Irlandes writes:

Here is one great thing about Mexico. THE LAWS ARE VERY GOOD. Yeah, the women vary, of course, just as in any country, but if you marry and your wife takes another man, if you wish, you can charge her with an offense, and she loses everything. N - E - A - T!!!!!!!!!!!

I mean, you can get the kids, the house, the car, and she doesn't get one red centavo!

My point is the big advantage of Mexico is the big difference from the US. In the US, women have taken charge of the political and legal system and use that power to abuse and mistreat men. In Mexico, the men have taken charge of the political and legal system and use that power to abuse and mistreat women. I don't especially like either one, but I can tell you the latter is a milllion times better from our perspective. Heh, heh.

Don't just look at the weather and the beauty of the women. Look at the marriage laws.

If you marry a Mexican woman and live in the States, your odds of divorce are high. If you marry a Mexican woman and live in Mexico , and you do get divorced, and it's not your fault, who cares? There are lots more babes in the woods and you'll still have money to support her.

My niece in Mexico City is one of the most incredibly beautiful women I have ever known. Her current 'husband' has a law degree from Harvard, and a doctorate from Berkeley (sp?). His family in NYC is well off, but he lives in near poverty in Mexico City, rather than return to the States. Please don't ask me to explain why that is true -- if you need that explanation, you either don't believe what an excellen woman my niece is, or you are very happy in the States.

She has other friends who are also living with US, Canadian, or English men.

She told me that men who have technical degrees, I am guessing such as lab techs or stuff like that, can get jobs in Mexico, working for foreign companies because the universities here are very slow about giving out degrees. And, she says they pay enough that you can afford an apartment in Coyoacan, her dream place in Mexico City. In dollars, that may be only $20,000 a year, but that is a lot in Mexico. If you qualify, they get you working papers.

Life here is not always easy. If you have no courage, if you don't have the courage to try another country with a completely foreign culture, well, enjoy your feminist paradise.

Note that I have been married for 31 years. I am a totally faithful husband. But, here in the country, I have had women of all ages 'make eyes' at me. I even had one little friend, 14 years old, fall in love with me. I was told by a mature friend that in this culture the young girls are innocent enough that they do indeed fall in love with older men, such as teachers. She said she did, and that it is good for the girls, because it gives them an idea what sort of men to seek for husbands.

This is not Thailand, so even if I were interested in a young friend like that, the law has statutory rape just as in the States. My point is, I am 64, not a pretty sight, but the women of a wide range of age are interested.

The military man of 38 years old, assuming he treats women well, is reasonably pleasant to look at, not a drunken bum and that is what his posting indicates, would be able to get a very attractive woman for a mate here. Boorish behavior here is not as successful as it might be in Thailand.

I said 'husband' instead of husband, because in Mexico, it is considered generally acceptable for couples to 'marry themselves'. that is, hold themselves out as married and really think of themselves as married, with no official marriage. You are not married before the law, but everyone views you that way. My niece did that before with a European journalist, and when he wandered off to write a book, she and her family considered her as divorced.