Hell, there are folks who are afraid of living in parts of dirty S.A. for similar razones..
Anyone else read ASK A MEXICAN? He does youtube, ya ese!..
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>I agree with your statement, Gill. But, I do have to say that my
>uncle has lived in Harlingen for the last 30 years and he is now
>talking of moving to San Antonio because of all the trouble down
>there. They have had some drug war shootings down there as
>well. He is worried and he never worries.
I can't discount the present situation down there--as opposed to the
historical one--but the RGV (Rio Grande Valley) has always been home
to a paranoid segment of displaced Texas and US society that works
itself up into overblown and unusual frenzies over any little bit of
alarmist news out of Mexico. It's sort of like they live with one
suitcase always packed and ready to make an emergency exit should a
latter day Pancho Villa decide to come riding across the river in
whatever 21st Century form he might take--sex, drugs, or rock & roll
or money, guns, & lawyers. Given any little bit of excitement or
revolt anywhere in Mexico--but particularly near the border--the
whole of the RGV starts buzzing like a nest of disturbed bees and
bouncing around like the ball in a pin ball machine--lights flashing
and bells and whistles going off. A few days later it's all over and
another crisis has taken its place. I put about as little value in a
first person report from the RGV as I do from a 2nd-or 3rd-hand one
from Fox News.
--Ediger
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