{"id":4390,"date":"2012-03-07T18:18:30","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T00:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/temp-blog\/?p=4390"},"modified":"2012-03-07T18:20:08","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T00:20:08","slug":"mexico-real-estate-and-travel-advisories-is-the-government-of-texas-doing-its-homework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/mexico-real-estate-and-travel-advisories-is-the-government-of-texas-doing-its-homework\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico Real Estate and Travel Advisories: Is the Government of Texas Doing its Homework?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a little surprise for you; one of the main attractions of buying Mexico real estate<\/a> is safety!\u00c2\u00a0 Reading the recent travel advisories from the Department of Homeland Security of the State of Texas, you wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think so.\u00c2\u00a0 Yet, upon a closer look at their travel advisories, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s beginning to look they are simply buying into media sensationalism instead of real statistical research to keep their citizens safe during Spring Break.<\/p>\n

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The Beautiful (and safe!) beaches of Cancun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s start by looking at the advisory; this advisory is warning Spring Breakers not to go to any part of Mexico, specifically naming Acapulco, Mazatlan, Cabo San Lucas, Tijuana and, most surprisingly, Cancun and Playa del Carmen.<\/p>\n

Without looking closer at some of the other destinations, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s interesting to note that Yucatan Peninsula remains among the safest areas in the country.\u00c2\u00a0 Crime rates on the Peninsula are considerably below those of many American cities.\u00c2\u00a0 Thousands of Americans and Canadians have bought Cancun real estate<\/a> and live there year round, safely and soundly, enjoying life on the beach, not to mention thousands more who visit every year.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Playa del Carmen is likewise very safe.<\/p>\n

So, why would the Texas include Cancun and the surrounding area in its list?\u00c2\u00a0 Taking a look at the list, it simply repeats what they already said; \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t go to Mexico, any part of it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 It almost looks like they just threw in a few of the most popular destinations just to make it look like they researched some specific places.\u00c2\u00a0 But it is obviously NOT the case that they did any research.\u00c2\u00a0 They are painting Mexico with one big brush stroke, and not distinguishing between the safe and unsafe locations.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps they simply can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be bothered to check out the stats. Perhaps they got their list from sensationalized mass-media news stories.\u00c2\u00a0 Who knows.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, Texas has a real reason to be worried about where the state\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s residents travel; just across the Rio Grande, in Ciudad Juarez, they are staring eye to eye with one of the ugliest, least safe, crime-ridden cities on the continent. The reason is that the drug trade \u00e2\u20ac\u201c which is a real problem \u00e2\u20ac\u201c gets its income from across the border, so cartels battle over the main border crossings and control of the cash.\u00c2\u00a0 Department of Homeland Security of the State of Texas should be concerned about vacationers crossing to this area.\u00c2\u00a0 But instead, the list includes areas probably safer than the main cities in Texas.\u00c2\u00a0 What concerns me most about that is that while Texans are being warned against traveling to safe places like Cancun, they are not being warned about really unsafe places near the Texas border crossings.<\/p>\n

Even more strikingly, no mention is made of places like Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Miami, Atlanta or (take note) Houston, each of which nearly double Mexico\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s violent crime rate, not to mention the lower rate on the Yucatan Peninsula.<\/p>\n

Roberto Borge, Governor of the State of Quintana Roo (which includes Cancun and Playa del Carmen) is also concerned.\u00c2\u00a0 He has planned trips to the main Texas cities of Austin, Houston, Dallas and San Antonio to defend places like Cancun and Playa del Carmen and, more importantly, present the real stats about safety.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the Department of Homeland Security should warm Governor Borje about the safety hazards of traveling to Houston.<\/p>\n

TOPMexicoRealEstate.com; Mexico’s Leading Network of Specialists for Finding and Purchasing Mexican Properties Safely<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a little surprise for you; one of the main attractions of buying Mexico real estate is safety!\u00c2\u00a0 Reading the recent travel advisories from the Department of Homeland Security of the State of Texas, you wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think so.\u00c2\u00a0 Yet, upon a closer look at their travel advisories, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s beginning to look they are simply buying […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[63,326],"tags":[1525,1566],"class_list":{"0":"post-4390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cancun-real-estate","7":"category-mexico-beaches","8":"tag-cancun-real-estate","9":"tag-safety-in-mexico","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4392,"href":"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390\/revisions\/4392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}