My views on the Mexican personality

Here are My views on the Mexican personality. There will be exceptions of course, and there may even be more exceptions if they lived in the US or Canada, but in my 2 years here, I’ve noticed these traits over and over again, and I didn’t really know Mexicans before and had a different view of them.

I know this is long, but I’m giving you a good overview of my experiences and I’ve heard stories from other refugees, but I haven’t copied them here.

There are many Mexicans who are very kind. They will even try to help me for free. My heart goes out to them. There are times when my stress would have been much higher had they not helped me. You should be very lucky to encounter such kind people.
Then there are some who will try to scam me because I’m a Gringo. That’s charging me more or saying it took them longer to do something. A scam is a scam.

Note that expats or refugees can scam you too. I was already scammed by an American the minute I arrived in Mexico in late 2021, but he started his plan before I even got here because I talked to him for over a week before arriving. It was my fault. I knew he was off, but because I had no one on the ground here and he did a good SELL, I didn’t listen to my intuition. I was also in a rush escaping. I only had 1 week to pack up and leave.
I’ve had Mexicans give me back money because I was overcharged. They deserve my heart.
Some Mexicans, like most Latinos, although I admit, I don’t know Latinos from every country, can lose their temper in the blink of an eye and scare me. Decades ago I met a Brazilian woman who was like that and they are NUTS. They misunderstand and attack rather than communicate and get to the root of the problem.
In my short time here back at the beginning of 2022, I’ve had Mexicans accuse me of thinking ill of them when that was not my intent at all. Of course my views have changed since then. My guess is that they think that everyone thinks Mexicans are dirty or not up to standards and that may be correct, but that’s not what I thought during that situation. I was still new to Mexico.

I had an Airbnb host totally misunderstand me. It could have been the Google translate, but I doubt it.

Since I wrote point #5, in Morelia I’ve noticed that 2 different sets of Mexicans can’t clean properly. Now in my other Airbnbs most were very clean (some were so so), but that’s a business. I’m talking about in my host’s home here and also in a cocina economica. I have to point out dirty cutlery and the dirty container holding it and their tables are always dirty when I walk in. If it’s your home, sure, no problem although it’s not healthy to have a dirty home, but these were businesses.

I’ve also noticed that my hostess can’t clean dishes anymore. I’ve found dishes, pans and lids that were dirty and put away in the cupboard. It could be because they took the death jab. I don’t know, I never knew them before.
3-4 times now I’ve had locals tell me that Mexicans don’t trust anyone. That there’s a lot of fraud and scams that go on here. They meant country wide.

I have no idea what scams they are referring to, but me ordering food (see below) shouldn’t be a reason they don’t send me food because somehow I’m a scammer. The worst that will happen is you have to give it away to someone else. Clearly you aren’t going to give it to the customer without getting money, but that would require logical thinking that they don’t have.

I’ve concluded that they are FULL OF FEAR and this may be why it’s so easy to mind control them and make them believe a fake virus is running RAMPID. sigh

Living in FEAR is not healthy, and if a person doesn’t trust you, it’s because they scam. A liar accuses you of being a liar, a bad parent accuses you of being a bad parent, and so on.

I can’t STAND the FEAR energy here. I’ve had tons of Mexicans call me a fraud when I post a hiring ad. I’m offering a JOB and they are bullying me AND making the other fear based zombies stay away so I can’t hire anyone.

Being low IQ, insecure and full of FFEAR is a volatile combination. It’s one of the reasons we are IN THIS WAR.
This has happened to me more than once where someone gives me the number to someone for any type of service, like a hairdresser, pedicurist, etc. and I’ll ask what their prices are, and instead of them giving it to me on WhatsApp, ALL they care about is who gave me their number. FULL OF FEAR. They aren’t asking because they are curious and want to write down the name so they can track for marketing purposes, thank them or give them a referral fee, they are doing it out of FEAR. In fact, I’ve had it happen twice where 2 men (these aren’t women) who acted like all was fine when I called them for contractor or handyman work, then came the day before or the day of when they were supposed to come, and they suddenly start interrogating me about who I spoke to, I don’t know you, over and over.

Grown men (NO, little children) FULL of FEAR. And of course they didn’t do this when I first spoke to them, so they wasted my time and I thought they were coming to help me and so then I had no one.

Again, ANOTHER reason they lose my business all the time, but they don’t care. JUST RIDICULOUS.
Mexicans usually (I’ve had the odd one) don’t apologize when they make a mistake. In my opinion, most third world country people (worldwide) are like this and it stems from immaturity and not being able to admit you are wrong or made a mistake.

Are there Americans, Canadians and Europeans like this too? Yes, of course, but it’s not as obvious to me as here, and I’d only been here 3 months when I started writing this piece. I edited it again when I was here for just over 8 months, and now it’s just shy of 2 years.

I’ll never forget when I was in Panama, some guy who was moving things for me and dropped and broke something of mine. He barely looked at it, looked away and didn’t say a fucking WORD!

Here they are probably marginally better, but not by much. A cook I hired here broke something, and I think she said something to herself, but never apologized to me.

My hostess’ brother (who she hates) keeps telling me he doesn’t care if she’s upset at him. I tried to help the two work things out, but there was no way.

