Moving to Mexico Tips: Is Mexico Safe?

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Moving to Mexico: 10 Reasons Why We Chose to Live in Guadalajara https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK23vD8_xjc&list=PLh3xKhkMgH_LAY7UV78YMgms-f2e1UcwN&index=23

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Is Mexico a safe country for expats and foreigners to move to? In today's video, we're gonna give you the exact answer, complete with stats comparing a lot of Mexican cities to, for example, US cities and what they have going on right now in terms of crime rates. So you can make the. Best decision for yourself. Hi, my name is Amanda Abe. Welcome to Entrepreneur Expat. On this channel, we talk all about what it's like to live in other countries as American expats. We talk about doing international business, investing internationally real estate relocation, and being digital nomads and making money online so you can go anywhere in the world. So if that's something that you're interested in. Make sure to subscribe and hit the notification bell so you don't want me to say single video that we have it coming out on this channel. And if you, for example, are interested in moving to Mexico after hearing these statistics, spoiler alert, a lot of Mexican cities are safer than a lot of US cities right now. So if you are already thinking about moving to Mexico, we can help you with our team of experts. We have experts in real estate, immigration, investing in businesses, and everything in between. So in order to book one of those consultation calls, just go to entrepreneur expat.com/consult. You'll be taken through a very brief application process, and if you qualify to work with us, then you are going to be offered a free consultation if you're not quite there yet in terms of needing all that. Support, you will still get the opportunity to pick our brains so that we can answer any quick questions that you may have, and then we can send you to the specific expert that you need. All these experts have been vetted personally by us. And then the next part is for those of you who've been asking about Amanda and Justin, how do I run an online business? How did you guys do it? How did you guys run online businesses before even moving to Mexico? We have two places for you to get started. The first is get your first high paying client online bootcamp. It'll walk you through the basics of what you need in order to create a product that you can sell online and how to actually start selling that product within four weeks. And the second place is our YouTube Mastery Workshop, which teaches you how we use YouTube. In order to generate business for, ourselves and our multiple businesses. So for example, this YouTube channel is starting to generate relocation consultation applications every single day. It also gets sales directly from the description. So we teach you exactly how to use YouTube in order to bring. Business to yourself so you can work online and work anywhere in the world. So all the information for all that stuff is going to be in the description for those of you who've been asking. And now without further ado, let's get into it. Is Mexico safe? So we actually answered this question in. Explicit detail complete with charts and graphs and everything in a recent video, but we figured it merited its own separate video because a lot of people actually search for this. And a lot of people are very concerned about this with good reason because a lot of the media, particularly in the West, shows Mexico as a. You know, crazy lawless country where there's, there are insane amounts of violence and all that kind of stuff. So we figured this merited its own shorter video where we just answer this one specific question. So without further ado, we're gonna get into. That exact piece of the video that we recently did complete with graph stats, comparing different cities to each other, comparing the types of violence and crime that may exist. And I already set the spoiler alert. However, some of these statistics may actually shock you. So let's jump into the number one thing that we hear that's a myth about Mexico, which is that Mexico is extremely dangerous now as any place in the world is. There are parts of Mexico that are dangerous. And you typically, especially here, you know what those places are. It's not like you're in Santa Monica and you know you're walking on the pier and you get hit in the face with a beer bottle thrown by some mentally ill homeless person. That's happened to people that I know. Not to mention in San Francisco and in plenty of other places where one block you're totally safe and you've got.