Oscar2
Nov 30, 2007, 9:20 AM
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Re: [Georgia] sound ordinance and La Casa de Irritacion
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That is why they are squatters and why they use my electricity. By the way, this happens all the time. Super common here. Anyway........ the owner doesn't have any money either. Nobody who actually LIVES in my neighborhood has any money. The owners are in Guadalajara and their kids all want to go to Vallarta for the weekend instead of beautiful downtown El Chante. Times change. Real estate taxes are practically non-existent, and Mexicans, once they own property, hate like hell to sell it. So things deteriorate.
Georgia, I so much enjoyed your candidness. What you mentioned above in many ways resonates with the kind of truth we found a bit disturbing with the kind of dismay one would feel when you see “one” wilting and dying flower in the center of a lovely and very alive looking fresh bouquet of roses. The more we drove around this extraordinarily, attractive and almost totally Mexican neighborhood, just outside of Guad, called Bougainvillea, periodic houses like wilting flowers, desperate for survival, laid overgrown with brush totally abandoned.
Our initial mix of feelings were of the kind of “how could they do this” still gives rise to questions as to why before these beautiful properties where abandoned and left to wither, brings us full circle with what you said, “owners don’t have any money.” You’d think the bank or some investor would pick up the gauntlet and run with these exceptional properties, but it just doesn’t happen.
As we drove around and seen some of these large gorgeous well kept homes, strewn around the golf coarse –unfortunately more run down abandonment homes stuck out like dark discolored kernels in rows upon rows of fresh, inviting looking kernels of yellow corn buttered and ready for tasting.
In such gated communities NoB, this is anathema and investors would be quick to fix anything that would mar or hurt resale of surrounding properties. This in itself is where Mexico and many of its differences and its acceptance of these differences “is” where a separation point does exist. I talked to a couple of Mexican real estate people on this issue and they looked at me as if I was from another planet and they just smiled and said, this is the accepted way of life here in Mexico.
Personal reconciliation with these morays, as candidly and well related too by some, is just a matter of acceptance of what it takes to adjust to indigenous south of the boarder living. Some on this forum, from truly living amongst the indigenous experience, are very good at making this clear. Stark reality without the fluff gets closer to life in another country and in this case Mexico.
Our American differences are very much our own, hardly realized, nor will they ever intrinsically be felt by the indigenous who only hear but have never experienced life as we know it NoB. It appears that this same lack of “inbred exposure to their country differences” allows them to be wholly who they are and we as their guest in their country are trying to be who “we” are amongst a persuasion who’s back to basics kind of life style breeds hurdles for some not unaccustomed too this. Its these same differences some enjoy and some don’t but rest assured, they are generously provided anytime for the pickings. As in Rome…
More musings, more typos, more centavos, its finally raining outside, and it’s a nice day.
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