He doesn’t clean up after himself (he leaves the kitchen a complete mess), and she also gets pissed at him because he tokes in the house and I’m pretty positive he never paid a dime towards his rent and food.

Aside – they killed him. Long story I won’t go into it now, but the stress for me always continues in Mexico. Me having to leave the house within hours because it was a crime scene was the start of even MORE stress in Mexico.

Back to respect – my guess based on my experiences is that most of them are like that. They have no respect for others. Nothing to do with the toking or not cleaning up, it could be about anything. There is NO respect here. They may do something out of kindness, money, or fear, but overall, no common respect. If they get irked and they get irked easily, all bets are off even if you’ve been talking to them for months and all was fine. I’m not sure if it’s the same way with family or friends. I’m now curious about that.
Because they won’t admit they are sorry or even see things from your point of view, they will argue until I cut off the conversation. Amazingly Mexicans talk a LOT. Ask me what they talk about and I have NO IDEA. SMH.

I have one guy I just started doing business with (it’s now 1 1/2 years later and the partnership lasted around a month) and I ask a simple question about the property and he takes forever to just answer it. He also repeats himself over and over again and he’s pretty fluent in English.

Yes I’m very very verbose, but not when I’m doing business. I’m a 180 different because that’s BUSINESS.
I recently had the son (early 20s) of that same concina economica guy argue with me that the toxic hand sanitizer gel is great and gets rid of whatever he thinks it gets rid of. I kept saying no it’s not, and he kept saying yes it does.

I finally gave up because there’s no point in arguing with someone who is so braindead that they don’t even ask WHY is it toxic?
Now you are going to get upset at me about this, but I don’t care. I’ve already been bullied by a new age cultist who I’ve come to realize are the same as leftists. I’ve been called a “Karen,” whatever that means, because I SPEAK THE TRUTH as I know it.

Most (it’s better in some cities and states than others) Mexicans aren’t intelligent at all. No common sense, no deductive reasoning, no logic, and I mean intelligence you are born with or eventually obtain over time as you mature as an adult. In this case I’d accept anyone who can just DO THEIR JOB without it taking 1-2 hours!

They can NOT read my questions in Spanish or English and answer them. I have to repeat myself all the time which triggers me to no end. Note: a lot of 3rd world country people are like this, but it’s worse here. They are almost all low IQ. Note: when I say low IQ, I am NOT talking about the stupid IQ test.

They would rather lose money then solve a problem. They are even willing to lose money when there is no problem, just when I ask questions or say what I need which isn’t exactly what they have done in the past, but is very simple. Meaning, I ask if they can make it without (fill in the blank) and unless it’s a burger with no tocina (bacon), they can’t. I asked, how much to do the pedicure without nail polish – that’s a tough one and they could even say it’s the same price, but they stop talking because they can’t think because their brains are dead. They just disappear.

I thought they would be better here because they are right next to the US, many have lived there, worked there or in Canada, but that doesn’t seem to matter much, although it does improve things slightly.

I wrote this 3 months in and it’s official, they can’t even answer more than one question when I ask them questions on WhatsApp. I’ve only had 2-3 people who can do that in 2 years.

It could be 2 sentences and they will only respond to the last one. SERIOUS brain issues. At this point I can state with certainty that it’s the same with all Latinos because I’ve had to hire them online to help me since I couldn’t find good Mexican VAs. The odd time I get a sharp one, but the other behavioral traits they have that I can’t stand is disrespect, which of course they don’t consider disrespectful although I’m not sure they even understand what the word means. They all just disappear, which stresses me out to no end. They can’t remember anything. NO MEMORY skills even from 2 minutes ago.

We’ll see if this women I was just messaging with on WhatsApp ever gets back to me. I asked her how I’m going to get her laundry detergent and what the scent is made out of. Since it’s all natural, I expect her to say essential oils, but who knows.

She’s always been quick to respond and now it’s been over a day.

It’s now been 3 days and STILL no response.

Below are more of my examples as PROOF of how low IQ they are.
I started messaging a bakery on WhatsApp.

I had purchased a slice (the only one they had really) of coffee cake and it wasn’t bad.

I say this because they don’t know how to bake in this country.

Only two other places (one in Tepic, one in Colima) had good baked goods. The rest are full of a HUGE amount of SUGAR, no taste, it’s just tons of sugar and cheap filling and fake whipped cream.

Since they love cheese here, a lot of it is cheesecake or cheese pie, and they love brownies for some reason. Most are disgusting, with the odd one that actually tastes like a real brownie.

Anyway, I asked her if she had the slices of coffee cake. She says no.

I ask when will you have them?

She doesn’t know.

So I asked how much is a cake just wondering how much it’s going to cost me even though there’s no way I can eat a whole cake myself before it goes bad.

She THEN tells me she has 3 different sizes INCLUDING an individual one.

Now anyone with a BRAIN would have told me about the individual option before because I was asking about a slice, but like I said, NO BRAINS.

Had I not asked the cost of a cake, she never would have offered me information and not just because she’s trying to make a sale, but just BECAUSE.

Fast forward to now, the end of October 27, 2022, I go back to order another individual cake, but I the old story still isn’t finished.

