Mexico City residents aren’t happy with Americans that have moved to their city and made things more expensive, demanding they leave, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday. A growing number of Americans from areas like Silicon Valley and Brooklyn, New York, have flocked to the city, taking advantage of its beauty and cheap rent, according to the LA Times. The issue is expected to worsen with rising inflation as more Americans look for affordable alternatives. Mexico City Residents Want Americans To Leave
I am not a subscriber to the New York Times but I would prefer to read the original piece. At least the headline, which you can see without being a subscriber, doesn’t seem to support the inflammatory nature of this piece. This piece appears to be trying to foment hatred
A gig economy, remote work, and online education is going to accelerate and create very challenging socio-economic clashes for governments.
That’s one way of looking at it. Not sure how that’s “Karma” though, as the people complaining aren’t the ones crossing our borders. So how is that karma for them? They probably just don’t like Americans, could be nationalism/cultural but it says the ex-pats are driving up their rents which is a legit issue. A lot of people resent “tourists” in general, not just Americans either, plenty of accounts of British behaving badly abroad.
Here are the limited summaries available for nonsubscribers in the Twitter links. Based upon the limited descriptions provided, I sympathize with the Mexicans. They sound much like I do about South Tampa types moving into Riverside Heights. I moved away from South Tampa to get away from them. It’s the gentrification paradox. It brings a lot of good but also a lot of undesirable change. Our tree canopy is rapidly disappearing in my neighborhood
Interesting that residents would blame Americans for “causing” prices to rise and not blame Mexican business owners for raising them. It’s not so much supply and demand at work as it is old fashioned greed. We all are to one degree or another.
The news was full of China buying American farmland just the other day to rile up the natives here... it's common to demonize and blame others for what is really just economic certainty.
How about an even exchange since that’s popular these days. All their people here for all our people over there. I mean what could go wrong?
It’s all good until someone gets kidnapped for ransom. Happened to a friend of our family that lives in Satellite Beach. Dragged on for about two years, squeezing them for every penny they could.
I could see this happening easily in some locations. Sorry to hear about your friend, two years is a long time to hold somebody., even longer time to be held against your will. Was this in Mexico or ??
It was a husband to the daughter of our family friends. Had a second home somewhere in southern Mexico, not in Mexico City. In all fairness, he wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed, but still, they got about $50k from the family before letting him go. Each year about 250 to 400 Americans get kidnapped. It's a business to them and they study their targets, knowing what they can get.
I think the Mexicans are still angry about General Black Jack Pershing leading 10,000 American soldiers into Mexico to try to capture the marauding Pancho Villa. (Black Jack never caught Pancho, but it was a good training exercise for Pershing's soldiers who would soon find themselves fighting in Europe.)
