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arrowhead
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
Doug mentioned he had reason to ask/phrase the question as he did. I'm wondering what that would be. |
I believe Doug is repsonding to a request from Richard Marosi, staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, who wants to indentify Americans living in
Northern Baja to interview. Marosi is specifically looking for ex-pats who are happy with their life in Baja and who also feel the US press coverage
of the Mexican problems are overstated and sensationalized.
In other words, he wants to write a hack piece for Hugo Torres.
No soy por ni contra apatía.
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Bajahowodd
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So he can get comped at the Rosarito Beach Hotel? Still doesn't appear to stop anyone from starting a new thread, perhaps using a poll up front to
solicit a range of opinions. Since I'm still only a frequent tourist, for the time being; not having a dog in the fight, maybe someone who lives or
has lived in BC would be more appropriate.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajahowodd
Still doesn't appear to stop anyone from starting a new thread, perhaps using a poll up front to solicit a range of opinions.
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Didn't someone just do that here? If I recall correctly, it had something to do with fund raising.
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The best Cantina, doesn't count.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajahowodd
The best Cantina, doesn't count. |
Not that one. Another one that Doug touted here as being legit. I think you're the one who researched it to find out it's a fund raising outfit.
Maybe two months ago?
It was a long questionare [sp?].
[Edited on 10-10-2009 by DENNIS]
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k-rico
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| Quote: | Originally posted by arrowhead
| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
Doug mentioned he had reason to ask/phrase the question as he did. I'm wondering what that would be. |
I believe Doug is repsonding to a request from Richard Marosi, staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, who wants to indentify Americans living in
Northern Baja to interview. Marosi is specifically looking for ex-pats who are happy with their life in Baja and who also feel the US press coverage
of the Mexican problems are overstated and sensationalized.
In other words, he wants to write a hack piece for Hugo Torres. |
As the sole gringo in the Tijuana booster club I think a LA Times article about the benefits of living in Mexico close to the border is a good idea.
Everybody knows the downside, why not balance things out with the upside?
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I think we'd be content if we could just get the process of buying our condo at Las Olas Grand to close! Still waiting on a lien release from the
developer's bank, which is taking for-EVER! We have waited over three years for this process and are growing ever so weary.................
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Bajahowodd
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Here it is, Dennis.
http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=41408#pid4501...
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I live in the Punta Banda area, and have been here about 5 years now; but I had a place at Estero Beach before moving here, since 1988. (Before
retirement)
I'm very happy here, and actually hate going back to the U.S., and avoid it if at all possible. There is nothing there that I need, except Medicare.
(That looks pretty tenuous right now anyway). I would rather see Mexican doctors if at all possible and if the cost is not prohibitive. I spent 4
grand on eye surgery here in the last two years, that I could have had for practically nothing if I had gone to the "states" for it.
Many, many trips however.
If I go, I always use the Tecate road going up. Sure, it takes a little longer in miles, but spares a whole bunch of stress, and what's the hurry
anyway????...I'm retired.
I do miss having a variety of restaurants locally, without going into Ensenada. I wish we could get a pastrami on rye with deli mustard...yum! (There
is not one of those in Ensenada either, I'm told)
I go to the states about 4 times year, and just can't wait to get back home, while I'm up there. I buy my U.S. insurance by the trip, and spend about
$60.00 a year.
I travel around Baja as much as I can, and I do not worry about bandidos, cartels, or the cops. I don't think the "way out yonder" places I go are
likely to be populated with bad guys....but I could be wrong. I'm more of a David K. type traveler. And I like his travel "stuff" on line, thank you
David.
Yes, Baja has changed a lot; but then I don't drink as much anymore. Could it be that??......Oh no not that!
Thanks for the thread Doug... fred-o
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| Quote: | Originally posted by k-rico
As the sole gringo in the Tijuana booster club I think a LA Times article about the benefits of living in Mexico close to the border is a good idea.
Everybody knows the downside, why not balance things out with the upside? |
Well, that downside is a killer.
No soy por ni contra apatía.
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k-rico
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| Quote: | Originally posted by arrowhead
| Quote: | Originally posted by k-rico
As the sole gringo in the Tijuana booster club I think a LA Times article about the benefits of living in Mexico close to the border is a good idea.
Everybody knows the downside, why not balance things out with the upside? |
Well, that downside is a killer. |
Yes Nancy, we're all aware that there is a drug war going on. Thank you.
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Lone Gringa Chiming In
Hey boys (uhh, umm, is that sexist?) OMG :
I have lived here in Baja Nerte and worked both sides of the border for over ten years.
I am content, repeat, HAPPY and CONTENT living in Baja Norte.
Just like in the good ole, USA, if you travel into unknown area, you better figure out where it is safe for a tourist/stranger to go.
There are places in Hawaii that tourists shouldn't go because the drug farmers will kill you.
California's biggest cash crop is marijuana - don't go straying around the lush fields in the Sierras.
Then, those of you who know should talk about this, because I can't speak with any authority, let's examine the rural areas of the east (Hillbilly
Heroin, i.e., oxycontin, anybody?)
Life is what it is; and change is constant. Friends in Temecula have crack houses/dog fightinge breeding centers sprouting up in their cul-de-sac
neighborhoods because the owners can't sell and need to pay the mortgage.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
\"Alea iacta est.\"
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I believe we all can say we really like Baja and Mainland, I have been coming here for many, many years, and love it here, but as Dennis said, and
read his post carefuly, Don't get off into places you are or unaware of, you are looking for trouble.