So I message them in the middle of the night to ask if THIS was the correct location (they have 4) near HSBC and Panolis. The last time I went to the location closest to me it was the WRONG location I had ordered from.

I had to take a taxi because I had a sore hip/back, so I couldn’t walk. He was waiting for me which of course was costing me money. Before I knew what was going on, I was arguing that I DID order the cake, the girl looks at the WhatsApp conversation and figures out that I made a mistake.

I had to pay MORE money to get the driver to drive me there.

Now what does this have to do with NOW???

I scrolled up to the TOP of the conversation and translated what I wrote and FUCK ME. I DID ask if the location I was messaging with was the location closest to HSBC, and the low IQ MORON never answered me (I told you them NOT answering questions is a huge problem) and I never noticed.

So when I got up, not only did the person responding to WhatsApp NOT answer me whether this was the right location, she said to me that the cake wouldn’t be available today when I specifically said manana which means TOMORROW. sigh. Ok, so in Spanish, they sometimes use the same word to mean 2 different things, did you know that? This of course makes communicating TERRIBLE and they are terrible at communicating.

By the time I read it, it was after they closed so it never got ordered. BRAIN DEAD MORONS!!!
The fridge in my room I was renting for about a year, was causing problems and then I realized through someone that the bloody outlets were NOT grounded.

I was risking the only computer I had because I hadn’t purchased a UPS (uninterrupted power supply) since I wasn’t settled.

I went to tell my hostess who left the problem for her father to handle because she doesn’t understand even the smallest things about electrical outlets and I tried to tell her in very simplistic ways because trust me, I don’t know anything electrical wiring either. She just shook her head.

They told me that they were hiring someone, but it was going to take weeks. In the meantime I was having problems with Telegram and my headset whenever the fridge’s compressor would start and stop.

I had to keep asking them when someone was coming because I was so nervous about my computer. This all started when there had been rain storms where the light was flickering occasionally when there was lightning.

They finally brought in a nice guy, but he was braindead. My room was one of the first he did and he couldn’t understand how I wanted the power bars linked. He ALSO plugged the fridge into a power bar.

Everyone KNOWS (I had forgotten) that you always plug heavy duty appliances directly into the wall unless you have no other choice. sigh He’s an electrician and should know that. Even the hostess’ father who is 80+ years old, educated and was a professional, but has taken the death jab that nearly killed him, didn’t say anything about that.
Another example from a while ago was with my host’s brother who wasn’t bright some of the time… I asked him to take the cap off of the huge water bottle which he did, but the cap had a long piece of plastic sticking out of it which I couldn’t get off when I was near the garbage. I wanted to throw it out. I asked him to take it off, he did, then I threw it out and he kept pointing to the water bottle so I couldn’t walk away from the garbage can. He thought I was going to throw the cap in the garbage too.

Now why would I want him to take off the long piece off the cap if I was going to throw the entire thing in the garbage anyway? It makes no common sense at all.

This guy is completely fucked up in the brain and my point is, until you live with these people, you have no idea what they are like. I’m living with them.
Today on 02-24-23, he once AGAIN left the fridge door ajar (slightly). Their fridge door is very heavy and falls/slams towards the fridge every single time unless you put something in front of the door, but with HIM, he has been leaving it ajar over and over again. I couldn’t tell if he was doing it on purpose. I finally figured out it was him, not his 80+ year old father.

So I told him AGAIN today you left the fridge door open. He goes to close it, then reopens it to leave it ajar. I GOT PISSED and raised my voice.

My food is in there and this is probably why sometimes it goes bad very quickly and I have to throw it out.

THEY ARE FUCKED!!!

I want to say that not everyone is surely like him, but how do we know unless we have lived with them.

Most of the expats or refugees here do NOT live with the locals. They rent from them either the whole place, or a short term room, but they usually have more money than to just rent a room long term. I’ve been living with this family now for over a year.
I know I’m repeating myself, but this is a HUGE example of people being braindead.I have to constantly repeat myself over and over again with them online. They make mistakes all the time when either responding to a hiring ad I’ve placed or doing work for me. And even when I am talking to a company, whether a restaurant, salon or health food store, it doesn’t matter. Many lose business because I’ve had enough of babysitting them. If they can’t answer 2 simple questions, I’ll go to the store that has slightly more brains.
I write them messages on WhatsApp, “hi, how are you?” and then my question. Minimum 50% of the time they just say Hola or Hola and how are you doing, and then ignore the question. Again, these are usually businesses. It just happened to me on 02-23-23 with a male hairdresser. Normally I speak with female hairdressers.
As I mentioned already but clearly it happens ALL the time, I ask 2-3 questions, I get only one answer back and this is across the board no matter who I’m talking to.
I just got a response from Rappi which is like an Uber Eats food delivery app. For the second time my US credit card works fine when I pay for their promotional package, but when I go to order FOOD, it won’t work. They know it’s a problem and they don’t fix it. Same with Didi. I never had a problem with Rappi until late last year. Mind you, now that I know more about the digital prison, it may have been the evils doing this, but I know Mexico now, and a lot of the time, my US credit card won’t work here because they don’t have their merchant account set to take foreign credit cards even though Mexico is a TOURIST COUNTRY. The only places where it works 99% of the time is at hotels and most restaurants. Even fucking ETN (a higher end bus line) doesn’t let you use it and then they blame my card. I’ve wasted hours upon hours calling my credit card company and they tell me there was no transaction that came through, even declined.

