BillB800si
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The sidewalks are not wooden? Where did that come from?
Not so sure you need the big lock either. The people of Nuevo Progreso are very good to their visitors.
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Okay. I admit there's no wooden sidewalks just dirty concrete ones. There are so many people hawking their wares that one can hardly move down the sidewalks. Another mentioned the "parking police" well we sat on a balcony drinking beer & tequila watching these civilians extort money from people attempting to park their vehicles on public parking sites. If you didn't tip them they screamed at you to move. What a sight. Also to greet visitors when you cross the border there's military types with machine guns scattered around. I will admit that Progresso is probably the safest of the Mexican border towns but that's not saying much. We've visited others and they all are dirty....
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We must go to different Progreso.
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So there are no wooden sidewalks as you first stated! And There are no military with machine guns as you stated! What else should we believe that you have written?
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I am not concerned about being met by military with machine guns, nor the fact that the streets/sidewalks are crowded, nor that the streets are a dirty. Although I have not been to Mexico previously, I traveled quite a bit for the company from which I retired and have been to places such as Korea where my children and I were greeted at the airport by soldiers with machine guns and held (along with other American friends) in a bus for a few hours because we didn't have papers to be in country (plane was headed to Hong Kong but had to land in Korea due to typhoon). There are hundreds of people per square inch in Hong Kong and China, it seems; and the streets and sidewalks are filled with vendors (both day and night). Yes, it was extremely crowded. I was there with my three children who at the time were ages 18, 13 and 12. We never experienced a single problem in China. And the Koreans were actually very nice to us as well. We were just in their country illegally.
In addition I am friends with the family who took 2.5 years traveling on bicycles from Alaska all the way down to the end of the world, traveling thru Mexico and the other Latin countries. Yes, they ran into lots of people who were poor, didn't have the same blessings that we have here in the US, etc. And it is sad that the missionary couple from our own area here in Texas was recently killed.
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BillB800si
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DonP wrote:BillB800si So there are no wooden sidewalks as you first stated! And There are no military with machine guns as you stated! What else should we believe that you have written?Don
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Listen up Don. We stayed in Corpus Christi Texas the winter of 2009. Saw everything there was to see on the gulf coast. Spent a day in Progresso, Mexico because our friends said it was the safest Mexican border town to visit. Our first sight when we crossed the bridge was an army jeep with a machine gun mounted on it and sand bags piled up in different locations. Made me a little nervous. Reminded me of Jamaica. While walking down the main street there were solders walking around with Ak-47's. Little children were everywhere selling trinkets to visitors. Wondered why they weren't in school. When we were in the Cayman Islands the locals told us not to buy from the kids because their parents made them sell to vistors instead of attending school. Finally was it dirty? You bet it was!!
Now, is it any dirtier than some American cities? Of course not but we were very disappointed with all the Mexican Border towns we've been to. If you really want to see something disgusting then visit Tijuana. Raw meat hanging on hooks by the sidewalks for sale with flies all over it.Just because people are poor doesn't mean they have to live in filth.
We won't be back there's so much to see in Canada and the good old USA.....
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When in China my children learned quickly that other countries are not the same as the US. Yes, ducks, chickens, meat hung from hooks in open air shops, carcasses were thrown into 55 gallon drums closeby. The public "toilet" was a trench that was straddled (in some places).
Friends who have had work done in Mexico choose not to eat there and do not drink anything while over there, preferring to take their own bottled water. As a kidney transplant patient I am already required to take antibiotics before I have any kind of dental work done, even in the U.S.. That does not mean I will not take other precautions.
My greatest fear is not the people or the crowds, or the military guys, or the police. It is that my DH will smart off to somebody the way he normally does and get both of us thrown in jail.
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I'm not seeing many who choose not to eat or drink in Progresso. The resturants are always crowded (with Americans). I think eating, drinking, dental work etc. is a personal choice and one that alot of folks chose to do. I have no problem with Progresso but maybe others do... their choice.
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