Mexican Presidential Race 1 July 2018.
July 4th, 2018 at 7:52:07 PM permalink | |
Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 |
Well, that was never how I looked at it. Season two was very much an outlier, focusing on smuggling eastern European prostitutes through the port of Baltimore. If you had any interest in shipping and police boats, there is probably little to compare. I found it a slow season. If anyone has not started on the show, I would suggest skipping season 2 and coming back to it after season 5, if you want. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
July 5th, 2018 at 2:00:35 AM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
I must a dozen single white women in their 70's (mostly widowed but some divorced) who very happily lived on their own in Mexico. Access to medication was very good, they could afford to hire people to help, and many of them didn't want to maintain automobiles but taxis and rental cars were affordable. They would gather at the art exhibits and the library, go dancing and listen to music in the town square. I had a number of ladies say they were extremely happy about retiring in Mexico as they had a much better quality of life than living in the USA The lending library was a popular hangout for retirees in Oaxaca City https://www.oaxlibrary.org/ |
July 5th, 2018 at 2:13:01 AM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18136 |
The prostitutes were the catalyst, when they found them dead in the can. But then we saw how the union was helping with the smuggling. The Greeks were into prostitutes, dope, and moving any kind of swag they got a deal on. But we saw the union getting deeper and deeper in a bid to save itself as the battle was between the union wanting to rebuild the port and gentrification making it into condos. Meanwhile, you had the union members who were too old to really find something new to do with their lives. They were really stuck, that I could relate to after seeing the steel industry crash as a kid. You had one kid who wanted to work the docks and move out on his own, but just could not get the hours, so he became a "floorman" dope dealer, one step above the street guys. His cousin, Ziggy, was just a screw-up. Dragging him down. BTW: Ziggy was based on a real guy who did a lot of the same nonsense on the docks. And if you read the wikipedia page on the real union and the real Port of Baltimore, it is interesting as Baltimore did have that reputation that Frank said, it got the freight unloaded fastest and cheapest. The President is a fink. |
July 5th, 2018 at 8:31:23 AM permalink | |
Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 |
That looks like Jesus in the upper left frame.
I know. To each his own, I'm just saying season 2 was my least favorite, but I still liked all of them. BTW, my mental image of EB is like the guy that guy who ran the labor union at the port, if I remember his job title correctly. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
July 5th, 2018 at 11:19:04 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
My understanding is that if you live in an ex pat community you have some protection. My friend was going to do what she did in 1968, travel alone all over the country. Her friends that know Mexico told her she might as well wear a big red target on her back. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
July 5th, 2018 at 12:01:03 PM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18136 |
Until the Mexican government decides to steal the land from you if you had bought it. Never buy land down there, just sign short term leases. If you are crazy enough to live there in the first place that is. I saw a piece years back, expats made a nice community. The Mexicans decided some Mexican Indian tribe had a claim and booted the expats, of course giving them the "right" to buy it again first! You cannot even buy land near the border or coasts unless you are Mexican. The President is a fink. |
July 5th, 2018 at 12:48:24 PM permalink | |
petroglyph Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 6227 | The ex pats should demonstrate and demand they be given equal rights. The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW |
July 5th, 2018 at 7:24:28 PM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
A lot of these women lived in the city proper, though many of them did spend much of their day with other expats. But it certainly wasn't a walled off community. Granted, it is not particularly safe to drive around. |
July 5th, 2018 at 9:05:50 PM permalink | |
Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 | I don't know much about it, but I think there are guarded ex-pat communities all over Mexico and Costa Rica. My last time to CR the retired woman in the seat next to me was checking one out there. She said she was leaning towards one in Mexico. There is a very good chance I'll go that route, or at least try to, when I'm ready to settle down. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
July 6th, 2018 at 4:10:34 AM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
Puerto Penasco is more a place for people from the Southwest USA to retire in Mexico. Since it is 66 miles from Arizona, you don't need a visa. Puerto Vallarta, Ixtapa, Cabo and Cancun are full of gringos. Mazatlan is a traditional American retirement place, but still a full scale Mexican city. I could see you more likely in an international community in Mexico, rather than a more caged off retirement community full of Americans and Canadians. Guadalajara is, of course, a metropolitan area of 5 million people. https://www.ventanasmexico.com/news-1-draft/a-stroll-through-affluent-neighborhood-in-guadalajara SMA is possibly the most famous upscale community full of people from around the world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Miguel_de_Allende |