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Title: Expatriation: Is It Too Late? Rich Republican re-gentrification goes global
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Published: Sep 15, 2007
Author: AL MARTIN
Post Date: 2007-09-15 10:31:42 by robin
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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.

They're buying them, really, for the land value and the easement rights that go along with them, and they're building in their place the new preferred, wealthy pro-Bush faction Republican, ultra-high security, gated condo communities, where condos start at $500,000 and go up to $3 million.

In the process, what they're doing is, they're paying enough for these older Homex-built houses from now very old Republican, middle class retirees. The 250 thousand dollars or so that they'e paying for these homes gives these middle class Republican retirees enough money to move further south in Mexico and buy a house again in another middle class Republican expatriate zone, particularly the communities that were built just north of Cuernavaca.

So now you see wealthy pro-Bush faction Republicans coming further south, buying those homes, and giving the middle class Republican expatriates a little profit -- not enough to live in a wealthy pro-Bush faction Republican community -- but enough to move yet still further south where housing is cheaper.

You are seeing now Republican re-gentrification, which means that wealthy pro-Bush faction Republicans are coming in, developing new communities, as the demand for those communities far outstrips the supply because wealthy pro-Bush faction Republicans are now the largest class of expatriates from the United States.

The older, middle class Republican retirees, some of whom have only retired recently and have found out the hard way that you can't have everything you thought you were going to have south of the border anymore, are getting pushed down the food chain, as it were.

Where does this end? Ultimately, the retirement haunt of middle class Republicans south of the border is going to be somewhere in the wilds of Nicaragua because Nicaragua is the country that is the most beat-out. The infrastructure is destroyed. There is no public utility service to speak of, and this is the reason why wealthy pro-Bush faction Republican money won't go to Nicaragua...

If you understand what's happening in this country, that the American Empire is an empire in decline, and you understand that you want to be out in the next decade, which is what, of course, wealthy pro-Bush faction Republicans understand, then you also have to understand that you've got to have the financial means to do so.

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#8. To: robin (#0)

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.

I can't speak for Mexico or a lot of other latin countries, but in Ecuador, the cost of living is definitely less. I'd say your dollar generally goes about 3 times farther than in the states. I wouldn't say gringos are welcomed with open arms but our money certainly is, and real estate prices are about a third of what you'd spend in the states, maybe a bit less. I.e. $800 a month will get you a really nice sizeable house in a gated community, and an above average home is easily had for $300/month. A decent apartment is $200/month.

And I do know that Ecuador is more expensive than Peru and Bolivia. Some young Peruvian women come to Ecuador to work as maids because the higher pay rate makes it worthwhile.

Gringos do need to negotiate carefully, however, as we'll often be quoted higher rates just because we're gringos, and latinos know that Gringos have lots of cash and will happily and ignorantly pay 50% more than the going rate since it's still a lot cheaper then what we're used to in the states.

If you're serious about relocating into Latin America, you do need local help and you do need to be careful and do your homework. The rules are different in every country and there are more surprises than you could possibly anticipate on your own without help, some that can cost you dearly (like buying a property only to find out years later that 2 or 3 other people claim to have bought it first). But for those that are careful, I'm (obviously) confident that there are plenty of benefits for those that do relocate.

Pinguinite  posted on  2007-09-15   14:15:30 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

#9. To: Pinguinite (#8)

Why did you chose Eucador rather than Argentina or Chile?

Zipporah  posted on  2007-09-15 14:17:10 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

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