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We've been getting some reallyfun comments about Mexico as a
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country, and even Latin Americain general, the last several
weeks, some of which include,oh, people are just getting off
in the streets day and night,and there's bodies hanging from
the overpasses, and it's sodangerous there because people
are just gonna slip something inyour drink and then take
advantage of you and like.
There's just violence andrampant crime.
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Absolutely.
Everywhere you turn, we getother comments.
Also insinuating that mostMexicans are poor and
uneducated, and oftentimes it'speople who I don't think realize
just how offensive thosecomments actually are.
So in this video, what we'regoing to be doing is we're gonna
be debunking common myths aboutMexico, and some of these
statistics are going to shockyou.
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So let's jump into the numberone thing that we hear that's a
myth about Mexico, which is thatMexico is extremely dangerous
now as any place in the worldis.
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There are parts of Mexico thatare dangerous.
And you typically, especiallyhere, you know what those places
are.
It's not like you're in SantaMonica and you know you're
walking on the pier and you gethit in the face with a beer
bottle thrown by some mentallyill homeless person.
That's happened to people that Iknow.
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Not to mention in San Franciscoand in plenty of other places
where one block you're totallysafe and you've got.
$10,000 a month, you know, highrise apartments, and then the
next block is just absolute pureand utter chaos.
There are definitely some areasin Mexico where there's
violence.
Uh, there are certain like gangactivities that you, you don't
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want to be in those areas.
Typically, they're not in thetourist areas.
Um, there, there are places likesome parts of Sinaloa, some
parts in the south of Mexico.
Where, uh, if you're not, let'ssay with a, with a tour where
everybody kind of knows wherethey're, where they're going,
um, you, you, you might not wantto go in certain areas like
that.
But outside of that, like inmost of the major cities,
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Guadalajara is very safe.
Mexico City is very safe ifyou're not in like a dangerous
neighborhood.
And most of the places thatexpats are going to are not
going to be, uh, thoseneighborhoods that are gonna be.
Unsafe.
In fact, we found somestatistics that we're gonna go
through right now with you guys,and we'll try and put the, the
graphs on the screen as wellthat show that Americans are
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actually safer in Mexico thanthey are in the United States.
So let's go through some ofthis.
So this is, uh, according to theFBI crime statistics, 4.8
Americans per 100,000 are.
Unlived in the United States.
That's per the 2010 numbers.
Those are the most recent onesthat we could find, and the US
State Department reports thatonly 120 Americans out of this
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5.7 million who visit Mexico inthat same time period.
So within a year time period areunli, which is a rate of 2.1 out
of every 100,000 visitors.
It's actually half.
Of the rate in the UnitedStates.
Um, now what happens in Mexicois you're not always clear
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whether or not these people,these Americans who ran into
problems in Mexico, wereinvolved in things they should
not have been involved inbecause that is usually the
case.
Uh, whereas in the UnitedStates, it's totally random as
you were.
Bringing up.
Now, the other thing to keep inmind is when you're in tourist
destinations or places wherethere's a lot of expats and
foreigners, the numbers decreaseeven more.
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Right?
And when you compare it to wherethere's lots of tourists in the
United States, the numbers aregonna shock you.
This one, draw this one.
I was like, really?
When I read this one?
So let's take Disney World.
Let's take Orlando, which is thehome of Disney World.
So in that same time period, soabout a year time period,
Orlando saw 7.5.
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On the live activities, let'sput it that way, per 100,000 U
YouTube is a little bit stricton what we can and can't say.
So per 100,000 residents, now ifyou go to Cancun or Puerto
Valda, that number goes down to1.83 or 5.9 respectively.
Uh, and this is Americans.
And again, right?
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It depends, like a lot of timesthey were involved in things
they should not have beeninvolved in, whereas in the
United States.
Totally random.
You could totally be at thewrong place at the wrong time.
Um, and you also have to takeinto consideration the type of
crime that happens in each ofthese countries because that
does add nuance.
To the situation in Mexico, asif we've mentioned, it's usually
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targeted.
It's usually to isolated areas.
It most definitely does notinvolve foreigners or expats or
anywhere where you're gonna behanging out because they tend to
keep those places very clean.
Yep.
And with a lot of security, uh,because there's a lot of money
in those places, so nowhere thatyou're gonna be hanging out.
You need to worry about it.
Whereas in the United States,it's completely random.
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Just two weeks ago we had a, asituation in a major university
in the United States wherepeople were just going to go
take their classes and herecomes a guy with a weapon and.
Y'all know what happens in theUnited States with that.
You could be doing groceries,you could be at the, you know,
the movie theater?
At the movie theater.
Yeah.
You could be at a mall, youcould be anywhere.
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You literally do not hear aboutthose types of events occurring
here.
Like it's not a thing.
Um, you, you can't just possessa weapon like anybody in the
country.
Yes, there are some criminalsthat have them, and that's not a
good thing.
But again, those criminals arenot typically targeting
foreigners or people notinvolved in those.
Those criminal conflicts thatare here, their issues are
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usually with each other and thegovernment.
Not with you unless you getinvolved in things you're not
supposed to be getting involvedin, which we have heard stories
like that of people ending up insituations, but every freaking
time they were involved inthings they should not have been
involved in.
And unfortunately, you do have asector of, I don't know, tourism
or expats or foreigners that goto other countries and partake
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in a bunch of fuck shit, forlack of a better word, and then
wonder why they're getting introuble.
The other thing to keep in mind.
Right.
Is that the, I just can't saythe word right.
So, um, I'm gonna say it anyway.
The homicide rates in Mexicohave actually been declining
since 2016 and in the UnitedStates they've been going up
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since 2000, uh, since the sametime period.
And if you look at the rates bylocation, um, yes there are, uh,
there are certain instanceswhere, where violence happens.
But if you look at overall.
