As drug-fueled violence skyrockets in Tijuana, the upper-class is fleeing the city, with more than 1,000 wealthy families migrating to the US, reports the LA Times. The Mexican city is now second to Baghdad in kidnappings and many American real estate agents describe clients who arrive missing fingers or with fresh wounds. A government crackdown on drug cartels may have forced organized crime groups to seek out other means of income.
"I always say that Eastlake is the city with the highest standard of living in all of Mexico,” an immigration lawyer joked of a city just five miles north of the Mexican border. (More drugs stories.)