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My Canadian father-in-law used to get frustrated when “simple” things were so challenging in Mexico. I told him, “Accomplishing something easy can be difficult in Mexico, but the seemingly impossible happens every day.”

I find the opposite to be true often. Let's take barbers. When's the last time you walked down the road in the States and found an open barber shop where you could just take a seat and wait a few minutes for a cut. They all seem to be high-end salons with a decidedly female clientele. And I don't have 60 bucks for a haircut, sorry.

Or medical treatment. I got acute conjunctivitis in Oaxaca, green mucus flowing out of my eyes. In the States I can't seem to get insurance. They keep trying to wiggle out of it over at Covered California, (where I am supposed to be able to enroll in 5-10 minutes) and when I did have a good insurance from school, no clinic in the area took that specific insurance. Outrageous. In Mexico, on the other hand, I told them my symptoms at the pharmacy and I had antibiotic eyedrops in 5 minutes. 60 pesos was the charge. Now which country, I ask you, makes simple things complicated?