Mexico is beautiful to visit… If you can stop time or do the matrix bullet dodging thing. Otherwise its a flyover country full of lawlessness due to extreme poverty. I was one of those poor people, but Mexico has the extremely poor, the homeless poor, the working poor, the middle class poor, the ritchie poor and like five rich assholes that keep everyone else poor. If you ever get a chance to visit…don’t. It might save your life.
Visited Mexico 3 times, starting in 3rd grade. Only time I felt unsafe was going through a Federales checkpoint and an officer walked up to the car with a submachine gun.
You’re damn right about the poverty, but for the most part, people are nice, they just want to be, and let others be.
But what you gotta known is that feeling safe and being safe are two different things. And I agree on the people. People are nice, I got family there in several States which I will not mention but are the famous ones lol. One time I met someone from Coahuila… 1 time.
Some place not being safe is defined as greater than n rate of insert list of bad things per capita.
For most folks 100 in 100k murdered annually is pretty unsafe whereas 5 is pretty safe.
But even if it were 1000 in 100k the other 99k still living could argue its not that bad!
You basically can’t go to almost any population center without what the civilized world considers unacceptable risk whereas I can stroll through the “bad” part of my city at 2AM and mostly risk seeing gross people doing drugs.
Mexico is objectively unsafe. Some parts of states are too like st Louis
Maybe get off your computer chair once in a while and actually go outside and visit these places you know absolutely nothing about. I just came back from Honduras for a few months. And guess what I’m still alive and well and it was one of the best, humbling trips I’ve ever taken and I’m hugely grateful for the experience. See that? You actually learn something when you travel, as opposed to being a toxic know-nothing online. If no one else already told you today, go fuck yourself and have a nice day.
I’ve been there. Last time my dad got kidnapped and beaten. Nice right? Flyover. All nice and beautiful as it used to be but now the narcos don’t care if you’re local or just visiting. I’m with you on how nice it is. But if you wanna go there you go. Me, I’m not gonna be showing up there unless someone takes my citizenship and deports me. Even then I’ll ask to be deported to elsewhere… Not el Salvador hopefully.
But remember, against the narcos “hugs, not bullets”, welcome to the México Lemmy keeps saying I lie about.
Mexico is beautiful to visit… If you can stop time or do the matrix bullet dodging thing. Otherwise its a flyover country full of lawlessness due to extreme poverty. I was one of those poor people, but Mexico has the extremely poor, the homeless poor, the working poor, the middle class poor, the ritchie poor and like five rich assholes that keep everyone else poor. If you ever get a chance to visit…don’t. It might save your life.
Visited Mexico 3 times, starting in 3rd grade. Only time I felt unsafe was going through a Federales checkpoint and an officer walked up to the car with a submachine gun.
You’re damn right about the poverty, but for the most part, people are nice, they just want to be, and let others be.
But what you gotta known is that feeling safe and being safe are two different things. And I agree on the people. People are nice, I got family there in several States which I will not mention but are the famous ones lol. One time I met someone from Coahuila… 1 time.
Some place not being safe is defined as greater than n rate of insert list of bad things per capita.
For most folks 100 in 100k murdered annually is pretty unsafe whereas 5 is pretty safe.
But even if it were 1000 in 100k the other 99k still living could argue its not that bad!
You basically can’t go to almost any population center without what the civilized world considers unacceptable risk whereas I can stroll through the “bad” part of my city at 2AM and mostly risk seeing gross people doing drugs.
Mexico is objectively unsafe. Some parts of states are too like st Louis
Maybe get off your computer chair once in a while and actually go outside and visit these places you know absolutely nothing about. I just came back from Honduras for a few months. And guess what I’m still alive and well and it was one of the best, humbling trips I’ve ever taken and I’m hugely grateful for the experience. See that? You actually learn something when you travel, as opposed to being a toxic know-nothing online. If no one else already told you today, go fuck yourself and have a nice day.
Unsafe doesn’t mean 100 incidence of death it means greater than tolerance levels of risk.
I’ve been there. Last time my dad got kidnapped and beaten. Nice right? Flyover. All nice and beautiful as it used to be but now the narcos don’t care if you’re local or just visiting. I’m with you on how nice it is. But if you wanna go there you go. Me, I’m not gonna be showing up there unless someone takes my citizenship and deports me. Even then I’ll ask to be deported to elsewhere… Not el Salvador hopefully.
I’m stuggling to believe you were “one of those poor people” in Mexico and your dad was kidnapped in Hondouras.