General Reports

[KBToys]

To be able to work for $20 an hour in the US, a Mexican would need a green card with Social Security number. Not so many of those.

It's not like anyone in Tijuana can just go to San Diego to work.

There are also US residency requirements to maintain the green card.

I have several renters that are not citizens and don't have green cards. They are from Venezuela and other countries on asylum and work. They have been seeking their green card for 5-8 years. They need to submit for a worker permit and renew every 2 years. Some make more money than I do and are quite successful running their own businesses. They have told me their family members that arent citizens have purchased homes in SoCal and enjoying the appreciation since purchase. Even though Venezuela is in a rough financial situation, I’ve been told by some renters they have maids, drivers, and security for cheap in their country. I’m talking about $100-$200 per week for a full time maid, driver, security.

[Explorer8939]

I think it's more the Tijuana-SanDiego inflated pricing. You would figure that things are more expensive in a big modern city like Mexico City than Tijuana, but just about everything in Mexico City is cheaper. Monterrey too. The reason is that there are tons of people working in San Diego making $20/ hour at fast foods and living in Tijuana like upper class folks. People living in Mexico City don't get the $20/ hour minimum wage.

To be able to work for $20 an hour in the US, a Mexican would need a green card with Social Security number. Not so many of those.

It's not like anyone in Tijuana can just go to San Diego to work.

There are also US residency requirements to maintain the green card.

[Sol12]

Per HK X / Twitter account they will now have the shuttle available at both PedEast and PedWest.

[TjBrazil]

When that 20 an hour wage starts, it's going to bankrupt a lot of food places. McDonald's is getting so expensive people are going to stop going. Food inflation and 20.00 an hour will be the end. These liberals are dumb as hell. They don't understand that fast food isn't supposed to cost the same as fine dining LOL.

[Nothing24]

Monday alley was fairly quiet. Monday is the off day in mexixo for bars clubs. I showed up buzzed and thought the policia were guys in costumes. That was my 1st reaction. Hk didn't have a lot of guys. Decent amount of woman at the other 2 main bars as well. Woke up today and a friend needed me to go to her medical appointment with her. The other parents waiting outside were probably wondering what inwas doing there. Then the guard came to unlock the gate to let me in like I was some one important. She had me walk to a school near zona and then proceeded to have me teach English to her 11 year-old students. Mostly they wanted me to translate stuff and then the stuff they were asking me to translate. Was mostly bad stuff. It was quite funny. I probably never had that much fun in mexixo before.

Alright, we need a Dogers69 reality show LOL.

[Dogers69]

Monday alley was fairly quiet. Monday is the off day in mexixo for bars clubs. I showed up buzzed and thought the policia were guys in costumes. That was my 1st reaction. Hk didn't have a lot of guys. Decent amount of woman at the other 2 main bars as well. Woke up today and a friend needed me to go to her medical appointment with her. The other parents waiting outside were probably wondering what inwas doing there. Then the guard came to unlock the gate to let me in like I was some one important. She had me walk to a school near zona and then proceeded to have me teach English to her 11 year-old students. Mostly they wanted me to translate stuff and then the stuff they were asking me to translate. Was mostly bad stuff. It was quite funny. I probably never had that much fun in mexixo before.

[Arthasboi]

I think it's more the Tijuana-SanDiego inflated pricing. You would figure that things are more expensive in a big modern city like Mexico City than Tijuana, but just about everything in Mexico City is cheaper. Monterrey too. The reason is that there are tons of people working in San Diego making $20/ hour at fast foods and living in Tijuana like upper class folks. People living in Mexico City don't get the $20/ hour minimum wage.

This is so true. A person working 30 hours a week (which is normal for fast food) and paying taxes would make after tax dollars of around $450 a week (this includes SS / MEDI tax and whatever local / state taxes apply, in addition to roughly 10% income tax).

Compare that to mexico (as a whole, tijuana is likely expensive for most mexicans) households making that in a month. I've heard economic reports stating mexicans are getting around $800 per household, which may or may not include multiple workers.

I see a lot of conflicting reports when it comes to wages though. We all know taxis working at the border make bank (relatively speaking). I've read on payrollmexico.com that the minimum wage is 300 MXN per day (a little more than $20/ day USD) in the border region, which tijuana would be. I am certain many people work for this wage, and the averages have to be skewed by incredibly well paid professionals.

On quora people are saying $800/ month for call center jobs. Put this all into perspective. How much should a girl make for spreading her legs for you? No doubt more than a normal job, but how much more? And how many clients / hours should she do it for? I think its reasonable for a girl to get half a day's wage in one go. And that would be a normal street girl doing a quickie (although I'd say 20 minutes or half an hour should be a quickie, not 5 minutes). Given this information, a girl *should* be charging around 10 USD for a quickie. However we know for a fact that even street girls are charging much more. This is because Americans are paying it. There are many people who are not on this board who would pay even American prices for these girls, simply because its legal here. I understand why they do it, but the reason many of us come to mexico is because its cheaper.