$10,000 a month, you know, high rise apartments, and then the next block is just absolute pure and utter chaos. There are definitely some areas in Mexico where there's violence. Uh, there are certain like gang activities that you, you don't want to be in those areas. Typically, they're not in the tourist areas. Um, there, there are places like some parts of Sinaloa, some parts in the south of Mexico. Where, uh, if you're not, let's say with a, with a tour where everybody kind of knows where they're, where they're going, um, you, you, you might not want to go in certain areas like that. But outside of that, like in most of the major cities, Guadalajara is very safe. Mexico City is very safe if you're not in like a dangerous neighborhood. And most of the places that expats are going to are not going to be, uh, those neighborhoods that are gonna be. Unsafe. In fact, we found some statistics that we're gonna go through right now with you guys, and we'll try and put the, the graphs on the screen as well that show that Americans are actually safer in Mexico than they are in the United States. So let's go through some of this. So this is, uh, according to the FBI crime statistics, 4.8 Americans per 100,000 are. Unlived in the United States. That's per the 2010 numbers. Those are the most recent ones that we could find, and the US State Department reports that only 120 Americans out of this 5.7 million who visit Mexico in that same time period. So within a year time period are unli, which is a rate of 2.1 out of every 100,000 visitors. It's actually half. Of the rate in the United States. Um, now what happens in Mexico is you're not always clear whether or not these people, these Americans who ran into problems in Mexico, were involved in things they should not have been involved in because that is usually the case. Uh, whereas in the United States, it's totally random as you were. Bringing up. Now, the other thing to keep in mind is when you're in tourist destinations or places where there's a lot of expats and foreigners, the numbers decrease even more. Right? And when you compare it to where there's lots of tourists in the United States, the numbers are gonna shock you. This one, draw this one. I was like, really? When I read this one? So let's take Disney World. Let's take Orlando, which is the home of Disney World. So in that same time period, so about a year time period, Orlando saw 7.5. On the live activities, let's put it that way, per 100,000 U YouTube is a little bit strict on what we can and can't say. So per 100,000 residents, now if you go to Cancun or Puerto Valda, that number goes down to 1.83 or 5.9 respectively. Uh, and this is Americans. And again, right? It depends, like a lot of times they were involved in things they should not have been involved in, whereas in the United States. Totally random. You could totally be at the wrong place at the wrong time. Um, and you also have to take into consideration the type of crime that happens in each of these countries because that does add nuance. To the situation in Mexico, as if we've mentioned, it's usually targeted. It's usually to isolated areas. It most definitely does not involve foreigners or expats or anywhere where you're gonna be hanging out because they tend to keep those places very clean. Yep. And with a lot of security, uh, because there's a lot of money in those places, so nowhere that you're gonna be hanging out. You need to worry about it. Whereas in the United States, it's completely random. Just two weeks ago we had a, a situation in a major university in the United States where people were just going to go take their classes and here comes a guy with a weapon and. Y'all know what happens in the United States with that. You could be doing groceries, you could be at the, you know, the movie theater? At the movie theater. Yeah. You could be at a mall, you could be anywhere. You literally do not hear about those types of events occurring here. Like it's not a thing. Um, you, you can't just possess a weapon like anybody in the country. Yes, there are some criminals that have them, and that's not a good thing. But again, those criminals are not typically targeting foreigners or people not involved in those. Those criminal conflicts that are here, their issues are usually with each other and the government. Not with you unless you get involved in things you're not supposed to be getting involved in, which we have heard stories like that of people ending up in situations, but every freaking time they were involved in things they should not have been involved in. And unfortunately, you do have a sector of, I don't know, tourism or expats or foreigners that go to other countries and partake in a bunch of fuck shit, for lack of a better word, and then wonder why they're getting in trouble. The other thing to keep in mind. Right. Is that the, I just can't say the word right. So, um, I'm gonna say it anyway. The homicide rates in Mexico have actually been declining since 2016 and in the United States they've been going up since 2000, uh, since the same time period. And if you look at the rates by location, um, yes there are, uh, there are certain instances where, where violence happens. But if you look at overall. The homicide rate per a hundred thousand, uh, people, in terms of Americans in Mexico is 0.3. And if you look at even the, the total homicide rates of different cities, a lot of them are actually significantly lower than many cities in the us. For example, Guadalajara, where we live, the rate is 