Mexico Removes All COVID-19 Entry Requirements
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I can't believe I'm saying this, but should I move to Mexico?
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.