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[Member #4730]

More mongering tourists from the USA need to distinguish money standards in the USA are not the same in Mexico. Real Estate values are greatly overvalued in USA therefore mortgages and rents are high. Further, USA salaries are high so we can pay our hosing costs and still have some money leftover.

One of the first things anyone should try to understand when visiting a foreign country is the purchasing power of their home currency.

For example, based on Mexican money standards, the street girls aren't doing low paid jobs, their doing middle class jobs by Mexican money standards. Yes, the bar girls are 3 x as much, but their are other factors to consider.

Really the market at the big bars became inflated because we applied USA money standards and not Mexican money standards. It's still not bad now, but if your young - 30's, like me don't think the day won't come when it'll be $300.

Yeah some of these working girls probably make more than most mongers. Enjoying all this money printing and inflating all asset classes. Not sure when the party is ending, but bubbles everywhere. Price really hasn’t kept with inflation. I paid $60-$80 a long time ago and now it is $80-100. P4P SoCal went from $200 to $250-300 and talent level really dropped. Inflation is a silent tax. The printers go BRRRRRR.

[Member #4730]

I think this pandemic is what creates the term semi pro that we like to use here. You had a certain amount of girls selling ass on SA before COVID, and now after economic devastation the numbers have exploded. It's the reason prostitution from outside America is so much better and more GFE. Hookers in America are doing it because of laziness or drug use. A girl in Mexico just needs to pay her rent because there are no jobs.

Explains it, I don't recall ever having as much success with GFE until I've been to visit the past few months or maybe I just didn't have the time to cultivate it.

[Rainman306]

More mongering tourists from the USA need to distinguish money standards in the USA are not the same in Mexico. Real Estate values are greatly overvalued in USA therefore mortgages and rents are high. Further, USA salaries are high so we can pay our hosing costs and still have some money leftover.

One of the first things anyone should try to understand when visiting a foreign country is the purchasing power of their home currency.

For example, based on Mexican money standards, the street girls aren't doing low paid jobs, their doing middle class jobs by Mexican money standards. Yes, the bar girls are 3 x as much, but their are other factors to consider.

Really the market at the big bars became inflated because we applied USA money standards and not Mexican money standards. It's still not bad now, but if your young - 30's, like me don't think the day won't come when it'll be $300.

[StRobert]

Why does someone need to buy a 180 day FMM if they are visiting Tijuana for a day or two at a time? I Have no problem paying the $30 if I am making repeat trips (each trip being greater than 6-7 days) over a 180 day period. But the way I see it you are just bribing $30 to get in -- and that money is not going to the Mexican govt.

180 days Mexican visa looks very official. Stamp, bar code, number, your name, date of birth, US passport number, date of purchase. If you do not have evidence of corruption of Mexican officers such as secret videos, photos, etc. , then your allegations of corruption are of no value.

[TjBrazil]

TJBrazil.

Just checked Seeking .com.

Last year Tijuana only had 2 dozens girls but now about 1,000 girls are listed, some very pretty. Camila posts a very pretty face pic. The other pics do not look so hot.

Tijuana may be beating Monterrey in the seeking arrangements. Let us know how well it works out.

I think this pandemic is what creates the term semi pro that we like to use here. You had a certain amount of girls selling ass on SA before COVID, and now after economic devastation the numbers have exploded. It's the reason prostitution from outside America is so much better and more GFE. Hookers in America are doing it because of laziness or drug use. A girl in Mexico just needs to pay her rent because there are no jobs.

[Rambo1969]

Now that Mexico has lifted its border restrictions I think we'll see the incidence of 180-day FMM demands for short visits drop off sharply.

Where did you read Mexico has opened land borders for tourism?

Canada opened land border today. But from what I know Mexico has not yet opened land border for tourism.

Do, Mexico pedestrian crossing will still require $30 FMM bribe.

See https://www.travelinglifestyle.net/m...rders-tourism/.

[Rambo1969]

Yep. I use Compass Cloud, too. Easy peasy. I remember one time at the Ysidro stop getting ready to depart back to America Plaza, security kicked off a few for not having tickets.

Goodbye Compass. Hello pronto!

