. One afternoon we heard a loud “POP” and we walked 50 meters to a shanty (plywood) house that had a giant 4 door truck that was smashed into it.

Then we looked underneath the truck and saw a crumpled motorcycle and human legs sticking out.

Apparently, two guys on one motorcycle tried to carjack this guy and he ran them down! He took 2 bullets (one in the arm and one in his torso), but he’s OK. I found a Mexican Facebook page that reported the incident. 95% of the commenters were supportive of the truck driver mowing down the robbers. They lamented the fact that he would be tried for homicide.

I really like Mexico. It’s too bad the cartels have taken over.

clambo says

The charm of the Baja peninsula is that it's not very "Mexican" although it's being invaded by people from the mainland.
It was extremely isolated from mainland Mexico for many years, and still is really. It's much easier to get to from California than from the mainland.

Its destitute and loneliness (apart from cabo) is its charm. Traveled through the desert many years ago, had to remove rocks before continuing at 5 mph, cause those weren't roads but paths bombed into the desert. Arrived at Baja San Luis Gonzaga, spent a week there, beautiful place which could only be reached by traveling through the desert or a small plane airstrip. A whole bay for oneself. Electricity in the bungalow only during night time. Maybe there was a way going all the way around the coastline, but gasoline only arrived every couple of weeks and you had to wait for the only gas station to carry it (owner was living above). Also half way through the desert made acquaintance of the (in)famous Coco, "el home loco", super nice guy who lived in the desert.

brazil66 says

I really like Mexico. It’s too bad the cartels have taken over.

About 2 years ago, I overheard conversation of a woman who was just back to bay area CA from Mexico. Describing how the drug cartel is using and torture her family and sounding like trapped in there. To me it sounded like there was no other place to live for them for economic and cultural reasons but continue staying and get exploited.
lol the man hinted her to lower her voice while looking at me very uncomfortable before I turned away but she wasn’t even in a state to notice it. The poor woman was under heavy stress.
I feel bad for them for not being tough enough to fight back.