Those were the days of 3 beers for one US dollar

Right on.

Well, Mr. “Yankee Aggression”..I’m from Mississippi and the food prices have more than doubled in Puerto Vallarta, MX in the last 4 years because people (dumbocrats) are running from their red states and cities because of their tax and spend policies have driven them out because they can’t afford to live in the USA any more and dumbocrats will not admit they were wrong and mover to Texas, Mississippi, Florida or any other red state because of their Trump Derangement Syndrome and the love of marxist OBiden.
Real estate has quadrupled in 4 years because of dumbocrat flippers that come from San Francisco. LA and SD. I bought my condo in PV for $250kusd and now its pushing $1.25musd just because of the dumbocrats and they complain about the HOA fees and every year vote for a 6%+ increase and my hoa fees have tripled.
I know and met these people and have talked extensively with them about how they drive themselves out of their own homes and condos. I’ve seen people in California that own a $50K tear down (we call in Mississippi) that gets valued at a Million dollars and they mortgage it repeatedly and go blow the money traveling or cars until they can’t afford their mortgage because they have to act like movie stars.
It’s getting to where i can find many more places cheaper to eat in South Mississippi than PV and I spend 6 months in each every years for the past 20 years. The $4 breakfast is gone in PV and South Mississippi. $8.50 in PV but not in South Mississippi anymore due to OBidenomics. You want to compare NYC prices to Mexico….thats ignorant…I’m sure people in Hawaii would say the same as you. Thats some of the most expensive real estate in the North American continent. There is nothing “Relative” about it. If we don’t get Trump back in office November 5th, we are ALL screwed.
Mexico is booming right now due to OBidenomics driving people economically out of the USA ironically for the same reason illegal Immigrants are pouring into the USA from even poorer countries. The strong Peso is fueled by open borders, drug smuggling, illegal immigration, human trafficking, sex trafficking, weapons smuggling, off shoring of all of the USA manufacturing (especially autos) and the cartels can’t bank the money so they construct resorts and high rises to park their money.
These generations are the most backwards, upside down lunatics i’ve seen in my 66 years. D.E.I and C.R.T are racist and destroying everything for everybody. The 4th branch of us government (education) are destroying our children and grandchildren and is spreading to Mexico.

With respect to food, not only is it generally less expensive here, it is also healthier with fewer added sugars and preservatives. And most of it is harvested within a few hundred miles of where it is consumed.

One last thing worth mentioning; in the U.S. is was quite a DYI’er. Not because I necessarily wanted to be, but mostly because I couldn’t afford to hire people for a lot of routine maintenance tasks around the house. But being a DYI’er also meant purchasing and maintaining a lot of tools. Here it is cheaper to hire someone who already has the tools and the knowhow to do those tasks than it is to acquire the tools and do it myself.