I've seen 'kids', and by that I mean college kids who are roughly 19-20 years old, filming everything that goes on near HK club. These guys do border excursions for the thrill and novelty, just to say they did it. They record things to put on the internet for clout. They also are willing to pay these outrageous prices because they are only doing it once. I'm not a regular by any means, but any time I go to California I now also stop by Tijuana.

On my last trip I met a gringo looking guy who spoke perfect spanish. He worked at burger king and lives like a king here in Tijuana. His rent was like $200/ month, and he eats out every day (most Americans cannot even afford this lifestyle). Americans are pushing up prices fast in Tijuana, and it won't slow down. This is very specific to Tijuana though, given san diego is incredibly expensive. I'm sure there are border towns (less safe ones) in the central border or eastern border area where US incomes have little or no effect, but then again how good is the mongering? Unfortunately mongering is dying (if you read the south american forums) in a lot of the countries, and not getting better anywhere. We might be the last generation to experience working girls who do not cost us a fortune.

I'm not sure if we can provide a solution to this economic death spiral of prostitution. I was thinking there should be an app kind of like airbnb but for girls haha. You know, with reviews and listed prices or something. It's just too much ring around the rosie trying to figure out what the prices should be and such and what services are advertised and what are actually provided. The concept that we have to research each individual girl on the forums, although I'm appreciative for a source, is a bit overwhelming. Prostitution has, for so long, been decentralized and disorganized. Its a part of being a gutter industry I suppose.

I have seen on mileroticos (like a mexican backpage) that girls can be had for 1000 pesos. No doubt some of these are scammers. Some of the grannies (and some are likely trannies) are charging 500 for a half or full hour. I am sure a large part of mongering in MX is reserved for locals. To be honest, if I were a local I wouldn't use this forum because I wouldn't want gringos inflating the prices. Can you imagine being a mexican living and working in Tijuana and a girl is asking for 100 USD? That is unreachable for mexicans. That would be like a hunter biden quality call girl for them.

[OPIllini]

https://www.borderreport.com/news/af...-into-tijuana/

You can now enter Tijuana from Pedwest again. Long overdue.

[Jackie888]

Mexico is a expensive place. I took a Uber in alberquerque other day it was cheaper than Tijuana would of been. I spent 9 dollars to go from plaza centilla area on constitution to go 3 blocks in straight line south it was 9 dollars took driver 4 minutes.

I think it's more the Tijuana-SanDiego inflated pricing. You would figure that things are more expensive in a big modern city like Mexico City than Tijuana, but just about everything in Mexico City is cheaper. Monterrey too. The reason is that there are tons of people working in San Diego making $20/ hour at fast foods and living in Tijuana like upper class folks. People living in Mexico City don't get the $20/ hour minimum wage.

[Hargow20]

Pedwest is open from 6 am-2 pm.

Last week they opened PedWest back up going from Mexico to the US. Starting Monday they will have it open going from the US into Mexico. This will only be open from 3 pm till 11 pm everyday so not sure if this really helps any of us.

Seems pretty obvious that this is just to help those going back and forth to do holiday shopping. At least it's something.

[Dogers69]

Just a heads up. I did my 1st visit to Zona since covid on weds and I found plenty of doable street girls around dusk, prices $20-450 pesos plus room. Thurs and Friday did an Otay crossing visit to friend that lives in cucupah area. I crossed around 8:30 am and had suitcase bag and back pack in hand. I go to 1st taxi stand and get $28 quote and knew in past I had gone to same general area for around $15. I text my friend and she got me an Uber which I also did for Friday return trip. Uber both ways 169 pesos so with tip a cost of $10-11 verses $28 cab fleecing. And I admire anyone that can navigate that traffic in tijuana.

Mexico is a expensive place. I took a Uber in alberquerque other day it was cheaper than Tijuana would of been. I spent 9 dollars to go from plaza centilla area on constitution to go 3 blocks in straight line south it was 9 dollars took driver 4 minutes.

[CaliGuy33]

I visited for my 10th trip this past September and it was my first time back in a while. I had previously gone in Feb of 2020 before the lock down & in Nov 2021.

This was the first time in 10 trips that I didn't really enjoy myself. Maybe it was me, but I'll detail my experiences below.

The peso traded at 0. 169 when I was there, so easy 20/1 conversions were made a bit tougher. While prices have increased slightly over the past 2-3 years since covid, I've always managed to find someone I clicked with who would take $1500-1600 MXN or roughly $75-80. Because the dollar is down, that should actually now be $1200-1400 MXN in theory.

