Mexico Removes All COVID-19 Entry Requirements
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Spent some time in Mexico City about 5 years ago. It was definitely a step down in terms of general civilization (buildings and infrastructure were more worn and maintained to a lower standard, you couldn't drink the water without filtering it, less variety in food at the grocery store), and even nice parts of the city houses and businesses had fences, reinforced gates, and razor wire covering every surface someone might feasibly jump over.
Watching the Federal Police just casually drive around the city in armored vehicles with machine guns mounted in the back was kinda cool though. And foreign nationals are prohibited by law from engaging in political activity, and they will deport you for that shit.
Of course the US is trending that way, so I'd say if you want to live in Mexico just live in the US for another 5-10 years. Except where Mexico's cost of living was relatively low, ours will continue to be high. And to the extent Feds will be driving around in armored vehicles, they won't be on my side. And our politics are wholly determined by foreign nationals nowadays.
Hmm, not as clear cut an answer as I thought it'd be when I started typing this...
You can't really drink the tap water anywhere in latin America (if indeed there is tap water at all).
500 years of rule and latin American governments still haven't managed to install much in the way of a sanitary water supply. It should be their largest shame.
That doesn’t really hold, in parts of Chile, Argentina and Uruguay, but sure…
Santiago de Chile is pretty damn “civilized”, as is Montevideo…
It ain’t Beverly Hills, but it sure ain’t necessarily the Barrio either, cachaco… 🤷🏻♂️
And I’ve seen parts of the US, even in supposedly “wealthy” states. The infrastructure and general state of decline and squalor was appalling…
Things really aren’t as clear cut as you might imagine.
Reminds me of when I was last in Italy, apart from the razor wire.
They had soldiers at most public places back then, before Covid. Presumably to ward off religion of peace followers.
Sounds waaaaay better than India, and I’ve lived in India.
Would take Mexico over what I saw there, any day…
India is absolutely fucking insane…
Though I also saw some deeply fucked up shit in Turkey, mostly in far eastern rural areas, and nearly got attacked by a pack of dogs in rural South Korea, so I guess… Once you’ve seen serious shit like that, and been that far out of your “comfort zone”, what you describe doesn’t sound that bad, to me, lol…
Seriously, I cannot imagine anywhere being as fucked up as India, except maybe Haiti, or parts of Africa…
Or Bangladesh, which is theoretically even worse… 🤷🏻♂️
Well Mexico City is one of the (if not the) wealthiest cities in Mexico, and I was in a reasonably nice part of town; so this was a best case scenario. The city also has shanty-towns and no-go areas, but I didn't go to those places. I imagine if I wanted to see some "deeply fucked up shit" I would have been able to find it there in abundance.
One thing I forgot to mention was the air pollution: my lungs burned as soon as I got off the plane, and it took a few days for it to subside. Then you're also at 8,000 feet, so it takes time to get used to the thin air.
We often hear about them poo'ing in the streets, and the mass rapes that occur, but what else makes it so insane (genuinely curious, because those who live in India make it seem like it's fine, but that's obviously not the case)?
Worse than the favelas in Brazil?
whats worse about bangaldesh?
It’s (quite a bit) poorer, and more… Unstable.
Like India on steroids, in the worst possible way…
There’s a reason you hear about all the building collapses, slave labour and terrible flooding, in Bangladesh, and very little positive… 😞
Sadly.
Never been to cdmx but mexico is much more than one city. Lots of nice places and nice people in different areas.
Sure. I'm not knocking it. And I've been elsewhere and have pretty much enjoyed myself everywhere I went (except the last time I went to Tijuana; I'll never forget the beggar kid with no legs pushing himself along on a skateboard as long as I live).
However if you're trying to replicate a First World quality of life you're probably best able to do that in major cities. I'm assuming TheImpossible1 wasn't talking about moving to some small fishing village.