[quote=deadzone]early, I was in Brazil 2004, great exchange rate at that time..
I’ll continue to defend my “prove it” posts. The point is the the so called dangers in Mexico are over-hyped by Media, etc, and all of you are irrationally paranoid because of it. There is no new information that I didn’t already know from the URLs that people provided. Nor did they prove that Baja in particular is a dangerous place for American tourists or expats.
Do you agree that if an American tourist was murdered in Baja that it would make the news? Of course it would. then, why can’t you find a single news story of such an event happening? You guys are the ones saying Baja is such a dangerous place so the responsibility is up to you to prove it. I just showed you a case of an Australian tourist being brutally beaten in San Diego. Can you find even one equivalent case of an American tourist being brutally beaten in Baja?[/quote]
Oh YES! 2004…those were the “glory days” down there. I was down there quite a bit starting in 2002. The exchange rate was really great back then! Things were cheap including real estate. It’s insane now how expensive it has gotten.
I admit that the media can be over-hyped sometimes with many things probably including that. But again, I wouldn’t consider myself in the paranoid camp. I’m not even saying people have a likelihood to get murdered because I agree with you that people aren’t likely to get murdered.
Just a lot of scams like SD Realtor’s friend. Am I saying that these scams weren’t around 10 to 20 years ago? Nope. Not at all. Just like you suggest it was there back then too. But I do think it has gotten worse over the years.
Am I saying Baja is “dangerous”? Nope. But then again “dangerous” is a totally subjective word/term. So you have to keep that in mind. Everyone has their own level of comfort and what they are comfortable with.
