unnecessary posts

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William James Woodward - Brazil Animator, Expat-blog Team

Mr. Wm J Woodward,
I only trust that Expat.com will publish content that only relates directly to moving to/living in Mexico.  Sexual/porn invitations have no place on this website.

Hi jistad,

That's exactly why we have the REPORT button and our Anti-Spam System that locks out users who send out copy & paste messages.

If you have received offensive messages or find an offensive posting in a forum you should use the REPORT button. It will be investigated fully and appropriate action taken very quickly.

Cheers,
William James Woodward - Brazil Animator, Expat-blog Team

If you don't like unnecessary posts, you're going to hate this place.  I've personally never posted anything about Mexico.

But I see people in heavy coats in Hong Kong every winter.  Hong Kong winter is nothing like Minnesota winter, but it's cold to the locals.

jistad wrote:

... a photo of life in Encinada, Mexico.
Is there an editor available to sort out the urbane from the relevant that Americans need before they relocate to Mexico?

I have no way of knowing whether your original post was a joke or not; it was certainly unnecessary. First: Google Maps doesn't know where Encinada, Mexico, is, so you are probably right that the photo you saw was a fake. Second: your use of the word "urbane" is unorthodox, to say the least, so you might want to check your English dictionary. Third: three months to get ready to leave home is not an "absolute impossibility", even for people who don't live in a tent.

Try again under a different assumed name. Or, take up one of those porn invitations.

Here's a photo of Ensenada, Mexico that I found on Google. The people here are wearing coats so it must feel cold to them.

I've been living in Brazil for over eleven years and the locals in São Paulo get bundled up like Eskimos when the temperature gets down to 12º C / 53.6ºF

Yes, James, Google does know where to find the place called Ensenada, but the poster who calls himself "jistad" wrote crankily about Encinada, which is a non-existent place altogether.

I know Gordon, but as a teacher I understand that even though he's an American that doesn't mean he can spell nor that he knows anything about Geography. LOL

wjwoodward wrote:

I've been living in Brazil for over eleven years and the locals in São Paulo get bundled up like Eskimos when the temperature gets down to 12º C / 53.6ºF

Isn't that just the funniest thing?  Their winters are like summer to us.

wjwoodward wrote:

I know Gordon, but as a teacher I understand that even though he's an American that doesn't mean he can spell nor that he knows anything about Geography. LOL

Hey, Amaricans ain't al bad spelers.

wjwoodward wrote:

I've been living in Brazil for over eleven years and the locals in São Paulo get bundled up like Eskimos when the temperature gets down to 12º C / 53.6ºF

Here in Jordan they do when it becomes 25 C.
Can you believe that?

jistad wrote:

I'm disappointed in the content, authenticity and relevance of the posts on ExpatBlog.  I'm trying to obtain real information about real travel and relocation to Mexico and what I'm reading has to be false.  One entry says "get ready to move 3 months in advance."  That's an absolute impossibility unless you have no worldly possessions and live in a tent. I also saw a picture of a woman in a fur lined winter coat (aka Minnesota winter) supposedly interviewing a woman in a fast food kiosk that could not possibly be a photo of life in Encinada, Mexico. 

Is there an editor available to sort out the urbane from the relevant that Americans need before they relocate to Mexico?

tell me what's the different between media and EB? media are worst........

This is a website, so it is media.

this is just a socializing media with limits.........

jistad wrote:

I'm disappointed in the content, authenticity and relevance of the posts on ExpatBlog.  I'm trying to obtain real information about real travel and relocation to Mexico and what I'm reading has to be false.  One entry says "get ready to move 3 months in advance."  That's an absolute impossibility unless you have no worldly possessions and live in a tent. I also saw a picture of a woman in a fur lined winter coat (aka Minnesota winter) supposedly interviewing a woman in a fast food kiosk that could not possibly be a photo of life in Encinada, Mexico. 

Is there an editor available to sort out the urbane from the relevant that Americans need before they relocate to Mexico?

The first thing would be getting the spelling right.
If you can't get that much, you'll get sweet Fanny Adams else right.

Secondly, you do need to get ready well in advance so that's excellent advice. If the OP thinks he's going to take the kitchen sink with him, he may well have fun.
Two seconds on google got me everything he needs to know but he doesn't seem to have bothered.
http://webportal.atlasintl.com/Customs% … mexico.pdf

Last - Learn something about people. As our guru, Mr WW says, people from hot countries often feel extremely cold in weather many others would consider warm.
It never drops below 24c here but even I wear a light jacket from time to time because I consider it a little nippy.

I really don't know why posters join a forum, ask questions, reject the answers because they know better than people who live there, then go on to moan about the very people who've tried to help him.

That's OK Jistad, critics is good but in my perceptions I prefer to be quiet esp. when not ask for my opinion. In your situation your just being open and honest.

JasfurJQ wrote:

this is just a socializing media with limits.........

What are the limits?

HaileyinHongKong wrote:

JasfurJQ wrote:

this is just a socializing media with limits.........

What are the limits?

You knew better than us,

Would that it were true.