My wife said something of the same sort yesterday, about going somewhere where there's land, and not a bunch of stupid people making stupid rules.
You could have knocked me over with a feather.
I spent a lot of time in Baja covering off-road racing and got to know a lot of great people down there. Once you get south of Ensenada, the entire character of the place changes. Well, at least it was that way. Don't know about now as it's been 15 years.
Great people, very relaxed lifestyle and no materialism to speak of. They are poor but they don't care. They are rich where it matters. They could not care any less about politics and just want to be left the hell alone.