Back to Rappi – So the guy who spoke English called me, and asked if maybe I want to pay with Rappi Pay. I tried to cut him off because of course he’s not thinking. I ask, will I be able to fund the account with my US credit card?

He thinks so, but isn’t sure.

Someone finally emails me and starts talking about some Rappi Cuenta (no clue what it is), she tells me I have to fill out a form and THEN tells me she’s closing the ticket LOL

She doesn’t give me the form, doesn’t ask me if I have any other questions, or even wait to see if I even want to fill out the form, NOTHING.

I wrote back giving them shit and then she writes back saying yes, they accept Pay Pal.

I NEVER asked if they take Pay Pal, I asked if they allow me to fund their Rappi Pay with a US credit card (sigh).
I’ve ditched the other braindead cocina economica scammer Antonio. I was already getting suspicious of him regarding other things, and now I’m sure he was going to scam me out of my commission on our partnership with me promoting land to expats and refugees.

I was speaking to a young woman I hired who told me that whatever he gave me doesn’t make any sense, and neither was his demand that my client sign an LOI before the woman even saw the land. He also never gave me coordinates. Scam or braindead? You decide.
So, I started going to a new cocina economica. They appear nice now that they see me coming more than once, but on Friday they couldn’t even figure out how to give me 3 meals.

I brought my 3 glass containers and said I wanted one of each meal. It took them around 10-15 minutes to discuss it amongst themselves and in the end I had to tell them what to put in the containers because they were literally going to put one thing in the container (like one piece of the fried beef) instead of 3 orders of soup or 3 orders of veggies. SMH

They can’t even figure out that the way they were going to do it would mean they would have had to give me 3 takeout containers instead of putting everything into my one glass container.

I get that it’s NEW for them, but I don’t even work there, I wasn’t even thinking about what would go into the containers and I had to figure it out for them.

Then they didn’t give me 3 soup portions and I had to take it back to get them to put another order in. Then they didn’t include the water. I had to remind them.

And it took one guy 3 trips to my table before he gave me my change.

Today is Monday, the guy was going to charge me 3-4 pesos more. I had to ask why, he couldn’t tell me why, he just said yes yes, your amount is right. sigh
I say something is toxic and they scoff at me. This happens all the time with different people. This has mainly happened in Morelia which has MORE health food stores than the other two cities I was in AND is a middle class or upper middle class city, but I think it happened in Colima too. My point is, it doesn’t matter if there’s health food stores in the city, they almost ALL eat, drink and use toxic everything. In fact, it is so bad, that I lost my temper once because the cocina economica guy Antonio once again made fun of me because I had told him that the glaze inside their nice bowls is toxic with lead. He didn’t care or want to hear about it and the next week he poured my salsa in that bowl and I said NO, I told you it’s toxic, and he put me down again. I had enough already at that point. I walked out. Again, NO memory or he did it on purprse because he doesn’t care that things are toxic. Whatever the reason, it’s very bad.
They don’t want to learn anything about the war and just ignore me when I talk about it. I know it’s the same worldwide, but just making that point.
They don’t want to learn about ANYTHING, not just the war. They may want to learn how things are in Canada, but that’s about it. If I tell them it’s horrific there and a communist country, they just ignore me and STILL want to go. Because they are slaves and enjoy being slaves, they will have NO PROBLEMS in Canada.
Speaking of slaves, they will walk out of a store that forces them to wear the slave muzzle and instead of taking it off, they continue to wear it even in the car alone and then even when they get out of the car and go inside the house or restaurant.

They have no problem suffocating themselves and killing their brain cells and I have to pay the price because I get very very triggered by ongoing braindead morons. And this has NOTHING to do with their level of income which the new age cultist tried to use as an excuse as to why they are braindead LOL. THAT is being braindead.

This is WHY I believe that 90% of the entire country has WILLINGLY rolled up their sleeves to take the death jab. They have always had the slave mentality and they are low IQ.
A driver who picked me up from an Airbnb to take me to another Airbnb shoved 2 huge boxes (they were mine) into his trunk before I saw what was going on because I was upstairs.

I thought it was strange that they fit easily in the trunk. I thought his trunk was just large.

He ended up breaking one of them and all of my stuff from that one box spilled into his trunk. I may have even lost something because I didn’t find out about what happened until hours later when it was clear my items weren’t in the same order they are normally in. Now I have to find new big boxes and that’s hard to find and I loved these 2 boxes, they were of very good thick quality and even had handles on the sides. That’s another example of sheer stupidity and I have to pay the price.
They sometimes give me misinformation so I can’t trust what some of them say. That’s even about the weather or the price of utilities.
12 times now in 8 months I have had HUGE issues trying to order food from restaurants through WhatsApp.
Every time I try to order I’m using Google translate, so they don’t know I’m a Gringa, and they probably don’t speak English anyway. I can’t call is what I’m saying.

Every time I want to order (this was in 3 different cities) it takes around 45-60 minutes, sometimes 2 hours just to get my simple questions answered and to order.

8-10 times now AFTER I have ordered what I want, I NEVER get my food.

