re: Mexican border towns

By all means go across and flash money too.

Can you please leave us with the place you are currently working. My brother is looking for a new job and I am sure yours will be coming available.

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So, I'm going to a wedding in Edinburg in April, and I was thinking about crossing the border just to say I had been to Mexico (never been before).

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Edinburg is basically Mexico.

Mi mas sentido pesame por el fallecimiento. Tu muerte fue declarada un homicidio!

Yeah, it would be incredibly stupid to cross the border today.

Go to the Yucatan, Quintana Roo, Ciudad de Mexico, Veracruz etc. if you want to go to Mexico

Your link says 150,000 cross the border every day, and 100 were murdered in all of 2014. I think your odds are pretty good.

But your link said nothing about how many returned with both kidneys.

There's no place scarier in the world right now. Imagine the scariest streets in America after midnight, and how comfortable you'd feel walking around, obviously looking like a tourist with zero weaponry....... Well multiply that times a million, on any hour, any day of the week in those border towns on the other side. There's a very real possibility that you'd end up in the middle of something bad, and that's assuming you aren't the target.


There is no code, no rules or law. It really is the Wild West except with NO Wyatt Earps to help you. In fact, the people you'd normally depend on helping you, are more than likely the ones doing it to you.

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I don't know much about the border towns near McAllen but the border towns in W TX, NM, and AZ are all safe to go over for a few hours to grab a meal and some beers. Just don't get hammered and ask strangers for yayo and you should be fine.

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I used to feel relatively safe crossing over to Juarez with a group of people and doing the whole shopping and touristy stuff. But that feeling is no longer. It's a feeling very much like I'd get in Baghdag, when you look around you and take a moment to realize that at any second, the tide could turn on you. But the difference is you don't have any QRF or really anybody watching your back or giving a shite about you.

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If you really want to do a short stint in a Mexican border town, I'd recommend going to Big Bend National Park in far West Texas. There's a border crossing station that leads you to a sleepy Mexican village that is safe. It's awkward at most to be the only Anglo in the town, but it's still a cool experience (not to mention a cheap bar) and they accept American dollars.

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Quit being a vagina and do whatever makes you happy.

I'm in Edinburg, McAllen, Bville about 7-8 times a year.

Going to Mexico there is not worthwhile, but the "don't even go out on the US side is BS. I eat at dives all over the valley and it's fine. Hell I go to the bad part of Weslaco for Mexican seafood.

You'd be better served to drive 45 miles and see South Padre.