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Neocon Nuttery See other Neocon Nuttery Articles Title: Expatriation: Is It Too Late? Rich Republican re-gentrification goes global Expatriation: Is It Too Late? Rich Republican re-gentrification goes global, and it's nothing but a bitch slap to the Republican working class
Today we see the same type of naivety that exists within working class Republican would-be expatriates that still think expatriating to the south-of-the-border countries is the same type of situation it was 30 years ago, i.e. that you can live for peanuts, that your dollar goes a long ways, that you're going to be welcomed with open arms, and that real estate prices and land prices are only a fraction of what they are in the United States. This is nonsense.
Working class Republican would-be expatriates are getting a real eye-opener when they actually go to investigate. Suddenly they find out that real estate prices south of the border, land prices with real estate are actually higher than what they are in the United States.
There were a lot of Homex development homes built in Mexico from, let's say, the late 60s to the mid-70s (1968 to 1978). Homex built an awful lot of $49,900 homes in these developed communities for middle class Republican expatriates, and it was really done throughout Mexico.
Then the retirees got priced out. It is these homes and the land that they sit on that are now being bought up by wealthy pro-Bush faction Republicans who are knocking down these developments to build new gated communities. They're 30 years old, so they're teardowns. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top Page Up Full Thread Page Down Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 7.
#3. To: robin (#0)
I thought you had to be a Mexican citizen to own land in Mexico.
I think that non-Mexicans are granted a 100 year "lease" on property rather than ownership, which means that if a crooked mayor or police chief in La Paz likes your beachfront house, the lease can be revoked at any moment. They wouldn't dare do that to a major factory owned by a Multinational Corporation, though. That would be shooting themselves in the foot.
Talking about 'mayors', we DO have the eminent domain thingy in the US, don't we? 'Ownership' is an illusion, my friend, unless you have the nukes to defend it.
The only difference between the US and Latin America is that when they seize your property in the US, they give you some token money as compensation. And you don't need nukes to protect yourself, only money. As I said, the state will take property from private individuals, but they won't touch the holdings of the Multinationals. The government answers to higher masters.
I used 'nukes' as a place-holder for 'power'. You have rights, including property rights to the extent that you can claim and defend them.
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