Posted on 10/31/2009 12:54:50 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
Merida is beautiful. Another “neat” place is Zacatacus. Zacatacus is almost owned by Canadians because of the silver mines there. Guanajuato is very interesting and Queretaro has very good medical care. Lake Chapala has Americans out the wazooty living there. But, I am partial to San Miguel de Allende in the mountains...it’s small but close to larger cities and there is a really large group of Americans there. The trouble we read about is mostly along the borders and even the Mexicans readily admit that is terrible. Mexico is different, for sure, than America but one can easily learn how to live there and accept their way of “doing things”. As any where in the world these days, one just has to be careful and alert.
Fortunately I was entitled to a pension from my ex-employer after 35 years of dedicated service.
What am I doing now? After spending 2007 looking for a job, I decided to collect my pension from same employer even tho it was reduced.
So, I have been playing softball 4 days a week since the end of last March and now have progressed to volleyball on the days when the weather prohibits us from playing softball.......
As for Honduras, well, that was a dream that fell thru. In retrospect, they don't have much in the way of senior softball or volleyball down there............
If and when I get too decrepit to enjoy the sports I do, then I'll reconsider the caribbean to spend my remaining days on this earth..........
Post 9/11 I was in SD looking for a telecom job. I know the probs with the Mexicans, but what really caught my attention was the guys in robes walking around all hours of the day.
Hundreds of muslims with nothing to do...
So all of Mexico is like Tijuana.
Is all of the USA like Detroit?
I am a native here for decades, you must have been in front of a mosque as I don’t see that.
I see a few over a period of months.
Of the over 30,000 Iraqis here, the vast majority are Chaldean Christians.
The killings and kidnappings are all over Mexico.
Some of their states are worse than Tijuana
Some places in the USA are more dangerous than Detroit. Therefore there is no safe place in America?
I don't agree with your logic.
Yes, Ciudad Juarez and Nuevo Laredo, and similar border towns.
I would ask why conservatives and libertarians here buy all the bad press the liberal media elite dishes about Mexico, but otherwise holds the same media in contempt for everything else? Calderon is a pro-business Catholic conservative who has declared war on the drug trade. Liberals don’t like that.
How many times, for example, do we read glowing tributes to Cuba or Venezuela in the NY Times but scathing portraits of Colombia and Mexico in the same liberal rag? Why? Because it’s true?
There are hundreds of articles I could post what is going on in not just Tijuana, Baja but all over Mexico
Mexican drug wars now worse than Iraq
Mexican drug cartels are now as heavily armed as America’s enemies during the Iraq war and are extending their bloody conflict into the United States, say security experts.
By Tom Leonard in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
Published: 6:05PM GMT 20 Mar 2009
In the London Telegraph
In 2007, according to the FBI, at least 26 San Diego County residents were kidnapped and held for ransom in Tijuana and the Baja California communities of Rosarito Beach or Ensenada.
How many times, for example, do we read glowing tributes to Cuba or Venezuela in the NY Times but scathing portraits of Colombia and Mexico in the same liberal rag? Why? Because it’s true?
Good point.
And good point about Calderon. Chavez tried to take him down and failed.
I was in Queretaro for a number of months and loved it. Guanajuato state, same. Puebla, same. And Baja is Baja, you just probably don't want to spend a lot of time near the border. The only cops that ever spooked me were near the border south of TJ. Nothing happened but they were weird.
Mexicans can’t run out of the place fast enough. Ten per cent of Mexicos population is in the US,fifteen per cent of its work force is here and fully sixty-seven per cent of Mexicans said they would prefer to live in the US and don’t care how they would go about accomplishing that. The State Dept. lists Mexico as a ‘’failed state’’ ready to implode any time. Why in the name of God would anyone want to go there, let alone retire there?
So you post more info about Tijuana.
Do you really think Americans want to retire in Tijuana?
Mexicans can’t run out of the place fast enough. Ten per cent of Mexicos population is in the US,fifteen per cent of its work force is here and fully sixty-seven per cent of Mexicans said they would prefer to live in the US and don’t care how they would go about accomplishing that. The State Dept. lists Mexico as a ‘’failed state’’ ready to implode any time. Why in the name of God would anyone want to go there, let alone retire there?
A friend of ours went back and forth three or four times and finally decided to purchase a house in Panama, in an American-ish compound. She likes it. Mail and packages go to a PO box in Miami and are forwarded.
I think you are more interested in entertaining yourself than actually accepting facts and information
TJ has beaches and the ret. Beach areas of Rosarito and Ensenada have their share of killings and kidnappings, beheadings.
http://www.rosaritobeachhotel.com/
People who live in flyover states think this is special because it is foreign
People from all over the U.S. and world take the Cruise ships here in San Diego down the Baja Coast just south of Tijuana, Ensenada, Rosario down to Cabo San Lucas at the
tip of Baja.
Those who take cars down is another story, bodies and heads are found or kidnappings.
San Diego has a 70 mile coast line of Beaches along with Mission Bay, largest aquatic park in the U.S.
Beach areas here, La Jolla, Del Mar etc. homes run 10 to over 30 million. MittWitt Romney lives on the beach here
in La Jolla. McCain has several Condos here on Coronado.
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