If you don't like my bitching, you better stop reading. What can I say? It's one of the things I do so well.
After all the crap that happened to me in October and November, I pretty much had it with living in Reynosa. And then I received an invitation to look at a website called Mexico Online (www.mexicoonline.com) and so I did. There was a question being asked about feeling safe in Mexico. I replied no and qualified it by saying I lived in Reynosa, and wrote about some of things I've witnessed and my friends have seen. Oh, boy, did I open a can of worms. I was called a bad mother because I allowed my adult sons to visit me and they got to witness a gun battle. I was called a liar because nothing bad happens in Mexico and it is statistically safer than the United States. I was actually told I should be writing about how safe it is in Mexico. When I wrote an email to the moderator about how he was too judgmental for calling me a bad mother, he responded by deleting my account. Apparently Mexico Online only wants to hear the rosy and wonderful things about living or visiting Mexico. It advertises itself as the place for people who live and work in Mexico but I found out that only means if you have money and can afford to buy a home in places like Cabo San Lucas or San Miguel Allende. I do understand that bad press is bad for business and my bitching, as one member told me, is doing more damage to Mexico than the Cartel.
That's right folks, I'm more dangerous than the Cartel and I must be deleted.
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12 years ago
Lol too funny.
ReplyDeleteI never read that forum or site as any time that I did in the past it was so full of wrong info. that it was worthless. I always laugh when people quote that site as usually what they are saying is incorrect.
Lots of people like wearing rose coloured glasses and you are not going to change their minds, quite often they have a vested interest in keeping it all rosy, ie: they either running a tourist based business or have a home to sell.
Ooops disregard my last post. I went and checked that site and it is NOT the one I was thinking of with all the misinformation. Sorry I should have gone and looked before posting.
ReplyDeleteJust delete my last post as also being misinformation lol. sorry again.
yep you do bitch alot. I have read your blog and man maybe you need a hobby or something, idk, find something to do instead of bitching about mexico all the times and the things that happen to you there. If you dont like it leave, if someone pisses you off dont talk to them. You look like as old as my mom. Arent older people supposed to be mature?
ReplyDeleteSo there you have it: the pen really is mightier than the sword. Or the AR-15, as the case may be.
ReplyDeleteYou mean the don't put shoot outs on the brochure?
ReplyDeleteSo now you know! All flowers and candy here in Mexico. I love Mexico, and here in my tiny little pueblo in a suburb of a rather small city outside of DF, it is fine. No violence, no real crime, lots of graffiti. BUT, I haven't been to Monterrey to visit a dear friend because he (Mexican) and I don't like the chances of me being caught up in the fighting and hijacking of buses and trucks that has been going on there. I haven't had any desire to go to Reynosa or Nuevo Laredo or any other area close to the border, I know people fighting in the army there and they don't think I am an alarmist.
ReplyDeleteBefore I came here I lived in Tuxtepec, Oaxaca with my husband. Let's see in three years we lost two friends to traffic accidents. Our butcher was taken from his house by armed men in black SUVs and found a week later in another state, headless and tortured (and dead.) A cousin of my husband's was almost kidnapped two doors from our home (about 30 feet away), the man's brother was shot to death helping him escape, my brother-in-law was grazed by a bullet. They found an unidentified head in front of the municipal building in downtown. Another friend/cousin has disappeared. An aunt's son-in-law has disappeared. These are only the things I know first hand. There are lots of other cases that are in the papers. And Tuxtepec has no real ties to any Cartels. There isn't a lot of drugs and no drug money there. It isn't considered dangerous.
And the 27 people killed in one day in Alcapulco? Yeah, they were mostly politicians, police and drug people, but still...
I tell my friends that Mexico is still a great place to live, but it isn't the states and it is dangerous in some areas and it is dangerous to drive if you aren't very careful. Most tourist areas are fine, if you are careful and avoid anything shady. Mexico City is the BIG city and if you acted stupid and walk around acting rich or even upper middle class, or drunk, or alone at night,then like in big cities everywhere, you are an idiot. And stay away from the borders (north or south)!!! Don't drive there, don't visit there, don't go down to party. Just stay the hell away unless you are a war correspondent.