The homicide rate per a hundredthousand, uh, people, in terms
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of Americans in Mexico is 0.3.
And if you look at even the, thetotal homicide rates of
different cities, a lot of themare actually significantly lower
than many cities in the us.
For example, Guadalajara, wherewe live, the rate is 17.1.
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But the overall rate in thecountry that involves Americans
is 0.3.
So a lot of those people,whether you're in Guadalajara,
you're in Mexico City, a lot ofthe people that are, that are
getting involved in, in those,in those, having those issues
are again, associated with thatcriminal activity.
Um, if we look at the, the majorcities, so Guadalajara was 17.1
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in Mexico.
Puerto Vallarta is 8.8.
Mexico City is 8.6.
Cabo is 3.7.
And Meida, which is um.
One of the safest cities in thecountry was only 1.5.
Maybe that's one of the safestcities in all area, actually in
the world.
Yeah.
Uh, definitely in, in theWestern Hemisphere.
Versus if we look at thosehomicide rates by location,
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sorry, YouTube, we have to sharethe information.
Um, so if we get, uh, you know,banned on this video, oh well.
Um, but if we look at evenPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, the
rate per a hundred thou, uh, pera hundred thousand people is 33.
DC 29.3, Chicago, 22.8.
We're gonna put these up on the,the screen for them here.
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Houston 19, Phoenix, Arizona.
So, so even just looking here,Guadalajara, which ranks as,
again, overall, and this isincluding people that are
involved with criminal activityoverall, Guadalajara, which
technically is one of the mostdangerous, um.
Cities in this chart, whichpeople love to tell us that in
the comments, which, which isreally funny because we haven't
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seen anything like that.
And the only times that I'veheard of instances like that
were in certain neighborhoodswhere, again, like parts of the,
these rivaling factions livedand they were going specifically
to target a person and take thatperson out, but, and they were
not targeting tourists or thegeneral public or anything like
that.
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Not to mention, you do not seeanything about terrorist events
or anything here like you do somuch in the US and Canada.
It doesn't happen.
Or Europe, US or Europe.
Canada and Europe.
Just in the last six months allhad terrorist attacks.
And that might be a whole othervideo.
Yeah, that, that's a whole othervideo.
But compare Gua Hara, which isconsidered.
You know, by what people tell usin the comments.
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One of the most dangerouscities, um, in Guadalajara.
And we oftentimes have to tellpeople, okay, well, number one,
if you're American, they'reprobably not touching you unless
you are involved in thingsyou're, you shouldn't be
involved in.
And number two, we're comingfrom cities that are more
dangerous than what is going onin Guadalajara.
Yep.
So if Philadelphia is almostdouble.
The rate of Guadalajara andthese cities didn't even include
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small areas like for example,Memphis, Tennessee, that have
even higher rates.
So you have to take that stuffinto consideration because I
think a lot of people getconfused because of the media.
Like, oh, Mexico is sodangerous.
And I'm like, but do you seewhat's going on in US cities?
'cause it's worse than what'sgoing on here.
And again, it's different kinds.
Of crime and most people justdon't go look at the numbers.
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They just take, you know,whatever the media tells'em and
they run with it.
So, exactly that's, and so evenjust looking at that number
there, you look at the 19 per ahundred thousand in Houston
compared to the most dangerouscity here, one of the most
dangerous cities, at least thatwe would, that we're looking at
on the list that tourists go toand Houston actually is, is
worse by almost two per ahundred thousand.
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Compared to Guadalajara now yes,you start to get safer cities.
Phoenix, Arizona is about 13.5.
But that's still more dangerousthan Puerto Vallarta and Mexico
City almost combined than downto la.
I mean, I've lived in LA andthere's parts that are safe.
There's parts that are reallyunsafe.
That's 10.2.
New York City, I'm actually kindof surprised, um,'cause there's
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a lot of, there's a lot ofviolent crime.
But in terms of the homicide,uh, homicide rate there, it's
5.3, um, which is still moredangerous than Meida as a city
Cabo.
Uh, and close to Mexico City andit's several times what the
homicide rate for Americansliving here is.
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Yeah, I mean, many, many times.
These are the actual stats.
Um, these are, yeah.
We'll, we'll, we'll put them upon the screen as well as
references to them.
Yeah.
So the other myth, this onedrives me nuts.
I think it's'cause I'm, I'mLatina and I just.
Know better.
Uh, but the other myth is thateveryone in Mexico is poor,
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struggling and uneducated.
We have seen some embarrassingcomments coming in.
Um, guys, you do realize whatyou write on the internet.
It's visible is public andpeople can see it, right?
I mean, like, we love comments,we love engaging with you guys,
but like.
Please think and just have somedecency and realize that you're,
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you're in a public forum whenyou like, just think about the
things that you say.
I mean, don't you work somewhereand like have a whatever.
I won't get into it, but we love'em.
It's, it increases ourengagement whenever people
comment and start fights, youknow, we're not gonna tell you
not to, but like, just for yourown sake, just, just.
Yeah, we actually have peoplefighting in the comments on
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Instagram right now, and ittripled our following, so
thanks.
Um, so one of the, we get a lotof comments.
Right.
Uh, here on YouTube and alsoInstagram and also TikTok, where
people just assume thateverybody in Mexico is poor and
uneducated.
We've also heard some horrendousstories from our Mexican friends
of some of the things that theyhave been told.
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Unfortunately, every time thestory has involved an American
telling them something not, andthey've, A lot of these people
have been all over the world andthey're like, the only time I
had an issue was with anAmerican, so, mm-hmm.
Take that for what it's worth.
Um, so here's the thing.
Mexico has a lot of wealth.
Um, there are very wealthypeople in Mexico.
I was just talking to one of ourreal estate partners who works
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in, um, helping people findinvestments in commercial real
estate.
He's got Mexicans dropping$2million US dollars, not pesos to
get into, um, an investment.
