{"id":14110,"date":"2023-04-06T06:41:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T06:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nohurrytogethome.com\/?p=14110"},"modified":"2024-08-23T03:42:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T03:42:54","slug":"is-mexico-city-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nohurrytogethome.com\/is-mexico-city-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Mexico City safe? Here’s everything you need to know about safety in Mexico City from a local"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Is Mexico City safe? <\/strong>This is a question I get asked all the time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I decided to write a post about safety in Mexico City because, frankly, I\u2019m a little bit tired of listening to people who have never even been<\/em> to Mexico City talk about how unsafe my beloved home is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I was born and raised in Mexico City but have lived all over the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve called several cities in the United States my home (Fort Lauderdale, New York City, and Boca Raton) as well as different countries (England, Germany, and Thailand).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2020, I decided to move back here permanently. If there\u2019s someone who can REALLY talk to you about safety in Mexico City, it\u2019s me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I understand that safety is your concern when traveling to Mexico and that Mexico City doesn\u2019t exactly have the best reputation (although I feel that has improved a lot in recent years as it used to be a bit of a “hidden” gem in Mexico<\/a> until plenty of digital nomads discovered it).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mexico City is a place that has notoriously been known as an unsafe destination, but as someone who lives here and has the ability to compare her experiences with places on every continent, I will give you my honest opinion about safety in Mexico City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now let\u2019s answer your burning question\u2026. is Mexico City safe?<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Is Mexico City Safe?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Mexico City has a really bad reputation when it comes to safety due to its past as well as movies and shows that display it in a pretty bad light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luckily, I\u2019ve actually noticed a change there in the past few years with social media content, reports, and TV shows displaying it in a much better way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ignore the unsafe Mexico City you see on shows like Narcos and instead, see the Mexico City that appears on the Queen\u2019s Gambit\u2026 culture-rich, beautiful, and absolutely fabulous. That\u2019s MY Mexico City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 Okay, But How Safe Is Mexico City, Really?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Like ANY big city anywhere else in the world, Mexico City has safe and unsafe areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, I\u2019ve found a key difference between Mexico City compared to other cities I\u2019ve lived in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the safe areas, I have ALWAYS felt extremely safe in Mexico City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whereas I can\u2019t really say the same thing about areas considered safe in places like New York, Fort Lauderdale, or Dusseldorf, where I did have incidents happen to me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve never been robbed, harassed, or anything of the sort in Mexico City. EVER.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The areas that are dangerous in Mexico City are places you wouldn\u2019t really have a reason to visit, anyway, but we\u2019ll talk about that further down this post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 Is It Safe To Travel To Mexico City? Here\u2019s What You Need To Know:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I wouldn\u2019t have been writing this guide a few years ago. Mexico City was once a pretty dangerous place, especially back in the 90s and into the 2000s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back then, petty crimes like robberies were rampant, especially after the Mexican Peso crisis of 1994. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before then, one USD was worth three Mexican pesos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On December 3, 1994, it suddenly triplicated. This resulted in poverty, unemployment, and crime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For you to understand the severity of the situation, my grandfather was the owner of a construction company here in Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He purchased machinery worth about three million dollars. Overnight, his company suddenly owed nine million USD, six million more than he did the day before. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This crisis was so severe that it even resulted in suicides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crime became rampant out of pure necessity. My great aunt was once walking over to her car from the supermarket when a man in a suit approached her and stole her bags. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He apologized to her in tears, \u201cI\u2019m sorry, there is no food in the house for my children\u201d and left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It took Mexico a long time to recover from this, and crime like theft was common in Mexico City well into the 2000s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m actually from the suburbs of Mexico City and my mom tells me that, back when I was little, the only way we would ever visit Mexico City was if we were with my dad and even then it was still pretty scary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even in the 2010s, the city had gotten slightly safer, but definitely not as much as it is now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I moved out to the United States in 2012, followed by a 6-year stint of traveling the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I came back to visit my family in Mexico City in 2019, I couldn\u2019t believe my eyes: It was like a brand new, shiny city to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our current and past governors have definitely made a huge effort to improve the city in every single way, including its safety, and let me tell you something: It shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, Mexico City has a pretty low crime rate compared to most of the rest of Mexico and even a lot of cities in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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