Posted on 03/20/2005 5:56:53 AM PST by qam1
Americans are such dupes. We are only welcomed if we bring a supply of dollares. Has everyone forgotten the 100's of millions of dollars the Mexican goevernment confiscated during the last peso crisis that were held by Americans in dollar accounts in US banks?
How about a good neighbor policy that includes the excrerable Mexican government selling us crude at a discount for partial repayment of all of thier campesinos who're up here illegally.
Yet, as many of you have pointed out, there is always a silver lining: move liberal scum! Leave! Get out of our way so we can do the heavy work required.
There are quite a number of UK citizens who live here that I know of and a few Americans.
If anyone is interested in it, let me know.
I think it has to do with "climate". They live at sufficient altitude in the South that they have what amounts to a year-round temperate climate. This induces them to move to Chicago (among other places) because the weather is familiar.
Centuries ago they'd been moving to Cahokia, Terre Haute, Angel Mounds (at Evansville), and many other areas that show signs of serious trade with or settlement by Meso-Americans.
It'd probably be worth a doctorate to conduct and analyze interviews with hill folks in Southern Mexico to determine the velocity of the persistence of stories about El Norte.
This sounds like a reasonable idea. We should require proficiency in English.
Nah, you assume that political leanings are hereditary. They aren't. My maternal grandparents were staunch Republicans. My mother and father are Democrats. My sister and I are conservatives.
Last I heard was you got a 99 year lease. Only way to buy property was marry a Mexican citizen. This was about 5 years ago when a friend of a friend moved there.
I seem to recall that Americans cannot buy property within a certain distance of the border. i think the Mexicans are afraid Americans will buy property close to the border and then declare it part of the United States. I think the distance is somewhere between 70 to 100 miles.
Other foreigners are subject to the former standards.
Now, when it comes to owning an oil well, the government owns all of them so you can't own an oil well.
In recent years Mexico has actually adopted many tricks previously found only in American law. Used to be a man's word was a guarantee. Now, you'd best have a notarized signed statement, plus a current receipt, and have your lawyer's phone number memorized!
Everybody I know of who has moved to Mexico has eventually moved back.
India does not allow citizens living abroad to vote. Good idea?
Also because Mexico has all the socialism that they have always wanted.
Actually, much of what you have been saying is similar to what I have heard from some of the Mexican students. These students (most of whom speak English with no discernable accent) want to return to Mexico with their US education so that they can, hopefully, erase the stigma that Mexico has. Most of them wish Mexico would become as close a partner with the US as Britain or Japan. Also, they HATE the corruption in their country.
This has been happening in the San Miguel Allende (and other) areas for years now. They don't want them in Dolores Hidalgo and actively take steps to keep Americans from moving there.
I'd support any operation that would smuggle several million AARP liberals into Mexico, starting today.
"I didn't think Americans were allowed to buy property in Mexico?"
They aren't. They get a 99-year lease. Of course, since a 30 + individual will probably not have another 99 years in him or her, it's not much of a problem.
There's a lot more that goes with living in Mexico--- additional paperwork that allows you to move freely between the States and Mexico without a visa or passport, a legal "pay-off" to the local big shot (Paternos?), and more. My brother-in-law had a place in Punta Mita, just north of Puerto Vallarta and was always applying and sending paperwork (and cash) for one thing or another. He lived in a beautiful gated community on a hill above the ocean. We'd sit in the heated whirlpool outside his condo, swim in the pool and laughingly wonder what the poor people were doing.
I soon found out. We'd cruise the "village" below the hill, and it would kill me...packs of skinny dogs, some with a leg missing, that would run in packs---dirty kids living in adobe huts, no windows or doors on the building, potholes in the mud "streets" bigger than craters on the dark side of the moon.
Every six months or so, the federalis would dump a truck load of poisoned meat on the edge of town for the dogs and come back a few days later to dig a ditch and bull-doze the dead dogs into the hole...yeah, just like Hotel California.
Thats what he really means.
yeah, my first thoughts. My second thought was: better be ready to flee at the drop of a hat and forfeit your investment there also.
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