less to break in mexico, that's all i'm saying. most of the yucatan is rural, especially on the east coast of the yucatan between chetumal and cozumel (it gets whacked by hurricanes enough i guess that folks aren't running each other over to move there). the mainland gulf coast south of matamoros is also largely rural all the way down to tampico... goes from semiarid plains to desert and mountains inland from there.
kenedy county texas is home to several hundred thousand cows and a couple hundred people. it's almost as big as delaware. brownsville/raymondville and the cities strung up the lower rio grande to the south, kingsville/corpus to the north... and another sizeable town or city as you go up the coast from there in every other county.
yes, if it stays in mexico, much less to break.
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