Funny, just today I saw an old guy putting a lot of useful stuff out on the street, like years worth of lightbulbs. I took the lightbulbs and asked him why he was dumping them.
He said he's moving to Guadalajara and it doesn't make sense to ship them. He was very cheerful about moving. Had an accent, so I asked where he is from originally. Denmark. I asked if he speaks Spanish. He said not much.
So illegals are moving to the US to get higher wages at the same time that US retirees are moving to Mexico to pay lower wages to the help, lol.
I gather that there are some safe friendly places in parts of Mexico. It's really three or four countries divided by mountain ranges/deserts etc. with huge coastline areas. The eastern area is an enormous alluvial bread basket agricultural area.
I wouldn't want to take the chance of living there, though, unless I could also afford the close by landing strip and plane at the ready to high tail it out. If you die, are killed, or kidnapped, tough shit. Life is ultimately cheap there, and so is yours, but it is starting to get pretty cheap here, too.
Some retirees come back because they get tired of living in protected compounds, however nice and full of amenities. Some move back to have El Norte health care when they really start to fall apart. Some move there to be rich, drunken, druggie perverts without meaningful law. Some mormons keep their compounds there so that they can engage in their underage polygamous ways without USA scrutiny.
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