You are in Vermont and you know about Mexico? Have you been there lately? I know Mexican people who don’t go back now because they know what is going on. It is the getting to that safe destination that is bad.
My son-in-law’s brother-in-law bought a walled house and grounds in Oaxaca some years ago, right near the Cathedral. It needed a lot of fixing up, but he is a builder and has done well over the years with real estate.
They vacationed there for a number of years, met the locals, brought their family, when to rodeos and cockfights, and so on. But things have gotten much worse over the last few years, and they may stop going. They have some Mexican friends who live in the house and take care of it.
He sold a house on Prince Edward Island to buy this one, after making a good profit on it. Admittedly this one may have been a mistake. If so, it’s his first. He’s from an old Vermont family, but one of his grandparents was Mexican, and he may have been too much influenced by that.