Comments by "Marvin Fine" (@torontovoice1) on "Moving to Mexico for More Freedom" video.
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There is no doubt that many cities in America are very dangerous, especially blue States. Poverty is the number one driver of crime. There's no denying that! So generally speaking the poorer a person is, of the greater propensity they might have to commit a crime. It may only be petty theft and or non-violent crime, but it's still a crime nonetheless. Mexico is a very unique economy where you do have a lot of people in the country that are extremely wealthy, and you have vast hordes of people that are very poor. The majority of people living in the small villages and so on, are probably harmless and honest. But when you look at the major cities such as Mexico City, the crime is extensive and rampant. And it's not only crime, but it's also corruption. I've never been stopped by a police officer in North America and asked for a bribe. When I was in Mexico and I took a small taxi we were only allowed to have three people in the taxi cuz that's all the room there was in it. And there was four of us. So the driver said look, I'll take you all, but if we can stopped by the cops, you'll have to pay a 100 peso bribe. They didn't use the word bribe, they called it a bite. I said okay fair enough I agree. So sure enough we're driving along and we get stopped by the cops. So I reached into my wallet and gave the driver a hundred pesos to give to the police officer as the agreed bribe for that type of offense. Then he comes back 5 minutes later it says look, the policeman wants a tip on the bribe! So I give him another 20 pesos as a tip. I wasn't too bothered by this event, but if I was living in a country like that I'd be very concerned. What's the stop the police or other corrupt government officials from shaking you down. The vast majority of people that go to Mexico probably have very few problems unless they go out and look for adventure. You'll have to use your own imagination on that word! But statistics in Mexico are very misleading, because the vast majority of crime is not reported, and even worse, many of the criminal offenses especially Hit and run are not solved or even investigated for that matter.
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