Comments on: Living Half a Life

By: JOE FROM DALLAS

JOE FROM DALLAS — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:03:59 +0000

sorry brain damage and seeing double submissions

By: JOE FROM DALLAS

JOE FROM DALLAS — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:02:35 +0000

OK ! OK ! GET YOUR DUBA IN GEAR KIM AND RESUME YOUR BITCH POSTING(S)

By: JOE FROM DALLAS

JOE FROM DALLAS — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:02:07 +0000

OK ! OK ! GET YOUR DUBA IN GEAR KIM AND RESUMRE YOUR BITCH POSTING(S)

By: RiverGirl

RiverGirl — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:35:53 +0000

Boils – Great comment, thanks!

Greg – I hit a BIG TALL HUGE WALL! You are right!

I lived in Boulder County for many years. Denver is on my short list of places to relocate to. The weather there is MUCH better than outsiders realize. Colorado has great weather!

By: greg

greg — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:20:04 +0000

Hi.. I’ve just been reading your work for a short while, but it seems to me that you’ve hit that “wall” that some of my friends have that moved to Puerto Vallarta, Cozumel etc… Mexico is awesome to visit, but maybe not so much fun to live in long term..

We will however take you with open arms to my favorite U.S. city, Denver. Beautiful, temperate (more than people think) and no insects

By: Boils

Boils — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:03:58 +0000

Fact: Cancun is two things and only two things. It is a tourist destination for fat Americans and it is a drug city. Once you get those facts you see why Cancun is such an uncivilized dump.

It’s only hope lies in a devastaging hurricane that renders the entire slop house asunder.

By: RiverGirl

RiverGirl — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:56:23 +0000

Moise Levi – Thanks for your comment. I would have loved to visit your cafe.

When we moved here we were impressed by how often the “old timers” would tell us that Cancun used to be better. It was sort of weird, we heard it ALL the time. But I think Cancun’s largely uncontrolled growth has brought with it lots of downsides.

Just two days ago some guy was stabbed to death just a block and a half from my house. It’s not comforting at all. I’ve never lived somewhere with a crime rate like this. And the cops here don’t seem to solve many of these killings.

By: Moise Levi

Moise Levi — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:32:25 +0000

I use to reside in Cancun ; 1991 to 1997.
I use to own a café called “le café de Paris”.
By the way I know Ashlie
I had the chance to meet some wonderful people.
My café was quite famous with local expatriates.
I left for three reasons ;
1) Cancun got too big, way too many criminals using it as a base.
2) Crime ; three friends lost their lifes …
3) A constant reminder that you will “always be un extranjero” (a foreigner) no matter how long you stay there. Yes, Mexicans are quite nationalists !

Loved the place, but did not see a real future there …..

By: RiverGirl

RiverGirl — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:31:48 +0000

Leo – People here complain about the economy plenty, so it may be a factor in Cancun getting worse since I’ve been here. But I think that more than that is the uncontrolled growth here, and the increasing violence we are seeing here from the drug cartels. Seems the mafias are getting bolder and more aggressive, nastier.

Ashlie – Your comment reads like you are worried that my post will give Cancun a black eye. Well, the best way to combat that is to come out and tell us what you love about Cancun…what’s so great about it? Tell us…publish the good side, no one is stopping you. If Cancun has a black eye because of little ole me then it has much bigger problems than I knew about.

I admire people who can be happy here…they have an ability to put up with the horrors here that I seem to lack. Good for them, but you know what? I wouldn’t want to become desensitized to the shit I see here, I wouldn’t like myself if I could ignore the way animals are treated here, or ignore the garbage or ignore the executions that are reported in the news every week here. If I start ignoring those things, and not feeling their real meaning, then I will be truly lost.

By: Ashlie

Ashlie — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:55:00 +0000

I have lived in Cancun since 1995 and I am also married to a Mexican. Though I can sympathize with some of the things that you say and everyone has a right to “bitch” I do not agree with all your statements.I do hope that you find a place to live that makes you happy but for many of us expats from Canada, USA, Australia, etc. Cancun is that place and we chose to live here and we came here not because we were running away from something but because we wanted to.
I do hope that not everyone who reads your blog will take your words verbatim and that they are aware that not everyone feels the way you do and they should read other blogs by other people who do like it here and who also have another view of what it is like to live in such a wonderful place even with all its flaws.