While most services & goods haven't jumped out of control. I was still able to get cheap cabs / ubers, dirt cheap food, cheap liquor. The price of pussy has skyrocketed. $100 USD was the bare minimum for any club girls, and even some street meat prices were ridiculous. Almost all interactions with girls were short, superficial, fake or all business.

I got into town, settled into Rizo de Oro. The remodeled rooms are nice, but alas, the prices have gone up here too. With Adelitas out of the picture, there isn't much luxury hotel competition for Cascadas & Rizo.

Headed to Calimax to get my supplies. Some toiletries, TP for the room, plastic cups, drinks, tequila & rum, snacks, etc.

Took a lap around the stroll and didn't see anything interesting, so I decided it was time to see my fav mesero at tropical. Pulled a girl from Tropical just to get the lay of the land. She asked for $2000 MXN, I countered with $1600 and we settled on $1800 MXN. She was service focused, average, but fun. Kinda like a safe backup.

2nd day I decided to check out Chicago. I've had some great girls from there in the past. I only brought $200 with me, I don't like taking my entire wallet. I know exactly how much I spent on drinks and exactly what should have been in my wallet. I pulled my cash out to give a tip to the doorman on the way out, and somewhere between the door of Chicago & the top of the stairs at jalos this * took the rest of my cash. I went to pay for the room at the top of the stairs and realized it was gone, so I quickly went back and retraced my steps. I almost gave her the benefit of the doubt, but when I came back upstairs she quickly made up an excuse why she had to leave and couldn't continue so I knew something was up. Typically if I knew the mesero or frequent a place, I would say something, but this is the first time in 10 trips, so I chalked it up to experience.

Left Chicago, went to HK. Found another average chick at an average price.

Day 3 was probably the best of the bunch, but def the most expensive. I made arrangements with Vixens Tijuana VIP because they service Zona hotels. https://vixenstjvip.com/models-catalog/.

I met with Tamara, a cute 21 why / o. Curvy & baby fat, she easily had the best body of the entire trip, and her bubbly, playful personality was a great match. She arrived, showered and changed into the requested lingerie. She likes it pretty rough, and knew how to take some spanks and nibbles along with a good pounding. Her head game is easily top 5 I've had in Tijuana. We played round 1, then got some room service, then played round 2. All in all - 3 hours cost me $4500 MXN. But what turned me off was that we agreed to CIM, I paid the extra fee, and she called it off in the heat of the moment. I shoul have blasted her in the face anyways, but I didn't want to cause a scene or make any trouble.

Day 4 I played it safe and went back to the safe backup from Day 1.

The interaction this time was cold with most girls. I will give Tijuana another shot, because it is the best option closest to me, but I won't be in any hurry. Stay safe out there yall!

Nice report. Good info.

I haven't been back to Tijuana in about two years. I went quite a few times during Covid. Prices seem to keep going up with worse service from the chicas. I may head over for a day as I have been craving a Latina. But I'll likely just stay a day.

[Sol12]

Last week they opened PedWest back up going from Mexico to the US. Starting Monday they will have it open going from the US into Mexico. This will only be open from 3 pm till 11 pm everyday so not sure if this really helps any of us.

Seems pretty obvious that this is just to help those going back and forth to do holiday shopping. At least it's something.

[Sol12]

Just a heads up. I did my 1st visit to Zona since covid on weds and I found plenty of doable street girls around dusk, prices $20-450 pesos plus room. Thurs and Friday did an Otay crossing visit to friend that lives in cucupah area. I crossed around 8:30 am and had suitcase bag and back pack in hand. I go to 1st taxi stand and get $28 quote and knew in past I had gone to same general area for around $15. I text my friend and she got me an Uber which I also did for Friday return trip. Uber both ways 169 pesos so with tip a cost of $10-11 verses $28 cab fleecing. And I admire anyone that can navigate that traffic in tijuana.

Taxi prices have gone up like everything in Tijuana so it's not just for gringos. I think most would agree that Uber is always cheaper. I don't use Otay but I know that the SY crossing has a board at the line to get a taxi showing the price to certain areas of the city. For whatever reason the taxi drivers keep the higher prices but they rip off locals as well.

You can also use the InDrive App that from my experience is even cheaper than Uber in other parts of Mexico.

[Luis2]

Just a heads up. I did my 1st visit to Zona since covid on weds and I found plenty of doable street girls around dusk, prices $20-450 pesos plus room. Thurs and Friday did an Otay crossing visit to friend that lives in cucupah area. I crossed around 8:30 am and had suitcase bag and back pack in hand. I go to 1st taxi stand and get $28 quote and knew in past I had gone to same general area for around $15. I text my friend and she got me an Uber which I also did for Friday return trip. Uber both ways 169 pesos so with tip a cost of $10-11 verses $28 cab fleecing. And I admire anyone that can navigate that traffic in tijuana.