And this is, we're gonna sharesome of those.
Here on the channel really soon,both the residential and con,
uh, commercial investmentopportunities.
And we're actually puttingtogether like a directory, uh,
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listing service where we'regonna have that accessible if
you want to see all of theproperties and opportunities.
We're gonna have that soon.
So make sure you download ourMoving to Mexico Guide.
Do a consult with us, get on ourlist somehow, and then we'll
send you the information aboutthat so that you can get out on
some of the opportunitiesbecause they're pretty darn
cool.
And then in addition to that,Mexico actually has a pretty
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large middle class.
Um, so here's the thing, right?
Mexico has the second largesteconomy in Latin America.
After Brazil, the GDP issubstantial in Mexico.
It's also considered a middleincome country World Bank
actually classifies Mexico as anupper middle income economy,
Mexico's economy is diversified.
We've talked about this on othervideos.
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Yes, I do think there's still alittle bit of an overreliance on
the United States that, butthey're clearly working on
diversifying, um, in all ofthat.
And it's, they also have oil,they have remittances, exports,
agriculture, mining, tourism,industrial activity, which is a
lot of what.
A real estate partner wasshowing us with those commercial
properties.
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There's a lot going on here thatbrings a lot of money into the
country and Mexico is theleading exporter in Latin
America.
The truth is not everybody hereis poor.
Um, so for those of you who gotmad at us,'cause we did the
video in should, when we wereshowing you, you know, a nice
place where you can go shop toget imported food or imported
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ingredients if you need it.
They said it was only foreignersthere, but we were the only
Americans in this.
Store.
They're like, Mexicans, don'tshop there.
And I'm like, everyone in thestore was Mexican.
We were the only foreigners.
Anyway, y'all, seriously, thesecomments are public.
Like, please, um, just don'tembarrass yourself like that.
Um, so anyway, as we weresaying, there's a lot of
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opportunity here for investment.
There's a lot of money to bemade.
Uh, we're seeing things movingand shaking.
I know right now Mexico is goinginto a recession.
I will tell you this as a formerfinancial expert, and I know I'm
gonna get crap for it.
Recessions are opportunities togo buy stuff up.
Absolutely.
That's what it's, well, yeah,and you look at even, even the
Great Depression, I mean, therewere more millionaires and
billionaires formed during thattime than almost any other time
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in, in the world, um, in, in thehistory of the world.
So whenever you have adepression or recession,
whatever you want to call it,whether it's a, a pandemic, uh,
whe whether it's, you know,whatever's going on in a, in a
country or worldwide, I mean,there, there's massive
opportunities everywhere becauseeverything is on sale when the
stock market crashes.
You don't sell all your stocks,you buy more.
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Right?
Right.
Like Warren Buffet said, wheneverybody is greedy, you need to
be fearful.
Fearful.
And then when everybody isfearful, you need to be greedy.
All right.
Final thing, Ry, is that forsome reason Mexico has a
reputation.
Where everybody thinks it's likethe wild, wild west here, and
you can kind of do whatever youwant.
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And while Mexico does have lessregulation than the United
States, and you certainly don'tget micromanaged in every aspect
of your personal life like youdo in the United States, that
doesn't mean that you can justcome here and do whatever you
want, right?
Those of people who come hereand do whatever you want, you're
the ones who end up in thehomicide statistics, right?
So you have to be, or forinstance, if you don't wear your
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seatbelt while driving, ask mehow I know that.
You will get pulled over.
The fine is not, um, nothing.
I was able to get out of itwithout too much of an issue.
But, um, yeah, you, you want toactually follow the laws,
including the traffic lawswhenever possible.
Now, there's some exceptions.
Do people really stop at stopsigns here?
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Depends, right?
If you're, it's true.
If you're in like a rural areayou probably are, or, or
somewhere that's not right inthe middle of a big city, you're
probably more likely to getpulled over for.
Stopping all the way and notdriving like a local and just
kind of going through it, thenyou will, uh, if you don't stop.
So you, you wanna also adapt tothe, to the culture in certain
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aspects, but it's not just likea free for all wild, wild west
thing where you can go ignoringall the laws and drinking and
driving and not wearing seatbelts and yeah.
Um.
Yeah, in fairness, this isconfusing because there is a lot
less regulation and there isgray area here, um, like
electrical inspections forexample.
You know, so in fairness weunderstand this, but one area
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where there's a lot of confusionis real estate.
So a lot of foreigners actuallydon't know that there's a legal
limit to what you can pay incash.
For real estate among otherthings.
And as we've mentioned a coupletimes, we're working on new
content with our real estatepartners and experts here in
Guadalajara and also in otherparts of the country.
Uh, to answer all of those realestate questions.
'cause we're realizing there's alot of confusion here because
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it's a different system.
Things work a different way.
Uh, a lot of people, forexample, think they could just
buy up everything in cash.
There's actually legal limits,like, so we're, we're gonna get
all those questions answered foryou guys.
Yeah.
And even if you could, it's notlike you can just come to Mexico
with a suitcase with.
$500,000 of cash in it withoutdeclaring it.
Don't do that.
Yeah.
Um, and other areas wherethere's confusion, it's
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immigration and visas, and thisis probably the fault of
YouTube.
Um, yeah, there's a lot of, Idon't know what, what y'all are
thinking.
Um, sorry.
But like, there's a lot ofpeople who would just say, oh,
just like, overstay your visaindefinitely, and like, maybe
there's gonna be some kind ofexception in the future.
I mean, you can do that.
Just like you can overstay a,you know, tourist visa in
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America and maybe you won't getcaught.
And if you leave the country byland, perhaps they won't even
see it and you, you won't get ininto any trouble.
But if you do break the law andyou do get caught just like in
the US they can detain you.
And we've heard a lot of storiesof this actually happening.
Um, we saw it at the immigrationoffice.
Yeah.
