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cookj5

Feb 18, 2009, 2:18 PM

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I think the violence in Mexico is perhaps equivalent to the US in the days of Al Capone. A fair number of people were killed then, but nearly all were gangsters killing each other. The average person might read hair raising stories in the newspaper about the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, but would never see or experience violence himself.

Most of what passes for news (even official news from the US government) is a cartoon view of Mexico. Sort of like taking Batman seriously. When I lived in L.A. back in the 1980's there were so many gang drive-by shootings that they seldom made the front page of the LA Times. Usually they were relegated to a list in a column on page 43. Again, I never saw a gang killing or shoot out in the 10 years I lived there.

Of course, one can have bad luck anywhere and get in the way of a stray bullet. But that can happen in Peoria or Tallahassee or anywhere else too.

MitchMan

Mar 6, 2009, 1:18 PM

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Hi everyone,
I am new to this forum.
I think a great place to live or have a vacation home is in Loreto or la Paz or Mulege. Those places are not tourist traps and no one will try to sell you timeshares. For the most part in Loreto and Mulege, there isn't a whole lot of Cabo type night life where Americans in their twenties are pounding down beers like the world is going to end. Loreto has 14000 people and La Paz has about 230,000. I read that Mulege has about 20,000 people, but I don't believe that number. I will not ever go back to Mazatlan, Puerto Vallarta, or Cabo...too commercial for me. I will never go back to Hawaii either because Mexico has everything that Hawaii has (and much more) at 1/4th the price.

My family bought a home in La Paz for $60,000 USD recently. It's1/4 from a beach, 5 miles from downtown La Paz, sits on 9.300 sq ft lot, the house was constructed 8 years ago, the house has 900 sq ft, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, dining rooom, and living room, two miles from the airport and two miles from a Walmart and Sam's Club, and property taxes of $37 USD per year.

I submit this info because I want to disclose to the world several points: 1)you don't have to spend $300,000+ to have a dream home in a great Baja beach town 2) you are by no means limited to upscale condo projects at American prices with a $200+ association fee for life 3)You don't have to live in a tourist trap area.

La Paz and Loreto and Mulege are arguably the best fishing spots in the western hemisphere. You can relax in these towns. They are safe, calm, and real, unlike the touristy towns mentioned above.

BajaGringo - Question: Why do you choose to live in the San Quintin area? The climate is the same as in Orange County California and therefore lacks the warm tropicalness of the 9-month long summers of the lower Baja. The cost to live in San Quintin is the same as in BCS and the crime that everyone talks about is happening in the area between Ensenada the the US border. You're a really smart and down-to-earth kind of guy, so I ask these questions not from scepticism but from curiousity as I suspect that you have really well founded reasons.

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