Posted on 11/08/2022 8:58:46 AM PST by BenLurkin
Best advice, do NOT leave the resort.
Latest statistic for 2021 had Portland higher per capita than Mexico City. This was broadcast on Laura Ingraham yesterday.
I would take statistics from Portland tourist bureau with a large dose of skepticism.
“ The trio was there for the celebrations surrounding “Dia de Muertos,” or Day of the Dead.”
Celebrate the macabre, find out the price.
Mexico City’s metro area has close to 22 million people. (Per Wiki.)
Another 3-4 million drive in to work every day. (From my memory of our one trip there.)
It’s a beautiful and hugely interesting place, but it takes FOREVER to get anywhere around town. We enjoyed it, but only because we turned ourselves over to Gray Line Tours and told them...”You got us for the week...show us some stuff”. First thing they did was move us closer in to a nicer, cheaper hotel (near the Zocalo).
Great fun. But, no way was I navigating that city by car or public transportation.
I hate to say, but you are correct.
Vacation in Mexico?
Was Haiti all booked?
Any who vacations in either has a death wish
[Latest statistic for 2021 had Portland higher per capita than Mexico City. This was broadcast on Laura Ingraham yesterday.
I would take statistics from Portland tourist bureau with a large dose of skepticism.]
The hysterical silliness of freepers who have either never been to MX or have only been to Cancun or Puerto Vallarta and never gone outside the resort is amusing to me. It is also amusing to the HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of US citizens who have recognized the easier way of life, the dollar going further, the kindness and openness of Mexicans and much more.
I am 67 years old and recently HITCHIKED most of the way from Oaxaca to Cancun. I am a pasty white gringo who has not an ounce of hispanic blood in me, and I feel safer in MX than in the USA (and I am armed almost 100% of the time here).
I lived on an off in MX for several years and here is the truth. 1) the FOX/NBC recitations about murders, decapitations and the like, which wind up the chicken littles here.... are almost EXCLUSIVELY one low life drug dealer killing another. Just like the gang murders here. I don’t do dope and don’t buy and sell dope. That alone isolates me from MOST murders 2)I “dress down”. I don’t flash wealth, and frankly look close to some backpacking hippie (there are whole colonies of those screwups who have moved down there). You wanna flash roles of money and wear your Rolex? Ok. Same reason I don’t drive a Mercedes here (though I did at one time). Throw blood in the water and sharks will come. 3)If you show the SLIGHTEST bit of respect and appreciation for your hosts, Mexicans will fall all over themselves to make you feel welcomed.
I have been all over the world, and I have never been to a place where people are warmer, kinder and (weirdly enough) more eager to have you butcher their language by trying to speak it (of course, this is less so in touristy areas where they get gringos all the time).
I can’t stand DF (Distrito Federal, or Mexico City). It is crowded, dirty, AMAZINGLY bad air quality, overpriced, and.. in many areas, dangerous..... kind of like cities here.
I love southern Mexico, especially Oaxaca (city and state), or around Guadalajara ..... which together have over 45,000 American citizens who visited, loved it, and stayed. I would recommend NOT staying in Cancun if you are over on that side, but staying in Comitan (an hour bus to Cancun and less than that to a nicer beach west). A huge American expat community there with its own English newspaper. Finally, Queretaro, about 130 miles NW of Mexico City, has a LARGE and vibrant expat community.
I am just saying, I fell in love with Mexico over 45 years ago, travelling through there on the way to a gig with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Colombia. It is a wonderful place and it leaves me with a combination of disdain and pity for those who talk stupid trash about a place they (obviously) know nothing about.
I’m headed for Portland this evening. I will check it out:)
Who knows what material and chemicals they used to remodel their airbnb.
There is one neighborhood where nearly all Oregon murders occurs. It is a very “diverse” neighborhood with MLK BLVD running right through it.
I can understand someone Airbnb'ing a room in their house or Airbnb'ing their vacation home when they're not there. But buying a house that is only used for Airbnb is really a violation of the terms.
It's one thing if the Airbnb property is in a location like a vacation spot where none of the residents are permanent, but many of these properties are located in neighborhoods where a constant stream of different renters is not appreciated.
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