Anyone live in Mexico?

I have a condo in southern Mexico that we go to 1-2 times a year. It’s in what they call a very safe neighbourhood. Three weeks after we bought it, there were two separate murders on my street. I never truly feel safe there. I never let my guard down. Everyone I know there is dying to get out. There is no real future for children. So much poverty and many parents there care more about drinking than making sure their kids have food. I can’t imagine a happy life there

We have friends who lived in the mountains 2 or 3 hours below the border. The drug wars caused them to have to pick up and leave suddenly. They didn't even have time to get the family pictures off their walls. They left their homes, a little store they owned, and the land they farmed. Their youngest son and a cousin were killed by the drug people. They don't feel it's safe to go back.