I did a full environmental hazard and natural disaster assessment before choosing Yucatán. Mérida is a geographic anomaly in MX. Rarely does it experience devastating hurricane damage. Because of where it's situated, most of the stronger systems turn or never make landfall fully, so they'll get rain and wind from the outer bands, but not a direct hit. Historical data indicates that they get hit with a strong system every 10-12 years, but still don't suffer the devastation seen in other areas of MX. QRoo is a prime example of an area that gets slammed. Up the Western coastline, same thing. Another thing to consider in MX is earthquakes and massive flooding. CDMX is notorious for both. Add to that the environmental disaster that is CDMX. Flooding, while at the same time water is cut off for hours every day. Then there's the smog. In the end, it's about what suits you. I wanted somewhere close to water without the threat of devastating hurricane damage, free of earthquakes, steeped in culture, and relatively safe. Mérida ticked all the boxes. We visited in May-June, and it was hot, but maybe we missed the worst of it? We got rain, lots of rain, and there was flooding, but honestly, the whole month of September is like that where we were living in the US, in a major city, with all of the resources common to major US cities. Impassable streets, loss of power, etc. Every year, hurricanes shut down the coastal areas of the state we lived in. I'm talking devastation. Yet, there are no reasonable disaster preparedness or emergency management protocols to mitigate impact. It's insane. Homes are lost every year, and some years, life is lost as well. The clean-up is insanely expensive, and some areas don't recover before the next hurricane season is upon them. I think Americans have the very inaccurate perception that the US is better at all things. Such is not the case. Ask the people who live in Flint or East Palestine about their water, soil, etc. And as much as we'd like to believe that those are isolated cases, they're not. We have whole towns literally steeped in dung from pig farms, poisoned by paper mills, etc. There's even a fire that's been burning under a town in PA for more than 50 years, making it uninhabitable while polluting the air and water of surrounding towns. The list goes on. Add to all of this that you can't go a week without hearing of a mass shooting and/or school shooting, and I think we are the last people to harp on safety. As far as corruption goes, we literally have a felon in our highest office, who has been found liable for sexual assault. There are more than 30 other felonies that will likely be dismissed as a direct result of corruption. Our SCOTUS is corrupted, with justices being bought by private citizens, and we have a mentally unstable, morally bankrupt billionaire who once worked in the US illegally, calling shots in Congress. We need to remove the beam from our American eyes.