WOW! VISITED TEXAS AND NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING MEXICANS EVERYWHERE

Yeah, then you superior whites can't watch Dancing With Stars, whaa! Or American Idol, double whaaa!

[link to www.insidemex.com]


We speak English. We love Mexico. We are more than a million strong.

By Original Print Publication: November, 2006


"Where can a man go to get some real living out of a pension check--a place where it's a sunny 70° all year round, where a five-room house can be had for $40 a month and a live-in maid for $16, where the family food bill may be measured in pennies per day, with beer at 80¢ a bottle and gin at 98¢ a quart? The answer to this daydreaming question is not nowhere; it's Mexico."¬

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Renee Harris, Tyler Harris, Mary-Lynn Gatschet de Leon, Sarah Bender, and Jimm Budd all live in Mexico.
--From the article "Down Mexico Way", in the May 22, 1964 edition of Time Magazine, about North Americans in México's Lake Chapala area.
It's 10 a.m. on a balmy September Saturday, and every table at Salvador's, a big American-style diner on the main drag in Ajijic, is taken. Dogs of all sizes are playfully pawing each other and nosing under their masters' tables, eagerly hoping for a stray morsel of chorizo. The parking lot is jammed with cars with North American plates: Texas, California, Florida, Ontario. Almost every snippet of overheard conversation is in English: What time is the horse show today, I haven't seen you and your dog in obedience classes lately, Number ten comes with juice or fruit, No thanks, just the check.
This is ground zero: the villages around Lake Chapala are home to the largest population of North Americans living in Mexico. There's a temptation to run it down as being inauthentic, not nearly Mexican enough for one's adventurous gringo soul. But you're forced to admit: the place is beautiful, and yes, the famed climate is delightful. It's charming, with its narrow cobblestone streets and lush green gardens.
Today like most days, Bob Carpenter is in the Ajijic plaza, sitting on a bench and reading Mexican comic books to improve his Spanish. He's lived in Lake Chapala for 11 years, but his relationship with Mexico goes back much further.
"I made up my mind when I was in my 20s that I was going to retire in Mexico," says Carpenter, 74, a Toledo, Ohio native. Carpenter had traveled to Mexico while stationed with the U.S. Army in El Paso, Texas, in the 50s. "You know, Mexico had a lot of attractions for a young man."
According to the U.S. State Department's website, there are now "more than a half-million American citizens" living in Mexico, but an October 2005 study by Mexican cement giant Cemex puts the number at more than a million. By some estimates, as many as 500,000 Canadians are thought to be living in Mexico full-or part-time, plus thousands of Brits, Irish, Australians and New Zealanders, as well as Germans, Japanese and others speaking English as a second language.
Though many expatriates come to Mexico to work, particularly in urban centers like Mexico City and Monterrey, most choose smaller colonial cities and beach towns, for their beauty and traditions, their slower pace and simpler lifestyle. Caren Cross, 60, a painter and retired psychotherapist living in San Miguel, has just completed a documentary on the life of Americans living in the colonial city, called "Lost and Found in Mexico". She and her husband came to San Miguel on vacation and in 1998 decided to move here, for reasons, she says, that "weren't conscious." Only in retrospect did she realize that Mexico provided a freedom that she was missing back in the United States...

me no pik inglis

Not quite half a million, but still: According to Mexican officials, 200,000 Americans are living illegally in Mexico
[link to migration.ucdavis.edu]

Don't know how they're supporting themselves, though, as it appears they're trying to get jobs down there on expired visas.

Excuse me while I go eat some tasty beans.

Wonder if it has anything to do with TEXAS once being part of MEXICO.

The actual number is alost certainly much higher.

[link to www.peoplesguide.com]

Ever wonder why they named the gas station TEXACO?

they knew the future. Texas will get their wish to secede from the union, only to find out they won't be independent they will be part of Mexico.

So much for the big bad Texans or should I say Texicans.

It is the norm here to work "under the table".

