Screw the Media...I STILL LOVE MEXICO!!!!! (student loans, hotels)

[Chi-townChica]

Anyone else feel the same??? I've been going to Mexico since I was 2 years old. My fondest memories are of playing with other children on the Caleta Beach (Acapulco) and sharing huanchinango saturated with lime and salsa. Roads trips to Mexico City taking the Estrella Blanca. The most delicious food, friendliest people and inviting atmosphere.

Why does the media hate Mexico sooooo much? I don't get it. I never see any positive news about Mexico.

Please share positive memories of Mexico and why you still love going there.

[evafla]

I am in Mexico right now . We travel-live in small motorhome
with our two dogs in Mexico since March .

I think media in US hate Mexico so much, or rather make people
hate it, because if they would say the tru, nobody would go
to Florida or California for good weather , beaches and ocean.

Nobody would buy houses in the middle of the dessert, in Nevada,
Arizona or New Mexico to retire .

Finaly American realtors would not make money,
selling properties in Mexico, to these brave or desper
Americans, who have to live in closed gettos,
because of safety reasons .

People , who organize so called caravans, for the owners of
100k+ RV, also would bankrupt .
Who knows, maybe if they would say about it , like it is, maybe
parents would like children to learn Spanish,
maybe they would send them to schools to Mexico .

Maybe these children later on, would want to study on Universities
in Mexico, maybe they would not take student loans in US .

I think, the list goes on, and this is all about money...

I agree with every single word in your description of Mexico , and
more . Beautiful nature wise country . Endless posibilities
for enjoing camping, hiking, lakes, rivers, hot springs, beaches,
colonial cities, country in whole is like
fascinating mixture of 21st and 19th centures .

...and we can eat in restaurant, be on the beach,
do food shopping on the market, enter national park ( are exeptions),
sleep in motel , take bath in hot pool, attend a fairy, and our dogs can be with us !!!

Is it here "room for improovement", yes it is , but Utopia is the concept only .

e.

[SarahSal]

Originally Posted by evafla

I am in Mexico right now . We travel-live in small motorhome
with our two dogs in Mexico since March .

I think media in US hate Mexico so much, or rather make people
hate it, because if they would say the tru, nobody would go
to Florida or California for good weather , beaches and ocean.

Nobody would buy houses in the middle of the dessert, in Nevada,
Arizona or New Mexico to retire .

Finaly American realtors would not make money,
selling properties in Mexico, to these brave or desper
Americans, who have to live in closed gettos,
because of safety reasons .

People , who organize so called caravans, for the owners of
100k+ RV, also would bankrupt .
Who knows, maybe if they would say about it , like it is, maybe
parents would like children to learn Spanish,
maybe they would send them to schools to Mexico .

Maybe these children later on, would want to study on Universities
in Mexico, maybe they would not take student loans in US .

I think, the list goes on, and this all about money...

e.

Loved your post! Perhaps you're right about it all.... I love Mexico, too..

[Eduardo983]

Originally Posted by Chi-townChica

Anyone else feel the same??? I've been going to Mexico since I was 2 years old. My fondest memories are of playing with other children on the Caleta Beach (Acapulco) and sharing huanchinango saturated with lime and salsa. Roads trips to Mexico City taking the Estrella Blanca. The most delicious food, friendliest people and inviting atmosphere.

Why does the media hate Mexico sooooo much? I don't get it. I never see any positive news about Mexico.

Please share positive memories of Mexico and why you still love going there.

Mexico is a beautiful country. I dont know why the u.S. media (Faux news and Hollywood) portrays Mexico like garbage and the U.S. like a paradise. I suppose that is an strategy to attract European tourists to the U.S. and keep them away from travelling to Mexico by brainwashing their brains with false messages that Mexico is a horrible place.
It is all about money.... Mexican hotels in this case are the competition to u.S. American hotels... you have to promote your competitors as a horrible place so that they visit your country instead. ($$$)

Mexico is beautiful and people always have a fun time there. I am not mexican...BTW. I think Mexicans were blessed with their natural resources.

[Bixaorellana]

I live in Mexico and have for over a decade. It's nice that people care about me, but sheesh I get tired of family and friends in the States asking, "Are you okay down there?" as though I were at the bottom of a well or something. This always happens after some media scare -- people dropping dead on the street from swine flu, people being gunned down right and left by drug dealers, etc.

The one big lesson I learned from living in Oaxaca during the troubles in 2006 was that the media lies and lies and lies. When they're not actively lying, they're lazily repeating lies propagated by other media sources.

[zacatecana]

Well, the reason I think the US media lies so much is because US economy is so bad that they want to drag Mexican tourist economy down as well. Many Americans vacation there and this is not good for US business. The other reason why I think there is "resentimiento" is because of illegal immigration.

[Chi-townChica]

I figured "illegal immigration" had something to do with it. Wouldn't it be smarter for the media to portay Mexico as the great place it is? This way Mexico can make even more money from tourism and people wouldn't have to leave? Everyone I know that's from there ONLY come here to work and they send their money home.

Originally Posted by zacatecana

Well, the reason I think the US media lies so much is because US economy is so bad that they want to drag Mexican tourist economy down as well. Many Americans vacation there and this is not good for US business. The other reason why I think there is "resentimiento" is because of illegal immigration.

[SarahSal]

Originally Posted by Chi-townChica

I figured "illegal immigration" had something to do with it. Wouldn't it be smarter for the media to portay Mexico as the great place it is? This way Mexico can make even more money from tourism and people wouldn't have to leave? Everyone I know that's from there ONLY come here to work and they send their money home.

Every single one of the posts above, I think are dead-on right! Tourist competition, angst over illegal immigration, a media that has lost its honest bearings.

And, yes, I hate it too when people say, isn't it dangerous to be in Mexico!

But I think the point - that if Mexico were secure financially then workers wouldn't have to go to the US - is a good one and makes complete sense.

[Ayana9]

I love, love, love, all the festivities in Mexico. I am from Veracruz, and I love the fact that there is always some kind of celebration to stop everything in town at least once a month! The fact that ppl take time to enjoy life and family and friends, have some beers, dance a bit and stay up until the next day partying it up!!

I love the food! I love the variety of all the food, from all the stews, or arroz a la tumbada, to the frintangas (all the fried yummy food) the different kind of tacos.... oooh i could go on and on!!

The whole environment is just so laid back and relaxing, i just visited my father in cancun and the first night i was there a neighbor of theirs came over with four big empanadas de minilla for me, i thought it was nice of her and that is how ppl are over there! she had never met me but wanted to welcome me with some food lol.

I went to visit my family in Veracruz for Christmas and my husband was so amazed when i told him that my uncle lived in a house made out of sticks and his floors were just made of dirt that was pressed down, and he was poor. the reason that hubs was shocked was because my uncle and his wife showed up at the house were we were staying on various occasions in the early morning to cook us some food and fry up some fish for us. I love how giving and hospitable the people are even when they really don't have much!

[Mach50]

Originally Posted by SarahSal

Every single one of the posts above, I think are dead-on right! Tourist competition, angst over illegal immigration, a media that has lost its honest bearings.

And, yes, I hate it too when people say, isn't it dangerous to be in Mexico!

But I think the point - that if Mexico were secure financially then workers wouldn't have to go to the US - is a good one and makes complete sense.

Ahhh the winds of truth are quite refreshing! You folks have it nailed it! nothing more to say.

But prepare! This thread will not go unoticed by the caustic people!