Effect on locals

"You folks are a drop in the bucket among the local population, and I'm surprised I should have to point that out to you, old timer that you are."
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"The most important economic activity for the municipality is tourism, with the major attractions being the beaches. Most international visitors come between November and December and most Mexican tourists come in December, April, July and August. Seventy-one percent of the municipality's population is engaged in the commercial and tourism sector of the economy.[1] Outside of Zihuatanejo Bay, some of most important beaches include Quieta Beach, Majahua Beach, Playa Larga and others.[1][22] Prior to the 1970s, economic activity was based on fishing and agriculture.[2] At that time, the federal government decided to make a planned resort at Ixtapa, just north of the municipal seat of Zihuatanejo, constructed on what was once a coconut plantation and mangrove estuary.[13] It is a complete tourist center with a hotel strip three kilometers (1.9 mi) long, white sands, shopping centers, restaurants, nightclubs, golf courses, residences.[2][6]"

Apparently you totally missed the point that your entire website is for the benefit of the tourism trade. Go thru it and take out all the restaurants and hotels and what you have left is "squat"! Now it becomes a local rag for which most locals don't need any way!

And I am sure the only reason you have your site in Spanish is to capture Mexican TOURISTS!

Do you honestly believe there isn't a double standard on taxi fares? One for touristas and one for locals?

As I said earlier I don't bite for ludicrous false taxi rates either but 5 pesos is 5 pesos and it still doesn't buy much! Beats sticking up banks, street robberies, burglaries and drug sales.

So, now I'll finish packing for my 23rd visit to Zihua, also putting a couple of rolls of quarters in, to exhange for 5 pesos coins so I can pay the excessive exorbitant taxi fares. I think I will also throw away the big brown envelope full of eyeglasses we were going to drop off to your Saintly wife...........perish the thought that we might hamper the ophthalmology trade in Zihuatanejo.

Of course they will get dropped off, but you get the idea!

Really sorry that 5 pesos can crawl so deeply under some peoples skin!

Wow! All I can say politely is that you don't know 1/10th of what you think you know.

One price for tourists and one for locals? Not since I began making the official rates available to the public over 15 years ago. The taxi drivers who try such things we locals consider to be unethical and even their bosses say we should report them. Sorry to see your moral compass is akilter.

Uh, yes, we are a tourist based economy of over a hundred thousand people trying to make do with fewer jobs while more all-included and time-share lodgings are ruining the local economy, and tourists with less spending power than ever are coming. We locals spend much more in the local economy than all the tourists do. Especially now that so many tourists stay at time-share and all-included lodgings. You don't actually think all those big Ixtapa hotels also spend all their money here, do you? They barely pay their workers.

Hey, if you're going to be an ass and threaten NOT to bring donations then please keep them. Either give from the heart or don't bother. Your call. But don't act like a baby because I criticize your flawed logic. Grow up.

And you'd be surprised what locals say about my "flawed rag". I actually speak their language just like they do, same accent and all! Really, what sadness you display with such comments.

Now you just go right ahead and have a super peachy keen day now, ya hear?