No doubt stuff is available in Mexico. I'm sure you can buy much the same stuff. You are missing the point. I never said stuff wasn't available, only that the shopping environment is not the same as it is in the US. The news stories I linked to earlier quote Mexican shoppers as saying they come here for the selection and the price. Maybe you wouldn't drive from Oaxaca, but I can assure you people come from as far away as Mexico City to shop here. The question is: why?
I never said that retail sales was the big contributor to the entire US-Mexico trade relationship. I said that it was a big contributor to the economies of the border cities like McAllen. Mexican retail shopping contributed $4.5 billion dollars to the economies of the border counties in Texas. That's just border counties in Texas, mind you. It's the lifeblood of these border towns and $4.5 billion ain't nothing to sneeze at.
OMFG. If true, just using the word "hombres" is monumentally stupid and condescending unless one is speaking Spanish. We'll be lucky to have allies left anywhere in the world by the end of the winter, let alone by the end of his time in the White House.
The US troops thing was false, according to the Mexican State Department.
No one would want to admit to it. Hard as it may be for some to believe, Mexicans have national pride, too, and finding out that the US President was threatening a *********** invasion and the Mexican President let it pass wouldn't be good for their President in specific and their government in general.
No, you're NOT willing to discuss it really, though, are you? You claim to have been "ALL OVER" Mexico and not found anyplace that compares to your town in Texas, but "ALL OVER" Mexico does not include Mexico City. When a Mexican posts with contradiction, you shuck it off. If you cannot just say you were wrong when you obviously are wrong, then nobody can believe anything you say, can they?
I've been all over the US, but not Chicago. Is it safe to assume that Chicago is pretty much like every other major American city when it comes to shopping? Likewise, I've been to Monterrey, Mazatlan, Saltillo, San Luis Potosí, Cozumel, Cancùn, Acapulco, Cabo San Lucas, Tecate, many villages I don't know the names of and just about every city on the Texas border along with Tijuana. Am I wrong to assume that those cities are pretty representative of what to expect in the few major cities I might have missed? I can say confidently that the retail market for electronics, clothing and other consumer goods in those cities does not compare to what's available in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Most of them don't even compare to Falfurrias, Texas (slight exaggeration)! I'm not saying that you can't buy stuff there. But if you want the latest models of TV or expensive designer clothes, for example, that's very hard to find. So Mexicans come here by the bus load.
Eh. No one goes to Cancun for shopping. There are some nice "malls" there and a smallish outlet mall but nothing like home.
