Americans, particularly Californians, are flooding Mexico City

Parts of Mexico City are gorgeous and cool AF. I imagine the Californians are pricing the Mexicans out of those areas.

I encourage this.

Maybe Mexico gets to deal with what their government is dishing out for a while. And when transplanted Californians miss an election in the US, it’s probably a good thing.

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More and more, locals are asking them to please go home

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Mexicans invade California, now Californians invade Mexico
Hate to see it

Here is the article with no paywall: https://archive.ph/hPF3n

Some good quotes.

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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.

And English — well, it’s everywhere: ringing out at supermarkets, natural wine bars and fitness classes in the park.

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For the cost of a $2,000 one-bedroom in Koreatown, an Angeleno can rent a penthouse here.

Despite growing tensions, Mexico City is not Paris, where an American stumbling over French in a boulangerie will get a dose of hostility along with her croissants. It’s not Berlin or Barcelona, where locals in recent years have mounted major protests over excessive tourism and the gobbling up of urban properties by global investment firms.

The vast majority of people in this crowded, colorful metropolis are unwaveringly kind and patient with international visitors, who in the first four months of this year spent $851 million on hotels alone, according to tourism records.

But there is friction beneath the surface, as more locals consider what gentrification means for the city’s economics, culture and even race relations.

Over the weekend, a tenant advocacy group hosted a walking tour of “places we have lost to gentrification, touristification and forced displacement.” “Our homes,” the event flier read, “now house digital nomads.”

The dynamic playing out here is, in many ways, an old-world problem colliding with tech-age mobility, one that is forcing Mexico to confront its own history and traits.

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“I kind of feel like, as a person of color from America, I’m so economically disadvantaged that wherever I go and experience some advantage or equity, I take it,” she said.

In Mexico, which has a relatively small population of Afro-Mexicans and abolished slavery decades before its northern neighbor, Rodwell said she does not experience the same racism as she does in the U.S.. “Being Black in America,” she said, is exhausting. “It’s nice to take a break from it.”

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More and more, locals are asking them to please go home.

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Oh the mf'n irony

Didn't the Portuguese say the same thing as well

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More and more, locals are asking them to please go home.

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You get too many of them and everything gets screwed up.

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This is a neighborhood..they all deserve each other.

Honestly if I could I’d do the same. American rent sucks unless you’re in a complete shithole, then everything else sucks

My company has a huge office in Mexico City. I heard it’s awesome, and I have been wanting to go check it out.

It’s too bad the city is being flooded by locusts from California.