Sometimes they disappear, once the guy was trying to force me to use some map PIN from my phone (I don’t use my toxic phone if I can help it and I already gave the guy my address 3 times) and when I said I don’t know how and can’t, he just left WhatsApp and never sent me my food. I lost almost 45 minutes of my life and was STARVING.

Another time – Just tonight after 2 hours of me starving and wanting food, the asshole says that I gave him the wrong information, so he’s not sending me my food. I had no idea what he was talking about and he wouldn’t tell me what he was talking about. He just said have a good night and left while I was starving to death and furious.

Another time – I was trying to order (again in Morelia) and the guy just disappeared. I know he was due to close soon, but he was taking on average 1-2 minutes (sometimes 3) to answer a simple YES or NO question – sigh.

Every time I ask simple questions, they can’t answer them. It’s not just this guy.

And when they fuck up like giving me the wrong delivery amount of $30 pesos and I REFUSE to pay the $90 pesos for delivery after the driver gives me another amount, the owner of the cocina economica starts screaming at me as if it’s my fault.
Another time it took an hour to order because the girl kept walking away from WhatsApp, so at the end when I asked how much delivery was she said I don’t know, the driver decides that and she refused to get it for me.I was FURIOUS because every other restaurant tells me, so I said forget about it, cancel my order. 30 minutes later she messages me to tell me my order is ready LOL I said I am NOT paying for it, I told you I’m cancelling it. She started screaming at me.
In Tepic, another time a guy didn’t take down my phone number and left the restaurant and the driver went to the wrong address. No one EVER called me and after an hour of me waiting for my food I was FURIOUS. I called over and over and send messages on the WhatsApp and on Facebook, and NO RESPONSE.Even the next day, he doesn’t reach out to me. It was only the day after that when he sent me ads on WhatsApp to buy food from him I said you have GOT TO BE KIDDING ME, you are the asshole who left me stranded with no food and you want me to buy food from you???That’s when I find out that he never bothered to take down my phone number and the driver went to the wrong address.The food was really good at that restaurant, so I was very very upset and he lost a good customer. Of course NO apology, he never took responsibility for his mistakes at all.
The food is usually fucked up in some way. I say no spicy, I get spicy. I say no pork, I get pork. Tomatoes are missing.

Another restaurant was fine and I had ordered twice already when all of a sudden they start overcharging me. I told them the amount was wrong, but they had already sent the driver.

I couldn’t even understand what was going on and was wasting my time and was hungry, so the driver had to go back to get the regular containers and the price was adjusted. Then I realize after opening the bag (I trusted that they had corrected the problem and they hadn’t) that they gave me small containers instead of their large ones that I paid for (not the super large). They refused to fix it, ripped me off and lost me as a customer, but you see, they DON’T CARE. That’s the problem.
Another night – I ask for the delivery price and the guy wanted that map pin. I said NO, if you can’t figure it out without the map pin I’m going with someone else.

He sends me a picture of the house I’m in and I say yes, that’s it.

He says you want to order, so I say… You STILL haven’t given me the delivery rate and NO MENU. This is how stupid they are. If memory serves, after I wasted almost 45 minutes ordering from him, he also refused to send me my order.
They take offense to a lot of things I say even though I’m not insulting them. It’s happened 3 times, but again, this is a Latino thing and another expat’s daughter who is around 10 said they are very sensitive.

Back in 2012 I once had a Colombian online freak out on me because I spelled the country Columbia instead of COLOMBIA. I didn’t know.

And when there’s the language barrier and goolag translate sucks so it makes it harder, but still, they have this perception that Americans hate them and so if I say I don’t want tacos, they take that personally without even knowing WHY I don’t want to eat tacos for every meal. SMH
Off topic because this isn’t about Mexicans, but rather about low IQ braindead evil supporting expats who tell me how I SHOULD TALK.

In a zombie expat fakebook group for Mexico I got bullied non stop (that’s how long the thread was) because I said I was looking for a restaurant with Lebanese food not cooked by a Mexican, but by a Lebanese.

OMG

Do I want a Lebanese cooking Mexican for me??? NO!!!

And back when I was still new here, one Mexican American on Fakebook got upset because I asked if anyone knew where I could place a help wanted ad since I was looking for a Mexican VA (virtual assistant).

Americans wanted the job and I said no, I can’t afford you, but it wasn’t only that, I want a local because they are FROM HERE. Dahhh. They know how to search for things, talk to people, have contacts, etc. Some of the Americans got upset that I wouldn’t hire them – sigh

When this woman said she would help me even for free, she changed her mind after seeing my post because I didn’t want to hire an American.

That’s just FUCKED!!! I’m in this fucking country and now you don’t want me to hire LOCALS???? That’s just one more example that even if they live in the US for years, they are STILL BRAINDEAD.

So be aware that these are issues I’ve had to deal with and it’s NOT fun.
Another example… I had been talking to a Mexican Aussie still living in Australia and we were going back and forth and she was going on about how I should handle things here and her telling me what to do all the time which irked me. Then she tells me how Mexicans are getting pissed off at expats because the cost of living is going up. I don’t blame them for that, I’m pissed off about that too. I brought this topic up a month after I got here. I’m SICK of expats or refugees flashing their money around, but I finally figured out a couple of week ago in October 2023 that it’s really the locals who cause this problem.

