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Originally Posted by northcrunk
I wouldn't go to Mexico, at least not at the moment. If you looking for a good tropical vacation I suggest checking out the Dominican Republic. The people are great and the beaches are amazing.
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You're effing me, right? I can understand some (ignorant) hesitation about Mexico, but to then suggest the friggin
Dominican? That place has been horribly unstable since their neighbour - you know, HAITI, collapsed and they have had huge problems with haitain refugees over running an already fragile country.
I would be 100x more concerned with myself in the Dominican than Mexico.
Honestly, some people needs to do three things:
- Read a map and realize the 'murder spree' in Mexico is limited to lawless areas of the North, usually bordering the USA, and are gang wars between drug cartels.
- Realize how heavily protected the tourist areas are in mexico - such as PV and Cancun. There are Federale check points all over (the good Mexican cops). Sure there are bad corrupt (usualyl local) cops, we've all agreed on it. If, worst case, you end up losing $100 to a corrupt cop so what? It's a small cost on the vacay. Pay it and move on. I've been many times and have never seen nor heard of such a thing happening, personally
- Don't get drunk and lip off a Mexican cop. Filed under common sense 101