Despite the dangers of the immigration process and the difficulty of entry, news of immigrants arriving in the United States frequently dominates the front pages of international newspapers. However, a strange phenomenon has seen a counter-wave of Americans moving to states in Mexico with high crime rates to escape the high cost of living in the United States.
According to the American embassy in Mexico, which “France Press” cited, over a million and a half Americans currently dwell in Mexico as either tourists or employees, which is made possible by the country’s straightforward legal framework.
According to Jesus Fargres, the director of the Real Estate Union in Rosurito, Mexico, there are 12,000 Americans living there alone.
Due to the export of immigrant Americans, the Mexican real estate purchasing market, real estate sale advertisements in Mexico are written in English, a non-official language of the state, and prices are stated in US dollars.
Ruth Astris, director of the brokers Association in Tewana, Mexican, says that the average real estate prices that Americans buy in Mexico are about a quarter of a million dollars, and it is cheap as a third of the prices of similar real estate in the United States.
The Tewana Real Estate Union reports that due to the rising demand from Americans, building sales have climbed by 10% this year.
Mike Rashchfoul, an American and American language teacher, says he works in the United States and crosses the border in the evening for his home in Mexico, as the rental price is half of the American price.
Brian McDonald’s, an American from Oklahoma, adds that he prefers to stay in Mexico for business opportunities that suit technological field specialists, who are Mexico as a new and developing market for them with the escalation of small companies in it.
Gabriel Zerotay, a Chilean-born American, alternates between living and working in Mexico and the United States.
to get away from the expensive rent. Thousands of Americans reside in Mexico, despite the high crime rates
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