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They were, we saw all multiplepeople who were detained, people
at, at, uh, in the south ofMexico, even in the, in the
north.
Um, and not just, not justpeople from Central America, but
us and Canadian citizens as wellthat were on a tourist visa and
they just decided to stayforever.
You can't actually do that.
Yeah.
We, we know of people in, inMexico and in Columbia and other
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countries that have done that,and they've gotten away with it
for months or even years, but.
Do you really want to haveeverything that you've worked so
hard for just taken away?
Um, you know, who knows?
I mean, if, God forbid if you'rehere with kids or something,
like what's gonna happen if theyput you in a detention center?
And it, it, it's not just gonnabe overnight.
Like it might be for weeks ormonths and you're not getting
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food.
This isn't like US prisons whereyou get three meals a day.
If you don't have money, youstarve.
And I, I don't know if, I don'tknow.
I don't think it's like that atthe detention center.
Maybe.
Maybe.
Maybe jail.
I heard pretty bad.
No, one of our immigrationexperts was like even the
immigration detention center.
Pretty, yeah.
I wouldn't wanna, pretty bad.
I wouldn't wanna be there.
Yeah, you wouldn't wanna bethere.
She goes.
In any country you wouldn'twanna be there, but in Mexico
you definitely don't wanna bethere.
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And we've seen a lot of peopleover the last few weeks get very
upset.
Um, because Mexico's been makingchanges.
So for example, they've beenenforcing laws that they already
had on the books.
Um, yeah.
Like checking, uh, for touristcards driving into the, through
the border in Arizona, forexample.
Right.
Or they're not giving as manydays on a tourist visa.
We saw a guy posted an expatgroup last week.
He got 15 days on a tourist visain Mexico.
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I don't remember where he wasflying into, but I think it was
one of the hotspot areas, likeCancun or something like that.
Yeah.
So.
That would make a lot moresense.
Um, or they get upset thatMexico has removed, for all
intents and purposes, canceledthe regularization program where
people would oversay the touristvisas and they wouldn't have to
show income and everybody'supset because Mexico's like
really getting its shit togetherin a lot of ways.
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Um, and a lot of people willalso blame it on Trump.
But, you know, we've interviewedsome of our immigration experts
that you guys are gonna see theinterviews coming out on the
channel and they're like.
This doesn't really have to dowith Trump.
This has been a long time comingand Mexico's not the only
country really tightening up itssystems.
We saw it with Italy, we saw itwith Costa Rica recently.
This is like a worldwide thingthat's going on right now where
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people are tightening up theirimmigration because things got a
little chaotic and they got alittle crazy and they got a
little fraudulent.
So, you know, Mexico, I guessfor used to be an easier place.
To game the system.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Not anymore, but not anymore.
So you can't just come here andexpect this is like the wild,
wild west and there's no rulesand there's no laws.
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That's, that's not how thisworks.
Um, that's not how it worksanywhere.
But for some reason, a lot ofpeople think they can get away.
With a lot more stuff, uh, inMexico because there is like
gray area.
But this is also why it's soimportant to work with experts.
So for example, we got aquestion the other day saying if
it was worth it to buyforeclosure properties in
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Queretaro.
And I reached out to our expertout there and he goes, well, it
really depends'cause thoseproperties that are in Huo, as
they say here in Huo.
That can get very messy, verycomplicated.
You need to make sure you've gotthe right real estate people and
the right lawyers.
Yeah.
It's not as regulated as it isin the US for sure.
And you, you need somebody tohelp you navigate all these
different, you need people tohelp you navigate things like
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immigration, real estate,investments, things like that.
Uh, because we also, and this isthe other downside of people
thinking, Mexico's like thewild, wild west.
They get duped easily.
Um, with fraudulent activity.
We've seen people get$10,000basically stolen from them
because somebody said, oh, wecan, you know, you can purchase
a residency through us.
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Like, that's not a thing.
It's not a thing.
Or because, um, for example,anybody and their mom can
basically be a real estate agentin Mexico that is changing.
Right.
So all the real estate peoplethat we work with are licensed,
uh, in Mexico to do real estatein Mexico, and they're the best
in their field, in their area,and they know all the best
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notaries and attorneys to helpyou with that process.
But up until this point, youstill don't have to be licensed
to sell a house in Mexico.
So.
You could be selling a house andthen Al um, says, Hey, you know,
or your cousin or whatever saysthat they can buy the, the sell
the house for you.
Um, but they don't really knowwhat they're doing.
It's kind, it's kind of likewhen you're, yeah.
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When your, when your secondcousin is like, oh, I, I know
how to build websites, and youhire them to build your business
website.
I mean, that's, you know, maybethey're really good at it, but
most likely if it's justsomething that they do on the
side, like, Hey, I'm, you know,I'm a whatever and I'm just
slinging real estate on theside.
Like, do you really want thatperson?
To help you close a deal, that'sgonna be one of the biggest,
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either, either.
Uh.
Payoffs or investments of cashin your life.
There's also people who claim tobe real estate agents and they
tell you that they can buy, thatyou can buy land from them, but
the land they're selling, youactually foreigners cannot buy.
And we've seen that happen a lotas well.
So no, Mexico is not the wild,wild west.
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There are laws, there areregulations, there are less
regulations, which makes thingsa little messy and some gray
area.
The pro to that is there's a lotof opportunity here.
The con to that is you have tobe careful, which is why we over
the last year have takenhundreds of meetings with
professionals all over thecountry and vetted them for you.
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Mm-hmm.
Right?
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We've been getting some reallyfun comments about Mexico as a
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country, and even Latin Americain general, the last several
weeks, some of which include,oh, people are just getting off
in the streets day and night,and there's bodies hanging from
the overpasses, and it's sodangerous there because people
are just gonna slip something inyour drink and then take
advantage of you and like.
There's just violence andrampant crime.
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Absolutely.
Everywhere you turn, we getother comments.
