You cant own anything you cant protect, especially in a 3rd world criminal enterprise called Mexico ! They are only “nice” to the gringo down there because youre only visiting and spending money, dont fool yourselves. They’re sharks, crooks, and can be violent thieves, as with the abject impoverished in Somalia.
Spend a weekend in National City if you want to get the cultural feeling of an area. At least there, the politicians and police work for you to an extent.
I suggest you go down and rent the nicest hacienda on the beach for a week and be done with it ? I have done it several times and I could care less what their govt does that way. Im only down there for a week to enjoy myself, not rebuild their corrupted, failed economy ! I just want to enjoy a few cerveza’s, eat a few lobsters and surf, not join the peace corps !
The value system of Americans needs to be reappraised and updated. The idea of a vacation is to relax, not give yourself another 10,000 things you cannot control, to worry about.