Mexico City Gentrification

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Summary

TLDRThe video discusses the trend of Americans and other foreigners moving to Mexico City as digital nomads, leading to significant gentrification and rising living costs in areas like Roma Norte. This influx began largely due to remote work capabilities following the COVID-19 pandemic, allowing workers to live in cities with lower costs of living. While this migration brings economic benefits to some, it has also caused a housing crisis for local residents, whose wages cannot compete with those of foreign nomads. This crisis mirrors past gentrification patterns seen in US cities, where initial waves of artists and creatives are followed by investors and ultimately wealthy professionals, pushing out long-standing communities. In response, Mexico City's local government has enacted a historical rent freeze to combat the displacement of residents and ensure housing affordability. The video also touches on broader themes of cultural and economic exchange, showing both the positive and negative impacts of such a demographic shift.

Takeaways

  • 🏡 Gentrification in areas like Roma Norte is pushing out locals due to higher living costs.
  • 💼 Remote work has led to an influx of Americans to Mexico City, seeking cheaper living conditions.
  • 🌆 Mexico City is now a top destination for digital nomads globally.
  • 🛑 The local government implemented a rent freeze to combat housing inequality.
  • 🖌️ Gentrification phases involve artists, hipsters, investors, and wealthy professionals.
  • 📈 Economic benefits for local businesses from tourists and remote workers, but with rising costs.
  • 🌎 The trend mirrors changes in other global cities experiencing gentrification.
  • 💬 Cultural impacts and reactions to perceived 'colonization' through economic means.
  • 📊 Proposals for regulation and taxation have been considered to manage the influx.
  • 🌐 The pandemic accelerated remote work adoption, increasing geographic flexibility for workers.

Timeline

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    The speaker prefers living in Mexico over the US, specifically highlighting its calmness compared to New York. They mention Mexico City as a top spot for remote workers. Despite growing up in the US, they feel more comfortable in Mexico due to its relaxed nature. The rising cost of living in Mexico City, partly due to Americans moving there, is noted, affecting local affordability.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    There is a discussion on gentrification, contrasting it between being a potential positive change and a cultural threat. The conversation uses examples from US cities like New York, highlighting how gentrification evolved there. It explains the phases of gentrification and how they impact neighborhoods and their original inhabitants.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    The narrative continues with a detailed exploration of the gentrification phases, from artists moving in to the arrival of wealthy developers. It describes the displacement of locals and the changing urban landscape, drawing a parallel with Mexico City's Roma Norte district, impacted significantly post-1985 earthquake and more recently by digital nomads.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    The video outlines increasing costs in Mexico City and potential solutions like regulation of rents. Comparisons are made with situations in cities like New Orleans post-Katrina. It highlights how locals and newcomers alike are affected by rising prices, though some see opportunities as well. The government's plans for a rent freeze aim to alleviate these tensions.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:26:39

    Finally, there is mention of tourism and its effects on local resources like water, leading to government action on rent controls. The discussion broadens to include the US-Mexico border cities like Tijuana and their issues with foreign influences, including the controversial aspects of tourism, which could be problematic yet crucial for the local economy.

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Video Q&A

  • Why are Americans moving to Mexico City?

    Americans are moving to Mexico City because the cost of living allows their paychecks to stretch further compared to expensive US cities.

  • What impact does the influx of digital nomads have on Mexico City?

    The influx of digital nomads is raising rent and living costs, leading to gentrification and making it difficult for local residents to afford housing.

  • What are the phases of gentrification mentioned in the video?

    Gentrification progresses through phases starting with artists seeking cheap rent, followed by hipsters, then investors and developers, and finally wealthy professionals.

  • How is the local government responding to the gentrification issues?

    The Mexico City government has implemented a rent freeze to prevent further displacement and financial exploitation of local residents.

  • What are the complaints about American migration affecting Mexico City?

    Locals feel that American migration is increasing inequality and unaffordability for Mexicans due to higher purchasing power of foreigners.