Also insinuating that mostMexicans are poor and
uneducated, and oftentimes it'speople who I don't think realize
just how offensive thosecomments actually are.
So in this video, what we'regoing to be doing is we're gonna
be debunking common myths aboutMexico, and some of these
statistics are going to shockyou.
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So let's jump into the numberone thing that we hear that's a
myth about Mexico, which is thatMexico is extremely dangerous
now as any place in the worldis.
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There are parts of Mexico thatare dangerous.
And you typically, especiallyhere, you know what those places
are.
It's not like you're in SantaMonica and you know you're
walking on the pier and you gethit in the face with a beer
bottle thrown by some mentallyill homeless person.
That's happened to people that Iknow.
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Not to mention in San Franciscoand in plenty of other places
where one block you're totallysafe and you've got.
$10,000 a month, you know, highrise apartments, and then the
next block is just absolute pureand utter chaos.
There are definitely some areasin Mexico where there's
violence.
Uh, there are certain like gangactivities that you, you don't
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want to be in those areas.
Typically, they're not in thetourist areas.
Um, there, there are places likesome parts of Sinaloa, some
parts in the south of Mexico.
Where, uh, if you're not, let'ssay with a, with a tour where
everybody kind of knows wherethey're, where they're going,
um, you, you, you might not wantto go in certain areas like
that.
But outside of that, like inmost of the major cities,
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Guadalajara is very safe.
Mexico City is very safe ifyou're not in like a dangerous
neighborhood.
And most of the places thatexpats are going to are not
going to be, uh, thoseneighborhoods that are gonna be.
Unsafe.
In fact, we found somestatistics that we're gonna go
through right now with you guys,and we'll try and put the, the
graphs on the screen as wellthat show that Americans are
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actually safer in Mexico thanthey are in the United States.
So let's go through some ofthis.
So this is, uh, according to theFBI crime statistics, 4.8
Americans per 100,000 are.
Unlived in the United States.
That's per the 2010 numbers.
Those are the most recent onesthat we could find, and the US
State Department reports thatonly 120 Americans out of this
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5.7 million who visit Mexico inthat same time period.
So within a year time period areunli, which is a rate of 2.1 out
of every 100,000 visitors.
It's actually half.
Of the rate in the UnitedStates.
Um, now what happens in Mexicois you're not always clear
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whether or not these people,these Americans who ran into
problems in Mexico, wereinvolved in things they should
not have been involved inbecause that is usually the
case.
Uh, whereas in the UnitedStates, it's totally random as
you were.
Bringing up.
Now, the other thing to keep inmind is when you're in tourist
destinations or places wherethere's a lot of expats and
foreigners, the numbers decreaseeven more.
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Right?
And when you compare it to wherethere's lots of tourists in the
United States, the numbers aregonna shock you.
This one, draw this one.
I was like, really?
When I read this one?
So let's take Disney World.
Let's take Orlando, which is thehome of Disney World.
So in that same time period, soabout a year time period,
Orlando saw 7.5.
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On the live activities, let'sput it that way, per 100,000 U
YouTube is a little bit stricton what we can and can't say.
So per 100,000 residents, now ifyou go to Cancun or Puerto
Valda, that number goes down to1.83 or 5.9 respectively.
Uh, and this is Americans.
And again, right?
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It depends, like a lot of timesthey were involved in things
they should not have beeninvolved in, whereas in the
United States.
Totally random.
You could totally be at thewrong place at the wrong time.
Um, and you also have to takeinto consideration the type of
crime that happens in each ofthese countries because that
does add nuance.
To the situation in Mexico, asif we've mentioned, it's usually
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targeted.
It's usually to isolated areas.
It most definitely does notinvolve foreigners or expats or
anywhere where you're gonna behanging out because they tend to
keep those places very clean.
Yep.
And with a lot of security, uh,because there's a lot of money
in those places, so nowhere thatyou're gonna be hanging out.
You need to worry about it.
Whereas in the United States,it's completely random.
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Just two weeks ago we had a, asituation in a major university
in the United States wherepeople were just going to go
take their classes and herecomes a guy with a weapon and.
Y'all know what happens in theUnited States with that.
You could be doing groceries,you could be at the, you know,
the movie theater?
At the movie theater.
Yeah.
You could be at a mall, youcould be anywhere.
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You literally do not hear aboutthose types of events occurring
here.
Like it's not a thing.
Um, you, you can't just possessa weapon like anybody in the
country.
Yes, there are some criminalsthat have them, and that's not a
good thing.
But again, those criminals arenot typically targeting
foreigners or people notinvolved in those.
Those criminal conflicts thatare here, their issues are
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usually with each other and thegovernment.
Not with you unless you getinvolved in things you're not
supposed to be getting involvedin, which we have heard stories
like that of people ending up insituations, but every freaking
time they were involved inthings they should not have been
involved in.
And unfortunately, you do have asector of, I don't know, tourism
or expats or foreigners that goto other countries and partake
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in a bunch of fuck shit, forlack of a better word, and then
wonder why they're getting introuble.
The other thing to keep in mind.
Right.
Is that the, I just can't saythe word right.
So, um, I'm gonna say it anyway.
The homicide rates in Mexicohave actually been declining
since 2016 and in the UnitedStates they've been going up
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since 2000, uh, since the sametime period.
And if you look at the rates bylocation, um, yes there are, uh,
there are certain instanceswhere, where violence happens.
But if you look at overall.
The homicide rate per a hundredthousand, uh, people, in terms
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of Americans in Mexico is 0.3.
And if you look at even the, thetotal homicide rates of
different cities, a lot of themare actually significantly lower
than many cities in the us.
For example, Guadalajara, wherewe live, the rate is 17.1.
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But the overall rate in thecountry that involves Americans
is 0.3.
