Watch: Mexico City Protest Against American Ex-Pat 'Invasion' Turns Violent

[Hol]

In a role reversal that underscores a universal resentment of economic and social impacts caused by a major influx of foreigners, demonstrators marched in Mexico City on Friday to protest against the city's status as a hot new residential destination for American ex-pats and remote workers. Though it started peacefully, many demonstrators turned violent, with some of them accosting Americans and smashing the restaurants, banks and other businesses that cater to them.

Angered by soaring rents they rationally blame on foreigners, hundreds of protesters marched through Condesa and Roma -- two neighborhoods that are particularly popular with Americans living in or visiting Mexico City -- and proceeded to the US embassy and to a metro station. Their signs expressed a variety of sentiments:

• Gringo: Stop Stealing Our Home
• Mexico For Mexicans
• Pay Taxes, Speak Spanish, Use Pesos Or Get Out Of Here
• Death To The Neo-Colonizer
• Expat = Gentrifier
• Your New Home Is An Invasion
• Gentrification = Neo-Colonization
• To Gentrify Isn't Progress, It's Dispossession
• We Shouldn't Feel Like Foreigners In Our Own Land

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[Tall Timbers]

I've long wondered when (not if) things would turn bad for American expats. I've got some friends living in Panama, hope things are okay tthere.

 

[Hol]

My former boss and his wife moved to Costa Rica about six months after I retired. They aimed to become expats but after two years he moved back. (Sadly, they divorced.) They wanted to buy a home, but ran into obstacles so they hopped from rental to rental, only where there was lots of security. It seemed to me that he was seeing the main obstacle was that expats weren’t welcomed. Unfortunately his wife got caught up in some locals who practiced some witchcraft stuff. She took him to the cleaner

 

[Andiamo]

The irony of this. Wow.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

My then-husband and I seriously considered retiring in Israel. One of the biggest issues was the potential for not being allowed to work. Because of the likely once-a-year trip to the US and the possibility of emergencies requiring short-notice travel to the US, we decided financially we couldn't

As far as gaining entry and establishing residency, my then husband is part Jewish, so no issue there, and as his wife, also no issue. Both of us having served in the MFO, the Israelis already have files