I feel for new people, they didn't see Baja as it really was, and that might be hard to explain, just like being a Hippie in the 60's they were good
old Days, they are gone forever, where I'm going with this is Baja is gone, as Dennis said it will never be the same and there are a lot of changes
coming, and they are not for the good, the good times have vanished, so live it now it will change before your eyes blink a fews times, you are in for
some real awakening.
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Nowhere on this planet is it the same as it used to be. However I don't equate that with "good times have vanished".
You just might have to look in some new places you hadn't visited before...
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Content? Yes, very. Because of my job I could live anywhere I want but Ensenada has always been the place. When I moved here in 1986 the only problem
I had was being pulled over by the police for the mordita but all that has changed. I live in an area that is quite and the neighbors are all
respectful of one another.
My parents had a place at Villarinos for many years when I was a kid and we would spend vacations there. I miss the o'l days. That was where I learned
respect for others, rich or poor and the Mexicans taught me this.
I met and married my wife in Ensenada 19 years ago and all of her family are here and there isn't a weekend where we all don't get together for some
reason. They have not been affected regarding the crime or drug problems but they have suffered because of the local economy. This will change again
soon, I hope.
I know what happens here as far as crime is concerned but I never see it in my own little world and for that I am content knowing that my wife and son
are safe when I am away from home. I have never been robbed, shot at, or car jacked and this includes my working in all the Mexican states, big cities
and small ranchos. I'm not saying it doesn't happen but you just have to be careful anywhere you live.
I have family and friends that will not come down to visit because of what they hear and see in the US media but that is their choice and there is
nothing I can say. I don't want them to visit if they don't feel safe.
The main concern I have is that this city is just getting to big. I want the old Ensenada but that will not happen so I just deal with the traffic and
the necessity of driving defensively but if that is all I am concerned about, life is gooooood!
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaGringo
Nowhere on this planet is it the same as it used to be. However I don't equate that with "good times have vanished".
You just might have to look in some new places you hadn't visited before...
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I agree with you, Ron. There are "good times" still to be had but, it's different.
My Baja experience began fifty years ago when life outside the cities was drenched with history and with the least bit of study of that history the
landscape came alive with the spirits of lost civilizations and men more hardy than you see today. Who could travel the penninsula with the same
frame of mind after reading "Journey Of The Flame" as he did before looking through that window into the past.
The names of places that dot the maps even today are, for the most part, only suggestions as to the network of towns and activities that were
scattered across the land in a time gone. All that's left is a hint of life as it was, glorious religous names or references to mining activities
usually more filled with hope than success.
It was a time when a fertile imagination would take a traveler into the past to relive the pioneer life. It was a fun place to be and made one
appreciate life just a bit more.
Times do change, for sure. The days of roaming the back country are, if not gone, filled with danger and that's what makes it hard to accept. Not the
change itself but, that it has been taken away by an element of scummy outlaws engaged in scummy activities. They have deprived all of us of our
living history lesson. The risk has become too great.
Fishing is wonderful and surfing the coast of Baja is hard to beat but, it's not the same as camping in the Sierras or exploring an old mine shaft in
a spot on the map that says, "El Triunfo" or "Peloncito."
What's left to do is fun but, it's just not the same.
[Edited on 10-11-2009 by DENNIS]
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Things are changing on a local basis, you don't even need to get off the path much anymore, as petty theft and break ins become more and more
available, when they started all these Hi Rise projects everywhere, they brought in a lot of Labor from the interior, and then they brought their
Families, and then when Construction stopped, guess what so did the pay check, now I'm her with my family, things have to get better so I'll hang, but
to no avail nothing happened, and probably won't, so until then I'll stick around with no monies, no work, so I can Rob, Petty Theft hoping it all
gets better???? OH WELL, It is like the good looking Girl from Nebraska or? and everyone says oh honey you are so pretty and gorgeus you need to go to
HOLLYWOOD and get in the movies, she gets here hoping someone will see her as agreat Movie Potential, but no one told her ther are 5000+++ more in
line, so what does she do gets a job as doing whatever Min Wage Job, and OH some will Discover me, so here comes the Pimp, Drugs etc. etc. figure it
out.
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"If a Tree Falls in the Forest..."
"And there is no one to hear it, would it make a sound?"
An eternal question.
Us (U.S. and others - I am looking at you, good people from Canada!). expats have a lot to be grateful for, i.e., satellite internet and TV, so those
of you addicted to U.S. football can watch and those of you who want to communicate about the Baja experience can sign on to the community 24/7, and
put your ideas, thoughts, comments and questions out there to a very responsive, generally positively oriented environment.
I think I like it - except when I am being yelled at. 
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
\"Alea iacta est.\"
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
Things have changed.........One thing for sure...The Baja which I came to know way back when is long gone. |
Well said Dennis. Same thing can be said across the border to the north of you in San Diego. I have lived here all my life and it's not the San
Diego of my youth or 10 years ago.
We live in a nice neighborhood, yet just last Friday night some low life broke into our car and stole the only thing in it a box of tools. $400 out of pocket loss for $25 worth of tools he'll sell at the swap meet.
Ken
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| Quote: | Originally posted by tripledigitken
last Friday night some low life broke into our car and stole the only thing in it a box of tools. $400 out of pocket loss for $25 worth of tools he'll sell at the swap meet.
Ken |
Tough luck, Ken. Sorry to hear that. Maybe you should keep a box of Anthrax in your vehicle for just these occasions. 
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