[helloworld11]

I happen to live here. The degree of danger depends enormously on where you live and what you do. Not everywhere is this dangerous and not everything is covered in razor wire and broken glass. This is not at all to downplay the grotesque degree of violence that permeates much of Mexico, but a bit of perspective on specifics helps. I do night street photography as a hobby, for example, and in many years of that, wandering the streets of several Mexican cities during late night hours (carefully but not with utter paranoia) I've never once been assaulted or physically threatened so far.