JeffersonCampervan wrote:
I'm dismayed at the undercurrent tone on Mexico forums, which I just started re-frequenting this autumn. Prior to my last stint, pre-2006, the negative posts were from people who had never been to Mexico and we always dismissed them - and our own experience of Mexico & the warm Mexican people did not correspond to any of the fear-based comments we read. We were usually the ones who dispelled the pervasive-violence-&-corruption myths about Mexico. But now I see Mexico-partial names I recognize from 8 years ago expressing unease.
We are reconsidering Mexico as a destination this Christmas - & not due to cost.
I believe that it is not so much an undercurrent but an information current of some of us with repeated experience of traveling in Mexico attempting to provide more informed views of present day Mexico. It is not the Mexico of even a few years ago. Much has changed and not for the good. Even with that said; if the weather in the Southwest turns cold this winter we will be headed SOB. But it will cost more & be more of a hassle to enjoy what we enjoyed years past.
rocmoc n AZ/Mexico