So a lot of those people,whether you're in Guadalajara,
you're in Mexico City, a lot ofthe people that are, that are
getting involved in, in those,in those, having those issues
are again, associated with thatcriminal activity.
Um, if we look at the, the majorcities, so Guadalajara was 17.1
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in Mexico.
Puerto Vallarta is 8.8.
Mexico City is 8.6.
Cabo is 3.7.
And Meida, which is um.
One of the safest cities in thecountry was only 1.5.
Maybe that's one of the safestcities in all area, actually in
the world.
Yeah.
Uh, definitely in, in theWestern Hemisphere.
Versus if we look at thosehomicide rates by location,
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sorry, YouTube, we have to sharethe information.
Um, so if we get, uh, you know,banned on this video, oh well.
Um, but if we look at evenPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, the
rate per a hundred thou, uh, pera hundred thousand people is 33.
DC 29.3, Chicago, 22.8.
We're gonna put these up on the,the screen for them here.
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Houston 19, Phoenix, Arizona.
So, so even just looking here,Guadalajara, which ranks as,
again, overall, and this isincluding people that are
involved with criminal activityoverall, Guadalajara, which
technically is one of the mostdangerous, um.
Cities in this chart, whichpeople love to tell us that in
the comments, which, which isreally funny because we haven't
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seen anything like that.
And the only times that I'veheard of instances like that
were in certain neighborhoodswhere, again, like parts of the,
these rivaling factions livedand they were going specifically
to target a person and take thatperson out, but, and they were
not targeting tourists or thegeneral public or anything like
that.
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Not to mention, you do not seeanything about terrorist events
or anything here like you do somuch in the US and Canada.
It doesn't happen.
Or Europe, US or Europe.
Canada and Europe.
Just in the last six months allhad terrorist attacks.
And that might be a whole othervideo.
Yeah, that, that's a whole othervideo.
But compare Gua Hara, which isconsidered.
You know, by what people tell usin the comments.
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One of the most dangerouscities, um, in Guadalajara.
And we oftentimes have to tellpeople, okay, well, number one,
if you're American, they'reprobably not touching you unless
you are involved in thingsyou're, you shouldn't be
involved in.
And number two, we're comingfrom cities that are more
dangerous than what is going onin Guadalajara.
Yep.
So if Philadelphia is almostdouble.
The rate of Guadalajara andthese cities didn't even include
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small areas like for example,Memphis, Tennessee, that have
even higher rates.
So you have to take that stuffinto consideration because I
think a lot of people getconfused because of the media.
Like, oh, Mexico is sodangerous.
And I'm like, but do you seewhat's going on in US cities?
'cause it's worse than what'sgoing on here.
And again, it's different kinds.
Of crime and most people justdon't go look at the numbers.
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They just take, you know,whatever the media tells'em and
they run with it.
So, exactly that's, and so evenjust looking at that number
there, you look at the 19 per ahundred thousand in Houston
compared to the most dangerouscity here, one of the most
dangerous cities, at least thatwe would, that we're looking at
on the list that tourists go toand Houston actually is, is
worse by almost two per ahundred thousand.
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Compared to Guadalajara now yes,you start to get safer cities.
Phoenix, Arizona is about 13.5.
But that's still more dangerousthan Puerto Vallarta and Mexico
City almost combined than downto la.
I mean, I've lived in LA andthere's parts that are safe.
There's parts that are reallyunsafe.
That's 10.2.
New York City, I'm actually kindof surprised, um,'cause there's
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a lot of, there's a lot ofviolent crime.
But in terms of the homicide,uh, homicide rate there, it's
5.3, um, which is still moredangerous than Meida as a city
Cabo.
Uh, and close to Mexico City andit's several times what the
homicide rate for Americansliving here is.
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Yeah, I mean, many, many times.
These are the actual stats.
Um, these are, yeah.
We'll, we'll, we'll put them upon the screen as well as
references to them.
Yeah.
So the other myth, this onedrives me nuts.
I think it's'cause I'm, I'mLatina and I just.
Know better.
Uh, but the other myth is thateveryone in Mexico is poor,
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struggling and uneducated.
We have seen some embarrassingcomments coming in.
Um, guys, you do realize whatyou write on the internet.
It's visible is public andpeople can see it, right?
I mean, like, we love comments,we love engaging with you guys,
but like.
Please think and just have somedecency and realize that you're,
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you're in a public forum whenyou like, just think about the
things that you say.
I mean, don't you work somewhereand like have a whatever.
I won't get into it, but we love'em.
It's, it increases ourengagement whenever people
comment and start fights, youknow, we're not gonna tell you
not to, but like, just for yourown sake, just, just.
Yeah, we actually have peoplefighting in the comments on
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Instagram right now, and ittripled our following, so
thanks.
Um, so one of the, we get a lotof comments.
Right.
Uh, here on YouTube and alsoInstagram and also TikTok, where
people just assume thateverybody in Mexico is poor and
uneducated.
We've also heard some horrendousstories from our Mexican friends
of some of the things that theyhave been told.
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Unfortunately, every time thestory has involved an American
telling them something not, andthey've, A lot of these people
have been all over the world andthey're like, the only time I
had an issue was with anAmerican, so, mm-hmm.
Take that for what it's worth.
Um, so here's the thing.
Mexico has a lot of wealth.
Um, there are very wealthypeople in Mexico.
I was just talking to one of ourreal estate partners who works
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in, um, helping people findinvestments in commercial real
estate.
He's got Mexicans dropping$2million US dollars, not pesos to
get into, um, an investment.
And this is, we're gonna sharesome of those.
Here on the channel really soon,both the residential and con,
uh, commercial investmentopportunities.
And we're actually puttingtogether like a directory, uh,
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listing service where we'regonna have that accessible if
you want to see all of theproperties and opportunities.
We're gonna have that soon.
So make sure you download ourMoving to Mexico Guide.
