The Mexico Thread
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I'm willing to trade. If Mexico takes their beaners back, we'll take back our expats.
I'm willing to trade. If Mexico takes their beaners back, we'll take back our expats.
White people are getting a taste of their minority status again.
A lot of white people assume they’re going to buy a plane ticket to South America or Asia once SHTF.
I barely keep up to date on these things and it’s clear even from a distance.
Not only is there an effort to vilify white people anywhere they can be found but all these countries are clamping down legally on “westerners” staying long term.
They got the marching orders. Things are in motion.
It varies a lot by country. Plenty of countries are still rolling out the red carpet for cashed up gringos. It’s more about keeping the backpackers, etc out of their countries. Malaysia, Thailand and Ecuador and Panama all have good visa programs and privileges for cashed up foreign expats.
In Hong Kong, the Job Market used to be really easy just with English. Now, they want people with Canto and Mandarin with almost no exception. The only places specifically looking for English are now Group/Regional level offices. The time to get out via white collar office employment is starting to clamp down.
Moderately Lethal
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I visited and was seriously considering the Mexican state of Michoacan for relocation. ( I speak Spanish fluently)
fast forward 2022, young Mexican-Americans vlogging on Youtube about "how cool" the place and "it is not as dangerous as people say". I knew that was the end of the state.
Now, in 2025 even Michoacan is unaffordable.
fast forward 2022, young Mexican-Americans vlogging on Youtube about "how cool" the place and "it is not as dangerous as people say". I knew that was the end of the state.
Now, in 2025 even Michoacan is unaffordable.
I am sure prices went up noticeably since then but surely it’s still affordable compared to western countries. I have visited Mexico and the only places that were unaffordable were tourist hotspots such as Tulum, Cancun, the rich parts of Mexico City etc. Everywhere else seems somewhat reasonable (but don’t expect it to be dirt cheap like Colombia or Peru) while Mexico is not dirt cheap anymore outside of the tourist hotspots it’s basically half the cost of living of comparable locations in the west.
The other thing in Mexico is the discrepancy between poor people stuff and upper class stuff is probably the highest I have seen out of any country. Fine dining restaurants and 5 star hotels and penthouse apartments in touristic locations and fancy hair salons etc in Mexico are basically at western price levels (and occasionally even more).
But normal stuff like eating street food, buying fresh produce from the markets, catching taxis, getting your hair cut from a barber at the market while sitting on plastic chairs, etc is all still very affordable. But yeah Mexico is not Bali or Thailand, don’t expect to luxury living on the cheap in Mexico.
Another thing I noticed is that even when you go to dirt cheap countries you don’t end up spending that much less than an expensive country because of lifestyle inflation. When you go to a country like New Zealand for holidays most nights you will decide to buy food from the supermarket and make your own food to save money because restaurants are so expensive whereas in a dirt cheap country like Vietnam or Peru or Colombia you end up going to restaurants almost every night, you catch taxis everywhere because taxis are cheap, you decide to treat yourself to some occasional massages etc. It all starts adding up. All things you would never do if you went to a country like Switzerland for holidays.
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Good points. I lived in my wife's country for years, one of the poorer and more dangerous countries south of the border. People in the USA always assumed it was dirt cheap to live there, but it's not that simple. It certainly could be, if you could handle the same lifestyle as a typical local. Thing is, you probably wouldn't want to do that if you could afford better. So it was a little less expensive for us there in the US, but not dramatically. Maybe 80% of what it costs us to here in the US now, and we're in a relatively expensive area, so I imagine there are parts of the US where a comparable lifestyle might even cost a bit less than in her country and other parts of Latin America.
There's nothing wrong with backpackers, backpacking is part of white culture. There's nothing to clamp down on. Most of the complaints come from travelling liberals. The posturing between tourists and expats about whether you should eat mud cookies with the locals beside a trash can like a true culture connoisseur or whether you should be spending 500 a day to support the local economy like a real man. The locals themselves have jacked the prices on everything and are just complaining about cheapskates. That's not an issue with "tourism" or "backpacking" itself. It's cheaper to get a hot dog or a slice of pizza in NY than the third world, as far as I'm aware.