And by the way, borders are for pussies. Who am I to tell you what side of a line in the dirt you can live on, and who are you to tell me? That may be a bit pie-in-the-sky, but those lines in the dirt are more often than not drawn with innocent blood and they are the cause of way more misery than they are worth. Live and let live. Do unto other as you would have them do unto you. Treat your neighbour as you would your brothers and your sisters. Again, pie-in-the-sky; but you have got to start somewhere.

Your idea of "nice" is what? perky fence? classic architecture? Malls and stores?

Katrina was a blessing and a sign from God????

Dude you are sick! You solve problems like an idiot right?

UGH,LETS JUST BLOW IT UP::: how old are you?

Lemme tell you somthing kid, the important things in this life go much further beyond malls and highways.

I have worked with people living on garbage dumps in Thailand´s Western refugee zones becouse they dont have anything else to live on. Because if they dont they die. Both Mexico and the US have a still relatively high internal refugee displacement caused by many factors, from natural disasters to gang/narco wars, racial displacement, social hatred, racist eugenic practices, etc...

For things to not look conducive towards building a harmonic society, Id say a garbage ridden shanty town with happy people getting by is just as much an eye sore as a 5 miles of malls, convenience stores and chains... They are both failures of the system, both with the potential of improvement...

I live in az and I cant understand 1/2 the people at work !!

Speken like a mexican POS.

Better spell out POS cause mexican pos will not get it. POS= pile of shit. you are a pile of shit mexican

Oh yeah, all of Texas looks just like San Antonio...lol.

They speak English, they just don't like foreigners.

I honestly don't feel safe in Mexico. I don't think they keep to the same standards as we do here and have the same respect for people. The Mexicans think they can walk right over the border, like it is just a line in the sand. Do they feel the same way about the threshold of their house?

Are we as the Mexican said, pussies for not just walking over the arbitray line in the sand of their property and taking over? Borders indicate ownership and sphere of influence.

It is weird how you can walk right into Mexico and no one even gives you a second look, but if you go to the USA, you get questioned and better have proper ID and good reasons for why you were there. The Mexicans don't care what goes on down there but there is at least a show made of what is supposed to go on here.

Our country isn't run like a free for all, although it seems that is the way it is for the Hispanics. Maybe it is like that in their countries, but it also isn't safe.

They know English. They're just being disrespectful. Hit em up side the head to reset them. That's what I have to do with mine once in awhile.

you are right. it is direspectful when there is a groupl of them talking like that and looking at you as if you are supposed to know what they are saying. We are in America..

SPEAK ENGLISH IN FRONT OF AMERICANS!!! fffeeehhhkkk

Same or actually worse in South Florida (cubans, central americans, brazilians, etc. ) They don't know how to drive meaning stoppinh for red lights, using blinkers, passing on the left, all that means nothing. They cut in line at the bank or the deli, no clue, never get in back of one of them at the ATM, you'll be waiting for an hour. Third world country South Florida has become.

Moran is spelled Moron, Moran (just so you can understand.)

ughhh. I know what you mean. my grandparents live there and I visited awhile back. Went to walmart and couldnt find an english speaking person anywhere. I asked a lady where the show polish was and her reply.. "mickey mouse?" she had no idea what I was saying to her. I gave up and left.

Tu es un ignorante que solo haba uno idioma!!!
Aprenda a hablar espanol o que te vayas al carajo, cabron de mierda!!!!

Hey man, I only hit the tip the ice berg, you should go to South Florida Bank on a Saturday, you would think you are in Columbia or Venuezuala. They don't know how to mind their own space, you know like keep several steps behind the person in front of you kind of thing, then they also start having conversations in spanish with the tellers even though they are like five persons in front of them, no respect, fucking zero. Oh and let's not forget the hit and runs we have down in South Florida, all the time, gee wonder why, no green card, illegal, guess so, fucking scum bags. Only good thing about the bad ecomony is that alot of these low lifes have had to go home. No more money from gringo man.

:mexsuc:

chupa me verga

See what I mean! Hey dude, stay in Brazil, do the US a favor or at least South Florida.

what the eff does all this mean ?