Dear Sir,

Recently I returned home from a brief absence to learn my house had been robbed.

Dear Sir,

I am interested in the new income requirements for expats to live in Mexico. If the United States were to incorporate the Mexican plan, few if any would vacation or reside there. The minimum wage in the U.S. capital is 8.25 dollars per hour. A minimum wage earner in Washington D.C. earns 17,424 dollars per year. If a Mexican were to attempt to have temporary residence in the United States, he would, using Mexican standards, have to receive 39,666 dollars per year. A Mexican immigrant would have to earn, or have at his disposal, 49,500 dollars per year. I cannot imagine the negative reaction if the United States used Mexican immigration laws.

Dear Sir,

I am responding to the letter to the editor in the Nov. 17-23 edition, from Peter Howarth of San Juan Cosala. I think that even though the skateboard parks are for the young people, they are in public spaces and seen by all of us. As for me, I don’t want to see graffiti. If you attended the inauguration of the park, you would have heard music with English lyrics saying something like, “We just want to smoke our weed, we just want to drink our booze, we just want to   _ _ _ _  our chics, etc.” You would have also seen stickers for skateboard-related products pasted on every light post. In the caption and photo of the Mezquitan cemetery in Guadalajara, which appeared in the Reporter awhile back, the murals there, in less than a year’s time, have been graffitied.

Dear Sir,

It is great to read in the Reporter that the U.S. State Department considers Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta safe for U.S. citizens.

Dear Sir,

As a response to the letter regarding graffiti at the skate park in Ajijic, I’d like to point out simply that the skate park is for the young people. It seems to me that if they want to paint it in various colors or accept graffiti, it should be their choice. If they don’t want it, then they can clean it.

Dear Sir,

As much fun as the new skateboard park is for our young people here in Ajijic it is requiring a lot more work from our very dedicated volunteer crew who keep the villages and highways clean of unsightly spray paint scribble at Lakeside.  It seems that tagging (graffiti) and skateboarding go together.