Posted on 10/15/2006 4:55:15 PM PDT by goldstategop
LA MISION, Mexico -- Every weekend, Carmen Tetelboin joins the Baja boom.
After work on Fridays, the Los Angeles resident drives four hours across the border to Baja California, where life is so good and living so cheap, it beats the other California, she contends.
Owning a condo on the coast, she and her husband are part of an American colony exploding during the past five years along 75 miles of pristine beaches, cliffs and towns south of Tijuana. What's drawing them are oceanfront homes at a fraction of the multimillion-dollar prices on the U.S. side.
A native of Chile who is bilingual and a U.S. citizen, Tetelboin jokingly calls this swath of Americans "gringolandia."
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If you think San Diego is corrupt and left wing, you have just shown your ingorance.
San Diego is probably the largest city in the U.S. to have a Republican Mayor. 3 of our 5 Reps. are conservative Republicans.
Major elections, Republicans carry San Diego County.
San Diego has the largest concentration of military in the US.
You know for crap.
Just as intelligent as your remark.
After all, you are talkinging about Kalifornia.
California, home of Free Republic & Ronald Reagan
You better not post anymore on Free Republic, we are in California.
Didn't the Sandanistas expropriate a lot of property when they got power?
I seem to remember reading they have a good shot at becoming elected this time around, so I might worry a bit before investing over there.
What are your thoughts?
D
Nevertheless, one should tread carefully down there.
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