17.1. But the overall rate in the country that involves Americans is 0.3. So a lot of those people, whether you're in Guadalajara, you're in Mexico City, a lot of the people that are, that are getting involved in, in those, in those, having those issues are again, associated with that criminal activity. Um, if we look at the, the major cities, so Guadalajara was 17.1 in Mexico. Puerto Vallarta is 8.8. Mexico City is 8.6. Cabo is 3.7. And Meida, which is um. One of the safest cities in the country was only 1.5. Maybe that's one of the safest cities in all area, actually in the world. Yeah. Uh, definitely in, in the Western Hemisphere. Versus if we look at those homicide rates by location, sorry, YouTube, we have to share the information. Um, so if we get, uh, you know, banned on this video, oh well. Um, but if we look at even Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the rate per a hundred thou, uh, per a hundred thousand people is 33. DC 29.3, Chicago, 22.8. We're gonna put these up on the, the screen for them here. Houston 19, Phoenix, Arizona. So, so even just looking here, Guadalajara, which ranks as, again, overall, and this is including people that are involved with criminal activity overall, Guadalajara, which technically is one of the most dangerous, um. Cities in this chart, which people love to tell us that in the comments, which, which is really funny because we haven't seen anything like that. And the only times that I've heard of instances like that were in certain neighborhoods where, again, like parts of the, these rivaling factions lived and they were going specifically to target a person and take that person out, but, and they were not targeting tourists or the general public or anything like that. Not to mention, you do not see anything about terrorist events or anything here like you do so much in the US and Canada. It doesn't happen. Or Europe, US or Europe. Canada and Europe. Just in the last six months all had terrorist attacks. And that might be a whole other video. Yeah, that, that's a whole other video. But compare Gua Hara, which is considered. You know, by what people tell us in the comments. One of the most dangerous cities, um, in Guadalajara. And we oftentimes have to tell people, okay, well, number one, if you're American, they're probably not touching you unless you are involved in things you're, you shouldn't be involved in. And number two, we're coming from cities that are more dangerous than what is going on in Guadalajara. Yep. So if Philadelphia is almost double. The rate of Guadalajara and these cities didn't even include small areas like for example, Memphis, Tennessee, that have even higher rates. So you have to take that stuff into consideration because I think a lot of people get confused because of the media. Like, oh, Mexico is so dangerous. And I'm like, but do you see what's going on in US cities?'cause it's worse than what's going on here. And again, it's different kinds. Of crime and most people just don't go look at the numbers. They just take, you know, whatever the media tells'em and they run with it. So, exactly that's, and so even just looking at that number there, you look at the 19 per a hundred thousand in Houston compared to the most dangerous city here, one of the most dangerous cities, at least that we would, that we're looking at on the list that tourists go to and Houston actually is, is worse by almost two per a hundred thousand. Compared to Guadalajara now yes, you start to get safer cities. Phoenix, Arizona is about 13.5. But that's still more dangerous than Puerto Vallarta and Mexico City almost combined than down to la. I mean, I've lived in LA and there's parts that are safe. There's parts that are really unsafe. That's 10.2. New York City, I'm actually kind of surprised, um,'cause there's a lot of, there's a lot of violent crime. But in terms of the homicide, uh, homicide rate there, it's 5.3, um, which is still more dangerous than Meida as a city Cabo. Uh, and close to Mexico City and it's several times what the homicide rate for Americans living here is. Yeah, I mean, many, many times. These are the actual stats. All right guys, so there you have it. It turns out Mexico is actually safer for Americans in the United States Is. For Americans, and like we said, we told you some of these statistics might be a bit shocking once you actually start looking at the numbers. If you guys like this video, go ahead and give it a, like, it helps us with the algorithm and getting this in front of more people and make sure to subscribe and hit the notification, but also, you don't want me to say single video that we have coming out on this channel. You guys already know we're bringing, we're gonna bring. A lot of resources to you, including interviews with our real estate partners, our immigration partners, and everybody we've got on our team to help you make your relocation to Mexico so much easier. And if you're interested in working with our team, all you gotta do is go to entrepreneur expat.com/consult and we can get started. 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