Do a consult with us, get on ourlist somehow, and then we'll
send you the information aboutthat so that you can get out on
some of the opportunitiesbecause they're pretty darn
cool.
And then in addition to that,Mexico actually has a pretty
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large middle class.
Um, so here's the thing, right?
Mexico has the second largesteconomy in Latin America.
After Brazil, the GDP issubstantial in Mexico.
It's also considered a middleincome country World Bank
actually classifies Mexico as anupper middle income economy,
Mexico's economy is diversified.
We've talked about this on othervideos.
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Yes, I do think there's still alittle bit of an overreliance on
the United States that, butthey're clearly working on
diversifying, um, in all ofthat.
And it's, they also have oil,they have remittances, exports,
agriculture, mining, tourism,industrial activity, which is a
lot of what.
A real estate partner wasshowing us with those commercial
properties.
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There's a lot going on here thatbrings a lot of money into the
country and Mexico is theleading exporter in Latin
America.
The truth is not everybody hereis poor.
Um, so for those of you who gotmad at us,'cause we did the
video in should, when we wereshowing you, you know, a nice
place where you can go shop toget imported food or imported
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ingredients if you need it.
They said it was only foreignersthere, but we were the only
Americans in this.
Store.
They're like, Mexicans, don'tshop there.
And I'm like, everyone in thestore was Mexican.
We were the only foreigners.
Anyway, y'all, seriously, thesecomments are public.
Like, please, um, just don'tembarrass yourself like that.
Um, so anyway, as we weresaying, there's a lot of
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opportunity here for investment.
There's a lot of money to bemade.
Uh, we're seeing things movingand shaking.
I know right now Mexico is goinginto a recession.
I will tell you this as a formerfinancial expert, and I know I'm
gonna get crap for it.
Recessions are opportunities togo buy stuff up.
Absolutely.
That's what it's, well, yeah,and you look at even, even the
Great Depression, I mean, therewere more millionaires and
billionaires formed during thattime than almost any other time
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in, in the world, um, in, in thehistory of the world.
So whenever you have adepression or recession,
whatever you want to call it,whether it's a, a pandemic, uh,
whe whether it's, you know,whatever's going on in a, in a
country or worldwide, I mean,there, there's massive
opportunities everywhere becauseeverything is on sale when the
stock market crashes.
You don't sell all your stocks,you buy more.
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Right?
Right.
Like Warren Buffet said, wheneverybody is greedy, you need to
be fearful.
Fearful.
And then when everybody isfearful, you need to be greedy.
All right.
Final thing, Ry, is that forsome reason Mexico has a
reputation.
Where everybody thinks it's likethe wild, wild west here, and
you can kind of do whatever youwant.
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And while Mexico does have lessregulation than the United
States, and you certainly don'tget micromanaged in every aspect
of your personal life like youdo in the United States, that
doesn't mean that you can justcome here and do whatever you
want, right?
Those of people who come hereand do whatever you want, you're
the ones who end up in thehomicide statistics, right?
So you have to be, or forinstance, if you don't wear your
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seatbelt while driving, ask mehow I know that.
You will get pulled over.
The fine is not, um, nothing.
I was able to get out of itwithout too much of an issue.
But, um, yeah, you, you want toactually follow the laws,
including the traffic lawswhenever possible.
Now, there's some exceptions.
Do people really stop at stopsigns here?
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Depends, right?
If you're, it's true.
If you're in like a rural areayou probably are, or, or
somewhere that's not right inthe middle of a big city, you're
probably more likely to getpulled over for.
Stopping all the way and notdriving like a local and just
kind of going through it, thenyou will, uh, if you don't stop.
So you, you wanna also adapt tothe, to the culture in certain
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aspects, but it's not just likea free for all wild, wild west
thing where you can go ignoringall the laws and drinking and
driving and not wearing seatbelts and yeah.
Um.
Yeah, in fairness, this isconfusing because there is a lot
less regulation and there isgray area here, um, like
electrical inspections forexample.
You know, so in fairness weunderstand this, but one area
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where there's a lot of confusionis real estate.
So a lot of foreigners actuallydon't know that there's a legal
limit to what you can pay incash.
For real estate among otherthings.
And as we've mentioned a coupletimes, we're working on new
content with our real estatepartners and experts here in
Guadalajara and also in otherparts of the country.
Uh, to answer all of those realestate questions.
'cause we're realizing there's alot of confusion here because
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it's a different system.
Things work a different way.
Uh, a lot of people, forexample, think they could just
buy up everything in cash.
There's actually legal limits,like, so we're, we're gonna get
all those questions answered foryou guys.
Yeah.
And even if you could, it's notlike you can just come to Mexico
with a suitcase with.
$500,000 of cash in it withoutdeclaring it.
Don't do that.
Yeah.
Um, and other areas wherethere's confusion, it's
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immigration and visas, and thisis probably the fault of
YouTube.
Um, yeah, there's a lot of, Idon't know what, what y'all are
thinking.
Um, sorry.
But like, there's a lot ofpeople who would just say, oh,
just like, overstay your visaindefinitely, and like, maybe
there's gonna be some kind ofexception in the future.
I mean, you can do that.
Just like you can overstay a,you know, tourist visa in
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America and maybe you won't getcaught.
And if you leave the country byland, perhaps they won't even
see it and you, you won't get ininto any trouble.
But if you do break the law andyou do get caught just like in
the US they can detain you.
And we've heard a lot of storiesof this actually happening.
Um, we saw it at the immigrationoffice.
Yeah.
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They were, we saw all multiplepeople who were detained, people
at, at, uh, in the south ofMexico, even in the, in the
north.
Um, and not just, not justpeople from Central America, but
us and Canadian citizens as wellthat were on a tourist visa and
they just decided to stayforever.
You can't actually do that.
Yeah.
We, we know of people in, inMexico and in Columbia and other
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countries that have done that,and they've gotten away with it
for months or even years, but.
