Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Are the any safe areas in Mexico to live

Agreed to disagree.

When I came to San Antonio going on 35 years ago it was with an eye to crossing the Border and exploring Mexico. The first summer I spent three weeks in Oaxaca visiting a young woman who was teaching English down there. Had a great time apart from the middle aged American homosexuals eating in groups on the Zocalo in the mornings, I was told they were there for sex with boys.

Coming back I overnighted in Mexico City and ended up being shown around the Zona Rosa and its expensive nightclubs by a wealthy young Mexican woman who lived there in an expensive hi-rise, she told me that, in Mexico, if you had the money you could do anything you wanted.

And that was back then. The very next year I met my Ex here in San Antonio, I never did get back to Mexico beyond taking people to visit along the Border when it was still relatively safe, the reason being if I was down in Mexico and people started messing with my wife, I wouldn’t be able to protect her.

Those places in the US are at least America. One would have to be retardedly naive to believe rule of law would keep them safe or see justice done if bad things happened. But at least there’s recourse.

In another country you have no rights and no recourse. Unless you hired the A-Team.

The places you do hunt, would
You let your wife and kids hunt it while you stayed in the US?

I’ll keep going

https://imgur.com/a/dwjVEu8

So you can catch fish?

I’d go to shoot a monster mulie or a jaguar. But id go knowing I’m hunting in a failed nation and assume I’m
Not coming home. Same as if I were hunting badass sheep/goats in Iran or one of the Stan’s. Risk/reward

Digging a little further, the murder rate in San Miguel de Allende, considered by Mexican tourism board to be a very safe city for tourists and retirees, was 1 in 520 this year.
Compare that to the specifically worst neighborhood in Chicago, Garfield Park, with a murder rate of 146 per 100,000, or 1 in 684.

So, vacationing in the worst Chicago has to offer is statistically safer than the best of Mexico.

Bueno suerte!

Always amazing how many people live their lives in fear.

^ says the retard with a fake profile

My wife wants to go to Mexico. I'm a no on that. We leave for Hawaii next week. Rather spend a little more and stay in the USA. Not so much out of fear, but for the reasons you listed in another post.

San Miguel is safer than Chicago? I am impressed! What a record!

How does it compare to the Blue Ridge Mountains, Madison County NC where I live.

If I don’t go they wouldn’t go, that’s true of a lot of places and vacations no matter the location or country. I would take them with me and am planning on taking my 10 year old son sooner than later.

Gotta laugh at some posts.

What's safe, what isn't?
Which area, city, neighborhoods?


One of the scariest parts of longhauling was that.
How-the- feeuck-do-you-know?

A dumb country kid from the sticks.
Spent the night parked by the curb outside Boston. Nowhere in the region to
park, rolled the dice. Looked OK, went to sleep. The receiving guy woke me and
told me to never do that again. I was lucky to not be robbed.

Monday delivery in North Jersey, guys there telling me about the shoplifters.
Later that week, suburban store in a decent area of Houston.
I mention the Jersey store. Manager laughed, " I'll trade them. We were stuck up several times last year"



As travelers in Mexico,where is safe?
How do you know where to stop on certain streets?
To make this left, but do not turn left after this one?

I'm with BGG.

At least in the US most speak my language, I fall under American law.
It is bad enough that the gun in my car makes me a felon in The Republic of Maryland.
Heck, the single 22 round floating in my vest pocket is enough to lock me in a dungeon for decades in Mexico.

The murder rate per 100K population in Mexico is 29.07 the 13th highest in the world.

The USA is less than 5 per 100K

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/murder-rate-by-country

Life on the beach in La Paz !

Ya you certainly don’t want to go if you feel like this.

Appearing confused and scared is not a good look when traveling.

Beautiful sunset in Rocky point !
Felt totally safe there, even with U.S. Army Veteran tags on my truck.
Got lots of looks, and pointed fingers ???
40 some bodies were found about a week or so before we went down.

Gps...

Cabo is a decent option. My father and his wife live there. He retired, 35 years highway patrolman and air force.

People are friendly, it doesn't have the mainland crime and kidnappings and chit. If you need someone to fix something, labor is DIRT CHEAP. Food is great, Infrastructure is decent, Wi-Fi has allowed me and my wife to work there 2 months out of the year remote. Sam's Club is 2 miles away, we slay fish, and the beach life does not suck.

Palapa style home, A/C in the living quarters, in an Ex-Pat community with a bunch of like-minded folks:



Roof top bar/kitchen, with full view of downtown Cabo and the arches:

Wife and I will be there from April 1- 30. People there are great. My dad loves the barrio and they love him - the live in shanties in the arroyos out of town but he/we love it out there. We pick up a case of Picanha and they grill it on open fire pits. We bring sparklers for the kids. PACIFICOS BY THE CASES!!!

It does not suck.

Would never live there full time as I cannot have firearms, but the folks we hang with and the locals we know are pretty tight. ZERO crime where we are.