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  1. Anyone who has lived here for years knows how Chapala and the cops work and are "motivated." Anyone who doesn't must have been living under a rock. Transito games around the holidays in particular are well known though I have to say those seem to have decreased significantly over the 15 years we've lived here. As noted previously, there are great numbers of legitimate and real violations for them to raise money off of these days. Maybe that's why the "conjured up variety have decreased.
  2. As to the original topic, the Chapala Traficos could make a heckuva lot of legitimate fine money just on parking enforcement. The town is, unfortunately, a parking nightmare. Don't know how you fix that.
  3. Image on Facebook from 8 hours ago. This is a big one.
  4. It's a tough call. We've considered moving to just outside of Oaxaca City but it would be difficult to give up the superior air connections of GDL and the fantastic climate here. We cope with the traffic by timing going out carefully. Shopping is pretty easy here now thanks to Walmart for the major stuff and a much improved walk to El Torito that has all the other stuff. We like the easy access to the beach from here, although Oaxaca now has that since after 15 years the new road to the coast finally opened. You would think the crazy high home and rent prices would start to cut the influx but that doesn't seem to be the case although I have been told both sales and rentals have slowed. Development here seems to have shifted from single family or townhouse to NOB style condos, raising density even higher. I don't see how this area is going to avoid a very bad water shortage pretty soon. Our first challenge is to downsize from a quite large and maintenance intensive property to something more appropriate for people in their 80's. It seems if one doesn't like living jammed up against or on top of/under a bunch of other people the options are pretty limited. This would not be the case in Oaxaca. The best thing about Oaxaca is we'd be living in Mexico again. 15 years ago this was still sorta Mexico, now not even close.
  5. My understanding is Mexicans don't normally tip cab drivers. Has this changed?
  6. Personally speaking, I find TelMex and TelCel both to be screaming bargains compared to what these services cost in the U.S., particularly TelCel. Easy to put up with the occasional minor problem at these prices.
  7. I went over this morning, they opened up a little after 9:30. Shoe was ready, looked like a good job of it. To make sure I got the right one I took the other with me and good thing I did as they had to hunt around a bit for it.
  8. You wouldn't happen to know their hours, would you? Mainly, do they close down in the afternoon for siesta?
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