Guanajuato, Mexico - Want Fluff Or Do You Want Reality?

Most, if not all, of the "move to Mxico" and "how to expatriate to Mxico " books specifically target the traditional gringo colonies. They are memoir-type guides on "how I moved to _____." They deal with one or more of the regions that have well-organized gringo communities that act as safety buffers for the uninitiated and unsuspecting newbie. These guides address areas of Mxico in which the locals depend on the foreign community for their livelihood. What I mean is that in some of these regions, if the gringos were to leave suddenly, the local economy would flush down the toilet in no time. San Miguel de Allende, in my view, is one of those cities.

The authors of these books may or may not have lived in Mxico. What they did was gather information on research trips. They've had to depend on the stories of those living in those areas. Others may have lived in Mxico but only in the areas with the uber-developed gringo enclaves. What these books typically do is soft-soap everything. You will read that everything is sugar and spice and everything nice. You will think moving to one of the regions these books cover will be like moving to Disneyland. You will not be told anything that smacks of negativism. "Going to move to Mxico? That's a move into heaven itself"is the impression you will get.

Positive sugary prose and heavenly rhetoric is what sells. I can hardly blame the authors since I've had this encounter with book publishers before: they want what sells. They don't or can't sell reality. They cannot sell something hinting you might have a hard time settling in a town in Mxico that is not Gringo Friendly. If you can't paint a picture of a virtual nirvana, a life of Disneyland proportions, they don't want to mess with your manuscript.

Those gringo wannebees read the books that paint a rosy picture and think the material applies to all of Mxico. Gringos move on the strength of a book that deals with life in a Mexican town where the locals have been used to a large gringo presence for decades. They move to towns where the livelihood of many locals depends on the gringo presence. Later, they move to (or just travel to) a town in Mxico that is monolingualSpanish onlyand wonder what happened. Not only do the people speak Spanish, but they also may not particularly care about you one bit.

This is a problem.

What you can do to prepare yourself to move to any region of Mxico outside the resort areas is to read everything you can on expatriating to Mxico. I mean, read the books that paint the Disneyland portrait as well as those that might have more of a reality-oriented base.

Be suspicious of books and articles that do not tell you the whole story. See red flags all over a piece of prose that tells you all the advantages, all the swell and wonderful pluses, but none of the negatives. Simply do not believe authors who tell you all about the beautiful dreams but none of the nightmares.

And, there will be nightmares that you will have wished someone had told you about before you moved to Mxico and discovered them on your own.

Doug Bower is a freelance writer and book author. His most recent writing credits include The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Houston Chronicle, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Associated Content, Transitions Abroad, International Living, Escape Artist, and The Front Porch Syndicate.

He is founder of Mexican Living Print & eBooks.

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Laws against cyberstalking are becoming more common, but there is still often a refusal on the part of law enforcement to perceive stalking, whether electronically or in the physical world, as a serious crime. In fact, except for some rather high profile cases, victims of stalkers were commonly told that nothing can be done unless the instigator commits a crime. Sadly, the same thing is true of cyberstalking. Because each individual act in itself may not be a punishable offense, cyberstalking often goes unpunished.

Another difficulty with taking a case against a cyberstalker to court is the privacy laws themselves in the United States. Finding out information on the internet is ridiculously easy, but at the same time, laws are on the books which prohibit release of and access to information of a secure nature. For example, a telephone number can be used to find a name and physical address. Social security numbers, credit card and banking information even the place of employment and co-worker information can be found by a few minutes search even by someone who is only semi-computer literate.

Sometimes cyberstalkers are accomplished hackers on the internet. They are able to appear to be the victim and can sign up for all sorts of unwanted websites, products and forums. They can cause the legitimate user to be banned from needed sites including their own online banking or credit card information by changing password information. They can harass the victim at work by causing inappropriate purchases such as sex toys to be delivered at the victim's workplace. Pornographic images and other material can be placed on a false website such as MySpace that purports to be created by the victim.

Because state laws for the most part are the ones that are used to prosecute cyberstalkers, they are unevenly applied, with many jurisdictions having no ban on such practices and others are unclear as to wording and consequences. Probably a consistent equitable federal statute regarding the practice of cyberstalking is the best way to provide additional protection to victims. Additionally, better standards and practices from individuals and businesses in securing sensitive information would help prevent leaks of such data.

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