North Mexico report

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[–]fschmidt[S] 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

If you join a church, you can marry in the church. Otherwise the Christian women are off limits. But you can always date Mexicans.

I saw that documentary but it is about Mormons, not Mennonites. Mormons are in a different area. Mennonites are non-violent. But there was no feeling of crime risk there.

[–]seyda 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

If one were to join the church how hard would it be to get a wife? Do you need to be rich, established, etc? What is there to do for work? Do they have internet?

[–]fschmidt[S] 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

I think if you joined the church it would be easy to get a wife, but I am not sure. You would have to ask them. There is no work for unskilled people since they have an unlimited supply of Mexicans. You need a skill or work over the internet. They have internet.

[–]seyda 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

How much of a community is there? I looked around on google maps and it looks very sparse. Do they have a town? About how many Mennonites are there?

[–]fschmidt[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It's hard to explain because it is very different from how America is organized. It definitely looks less sparse on the ground than on google maps. Colonia Vianna is a town that is surroounded by many small Mennonite settlements, and those Mennonites go to the town to shop. So the town has most of what one needs for daily life. I don't know the Mennonite population.

My wife likes high-end shopping which isn't there. But they have a small private airport and I want to look into using private flights to go to the bigger cities which would solve this kind of thing.