Where is safer

Actual data does tell a meaningful story. It removes our " feelings" on a topic. As a nation the USA has a murder rate of about 6.5 per 100,000 Mexico's homicide rate for 2025 dropped to 17.5 per 100,000 people, a significant 30% decline from the previous year, with 23,374 total victims recorded. IN the US 60-70 % of murders at not random at all but done by someone known to the victim. In Mexico about the same % are cartel involved. Like your story about the Beatles , a persons perceptions are colored by the media reports. In the south we "feel" the US is very dangerous , in the north , they "feel" that way about Mexico. In the US I lived on a " rough" part of town. Here , I'm in La Ropa. Mexico seems safer to me

My "feelings" are based on a lifetime of experience and knowledge not covered by data. Statistics never tell the whole story or paint a complete picture, and it's always an error to assume they do whenever discussing sociological phenomena. Statistically speaking, Guerrero should be considered one of the most dangerous states in Mexico. Yet "magically" those stats almost never have anything to do with Guerrero's visitors or people not involved in the narco trade except for reporters and ecologists.