My sister and husband are flaming liberals. Back in the '80s they bought a place in San Felipe on the Eastern side in Baja. It was close to where they lived in Southern CA.
They LOVED the area and gushed about it every time I saw them. They went down every other weekend as well as spending all their vacations there. My sister was always on me (I also lived in the area then) for going up to Canada on holiday when Mexico was only 100 miles away, and implied I was a racist.
I eventually got fed up with CA politics and moved, but kept in touch. About 10 years later we drove out for a visit. In casual conversation, I asked when they were going down to San Felipe and the air chilled considerably. "We don't go down there any more." I asked about the house and was curtly told "We sold ir." They never said why they left and it was obvious they didn't want to talk about it, but I can imagine it was something like a daylight burglary or a robbery.
Yeah. It was something like that with my sister. They build quite a ways down the coast and kept their “smaller” yacht there, which they also sold. A 65 footer.
They are VERY conservative and Christian and actually liked the area to a degree, but they are prudent and spot sea changes pretty quickly. They would fly down there in their Citation and just felt the need to get everything back to the relative safety of Montana.