Even if an expat gives you more money, that doesn’t mean you should RAISE your rates. Just take the extra money from just them, but they become greedy and raise their prices for everyone. So the expats and refugees start the problem and the locals finish it. The same thing happened in Panama and Costa Rica.

I had something negative happen with a Mexican and then something happened with an American, so I wrote to her and said see, this is typical Mexican and this is typical American. We can talk about it because it’s true.

I never heard back from her and she hasn’t been living in Mexico for a while and YET, she can’t handle the truth.

I think this is why Latinos drink and party so much, because they try to escape reality.
With my experiences in Colima, I had some very unintelligent Mexicans there which made me nervous. It was one (not the only) reason I didn’t want to stay.

I even came across a Truther, but he didn’t speak English.

I asked him to recommend another city/state because I had to leave, and I told him what I needed.

After wasting at least 20-30 minutes of my life going back and forth with him, he didn’t even know if they had good internet or organic farms which is my prerequisite and I told him this in the blurb I sent him.

Then WHY give me the recommendation??? sigh

Others (even one Mexican American) said they would help me find a rental and then didn’t follow through. I missed one day going out to see the rentals and the next day the guy was too busy and then he just disappeared.

With another guy I didn’t ask him to help me, he just offered. Then I had to ask him over and over again if he found me anything yet. Of course he never did. THIS is normal. They say they are going to help and it’s just so they can talk to you because you are American or Canadian. Or they want to scam you.
I had one younger guy say he was going to help me find a house for rent. He said he would help me find sea salt and some other things, so he came over and we went out shopping. He paid once for the InDrive fare $50 pesos, and because I’m not stupid, when I got back into the driver’s car, I asked how much the price was going to be. The prices the driver gave me were too much. I knew I was being gringo priced.

After finishing at the next store I ended up getting tired and was cold, so I said I wanted to get hot chocolate with baileys and kalua (did you know that kalua is Mexican?) He couldn’t find any restaurant that had that, so I said let’s just go to the Italian restaurant I used to go to all the time. I hadn’t been there in ages and I knew they must have something. Note, most Italian restaurants in Morelia and probably all of Mexico are a lot more expensive.

He ordered a pizza and 2 beers. He wanted to go to a hotel for another drink and I said I can’t because the stupid room I rented after being forced to leave my real room due to the murder, had no way for me to get up there without the woman letting me in, and she goes to bed at 10 pm. He ended up not having all of the money to pay for what he ordered, so I had to pay the difference

Despite him saying he would pay me back, I never got it after asking him over and over again and even my VA called him. It was $180 pesos. I’m sure he did this on purpose. I will never pay for anyone’s meal again. I had already gifted him with a hot coffee with the bailey/kalua which was $120 and the only thing he had done for me was sort of decide which store we would go to plus pay that $50.
One holistic woman in Colima tried to help me a lot, but she didn’t even know there was another pseudo health food store in Colima even though she lives there and the discussion about there being no other health food stores happened a few times, so it wasn’t just once. I had to find out this information from the only health food store they have over here which has nothing, just nuts, dried fruit, grains and some oils and junk snacks. They didn’t even have fluoride free sea salt or Himalayan salt.
Another example. I put out an ad in a food group begging for recommendations for a good restaurant. A guy says we have great food, different menu every day, gives me their name and then tells me to look them up on fakebook. I’m like, you can’t just give me the link, instead you are going to make me search for it??? Even Americans do this sometimes and I can NEVER find the group or page they are talking about. And if memory serves, this guy also lived in the US for a while.
More examples that their attention to detail and reading and typing communication skills are horrific. Again, this is in both Spanish and English before you say it’s a language barrier because it’s NOT.

A Mexican VA I hired quit the contract because she knew she wouldn’t do a good job. She offered to help me anyway, but she disappears all the time. Last night I had to repeat the same question 4 TIMES before I said, this is my 4th time asking you. She apologized and finally told me, but she does this ALL the time.

Around a year ago I told the health food store I needed an empty glass bottle 1 liter and 1/2 a liter. The next day she asks me again what size I need.

If I tell them what I’m ordering at a restaurant and list it off, but my list is in between questions, they can’t handle it, they need me to do ALL of this work for them repeating my order again because they are too lazy to just copy it at the end and ask, is this what you want? And several times they miss items I ordered even after I give them the complete list.
That holistic woman (never took the death jab) who was really nice, was trying to help me find a rental place.She ended up looking for something that was for 6 months when I told her I only wanted it for one month so I could figure out where to go next. In fact, before I even thought about leaving Colima because too many negative things were happening to me there, I told her I needed it for one month so I could look for an unfurnished place. I only wanted furnished so I could look around for unfurnished and buy my own things.
All that time wasted with her time and mine because she doesn’t listen, but they are almost all like that.
I am trying to order food from a restaurant in Morelia after giving them my address 3-5 minutes earlier. I was waiting for a price for the delivery. He or she had to ask me for the address AGAIN because they can’t remember I just gave it to them.

Again, this is not a one-off situation. This happens all the time.
A Mexican truther (VERY VERY rare to find) who prefers the US over Mexico told me some things about the truth here so I asked him for links to prove what he said.

