Seems about right. My friend dates a girl whose mother was an asylum seeker because she was targeted by the cartels.
A few months back he tells me he is flying down to South America to meet the mother. I was like "wait didn't she flee there because of the cartels? Why is she down there?" Apparently she moved back right after her kid graduated college claiming things "cleared up"
Media representation versus reality. Had a buddy I worked in a kitchen with that was a legal economic migrant from Mexico. He rented a cheap room, drank cheap beer, ate all his meals at the restaurant and five years later moved back to Mexico and bought a house and his own restaurant. Still have a standing offer to go visit him.
It's a perfectly reasonable strategy, and it's what most people do with Big Cities as it is. Take the money, then go to a place with lower cost of living and reap the rewards.
Oh I had no problem with the guy and we still talk regularly about food. He used a process available to him to build up revenue and invest in his home country because it was cheaper to live back there. That’s no different than what I did with my military experience, and frankly it’s a better investment in the long run.
Seems about right. My friend dates a girl whose mother was an asylum seeker because she was targeted by the cartels.
A few months back he tells me he is flying down to South America to meet the mother. I was like "wait didn't she flee there because of the cartels? Why is she down there?" Apparently she moved back right after her kid graduated college claiming things "cleared up"
Media representation versus reality. Had a buddy I worked in a kitchen with that was a legal economic migrant from Mexico. He rented a cheap room, drank cheap beer, ate all his meals at the restaurant and five years later moved back to Mexico and bought a house and his own restaurant. Still have a standing offer to go visit him.
It's a perfectly reasonable strategy, and it's what most people do with Big Cities as it is. Take the money, then go to a place with lower cost of living and reap the rewards.
Oh I had no problem with the guy and we still talk regularly about food. He used a process available to him to build up revenue and invest in his home country because it was cheaper to live back there. That’s no different than what I did with my military experience, and frankly it’s a better investment in the long run.