Mexico | Land of Opportunity

[tecelote]

More Americans are emigrating to Mexico than Mexicans to America.

Mexico has a lower unemployment rate.

The Middle Class is growing not shrinking.

Who'd a thought?

[Demobrat]

1. I just got back from there.

I met several Mexican people who grew up and were educated in the states, then went back to start or work for businesses catering to English speaking tourists. They do just fine and have no interest in returning to being treated like second class citizens.

[Aristus]

2. I've been saying for years that in less than a century,

The US and Mexico will have swapped places in the economic pecking order.

Mexico has the manufacturing jobs now that once build a solid and prosperous middle class here in the US.

However inept and corrupt the Mexican government may be, it's not nearly as relentlessly driven as our republicans to destroy the national socioeconomic infrastructure.

Women in Mexico have been in times past, and are now to a fair extent, guided by the Church to get married early and have lots of children. However, many Mexican women are now defying that edict and steering their own course. While women in America are under a vicious assault on their reproductive freedom from clergy and right-wing lay-people alike, who fund the election of ultra-right-wing women-haters to do their legislative bidding.

[cbayer]

3. I just moved to Mexico and I love it so far.

Wonderful people who are happy for me to be here. Great prices on just about everything. Wonderful climate.

It was even not that hard to negotiate the immigration bureaucracy.

Viva Mexico!

[UCmeNdc]

4. I heard it was hard to get residency for a US citizen.

Is that true?

[cbayer]

5. Complicated but not impossible.

You can come in for 6 months on a tourist visa and then renew that for another 6 months.

During that time, you can establish residency and accumulate the information you need to apply for more permanent status.

The paperwork is complicated and most people seem to use a lawyer or another person well versed in the rules, but there are few roadblocks to actually getting it.