Amazing. Mexicans and other South Americans are swarming into the U.S. and Americans are swarming into Mexico.

I find it hilarious.

https://nypost.com/2022/07/28/...rifying-area-report/

Mexico City residents angered by influx of Americans speaking English, gentrifying area: report
An influx of Californians and other Americans has made its way to Mexico City, angering some locals who say they are gentrifying the area, according to a report.

The Los Angeles Times report on Wednesday outlined how some Mexican locals are “fed up” with the growing number of Americans, many from California, moving to and visiting the country, which has contributed to a rise in rent and a shift from Spanish to English in some places.

“New to the city? Working remotely?” fliers popping up around Mexico City reportedly said. “You’re a f—ing plague and the locals f—ing hate you. Leave.”

The article outlines how Americans have brought a scent of “new-wave” imperialism as taquerias and corner stores have slowly transformed into coffee shops and Pilates studios.

English is also reportedly becoming more prevalent as more Americans are moving to and visiting Mexico City to take advantage of lower rent and the ability to stay in Mexico for six months without a visa.

“We’re the only brown people,” Fernando Bustos Gorozpe, a 38-year-old writer and university professor, told the Los Angeles Times. “We’re the only people speaking Spanish except the waiters.”

Bustos later posted a video on TikTok saying that the influx of Americans “stinks of modern colonialism” and nearly 2,000 people responded in agreement.

“Mexico is classist and racist,” Bustos added. “People with white skin are given preference. Now, if a local wants to go to a restaurant or a club, they don’t just have to compete with rich, white Mexicans but with foreigners too.”

The article also pointed to a social media post online where a young American said, “Do yourself a favor and remote work in Mexico City – is truly magical.”

The tweet received many negative responses.

“Please don’t,” one of the replies said. “This city is becoming more and more expensive every day in part because of people like you, and you don’t even realize or care about it.”

While the Los Angeles Times report insisted that the “vast majority” of Mexico City locals are “unwaveringly kind” to visitors, there remains a “friction beneath the surface” of what gentrification means to the area.

“There’s a distinction between people who want to learn about the place they are in and those who just like it because it’s cheap,” said 31-year-old Hugo Van der Merwe, a man who grew up in Florida and Namibia who has been working remotely in Mexico City. “I’ve met a number of people who don’t really care that they’re in Mexico, they just care that it’s cheap.”

The State Department reports that there are 1.6 million Americans living in Mexico, many of them coming during the coronavirus pandemic when Mexico eased restrictions sooner than many places in the United States, but it remains unknown how many of those Americans are in Mexico City.

The Los Angeles Times says that in the first four months of this year, 1.2 million foreign visitors arrived at Mexico City’s airport.

“We’re just seeing Americans flooding in,” said Alexandra Demou, who runs the relocation company Welcome Home Mexico. “It’s people who maybe have their own business, or maybe they’re thinking of starting some consulting or freelance work. They don’t even know how long they’re going to stay. They’re completely picking up their entire lives and just moving down here.”

Demou added that she receives 50 calls a week from people thinking about moving to Mexico City.

Lauren Rodwell, who moved to Mexico City from San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood, says she is sensitive to the gentrification issue but doesn’t feel guilty as a black woman.

“I kind of feel like, as a person of color from America, I’m so economically disadvantaged that wherever I go and experience some advantage or equity, I take it,” Rodwell said, adding that “being black in America” is exhausting and “it’s nice to take a break from it.”

Hey, Mexico, at least you're getting an influx of foreigners who entered your country legally, who likely are well-educated or, at the very least, can read and write, and who won't be glomming off of your government.

I’m willing to consider being busted up about their problem as soon as the last illegal immigrant from Mexico crosses the border headed south.

Sounds like the same feeling locals in CO< TX, AZ have about Californians coming into their areas, can't say as I'd blame them

It's interesting though to see how tech, lockdowns and covid has changed how we work.

Can't blame someone for wanting to live in Mexico, on a beach, for half the cost of CA on their CA tech salary...

One of the things that many Americans don’t realize is there are millions of white Latin Americans, generally quite well off economically, that are well-educated and speak English at fluent or near native fluency.

The same immigrant populations (English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Irish etc) that came to North America also settled in Latin America. For example, in Brazil and Argentina alone there are about 15 million immigrants with near 100% German ancestry, and that’s just one ethnic group.

In the US, we get LatAm immigrants from the poorer/lower socioeconomic classes, and conflate that with all Latin Americans, when you could be interacting with someone who is from there and never realize it.

I spent a week there on holiday some time back. Lots of things to see and do. Had respiratory issues due to the altitude and worst pollution ever. 98 percent of the people are dirt poor. The other two percent are ridiculously wealthy. Traffic is beyond crazy and the locals drive like idiots. Glad to see Californians moving there and not where I live. The idiots moving there probably do not know about the earthquakes and other disasters that befall the city.

Lauren Rodwell, who moved to Mexico City from San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood, says she is sensitive to the gentrification issue but doesn’t feel guilty as a black woman.

“I kind of feel like, as a person of color from America, I’m so economically disadvantaged that wherever I go and experience some advantage or equity, I take it,” Rodwell said, adding that being black in America is exhausting
and “it’s nice to take a break from it.”

I would bet that just being Ms Roswell is exhausting. Geez

quote:

Originally posted by Tn226:
Lauren Rodwell, who moved to Mexico City from San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood, says she is sensitive to the gentrification issue but doesn’t feel guilty as a black woman.

“I kind of feel like, as a person of color from America, I’m so economically disadvantaged that wherever I go and experience some advantage or equity, I take it,” Rodwell said, adding that being black in America is exhausting
and “it’s nice to take a break from it.”

I would bet that just being Ms Roswell is exhausting. Geez

Being black in America is exhausting? Really?

You get admitted to colleges you really aren't qualified to get admitted to. While there you get scholarships so you can get through without debt.

You get jobs you aren't qualified for and when you prove you can't do the job, you don't get fired, you get to keep your job for as long as you care to work there.

If you choose not to work at all, you get free housing, food, medical care, education if you are interested, free cell phones, essentially free everything.

If you think you're exhausted, try going through life in America as a white person who has to work and gets no free rides for Education, jobs or anything else.

First off. FUCK THEM! next fuck them twice. Unlike the majority of them entering illegally here, the Americans did it legally. I'll also bet they speak some Spanish, and are at least literate in English, unlike most of them that come here which are illiterate in Spanish and surly English, that suck off of our governments tit.

ARman

don't give a flying fuck or a rats ass what Mexico wants

I will listen to them with some understanding when they take every single illegal back

until then, they can moan and bitch all they want and my response is 'suck it, assholes'

Getting a taste of their own medicine.

Excellent.

Ahhhh. Ain't karma a bitch.

Sounds phony. Would you even notice say 20,000 foreigners out of a population of 12 million in Mexico City ? Or of the 22 million in the Mexico City "Urban Area" ?

My wife and I lived north of DF (Mexico City) for a year over the course of 2 winters. We felt the Mexican nationals loved our dollars and our sense of volunteerism. We tipped generously and always tried to be courteous. Most Mexicans spoke conversational English while our Spanish was weak. We only had one instance where we needed our phone to translate a conversation. We loved San Miguel de Allende until the drug scene really heated up.