Shooting South PV

Has anyone heard any more news on this?

http://www.noticiaspv.com/archivo/105146

The story, as it stands now, is that a small green van with Nevada (US) license plates drove up to El Nogalito restaurant, south of Vallarta, and two men got out, each having guns, and walked up to a table and shot point blank and killed the man sitting there with his family. They then tried to shoot his two relatives or friends at the next table, wounding both of them. They the gunmen left the restaurant. The car was soon discovered down the hwy, abandoned, with the guns inside.

Reason is it is in a nice area that tourist go to!

My wife is Hispanic and has a large family all over Mexico FYI

Any more questions?

Seems to me that gdremark has to post things like that. His other favorite thing will make him blind.

Nice language! This is a tourist website. No one wants to read your foul mouth spew on here.

They are all reported, and local press publicize them quite heavily (read Vallarta Opina or Tribuna de la Bahia), but there are not many big fatalities to report, despite your willingness for them to happen.

You could tell many things that have go wrong in Vallarta in the past years (ageing of town, increase in night clubs, cleanliness, etc) but safety has been same as always (in the tourist areas), a different thing are the popular areas which are suffering an increase in petty crimes because of the crisis (unemployment)

I agree with Mikeypv. I live in Saginaw, MI rated by the FBI as one of the highest per-capita violence producing cities in the US. I have never seen or been the victim of violence. In fact, other than property crime, I know of only one person killed, a victim of domestic violence.

As far as PV, I am finally nearing completion of purchasing property in Conchas Chinas. My only real concerns are finding a good builder to make some changes and reliable taxis from that area. Anyone have a either recommendations for either.

Gracias!

As far as the house work, how big is it? I´ve gota very reliable builder and cheap, but he won´t do too small works... He just built a house for me and he is building another one in the south side (this one for sale)

ON the taxi front, I used to live in Conchas Chinas (close to the Oxxo) and I used this number of a \"sitio\" (best option as they give you the number of the taxi that is going to pick you up): 2215368 (local)

Regards

Aploj,

Thank you for your reply. I am just buying a small condo, approx. 1302 square feet (still becoming acclimated to metric being from the subborn US!). Maybe too small for your guy?

Thank you for the info on taxis. I know that I could do the walk, but the only road I know if is quite busy.

Thanks again.

I do hope dgremark, that you might give some us credit for having many friends that actually live in PV and do keep us abreast of the things going on. We do not need your harping on only the things that are tabloid type of news. Like Kat, I have friends that live in PV, both ex-pats and loads of locals. Nobody is saying at all, that PV is perfect. Where is the Utopia that you would like?

Wherever you live, give us a report from there. We might not have friends that live there and might be considering a trip to where ever it is.

There are no doubt some that have read your gloom and doom and possibly canceled a trip they wanted to make, because your hysteria frightened them off, needlessly.

send me a private message with your email address and the works you need to make and I will put you in direct contact with him

So what you are saying is that is OK to scare newcomers away, as we long time visitors know it is 95% media hype?

Give me a break. You realize the more people you scare off, the less those that live and work in PV can expect to earn. Those that continue to go, because they know it is overdone, wind up paying more.

I guess that means nothing to you as long as you get your 5 minutes of fame as a know nothing.

Watch out Tranq you may start getting attacked now!

Good luck on the condo!