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Come to Mexico, beautiful beaches, good weather, what else do you want?
by victorhn 14y ago
Come to Mexico, beautiful beaches, good weather, what else do you want?
- thebooktocome 14y agoA lack of institutionalized corruption and organized crime?
- gte910h 14y agoExactly. I don't ever plan on living someplace I need kidnapping insurance.
- mindcrime 14y agoThe USA has plenty of institutionalized corruption (see: Washington D.C.) and organized crime too, so how much worse can Mexico be?
- rgbrenner 14y ago"so how much worse can Mexico be?" That's sarcasm right? Mexico: 3rd highest number of murders in the world (only India and Brazil are worse). Nearly 5x the murder rate in the US - nearly 2x the total number of murders. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentiona...
- mindcrime 14y agoI was referring, specifically, to the issues of corruption and organized crime. But even considering the general murder rate, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that your likelihood of being murdered in Mexico vary tremendously depending on where in Mexico you are. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm guessing there are some areas that are pretty safe and some areas that you'd have to be brain-dead stupid to walk into.
- rgbrenner 14y ago1. Most of the murders in Mexico are from drug cartels. Are you saying that the cartels are NOT a form of organized crime?? 2. If you go to the URL I posted, Mexico and the US are broken down by states. The are only 3 states in Mexico with a murder rate below the US average.
- qq66 14y agoMexico has the 3rd highest number of murders, not the third highest murder rate. It's also the 11th most populous country. Mexico's murder rate per capita is 22.7 per 100,000, compared to Brazil's 21.0, the US' 4.8, and India's 3.4. While these are hugely different, they're also not even close to the 3rd highest murder rate in the world, with Honduras leading the pack at 91.6.
- rgbrenner 14y agoYou are correct. I did mean "3rd highest number of murders." I corrected my post. My point was, here is a country with 36% the population of the US, and yet has a much higher number of murders annually (most caused by drug cartels). Although Hondorus is higher, if you notice, the worst Mexican state is at 111.
- mindcrime 14y ago> That's sarcasm right? Nope, not in the slightest. And I'm not saying that Mexico isn't worse in those regards, just pointing out that we have plenty of problems with corrupt and organized crime here anyway. To the point that I don't think it's entirely ridiculous to suggest moving a business to Mexico, depending on other details.
- thebooktocome 14y agohttp://www.transparency.org/cpi2012/results http://www.transparency.org/cpi2012/results United States ranked 19th. Mexico ranked 105th. That's how much worse.
- thecurator 14y agobetter yet - move to canada. lower taxes, better / free healthcare, cleaner roads, low cost education. what's not to like.