Comments on: Contributed Story: Instability in Tijuana http://www.expat-chronicles.com/2009/11/contributed-story-instabilit-in-tijuana/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:34:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: barnaby33 http://www.expat-chronicles.com/2009/11/contributed-story-instabilit-in-tijuana/comment-page-1/#comment-2209 barnaby33 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:49:04 +0000 http://www.expat-chronicles.com/?p=3127#comment-2209 Tijuana has always been a poor gritty dirty way station on the way north. It is not really a part of Mexico, most of which is poor but civilized. Tijuana has been a failed city for a long time. Sadly Tijuana is just a clearer reflection of the dark underbelly of American society, politely placed just over the border fence. When America's economy sneezes Mexico catches cold. It has always been thus. As someone who lives in San Diego and travels through TJ to get to my fathers house, I've seen TJ grow over the course of my lifetime. Its not nearly as poor as it was during the 80's, but has a significantly larger permanent encampment of the poor. Unlike the first poster I disagree that Mexico has to collapse for us to have a really big problem, we have it now. Tijuana has always been a poor gritty dirty way station on the way north. It is not really a part of Mexico, most of which is poor but civilized. Tijuana has been a failed city for a long time. Sadly Tijuana is just a clearer reflection of the dark underbelly of American society, politely placed just over the border fence.

When America’s economy sneezes Mexico catches cold. It has always been thus. As someone who lives in San Diego and travels through TJ to get to my fathers house, I’ve seen TJ grow over the course of my lifetime. Its not nearly as poor as it was during the 80’s, but has a significantly larger permanent encampment of the poor.

Unlike the first poster I disagree that Mexico has to collapse for us to have a really big problem, we have it now.

]]> By: Mike http://www.expat-chronicles.com/2009/11/contributed-story-instabilit-in-tijuana/comment-page-1/#comment-2080 Mike Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:03:02 +0000 http://www.expat-chronicles.com/?p=3127#comment-2080 I live just north of El Paso, and Juarez is about the same. You have to be nuts or desperate to live there. If Mexico does collapse we've got a big, REALLY big, problem Mike I live just north of El Paso, and Juarez is about the same. You have to be nuts or desperate to live there. If Mexico does collapse we’ve got a big, REALLY big, problem

Mike

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