Californians and other Americans are flooding Mexico City. Some locals want them to go hone.

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Mexico City is being flooded by Americans -- including legions of remote workers drawn by cheaper rents.

They're transforming classic neighborhoods, the housing market and even racial dynamics.

More and more, locals are asking them to please go home.
MEXICO CITY - JULY 06: Cafe-goers sit at Quentin Cafe, a coffee shop popular with Americans and remote-workers in the Condesa neighborhood on Wednesday, July 6, 2022 in Mexico City. (Celia Talbot Tobin for the Times)
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Californians and other Americans are flooding Mexico City. Some locals want them to go home
Americans tourists and remote workers are gentrifying some of Mexico City's most treasured neighborhoods. Backlash is growing.
7:54 AM · Jul 27, 2022

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-07-27/americans-are-flooding-mexico-city-some-mexicans-want-them-to-go-home

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MEXICO CITY — Fernando Bustos Gorozpe was sitting with friends in a cafe here when he realized that — once again — they were outnumbered.

“We’re the only brown people,” said Bustos, a 38-year-old writer and university professor. “We’re the only people speaking Spanish except the waiters.”

Mexico has long been the top foreign travel destination for Americans, its bountiful beaches and picturesque pueblos luring tens of millions of U.S. visitors annually. But in recent years, a growing number of tourists and remote workers — hailing from Brooklyn, N.Y., Silicon Valley and points in between — have flooded the nation’s capital and left a scent of new-wave imperialism.

The influx, which has accelerated since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and is likely to continue as inflation rises, is transforming some of the city’s most treasured neighborhoods into expat enclaves.

In leafy, walkable quarters such as Roma, Condesa, Centro and Juarez, rents are soaring as Americans and other foreigners snap up houses and landlords trade long-term renters for travelers willing to pay more on Airbnb. Taquerias, corner stores and fondas — small, family-run lunch spots — are being replaced by Pilates studios, co-working spaces and sleek cafes advertising oat-milk lattes and avocado toast.

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[Coventina]

1. Oh noes! Not AVACADO TOAST!!!!!!

I guess all the taco trucks are now here on every block!!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. The critical question: Will Mexico build the wall?

[geardaddy]

3. International gentrification

And if they stay, they should learn Spanish!

It reminds me of Brits (read English) setting up enclaves in Spain and other parts of Europe and essentially not making any attempts to integrate at all.

[enid602]

4. Mostly European

I frequently watch Mexican TV here in Phoenix, and only rarely see brown people.

[Coventina]

5. Racism is very much a thing in Mexico. A holdover from colonialism.

The Europeans who invaded and conquered Mexico tended to keep themselves separated from the indigenous population.

In more recent history, Porfiorio Diaz very much encouraged this idea of a white elite that not only ruled Mexico, but was also the cultural elite of Mexico.

In spite of the Revolution and all that followed, a lot of the media and cultural production tends to look very white as opposed to indigenous or mestizaje.

[DakotaSnow]

7. Yep

I have traveled and lived worldwide. I've seen racisms everywhere, from everyone. It is hardly unique to the US or Caucasians, unfortunately. I think humans are just very tribal in nature. Us vs Them.

[Deep State Witch]

6. Maybe Mexico Should Build A Wall

And make America pay for it?

[EX500rider]

9. Except I doubt most of them are there illegally nt

[msongs]

8. subscription required to read article about karma nt

[EX500rider]

10. Ha!

98% of all Mexican emigrants reside in the United States, which are more than 10.9 million (documented and undocumented) migrants. Guess it's now a 2 way street.

[Ursus Rex]

11. AirBnB et al are a plague.

I mean, I'm not quite at "one house for everyone before has two" - I have no problem with vacation houses, etc, and even renting them out time to time to help pay AND let someone enjoy them - but those services are genuinely, negatively impacting ownership and neighborhood character far too widely.

[Zeitghost]

12. Where am I?

Complaints about immigrants.
Complaints about them not speaking the native language.
Complaints about them disrupting the racial makeup of the area.
Complaints about them not assimilating.


Is this DU? Or did I stumble upon some rightwing hate site?

[Ace Rothstein]

13. How the turntables.