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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 1792788, member: 780"]
Reed, it apears that in your head there are so many fantasies floating around that I am amazed.

Have you ever been to Mexico? Or are you depending on what you see on TV?

For the past few years I have spent Jan-Feb in Mexico (Yucatan) getting away from Winter in a house in a city, not in some tourist hotel.  The country you describe isn't the one I have seen. It's a peaceful, friendly, sunny place. They have an upper, middle and lower class, although the great majority of the population are on the lower rungs. It's a mixture of 2nd world and 1st world. There is a problem with thievery, but not violent crime. I feel safer there than I do in SE DC. There are more police than you can shake a stick at. Instead of having people unemployed and on the dole they create jobs for them like police officers.  (Using money from tourism and petroleum).

The food is excellent (not Tex-Mex) and fruit and vegetables are much, much fresher than what you will get in Wegman's.

I have also been through manufacturing facilities in Cuidad Juarez (Xerox and Eaton Corp.) Labor rates are much lower. They are super-clean, well-managed and produce quality products.

Border towns may be rougher and even unsafe. But guess why that is? (US demand for drugs?)

The illegals you see here in the US? few of them are from Mexico these days. They are much more likely to be Central and South Americans.
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