I went to Cabo and PV and saw both as sh!tholes. I don’t get the attraction.
I loved the beeches and water in Hawaii. At Cabo, my brother and I were throwing an “Arobie” (A high speed ring version of a frisbee) in two feet of water on the beech. I dropped it in the water and we lost it. Dead serious.
I have no need nor desire to go to Mexico.
My sister and her husband built a 6,500 sq ft house on the west shore of the gulf of California a few years ago. Beautiful place. They just sold it. They are also done with that country.
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.