There's even an Anglo fellow from Port Hueneme. He speaks barely a word of Spanish, but he let his buddy talk him into moving in with his family down here to start an early retirement. Like Oxnard, Ocotlan is a town with rough edges. It has its upper class, but there are plenty of poor people. The lack of government money for basic services is hard to ignore.
People sweep the streets and sidewalks in front of their houses religiously.
But there's no money to repair, or even pave, many of them. There's no money for putting up more than a few streetlights. There's a makeshift library, but no money for books. There's no money for modern lifesaving equipment - or, for that matter, practically any other equipment. That's where Ocotlan's sister city comes in.