He started talking and NOT replying to my questions so I had no idea what question he was answering and it got so bad that I couldn’t understand anything he was saying. I kept asking him more questions to try and get to the bottom of what he was saying and then I said, “you are confusing me.”

He had even gave me a link to someone who’s part of the WEF and who has NOTHING to do with Mexico or Mexicans. I told him, I only want information on Mexicans. I wasted a ton of my time having to get clarification. It really stressed me out.

His response… “You know, you can find that info yourself online too. I was just helping out.” as IF I have time to find all of this. He’s already read it all IN SPANISH, why can’t he just give it to me. Why does everyone always say “you can look it up yourself” when they make comments that should be backed up with evidence?

I told him, I never said you weren’t trying to help me. My point was, his communication was so bad that I was more confused after he said everything he said than before. I know I’ll never hear from him again and I didn’t. It all boils down to NOT being about to say how you feel around these people.
At an Airbnb in Colima I asked the woman to bring me more plastic bags because I had none and I hate throwing food in a big garbage can and then it stinks up the whole place because you have to wait weeks for it to fill up if you are only one person like me. By the time she left to come over to the Airbnb to feed the cats and bring me the bags which was maybe 30-45 minutes later, she forgot them. sigh
Another example of sheer stupidity by a Mexican VA and yes she’s 17, but still. I’d repeated to her 3 times NOT to check Airbnb for me because I can do that myself. I needed her to check other rental sites.

It turns out she was NOT the only Mexican or even Latino who did this, so it had nothing to do with her age. I had to hire people from other Spanish speaking countries because I couldn’t find a local who did a good job, stuck around, had even a small brain or didn’t give me attitude. Several Mexicans who I tried to hire give me attitude and some men think so highly of themselves I get very triggered by their EGO.

Then she says, “but I’m asking them if they will take cash.” I had mentioned that I’ve had nothing but problems with Airbnb hosters NOT taking cash and one asshole gave me two bad reviews just because I asked him twice. He tried to make me look like I was insane. I only asked a second time because I thought he would trust me since I already stayed with him.

So her reasoning as to why she did something I told her NOT to do was because I mentioned that in passing. I told her I can do that myself.

Also, she had already looked into Veracruz and told me all the houses were ugly, so why would she look in Veracruz again.

In fact, I told her that you already said the houses were ugly and she STILL goes to look on Airbnb wasting my money.

Another mistake she made… she looks for an unfurnished apartment (long term) when I told her NO, I want a house long term.
Another example of low IQ.
So I’m in this lower priced hotel in Colima because I had no place to go (sigh) and I turn on the shower and it sprays everywhere.

There’s no door, no shower curtain, or no lip to keep the water contained so it doesn’t spread everywhere.

I thought it would just spray straight.

Well in the end, the water went EVERYWHERE. All over the towel on the toilet, my Kindle and the toilet paper.

So I go to tell them and 3 (not just one person) comes into my room along with the maintenance guy. I find (same thing happened in Panama) that it takes 3 of them to make one decision.

The cleaning lady hands me the stopper pad. They have these plastic pads they put over the drain in the showers. It’s for animals.

Anyway, I had looked before, and never saw it on the drain, but I didn’t bend down.

So she hands it to me and then says this is why the water was spraying all over the place.

I wrote back on Google translate, no, that is for the drain, that has nothing to do with the shower head. sigh

They never ended up fixing it because they couldn’t understand anything.

Very very nice people, but no brains upstairs.
Antonio who I tried to partner with (see above) couldn’t even remember what his wife cooked for the menu for the day. I also had to constantly ask him questions over and over again about what is needed in the property listing I’m doing for him. It won’t matter if I type if in Spanish or English, that’s my point. In the end it was so difficult dealing with him, I quit doing it. I wasted over a month of my life.
Another story about Antonio the concina economica guy. I thought we were becoming friends, so I buy him a bottle of tequila because that’s all he cares about SMH.

The bottle breaks the day after I give it to him as he drops me off at my Airbnb in the pouring rain.

The next time I see him he calls me the devil and that I somehow made his bottle break. I tell him we need to return it to Cotsco and get a new one even though I don’t have the membership, but I have the receipt. He doesn’t want to.

Since it broke, he’s asked me minimum 5 times to buy him another bottle as if I’m RICH, when I already spent around $15-20 on this one. I think he was almost always drunk.

Then on Friday he starts saying I need to pay for the salsa he makes me. I was starting to get concerned because he never asked me to pay for that before. He was too distracted by some other guy (friend) he was talking to and he forgot about it 2 seconds later.

He also bitches about how I’m always complaining about the food.

I don’t lie. He asks me how it is and I tell him. If the broccoli is too hard, I tell him, if something is too salty, I tell him. Not enough salt, again, I tell him.

But he conveniently doesn’t remember all the times I tell him the food is good and can ONLY remember the times when I tell him what’s wrong with it.

If he doesn’t want to know, he shouldn’t ask me over and over again because most of the time I didn’t want to say anything. I can’t help it the quality of food is inconsistent and that’s a problem in most 3rd world countries from what I’ve learned. sigh

I started to get really pissed at him. He says we are friends, and then he tells me how the ride his wife gave me would normally cost $70 pesos if I took a taxi. I agreed to pay, but certainly not taxi prices.

