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BigmanPigman

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1. Most of the people I know who still go to TJ are Mexican and have family

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Sun Jan 14, 2018, 12:50 PM

Jan 2018

living there. No one I know of, including myself, has gone down there to visit the shops, etc in over 20 years.

Too bad, it was a fun day trip. Tecate is where I still like to travel to for a few hours a couple times a year. It is the opposite of TJ. They don't have all the tacky tourist junk being sold on the streets every few feet. Also they do not speak much English since not many visitors go there for the day. It is still quaint, charming, clean, welcoming and SAFE! It isn't far from TJ but I think people want to keep it secret so it won't change. You can smell the hops on some days from the Tecate Beer factory close by.

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Tijuana (Mexico) had 1,744 homicides in 2017 [View all] left-of-center2012 Jan 2018 OP

Most of the people I know who still go to TJ are Mexican and have family BigmanPigman Jan 2018 #1

I lived in San Diego for about 20 years left-of-center2012 Jan 2018 #2

Thanks "drug War". About the same number of people killed by police for 'running' & backtalk. Sunlei Jan 2018 #3

just finished reading The Cartel by Don Winslow.... dhill926 Jan 2018 #4