Starting September 1, MTS and NCTD riders can use the new regional fare system, pronto. Pronto will replace the Compass Card and Cloud systems entirely, offering riders a better payment experience when choosing transit.

https://www.sdmts.com/fares-passes/pronto-fare-system

[Necropet]

Hey ya'll. Hitting up Tijuana from the 3rd to the 5th of next month. PM if you want to chill or tag team putas.

[Necropet]

You can use compass cloud app as well. I missed the trolley and had to wait since didn't have ticket, but with the app, I could have hopped on and paid while riding.

Yep. I use Compass Cloud, too. Easy peasy. I remember one time at the Ysidro stop getting ready to depart back to America Plaza, security kicked off a few for not having tickets.

[Phordphan]

Why does someone need to buy a 180 day FMM if they are visiting Tijuana for a day or two at a time? I Have no problem paying the $30 if I am making repeat trips (each trip being greater than 6-7 days) over a 180 day period. But the way I see it you are just bribing $30 to get in -- and that money is not going to the Mexican govt.

Nobody knows where the money goes after it leaves your hand, and that's not important. What is important is that when the border restrictions were in place nobody was supposed to be crossing into Mexico. Chasing girls isn't a valid reason, and doctor appointments were a marginal excuse. But the Mexicans, being a pragmatic bunch, said hey, we'll let you in but you got to buy the 180 day FMM. Which seems like a great compromise to me. It could be worse. They could stop you at the border and send you back.

Now that Mexico has lifted its border restrictions I think we'll see the incidence of 180-day FMM demands for short visits drop off sharply.

[Member #4730]

If you buy the bus ticket, the same ticket is valid for the blue line trolley if you take the trolley within 2-3 hours (expiration time is written on the ticket), so it should be $2.50 total.

You can use compass cloud app as well. I missed the trolley and had to wait since didn't have ticket, but with the app, I could have hopped on and paid while riding.

[Urfikhan]

I don't hand out tips to everybody. But I do buy a 180 day FMM every six months, which equates to about $5 per month or, in terms you can understand, one HK beer. If neither you, nor your group of spendthrifts, can afford $5 a month, none of you can afford HK's exorbitant prices, either. Why are other countries' rules so hard for gringos to comprehend?

Why does someone need to buy a 180 day FMM if they are visiting Tijuana for a day or two at a time? I Have no problem paying the $30 if I am making repeat trips (each trip being greater than 6-7 days) over a 180 day period. But the way I see it you are just bribing $30 to get in -- and that money is not going to the Mexican govt.

[Urfikhan]

Take the 992 bus from the airport too America Plaza and get on the blue line down to the border. It will cost $2. 50 for bus and $2. 50 for trolly, takes about an hour total.

If you buy the bus ticket, the same ticket is valid for the blue line trolley if you take the trolley within 2-3 hours (expiration time is written on the ticket), so it should be $2.50 total.

[Captain Solo]

Jackie worries way too much. How would anyone smuggle anything in my little car? How will they pick up the shipments not knowing when and where I will go back to US?

The cartels have developed ways and resources to smuggle thousands pounds of drugs per shipment. CBP just seized a semi trailer loaded with 3,000 Kilos of meth and Fentanyl crossing Otay Mesa, retail price is about $18 mil. Too bad they did not stake out, nab the guys who received the shipment Otay and trace them to the top distributors in the US and beat the living shit out of them.

If smuggling is easy, perhaps Jackie should smuggle a few hot HK chicas and keep them in his basement for hot entertainment every night to replace his worn out rubber dolls hehe.

The guys working in Refracc are good mechanics who can diagnose difficult mechanical problems correctly and fix them cheaply without all the bullshit and sabotages by the Mexican mechanics in OC. Wingman Jack had his car squirting oil in Pepe's parking. He had it towed to his trusted mechanics De LEO near hotel Ticuan and stayed over night. It was not a difficult problem,. He could have HK's people or Pepe's parking attendants call in mechanics to fix it quickly on the spot.

If you have any problem with the exhaust, go to Rex Muffler on Aqua Caliente in Centro. It's a large chain with good mech and warranty. An OC shop caused a leak in my exhaust. Went back a few times they could not fix it. Rex repaired it twice and fixed the problem for $15.