Can't say I'm suprised! People either want the all good,or all bad. Whatever serves their purpose better...Whenever I write a post on my own blog I'll always get a smartass comment about how I suck and should move back to Canada! LOL!!!
ReplyDeleteBurro Hall - Thankfully it has been calmer lately so I guess I can put my poison pen away.
ReplyDeleteCheryl - No shoot outs on the brochure, nor grenades or car bombs. If someone tried, Mexico Online will delete them.
Karen - My sentiments exactly! I love some places in Mexico. I really enjoyed the state of Durango, the land of boots and hats. I think you can take an ugly frog, put him in boots and a cowboy hat, and turn him into a prince. I certainly wouldn't discourage anyone from visiting the tourist places.
On Mexican Time - I don't normally respond to the idiots like the one that wanted to know "who da baby daddy be" of my nephew. I used to allow anyone and everyone to post whatever on my blog. I don't care if I am attacked personally. In fact, I find it amusing. But since my nephews lost their mother (my sister), I couldn't allow anyone to hurt them. Now I approve all comments. I guess I can understand where Mexico Online is coming from. Negativity is bad for business. It isn't a website for expatriates unless they are rich and are planning to buy or have bought an expensive house in Mexico. They should make that a little more clear on their website.
Dear ummm yeah, It's my blog and my hobby so I'll bitch all I want. I am as old as your mom so I've got some motherly advice for you. Go back to school and get an education. Maybe you will learn the rules of grammar and how to spell and won't have to resort to stealing from hard working, good people to make it in life.
ReplyDeleteBrenda - the "president" of the website and the one who deleted me is also a real estate agent. Of course he doesn't want anything to hurt his business. I didn't come to Reynosa thinking things would be so bad. And the last I knew, Reynosa was in Mexico. I seriously doubt he sells any real estate anywhere near here.
ReplyDeleteThe link in your post was incorrect: mexicoonline.com (you dropped an "o"), so it took a while to find. It's sort of one of my pet peeves, this idea that any particular corner of Mexico is the whole danged country. It would be like reading a site called "I must be crazy to live in the United States" about someone living in, say, South Bronx. A site like that would be valuable perhaps for its general insights on U.S. life and culture (and — like yours — if it were well-written and witty), but it wouldn't be necessarily the best site for foreign tourists to read. For people looking to buy property, perhaps it might be useful (don¿t buy in your neighborhood), but what do you expect from those self-serving "experts" who say their experience is everyone's experience?
ReplyDeleteMy Mexico is not your Mexico, nor your Mexico my Mexico. But neither of our Mexicos is that of the real estate touts.
Dear Mexfiles - You are mostly correct on all accounts except I missed an 'n', not an 'o' on the website. And I had thought about changing the blog name to I Must Be Crazy to Live in Reynosa. Maybe I wouldn't be so crazy if I lived in some place like Veracruz.
ReplyDeleteI donno... all kinds of ways of being crazy. I must be crazy to live in Gringo Geezer-ville, aka Mazatlán.
ReplyDeletei know my grammar is flawed but thats ok..im not surprised that you would attack a minor with your verbal insults and as for the last part i dont even know what that meant. And yes, maybe as some people age they do not mature and they bitch..yes it is your blog but go back and read a few posts(i didnt get very far) and you will see that it is very negative
ReplyDeleteDear Anonymous, My posts are negative???? Wow, you are brilliant! I would have never caught on if you hadn't pointed that out.
ReplyDeleteWOW! No matter what costs, I luv that Mexico. I wish I cud live there...
ReplyDeleteI wonder if you might get a job advising video game makers on the realism of their new version of "Cartel Wars". If there isn't a game by that name, there should be.
ReplyDeleteI found the same treatment on Trip Advisor website. They only want anything that is positive posted on there. Nothing about crime or safety. I swear if someone get harmed because of their website advice, I would sue them! Maybe then they won't allow the "experts" on the forums to have the power to delete comments.
ReplyDeleteTo find out the daily goings on in Mexico...translated to English news, go to www.borderlandbeat.com They can whitewash all they want, but you can't bury the truth (like so many unnamed bodies.)
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