Reply #18: I visited Mexico this year and was pleasantly surprised

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I'd like to go back and even have contemplated moving there one day, particularly if Shrub gets back into office.

I was Puerto Vallarta and Guadalajara and never got the sense that people were desperate. The Mexican people work very hard -- I could see that, day in and day out, but in some ways they've got better priorities than we do here. On Sunday afternoon everyone is outside, visiting in the squares, enjoying fiestas, actually communicating with each other. The neighborhood Catholic church was so full that people were actually sitting outside on the steps to hear mass. The children we saw were very clean and well-cared for.

I spoke with some of the locals and heard about the country's problems -- and they are many. But any country where the majority of population hates Bush can't be all bad.