Robberies and drugs and deaths? That just sounds like any urban area in the U.S. right now. My Mom is always freaking out when I travel to Mexico to surf. I tell her to look up how many shootings and murders happened in her city of Chicago in the last weekend. On my last trip to Mexico I realized we never locked the door to our place, I didn't have to take my boards off the car for fear of theft, and I didn't see one person naked in mental distress like I do here in Portland, Oregon.