Living Without Borders

Who’s Moving to Mexico ?

July 17th, 2007

Who’s moving to Mexico? We’ve been asking that ourselves!! We’re seeing a lot of people who simply can’t afford to buy houses in California. And then we’re thinking, these people aren’t anywhere near retirement age. But then again, check out this funny post from Financial Security Quest:

I’m not planning to spend the next 70 years wearing a wife beater and watching Matlock (which is what, I’m lead to believe, retirement mostly entails). My goal is basically to escape wage slavery (I’m a capitalist who believes in wage slavery - go figure!) and to be able to live life on my own terms without having to feel dependent on anyone else for the necessities of life (or for a large enough pay-check to purchase the necessities of life). I hate to feel beholden to anyone (I’d make an awful trophy wife) and most 9-5 jobs and contract work makes me feel exactly this way (”if I upset this person they may fire me and make my life unpleasant”).

Ha ha. The rest of the post goes on to illustrate and elucidate some “maybe plans.” The post is illustrative of the sort of conflicts that make anything but Wage Slavery seem just wildly outrageous. I hope he makes it.

We really are seeing an increase in people buying their first homes, vacation homes, because they can’t afford or don’t want to purchase in the United States. Real estate taxes and, well, other factors have made life there a bit unbearable. Live in Mexico for one year and then watch the Chirpy new CBS Evening News on the America Network. Things become clear very quickly.

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