Is it harder to get a retirement visa in Thailand compared to retiring in Mexico?

Many people here talking about Mexico without any experience, but just read misleading information from the internet, it says they will check your Covid test results crossing border but actually they didn’t do it, I need to cross border every day during Covid and I was never asked such questions, many Americans live in Mexico side and work in America, how they can do Covid tests everyday, if you arrive by air, it’s needed. Also, you don’t need a passport to enter Mexico, just drive in like you drive into your garage, nobody ask you about anything. If you look at the cars on the road in Mexico City Tijuana, more than half of the have American plates, I have a global entry card which is needed to use the express line to get into America, so I just carry this card and leave my American pass port in my Mexico home, as for the price, they have a good restaurant where everything is 23 pesos which is about $1.2 including beer and tacos, you can get a taco for 1-1.5 dollars for street food, a decent meal is just below $10, I feel safe in Mexico, and I even drove to Mexico City without a drivers license which was stolen. Cancun is among top beaches worldwide like Hawaii and Bali, of course there are bad things also, if you caught by police when you drive, you need pay about $200 cash before they let you go, it’s corruption. Also Mexico night life is not that great. If you have a good wife or girlfriend, it’s really a good place to live, I lived with 3 girls for about 8 months there and traveled a lot of places in Mexico, I would say Mexican are lazy, they don’t have a English menu for most of the restaurants and no good food on the beach.