It's not a red carpet treatment, it's a given that money buys privilege. Over there you're "allowed" to stay there, until the renewal of your paperwork from square 1. Over here you can get a job, own land, and the people will even pretend it's normal for you to be here, you can even lecture the locals about racism.
If you ain't got 6 digit savings or a multinational corporation writing you cheques, good luck with the red carpet.
6 figures in savings is pretty much what I was talking about when rolling out the red carpet. But some countries even give easy retiree visas for anybody over a certain age with a minimum passive income often $2000 per month and sometimes even less of social security income or rental income or dividend income can be enough to get you a retiree visa if you are old enough. They want retirees to come and spend money. What they don’t want is young expat types trying to come and take local jobs.
Calisto
Catholic
the countryside of states like Michoacan or Oaxaca must be cheap to live in but I wouldn't take my chances there
Calisto
Catholic
In June, a new update to the General Population Law modifies the CURP (a personal unique ID document) in order to include biometric data. It will now amount to: Full name, date of birth, gender, place of birth, nationality, a picture and finger prints. The Government is criticised by Civil Rights groups for risking the privacy of citizens and making their databases more attractive to hackers. President Sheinbaum says this new biometric ID will not be mandatory to have and is intended to identify future missing people.
Deputies approve the new Investigation and Intelligence Law which will allow the Security Secretary to access private data like financial, telephonic, biometrical, vehicular, among others.
Similar reforms to the Telecommunications Law create concerns about press censorship, to which the Government has thrown back to prevent any misinterpretation.
These reforms have been dubbed as the "Spy Law" or "Censorship Law" by activists recently.
Furthermore, the Senate approves reforms to the National Guard, giving it a military character instead of civil and allowing its members to be electoral candidates, which goes against the Mexican custom of forbidding active soldiers to be candidates and participate in politics. The last military president we had was Ávila Camacho from 1940 to 1946.
Deputies approve the new Investigation and Intelligence Law which will allow the Security Secretary to access private data like financial, telephonic, biometrical, vehicular, among others.
Similar reforms to the Telecommunications Law create concerns about press censorship, to which the Government has thrown back to prevent any misinterpretation.
These reforms have been dubbed as the "Spy Law" or "Censorship Law" by activists recently.
Furthermore, the Senate approves reforms to the National Guard, giving it a military character instead of civil and allowing its members to be electoral candidates, which goes against the Mexican custom of forbidding active soldiers to be candidates and participate in politics. The last military president we had was Ávila Camacho from 1940 to 1946.
Calisto
Catholic
Besides the general pension for elder people, which starts at the age of 65, the federal government modifies it so women (only women) in all the country can receive an earlier pension from the age of 60 in the next few years. The social program will prioritize "indigenous and afromexican majority communities".
The former is of 167 USD per month while the latter will be around 81 USD per month.
The former is of 167 USD per month while the latter will be around 81 USD per month.
Calisto
Catholic
Israeli journal The Marker claims that two Israeli businessmen bribed ex-president Peña Nieto with USD 25 million in order to secure contracts with the federal government, including the sale of spyware Pegasus. The attorney general of the Republic opens an investigation against Nieto in July and says they'll ask for Israel's cooperation.
Peña Nieto has been accused before for abusing Pegasus, in a 2023 trial.
Peña Nieto has been accused before for abusing Pegasus, in a 2023 trial.
Its a scientific fact that women on average live longer than men. Also women are less likely to work physical jobs then men. If anybody should get early pensions it should be men.
Calisto
Catholic
It follows the same logic as alimony: women spent decades raising children, cooking for their family and cleaning home instead of going to college so we'll compensate it with gibs. Unpaid labor narrative is big among feminists.
And that was true for previous generations but as of February 2024, 76% of college freshmen in Mexico are female.