Top one needs to be tinted yellow.
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Mexico is naturally tinted yellow because itโs a little wild, a little crazy.
I've been to Mexico like 6 times.
The first 5 times were all excellent trips, wonderful places, wonderful people.
The sixth time, we were all literally robbed by Mexican police officers at the airport who claimed we couldn't leave the country without paying an "exit tax" of $200 USD each, and told us we either paid and got on our flight home or we didn't pay and they took us to prison.
I don't go back to Mexico now.
Hah the Mexican cops got me at traffic stop once.
Andrew Callaghan's Channel 5 has a few videos about migrants coming to America, and a couple of the people he interviewed mentioned being more scared of the Mexican police than the border patrol.
He actually goes to Mexico and hops the border back into America in one of his videos, I highly recommend checking him out.
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I'm visiting Mexico City for the first time in April.
Hopefully things will be mellow.
Just don't expect cheese on your quesadillas and you'll be fine
This one hurts me, luckily we don't deal with this in the place where I live.
Hey most of mexico is not that crazy, only central mexico people think quesadillas don't need queso. Like saying cheeze its don't have to have cheese.
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Been many times when my brother lived and worked there for three+ years. We are gringos. Never felt unsafe. Sure, he talks about a time at Xochimilco where him same some work colleagues perhaps drew the ire of some locals, but really the worst part of the trip was the few times we needed to get in a taxi.
I'm that vein, that was the one rule we tried to adhere to at the time, make sure, if you take a taxi, to take the sanctioned ones or whatever.
Now, we drove to Oaxaca once, and some of the towns en route to were sketchy looking. Didn't have any bad experiences but also didn't bring the car down under like 15mph either.
Enjoy! Bring Pepto. I got Montezuma's revenge every time. I'm starting to think it was the altitude (couldn't have been the many michelladas, certainly not).
I'm a local and would NEVER go to Xochimilco. It's just not worth it.
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I hope for you it's mellow, and come back and tell us if everything in Mexico is tinted yellow.
Mexico City is many things, but mellow is not one of them.
I have gone many times, every single one has been mellow. I imagine as a local it doesn't look like that, especially if you have to commute all over the city.
I swear we browse the same communities. You'll have a great time!
It's a small (Lemmy) world.
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I'm Mexican and I agree with this meme.
okay but is everything tinted yellow in Mexico?
No. It's all tinted Burnt Sienna
LPT: NOT police men ๐ถโ๐ซ๏ธ
Gotta provide some details for us non Mexican folks.
They look like they are part of the federal government?
It is common for either:
A - cartel to dress up to look like police men (commonly recognized through wearing masks over face)
B - police men to be in cahoots with cartel (iirc this is becoming less and less common)
Also actual cops, like uninformed police officers who pull you over, will rob you. My friend got caught with some weed over there and while he was handcuffed they tried to get his wallet several times. He finally convinced them he'd give them some money if they uncuffed him and he gave them half of what he had. He said they would have taken all of it if they were able to get his wallet without having to beat him.
Why couldn't they get his wallet if he was handcuffed?
Heโd lift his butt cheek to one side and when they walked over to the other side of the police car heโd switch sides. They were all giggling and finally he said, โIโll tell you what, muchacho, you take these cuffs off and Iโll give you half my money.โ
(Read the next line with your inner Forrest Gump) And wouldnโt you know it? It worked.
There are autodefensas that dress up and have assault rifles, too. Probably not these guys though.
Thanks for taking the time to reply. The covering of faces I didnโt know.
Thus, plus the random terf fighting in blatantly tourist areas makes me really not want to go there, even to the "safe" afeas
normally the cartel dresses like the military or the* police, one big give away is that the cartel uses tennis instead of boots and act mostly like kids LARPing
Cartels maybe?
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These are Mexican Mormons.
I've lived in Mexico for over 20 years now, and yeah there is crime, yeah there are problems, but I rarely felt unsafe, really.
Does this depend on the region you live in? I get the impression border areas are less safe.
Also depends on how gringo you look. Gringos are largely seen as money pinatas.
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You ever been to London? I hear about stabbings a violence occasionally, sometimes places I'm very close to. But they're always gang related, if you're not in a gang, you're probably safe.
I feel like Mexico is kinda similar with an added bonus of don't walk around with expensive stuff or look like an easy target.
Does that sound right?
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Been to CDMX many times, where I take the subways to get around. I'm a gringo and CDMX has its bad areas like any other big city. They do also have police and cartel problems. Depending on your ethnicity and location, the US is equally dangerous. These things said, I love Mexico City and will always return. It is incredible and the folks who live there are wonderful.
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Only the last one should be police
That would be the US, not Mexico.
No, that's very much Mexico as well
Is this how we improve the US?
Tell all the racists they're behaving worse than Mexicans?
Is this how we improve Mexico?
Tell all the Mexicans they're really just bad Americans?
ยฟPor que no los dos?
Sorry but I have been to both countries and only in Mexico did the state police with big guns extorted money from me. And that was not a nice experience.
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Apparently Yucatan is cool
Only because cartels keep you safe there. Because how else would it be safe if cartels weren't earning better cash there with the tourist trash?
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Accurate.
Take my money, just don't hurt my tacos!
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