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Amusement park in Chapala

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Post by CanuckBob Thu Mar 03, 2016 11:37 am



This is what they will get with their $7,000,000 peso budget.

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Post by Intercasa Thu Mar 03, 2016 11:52 am

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Post by Playaboy Thu Mar 03, 2016 2:27 pm

Cbob, Insults flying my way a lot lately.   Blackeye

I was a successful carney for 25 years. That's a couple of steps on the career ladder below used car salesman in most people minds.   Very Happy   You can make a lot of money selling 5000 /$3 items a day.  

Amusement park jobs are filled by local people.  Carney's travel from town to town servicing the tourist needs of individual communities.

A theme park will draw more people, that spend more pesos, provides full time jobs and that benefits the community.


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Post by slainte39 Thu Mar 03, 2016 4:45 pm

viajero wrote:
sm1mex wrote:  How much more can our streets take.  
Your streets? 

Maybe someone? will build a wall, a HUGE wall, so high, and make the Tapatios pay for it.
Much less expensive to build a wall around gringolandia than across the border with the US.

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Post by Playaboy Thu Mar 03, 2016 5:54 pm

slainte39 wrote:
viajero wrote:
sm1mex wrote:  How much more can our streets take.  
Your streets? 

Maybe someone? will build a wall, a HUGE wall, so high, and make the Tapatios pay for it.
Much less expensive to build a wall around gringolandia than across the border with the US.

After that wall gets built, then it is truly the Gringo Retirement Ghetto.

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Post by Carry Bean Thu Mar 03, 2016 7:38 pm

Not a thing wrong with a Gringo Retirement Ghetto(unwalled, natch.) Gotta stash us old geezers & geezerettes somewhere since global warming is diminishing the number of ice floes we could be launched on.

Nothing wrong also with an amusement park but it's up to the local residents not people who don't live here & have no interest in it other than making money.

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Post by Smartalex Thu Mar 03, 2016 9:54 pm

So how do we feel about losing Parque de la Cristiania? That place is a little gem. I might fight to preserve it.
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Post by Carry Bean Thu Mar 03, 2016 10:20 pm

I agree but further east (north?) is a lot of land.

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Post by Rosa Venus Thu Mar 03, 2016 10:22 pm

I don't live in Chapala, but I think of Parque Cristiana as more than a "little" gem. It looks like the last "hold out" to me.
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Post by mattoleriver Thu Mar 03, 2016 11:51 pm

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Post by CanuckBob Fri Mar 04, 2016 7:15 am

Playaboy wrote:Cbob, Insults flying my way a lot lately.   Blackeye

I was a successful carney for 25 years. That's a couple of steps on the career ladder below used car salesman in most people minds.   Very Happy   You can make a lot of money selling 5000 /$3 items a day.  

Amusement park jobs are filled by local people.  Carney's travel from town to town servicing the tourist needs of individual communities.

A theme park will draw more people, that spend more pesos, provides full time jobs and that benefits the community.


Jaja.......that wasn't directed at you Playaboy. It was more about the rise in crime when the Carneys hit town for things like the San Andres fiesta.
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Post by hickton Fri Mar 04, 2016 7:44 am

Cable car from tobolandia to top of the hill. Restaurant on top. Dry toboggon run down.idea from when i was in new zealand.

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Post by Lady Otter Latté Fri Mar 04, 2016 8:16 am

Once again, take away public green space where everyone has access to enjoy nature and put in a noisy venue for entertainment only for those with the money to pay for it. Developers get rich(er), politicians have more opportunity for graft and power, the poor(er) get screwed (again). The developers will be long gone with their buckets of money as the amusement park falls into disrepair and becomes an eyesore by the lake. Yeah, great idea.
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Post by hockables Fri Mar 04, 2016 9:49 am

Gotta make way for Progress
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Post by Trailrunner Fri Mar 04, 2016 9:51 am

Define 'progress'.
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Post by RVGRINGO Fri Mar 04, 2016 11:06 am

Will the fees for all of these attractions fit the budgets of families with an annual income of $100,000 pesos.....maybe less?

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Post by CanuckBob Fri Mar 04, 2016 12:05 pm

No.
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Post by RVGRINGO Fri Mar 04, 2016 12:20 pm

I suspect that is why they have not been built, and will not be built.
Mexico invests in tourist traps for foreign tourists; those with disposable income way above the average household in Mexico. No Disneyland for Chapala.

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Post by hickton Fri Mar 04, 2016 12:31 pm

thought the idea was to encourage higher earners here who would spend in the local economy.with the climate and lake and proper attractions could be a tourist trap. infrastructure is a problem however.

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Post by viajero Fri Mar 04, 2016 1:10 pm

RVGRINGO wrote:Will the fees for all of these attractions fit the budgets of families with an annual income of $100,000 pesos.....maybe less?
The Six Flags park in Mexico City gets 2.5 million visitors a year  and the average admission costs are  around 500 pesos..

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Post by Lady Otter Latté Fri Mar 04, 2016 4:58 pm

Yeah, and that is just the way it would be in Chapala because it has many similarities to Mexico City. Rolling Eyes
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Post by viajero Fri Mar 04, 2016 6:49 pm

Lady Otter Latté wrote:Yeah, and that is just the way it would be in Chapala because it has many similarities to Mexico City. Rolling Eyes
It takes a Mexico City resident longer to get to Six Flags in Mexico City than it would for a Tapatio to get to your new amusement park
30 to 45 minutes... Very Happy

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Post by Playaboy Sat Mar 05, 2016 7:19 am

Trailrunner wrote:Define 'progress'.

One definition, full time JOBS that could pay local families 200,000 pesos a year with benefits.

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Post by Carry Bean Sat Mar 05, 2016 8:02 am

I'm sure some enterprising Mexican would have come up with this great money-making scheme if it would work here.

And how much money would some ex-pat make in these glorious ventures?

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Post by Playaboy Sat Mar 05, 2016 8:43 am

Carry Bean wrote:I'm sure some enterprising Mexican would have come up with this great money-making scheme if it would work here.

And how much money would some ex-pat make in these glorious ventures?

Mexico is a free country with a capitalist system.  Multinational corporations are investing billions of USD.  Nissan. Ford, Sony, Heineken, Intel and hundreds of small individual immigrant investors are building up Mexico.  Chapala should play up to its strengths and seek out that investment capitol.  Then jobs can be created.

If local young people want a good job and a better life than their parents, it means moving away from home.  Chapala is getting left behind the rest of Mexico.

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Post by The Postman Sat Mar 05, 2016 9:13 am

I knew a 78 year old man who with his peers campaigned against a factory moving into a small town in Minnesota. This town was losing all its young people because the town had no work for the young and only the staid businesses of yesteryear that were unable to hire anyone. I asked him why he was against the factory. His reply was that the factory would bring people who would build houses,etc. and then in 20-30 years the factory would go broke and the town would have an empty factory with empty houses. It would be bad for the town then. He would be a 100 years old if he lived so long.
   The only problem I see is Chapala will need a new place for its annual fiesta and the tennis players a new court. Bring on the progress as this is an in land project designed for for the Mexican people. It is not a play ground like the beach resorts on the coasts pulling in millions of foreigners. It is for the people living in the interior of Mexico.
If the park doesn't work for the first investors the next batch of investors will make it work and I will be too old to care.
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