  • What solution has been proposed to manage the influx of digital nomads?

    There have been proposals for a digital nomad tax and rent regulations to control the impact on the housing market.

  • How has local culture been impacted by foreign influence?

    Local culture is at risk due to rising prices and changes in neighborhood dynamics, which some residents view as cultural erasure.

  • What historical events contributed to the current situation in Roman Norte?

    Roman Norte's popularity grew after the 1985 earthquake displaced residents, leading to long-term changes after rebuilding.

  • What industries are benefiting from the presence of digital nomads?

    Tourism and local businesses benefit economically from digital nomads, though it's a double-edged sword with rising costs for locals.

  • Why was the digital nomad tax proposal rejected?

    The digital nomad tax was rejected because the city government and developers saw economic opportunities in attracting remote workers.

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  • 00:00:02
    H speak Spanish no where are you from
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    what's that couple streets over H you
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    living here in Mexico yeah I love Mexico
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    I don't like the United States okay it's
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    much calmer than New York it's still
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    very natural I've had a a little bit of
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    Mexican uh always in my family but not
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    by Blood but now I I basically do
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    internet marketing remote work things
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    like that the Mexican capital is now
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    considered one of the top five cities in
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    the world for remote workers nothing is
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    stopping me from working remotely as
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    long as I'm not earning wages here in
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    Mexico yeah what would you do if you had
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    that opportunity you know I grew up in
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    the states my family's only been there
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    for one or two generations also so you
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    know obviously I'm from there but I feel
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    more comfortable here to be honest this
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    country is more chill in Russia
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    everybody is on the rush everybody is
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    running here it's more chill okay thanks
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    bro thank you very much nice to meet you
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    laica theic in is a big
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    problem what do you think about the
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    prices in this swn the prices here
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    pretty like comparable to Seattle prices
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    yeah rent in Seattle is back on the rise
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    average rent steal more than $2,100 a
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    month for a 700t apartment you tasty
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    much Alo gracias nice to meet you nice
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    to meet you as well as some of you may
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    have seen much of our previous coverage
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    has focused on the issues along the US
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    Mexico border particularly surrounding
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    undocumented migrants coming from
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    developing nations in Latin America
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    who've crossed our border illegally in
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    search of Economic Opportunity in the
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    states many Americans have complained
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    that this Mass influx of migrants is
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    taking away job opportunities from
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    workingclass Americans lowering the
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    bottom line for coal miners and Veterans
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    flooding the streets with crime and
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    violence and leading to a can9 genocide
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    of Epic Proportions they're eating the
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    dogs the people that came in they're
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    eating the pets but what if I told you
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    there's a reverse border crisis going on
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    that's right rent and cost of living in
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    Mexico's largest city has doubled and
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    now tripled as a result of Americans
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    this all really began after the co
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    pandemic of 2020 during which tens of
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    millions of Americans working in the
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    tech sector switched to a work from home
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    model and no longer had to report to the
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    office in cities like San Francisco and
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    Seattle where tech companies like uber
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    Twitter Facebook Microsoft and Beyond
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    are headquartered so where did they go
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    the answer is simple they went somewhere
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    where their paycheck stretches a lot
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    further some chose cities like Austin
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    Texas and Nashville Tennessee but
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    800,000 Americans have moved to the
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    country of Mexico in the past 4 years
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    and almost nowhere is their presence
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    felt more than in Mexico's capital you
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    see graffiti like this that says Flingo
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    which means get out Greeno much like the
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    current situation at our border if done
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    right this wouldn't be a bad thing after
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    all tourism accounts for 17% of Mexico's
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    GDP much like immigrant labor documented
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    or undocumented accounts for 19% of the
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    American Workforce but this rapid Mass
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    influx of what are called digital Nomads
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    to Mexico City has overwhelmed the
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    housing market there to such a degree
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    that native born Mexicans cannot
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    feasibly live there on a standard salary
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    look past the Charming cafes flashy
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    apartments and you'll see this capital
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    city for what it's becoming a refuge
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    huge for migrants I grew up in New York
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    La Atlanta Georgia perhaps not the
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    border crossing you expected Americans
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    leaving pricey US cities heading south
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    to work from home in this episode our