I know he only wants me for my money, the same with the restaurant guy in Tepic (good food there.) When I said I had to leave because the Airbnb host once again rented out the place from underneath me, he says I’m going to miss you. I said only because of my money.
Not that I considered Antonio my concina economica guy a friend friend (I’d never have a low IQ friend), but I sit and talk to him, try to educate him and I’m friendly with them. I brought them popcorn, I bought some Bailey’s Irish Cream and Kahlua for specialty coffees and I’ve shared it with him four times and his wife once or twice. I didn’t have to buy the tequila for him.

I read somewhere in an expat group (zombie) that once you give them money, they keep hounding you for it over and over again and she was right. I should never have bought him the bottle. He didn’t even appreciate the thought, forget about the cost of it.

He has given me a tomato which I really appreciated, but I don’t EXPECT him to do that for me over and over again.
I can’t even make friends here because most don’t consider me a friend, only a WALLET. My neighbor Gaby isn’t like that. She has picked up things for me and if it’s small doesn’t want my money. She has put a BBQ together for me that I can’t even use and didn’t want the $50 pesos. I will miss her when I move, but even her brain is dying, I can tell she doesn’t remember things and I’ve only been here 6 months.Since I finished this article even SHE has changed.It was the day of the dead 1 1/2 weeks ago and she was out going to parties all the time. One night I asked if she was around to pick up the blueberries I bought but didn’t like so I wanted to give them to her. It was the second day I had been trying to give them to her.
She said she was at the party and wouldn’t be home until later. I said half joking half serious if there’s anything left over bring me something (not spicy) or a margarita and I smiled and did a jajaj.

I NEVER heard back from her again. She never came to pick up the blueberries or message to see how I was doing knowing how stressed I was not being able to find a place.

Actually she did message me to (get this) give me links to rooms for rent. WTF??? She knew I wanted a house and she said she would look around and then she sends me links to ROOMS???

I couldn’t tell if she was insulting me, being braindead, or she lied when she said she wasn’t friends with the slum landlords and they told her to send me the links to get me out of the house.

I told her no, I need a house, not a room. You know I have furniture. Yes I said Gracias.

After 1-2 days I left her a brownie. She said thank you and smiled and that was it, it was clear she got upset about something (I can’t read braindead people’s MINDS) and the friendship I thought we sort of had was GONE. sigh
They don’t care if they don’t make money. As shocking as this is, this is my conclusion. They don’t want to spend any time answering any of my questions via WhatsApp. That’s hairdressers, someone who does pedicures, and it took 3 tries and two different people to get my simple questions answered about what the esthetician uses when she does facials.
If I ask a question they don’t like, they often say, “if you don’t want to order, that’s fine.” They say this a lot. They give up very very easily and walk away from my money all of the time. This shows me they are very weak.

I also think it’s because they have family and friends who will support them if they need to pay for things we have to work very hard to pay for like rent, utilities, etc. Why else would a person just walk away from money over very basic questions. Also, it’s because my questions probably make them feel uncomfortable and they’ve never had a Mexican ask them these types of questions or care about what kinds of oil they use when cooking, shampoo or hair color they use, say this or that is toxic, etc.

To them and most zombie expats here, I’m just a difficult person. To me I’m asking basic questions EVERYONE should be asking if they give a shit about their health, body, what they put in and on their body, etc.

If you have never been sick, you won’t care, but I’ve been sick for years and I know what’s toxic and not toxic just by how it makes my body feel. But my point is that these are questions they should KNOW because it’s THEIR BUSINESS.

Anyway there are my views on the Mexican personality. It’s not just that they don’t have brains, they don’t want to LEARN ANYTHING new.

This is by far the biggest issue I have to deal with here in Mexico is the low IQness and my convenient store owner said they are lazy. Plus the disrespect and not selling me whatever they are selling to others.

Near to where this house was Gaby found me a cocina economica and while I only like their broth, I wanted to order it every day or every other day for delivery because there’s no way I could walk there.

I ordered 3 times and the last time I ordered the broth they had sold out so I sent a cry emoji. They knew I spoke English and one of the sons spoke English.

Instead of just sending one back or something to liven the mood, I’m now pretty sure they literally thought I was crying. SMH

The next day I asked for the menu, they just ignored me over and over again. I never contacted them again.

Your experiences may vary depending on where you live, whether you do the things I do when dealing with locals, and whether you care about what I’ve mentioned.

I will continue to post any extreme examples of my views on the Mexican personality or how stupid they are here, especially because I need to vent.

After tonight’s 2 hour BS fiasco with another restaurant and me getting no food, I don’t care anymore. People need to know what it’s like to live here in Mexico and what the average Mexican personality is like.

If you don’t have to deal with restaurants or you only use the expensive Rappi or Didi Food apps where you can’t even write notes or speak to the restaurant before ordering (I try to contact them privately at times, but many times they don’t respond), just the problems surrounding food won’t matter to you. I do admit that when I go into restaurants it’s a lot easier, but I don’t go eat out most of the time. I did when I first go here, and I wasted a lot of money.

I hope you are well.

What it’s like living in Mexico

My views on the Mexican personality

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