[lit-ideas] Re: : Mexican protesting_ something illegal for free
- From: "Kahn, Rupert" <R.D.Kahn@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 10:50:23 +0100
Maybe Mexicans are going north because the boom in baby boomers going
south means they can't afford to buy property at home.
http://www.realestatejournal.com/secondhomes/20060419-allen.html
"With more than 70 million American baby boomers expected to retire in
the next two decades, many without adequate pensions or health plans,
some experts predict a vast migration to warmer -- and cheaper --
climates. Often, such buyers purchase a property 10 to 15 years before
retirement, use it as a vacation home, and then eventually move there
for most of the year. Developers increasingly are taking advantage of
the trend, building gated communities, condominiums and golf courses.
Mexico, already thought to be home to as many as one million American
citizens, or roughly a quarter of all U.S. expatriates, is set to get
the lion's share of new arrivals. From the long-time artists' enclave of
San Miguel de Allende in the hills of central Mexico to fast-growing
sports-fishing and beach communities of the Baja peninsula to Puerto
Vallarta on the Pacific coast, there is plenty to lure a sun-seeking
retiree."
There's also a report prepared for the World Bank which gives some
background on the relationship between access to property and poverty in
Mexico.
http://are.berkeley.edu/~sadoulet/papers/Land_Reform_in_LA_10_lesson.pdf
Rupert
Sheffield
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In a message dated 5/2/2006 8:21:42 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
wells001@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
has to grant 12 million acres of land to be bought by american
Citizens!
HI,
Isn't that an interesting concept?
What IS the level of land ownership by the population in Mexico? Do
they have the same 'dream' of home ownership that we do? How possible
is it in Mexico? What is keeping it from happening? Would it change
their economy if that happened?
If the Americans ended up with an acre of land or more--would a Little
USA begin to be formed there?
Wonder what WOULD happen if this proposition happened? Would there be
very many Americans who would take it up? I have heard that there are
those who have retired there...the 'upside' for Mexico, then, would be
that US dollars via Social Security or the rare pension would be
funneled into their economy.
Actually...it might be the beginning of the whole USA annexing Mexico as
a new state...there's a thought, right? Would that be a good idea, I
wonder? Would that be a great change for Mexico? Would their companies
have to begin to comply with things like minimum wage and so forth?
Sometimes taking these sorts of ideas to their further steps allows one
to see the situation more clearly...
Best,
Marlena
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