Have you heard the fear reports about traveling through Mexico? Worst however, can you envision living there? Well, being the adventurous and brave retirees that we are, in 1997 we ordered a lovely new mountainside villa overlooking Banderas Bay and El Centro, or downtown in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. The villa is actually a ingredient, surrounded by 10 base walls with a walk-in entrance and gates for car entry.

Our original believed while ending the gates during our first morning in our new villa was to hire a few sentries to protect the villa at night. You could be situated in front and another down below on the backside facing the bay, ergo providing the security expected in this international new land. Well, we never got about to selecting those protections and additionally, we have never heard of anybody being burglarized in the area for days gone by twenty years. Municipal Authorities do sail through the area once or twice every evening and we do have exceptional street lighting; nevertheless offense in the area, called the "Beverly Mountains of Vallarta", is nearly non-existent.

A decade before, we'd be drawn around by the neighborhood police every 2 or 3 weeks for any of an array of concocted reasons. It had been the typical corrupt Mexican police shake-down where after you given him 200 pesos or $20, you're no longer guilty of breaking any laws or doing any violations; you immediately became his amigo! That corruption is rarely observed anymore in Vallarta and we have not been drawn around by the authorities for numerous years. Actually, they looked to own removed 180 degrees the alternative way being really helpful to all Americans and Canadians. The town of Puerto Vallarta, referred to as PV or Vallarta by the residents, has increased in citizenry during the past a decade to the current degree of 350,000 inhabitants. That development could be attributed entirely to tourism.

Practically every job in PV is dependant on tourism and with no influx of foreigners from the US and Europe, Vallarta might still be a tired small Mexican fishing village. Because tourism is really important, the small residents are shown to deal with the Americans and Canadians with dignity, regard, kindness, and as friends. The very last thing they are able to afford is to own tourists experience issues while visiting Paradise and to come back home with negative emotions about Vallarta. The aim of each and every Vallartense is in order to guarantee all tourists a satisfying and secure time while visiting so that they anticipate returning. The small Mexicans are shown that security could be the perfect issue of guests and to harm a tourist will be equivalent to getting food or money out of their particular family household.

As an area notice of interest, there's currently a video, "South of the Line" being shot within Vallarta by the Disney Company. It is a cute story about a chihuahua, possessed with a Beverly Mountains socialite, that got missing while she was visiting a spa in Mexico. A group of regional Mexican chihuahuas discovered this pup, took attention of and entertained it, and then certain its secure return to Beverly Hills. The movie will undoubtedly be produced in 2008 and may help promote the social, national, and economic relations between Mexico and the US. The underside range being, that the security and security that one feels in Vallarta is quite reassuring and is demonstrated in the movie through the life of a chihuahua.

Serious violations such as for example kill, rape, kidnapping, etc. are unheard-of in Vallarta. Security is such that armed robberies are nearly non-existent. One purpose of course is, guns are not permitted in Mexico. The penalty to carry a pistol is much more than anybody might ever want to pay.

Usually the one offense that persists in PV is related to drugs. Even though the Mexicans rarely utilize them, they are numerous for anyone tourists also unaware to know the consequences. The penalty for drug Night Guards beverly hills possession and use is really extreme that anybody influenced by drugs is best down preventing Paradise. With complete employment in PV, even the art of pick-pocketing is no longer practiced here; it's just also simple to find employment! The US and Canadian Consulates in Vallarta are effectively staffed and prepared to aid any tourist with just about any difficulty that might happen while visiting here.

Although Vallarta has achieved how big Anaheim or St. Louis, it's still a tiny city where everyone else seems to understand what others are doing. Any offense determined with a regional will be identified about by many others immediately. To not be buying on Anaheim or St. Louis, but when you compare Vallarta to towns in the US of related size, our impression is that it's significantly safer in Paradise!