Newer cars with complex electronic sensors and systems like MBZ, BMW, Lexus ect should be trusted strictly to cut-throat dealers. Very few independent shops have equipment and skills to deal with them. Just don't risk letting them cause even bigger problems. But replacing parts, common mechanical problems and body work can be done quickly and cheaply in Tijuana while you spend time flirting with hot girls in bars and pumping them in beds hehe. My neighbors go crazy with their car problems but I am all relaxed thanks to Tijuana mechanics.

Federal officials make meth bust — one of largest in USA History — at Otay Mesa border crossing.

Bundles wrapped in plastic inside a semitrailer.

Federal authorities said that discovery of this methamphetamine, discovered Thursday night in a trailer that crossed from Mexico, is one of the largest busts of the drug in USA History. Authorities also found 127 pounds of fentanyl in the trailer, at lower right. (Office of the USA Attorney for the Southern District of California).

BY ALEX RIGGINS SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE AUG. 7, 2021 12:33 PM PT.

OTAY MESA — Federal authorities made what they called one of the largest methamphetamine busts in USA History this week, finding more than 5,528 pounds of the drug inside a semitrailer that crossed from Mexico at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry in San Diego.

Agents also found more than 127 pounds of fentanyl inside the commercial truck, which had California license plates and was being driven by a Mexican citizen, authorities said.

The driver, Carlos Gerardo Symonds Saavedra, was charged Friday with two federal felony counts of importing controlled substances into the USA Each count carries a minimum sentence of 10 years in prison and a maximum of life imprisonment.

"This is believed to be one of the largest methamphetamine seizures in the nation's history," officials from the office of the USA Attorney for the Southern District of California said in a news release Friday night.

Last October, authorities found about 3,000 pounds of methamphetamine in a semitrailer at the same port of entry. At the time, a USA Customs and Border Protection spokesperson said it was the second-largest bust ever, behind only a 5,000-pound bust in December 2019 in Laredo, Texas.

According to a criminal complaint filed by federal prosecutors in Symonds Saavedra's case, he drove the semitrailer through the Otay Mesa cargo entry lanes around 5:30 pm Thursday, presenting paperwork that stated he was hauling plastic parts.

A computer-generated alert system prompted customs officers to refer the truck to a secondary inspection area, where an X-ray machine detected anomalous packages mixed in with the plastic parts, according to the complaint. A drug-sniffing dog also zeroed in on the trailer, which customs officers searched, finding several suspected packages of drugs.

Officers tested the contents of one of those packages and confirmed their suspicions, according to the complaint.

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But rather than unloading the trailer and detaining the driver, special agents from the Department of Homeland Security's investigative arm installed a GPS tracking device on the vehicle and allowed Symonds Saavedra to drive away, according to a statement of facts written by one of the agents.

With the Homeland Security Investigations agents following and surveilling the truck, Symonds Saavedra allegedly drove to a private commercial parking lot where he parked and placed the keys under the hood. Agents apprehended him as he walked away, and after his arrest, he allegedly admitted that he had agreed to smuggle the methamphetamine and fentanyl across the border for a payment.

It wasn't until then, after 10 pm Thursday, that the agents fully searched the trailer, discovering the huge load of methamphetamine and the fentanyl.

[Member #4730]

I talked to one of the locals who explained to me the car business down in Tijuana. They got a lot of our cars that could no longer pass smog checks. For example, after Katrina, a ton of cars were no longer acceptable after water damage. Well, they shipped them to Tijuana who fixed it up and got them running again albeit they have a little emission problem that would never pass smog back in the states. So the result is that Tijuana mechanics are pretty awesomely experienced in fixing cars that used to run in the USA. In the USA, we tend to keep our cars for about 5 years and get new ones to compete with our neighbors. In Tijuana, they run them until they vall apart. So they tend to fix them, and fix them, and fix them giving their mechanics a ton of experience.

Of course the only downside is that they may use your car to smuggle some contraband into the US. So it is advisable to keep an eye on the car, or use a mechanic that can be vouched for like Miguel since Solo have never posted something about getting thrown in jail for smuggling.

Also might take a catalytic converter or two. My ex father-in-law gets his cars fixed in National City since they trade work for scripts. It sounds like CaptainSolo has a good relationship with his shop and the guy should be honest enough to not ruin the relationship.