Do you really want to haveeverything that you've worked so
hard for just taken away?
Um, you know, who knows?
I mean, if, God forbid if you'rehere with kids or something,
like what's gonna happen if theyput you in a detention center?
And it, it, it's not just gonnabe overnight.
Like it might be for weeks ormonths and you're not getting
(22:18):
food.
This isn't like US prisons whereyou get three meals a day.
If you don't have money, youstarve.
And I, I don't know if, I don'tknow.
I don't think it's like that atthe detention center.
Maybe.
Maybe.
Maybe jail.
I heard pretty bad.
No, one of our immigrationexperts was like even the
immigration detention center.
Pretty, yeah.
I wouldn't wanna, pretty bad.
I wouldn't wanna be there.
Yeah, you wouldn't wanna bethere.
She goes.
In any country you wouldn'twanna be there, but in Mexico
you definitely don't wanna bethere.
(22:39):
And we've seen a lot of peopleover the last few weeks get very
upset.
Um, because Mexico's been makingchanges.
So for example, they've beenenforcing laws that they already
had on the books.
Um, yeah.
Like checking, uh, for touristcards driving into the, through
the border in Arizona, forexample.
Right.
Or they're not giving as manydays on a tourist visa.
We saw a guy posted an expatgroup last week.
He got 15 days on a tourist visain Mexico.
(23:02):
I don't remember where he wasflying into, but I think it was
one of the hotspot areas, likeCancun or something like that.
Yeah.
So.
That would make a lot moresense.
Um, or they get upset thatMexico has removed, for all
intents and purposes, canceledthe regularization program where
people would oversay the touristvisas and they wouldn't have to
show income and everybody'supset because Mexico's like
really getting its shit togetherin a lot of ways.
(23:25):
Um, and a lot of people willalso blame it on Trump.
But, you know, we've interviewedsome of our immigration experts
that you guys are gonna see theinterviews coming out on the
channel and they're like.
This doesn't really have to dowith Trump.
This has been a long time comingand Mexico's not the only
country really tightening up itssystems.
We saw it with Italy, we saw itwith Costa Rica recently.
This is like a worldwide thingthat's going on right now where
(23:46):
people are tightening up theirimmigration because things got a
little chaotic and they got alittle crazy and they got a
little fraudulent.
So, you know, Mexico, I guessfor used to be an easier place.
To game the system.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Not anymore, but not anymore.
So you can't just come here andexpect this is like the wild,
wild west and there's no rulesand there's no laws.
(24:09):
That's, that's not how thisworks.
Um, that's not how it worksanywhere.
But for some reason, a lot ofpeople think they can get away.
With a lot more stuff, uh, inMexico because there is like
gray area.
But this is also why it's soimportant to work with experts.
So for example, we got aquestion the other day saying if
it was worth it to buyforeclosure properties in
(24:31):
Queretaro.
And I reached out to our expertout there and he goes, well, it
really depends'cause thoseproperties that are in Huo, as
they say here in Huo.
That can get very messy, verycomplicated.
You need to make sure you've gotthe right real estate people and
the right lawyers.
Yeah.
It's not as regulated as it isin the US for sure.
And you, you need somebody tohelp you navigate all these
different, you need people tohelp you navigate things like
(24:52):
immigration, real estate,investments, things like that.
Uh, because we also, and this isthe other downside of people
thinking, Mexico's like thewild, wild west.
They get duped easily.
Um, with fraudulent activity.
We've seen people get$10,000basically stolen from them
because somebody said, oh, wecan, you know, you can purchase
a residency through us.
(25:12):
Like, that's not a thing.
It's not a thing.
Or because, um, for example,anybody and their mom can
basically be a real estate agentin Mexico that is changing.
Right.
So all the real estate peoplethat we work with are licensed,
uh, in Mexico to do real estatein Mexico, and they're the best
in their field, in their area,and they know all the best
(25:33):
notaries and attorneys to helpyou with that process.
But up until this point, youstill don't have to be licensed
to sell a house in Mexico.
So.
You could be selling a house andthen Al um, says, Hey, you know,
or your cousin or whatever saysthat they can buy the, the sell
the house for you.
Um, but they don't really knowwhat they're doing.
It's kind, it's kind of likewhen you're, yeah.
(25:53):
When your, when your secondcousin is like, oh, I, I know
how to build websites, and youhire them to build your business
website.
I mean, that's, you know, maybethey're really good at it, but
most likely if it's justsomething that they do on the
side, like, Hey, I'm, you know,I'm a whatever and I'm just
slinging real estate on theside.
Like, do you really want thatperson?
To help you close a deal, that'sgonna be one of the biggest,
(26:16):
either, either.
Uh.
Payoffs or investments of cashin your life.
There's also people who claim tobe real estate agents and they
tell you that they can buy, thatyou can buy land from them, but
the land they're selling, youactually foreigners cannot buy.
And we've seen that happen a lotas well.
So no, Mexico is not the wild,wild west.
(26:37):
There are laws, there areregulations, there are less
regulations, which makes thingsa little messy and some gray
area.
The pro to that is there's a lotof opportunity here.
The con to that is you have tobe careful, which is why we over
the last year have takenhundreds of meetings with
professionals all over thecountry and vetted them for you.
(26:57):
So we can help you through thisprocess because some of you send
us messages like, I have$300,000to invest in a property in
Mexico, and you know, you don'twanna play with$300,000.
Mm-hmm.
Right?
You wanna make sure that you'redoing things.
Right, and you wanna make surethat you're getting the right
investment for yourself and thatit actually makes sense.
(27:18):
So book that consultbelow@entrepreneurexpat.com
slash consult and we can walkyou through step by step how to
do the immigration process.
Recommend, uh, differentattorneys to you if you need
them, real estate people,whatever you need, we're here to
help.
Entrepreneur expat.com/consultand, uh, make sure you like and
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