How is Mission, TX these days?

pawatt wrote:
We have lived near Mission Texas 6 months a year for the past 10 years. We love it and can't wait to get back each year. When we get to old to travel back and forth we will likely stay there permanently.

We do not think that we are too old but the cost of emergency travel insurance is about to make it impossible for us to continue much longer and will really miss the RGV. Unfortunately being Canadian makes it impossible to move permanently.

Road Construction is never "complete" anywhere. Thank goodness. That's what kept me employed for nearly fifty years.

qtla9111 wrote:
Please drop the term "third world country". Don't base opinions on border cities when there are 112 million Mexicans living in Mexico and many are middle and upper class.

The term is insulting to Mexicans. Mexico is part of North America. In other words, Canada, United States, and Mexico. You know, part of NAFTA. Mexico is the second largest consumer of U.S. made products (only after the U.S. itself), and also the largest producer of products exported to the U.S.

Mexico produces crude oil, automotive accessories, passenger cars, trucks and buses and electrical apparatus and telecommunications. Mexico's close proximity and its cheap production costs make its products affordable in the United States. Mexico exported $52.6 billion in goods to the United States in 2011.



McAllen and the Rio Grande Valley apprciate the fact that Mexican nationals spent more than $600 million dollars in Hidalgo County and close to $230 million dollars in Cameron County last year alone.

Thank you.

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I bought my last vehicle in McAllen and that dealership told me that if it wasn't for the Mexicans and Winter Texans they would be closed in less than six months.

Construction on Business 83 and Expressway 83 is complete and the roads are in good condition.

So far, I have not read anything that indicates it's any better than 2008 or 2009. Am I to assume nothing has changed? We loved the RV parks and you snowbirds were great! We made some good friends during our stay there, but I was just curious about the area in general. For example in 2008 there was road construction on hwy 83, when we returned in '09 there was very little progress noticed on the highway. The highway signs still had the same graffiti as the year before, and seemed like nothing was cleaned up.

We have lived near Mission Texas 6 months a year for the past 10 years. We love it and can't wait to get back each year. When we get to old to travel back and forth we will likely stay there permanently.

:), I have lived in Mexico most of my life. I made my life here as an immigrant. Thank you for your kind words.

Please drop the term "third world country". Don't base opinions on border cities when there are 112 million Mexicans living in Mexico and many are middle and upper class.

The term is insulting to Mexicans. Mexico is part of North America. In other words, Canada, United States, and Mexico. You know, part of NAFTA. Mexico is the second largest consumer of U.S. made products (only after the U.S. itself), and also the largest producer of products exported to the U.S.

Mexico produces crude oil, automotive accessories, passenger cars, trucks and buses and electrical apparatus and telecommunications. Mexico's close proximity and its cheap production costs make its products affordable in the United States. Mexico exported $52.6 billion in goods to the United States in 2011.

McAllen and the Rio Grande Valley apprciate the fact that Mexican nationals spent more than $600 million dollars in Hidalgo County and close to $230 million dollars in Cameron County last year alone.

Thank you.

If you didn't like it six years ago, you won't like it now. However, lots of us liked the RGV then and like it in 2014.

Hidalgo County is one of the poorest in the United States. It borders a third world country. We recognize that, but we and thousands of others plan to return.