Riots, Looting, Murders Through the Roof...

Folks are often concerned about safety in Mexico. There are parts of the country where I wouldn’t set foot, like the border towns and the hotly contested narco-trafficking corridor cities, due to cartel violence - which honestly only affects cartel members or their families and those buying drugs 99.999% of the time - but most of the country is actually remarkably safe.

Unlike the feces-strewn metropolis of San Francisco, where I lived for years, and now hardly recognize.

This doesn’t happen in the places where I have homes in Mexico, nor do I have to worry about stepping in human excrement and dirty needles when I leave my house or go shopping or have dinner at a restaurant.

For more on the real Mexico, I would recommend the bestselling tome, Retirement Secrets of Mexico, which describes in detail some of my favorite, little known locales.

Where the water is no more undrinkable that over 3000 metro areas in the US, and considerably cleaner than some.