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    Latin American correspondent hos will
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    investigate the ongoing situation in
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    Mexico City through the perspectives of
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    locals Americans other foreigners and
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    local activists doing their best to
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    bring awareness to the
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    problemo for
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    activists say the formula is simple as
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    Mexico has sought to attract remote
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    workers with higher purchasing power
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    it's created more inequality for
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    Mexicans for
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    H did you speak Spanish see your
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    favorite words in Spanish uh favorite
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    words
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    uh no
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    okay bad words okay
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    nice let's pause for a moment and talk
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    about gentrification it's a polarizing
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    buzzword that often divides people into
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    two camps on one side you have people
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    who see it as a great across theboard
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    thing the neighborhood gets cleaned up
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    crime goes down and home values rise for
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    millions of people my age that is a
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    dream then on the other side you have
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    those who view it as a form of
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    colonization and cultural eraser
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    gentrification is genocide but it's
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    important to understand that
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    gentrification doesn't begin maliciously
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    let's use the us as an example
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    hipsterism as we know it today began in
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    New York City in the early 2000s the
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    first hipsters were Suburban raised
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    Millennials who adapted grunge and
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    Lumberjack fashion forms that were
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    popular in Minneapolis and the Pacific
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    Northwest in the late '90s most of the
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    original hipsters were the grandchildren
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    of white Americans who fled the inner
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    cities in the mid1 1960s during
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    desegregation in a mass Exodus known as
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    white flight the construction of newly
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    built all-white suburbs and Lev towns
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    and the farmlands outside cities like
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    Philadelphia was more than a geographic
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    resettlement it was essentially a mass
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    divestment from the cities which
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    resulted in a near total transferring of
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    what josue's interviewee calls
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    purchasing power away from the urban
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    centers into these private redlined
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    communities this in turn created half a
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    century of economic aparte in which he
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    basically had two parallel societies the
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    city cities and the suburbs existing in
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    complete isolation from each other
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    throughout the ' 80s and '90s cities
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    like Philadelphia Baltimore and New York
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    City spiraled into chaos and disrepair
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    while Suburbia and its sprawl became
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    larger and larger even connecting Metro
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    areas like Chicago and Milwaukee but
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    there was one problem that the
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    architects of white flight didn't
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    consider which is the mass loss of
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    what's called cultural capital that came
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    as a result of isolation the first
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    generation born into a post white flight
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    reality were the Boomers it should come
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    as no surprise that they loved it and
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    appreciated it after all most of their
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    parents were were Hard Scrabble World
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    War II vets who grew up in a world with
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    no suburbs so a white picket fence in a
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    big backyard was like a Utopia the
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    children of the Boomers gen xers kind of
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    like the suburbs but were showing some
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    signs of angst but the generation after
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    them the Millennials they envisioned a
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    vibrant New Life a world Beyond cacs and
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    strip malls put simply they wanted to be
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    around culture eat interesting food hear
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    different languages and just not be
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    bored and so a migration called reverse
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    White flight began it's generally
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    acknowledged that the first hipster
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    neighborhood in America was Williamsburg
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    Brooklyn a his ially Jewish black and
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    Dominican area where Vice moved their
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    headquarters in 2001 the complete cycle
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    of turning parts of the neighborhood
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    from diverse cultural corridors to Flat
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    corporate business Parks took about 15
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    years and there's actually a science to
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    how gentrification Works tulan
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    University Professor Richard Campanella
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    broke it down into a four-phase model
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    phase one is the arrival of starving
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    artist types legitimate penniless as he
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    calls them gutter punks cuz he's from
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    New Orleans who are looking for a cheap
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    place to live that's a reasonable
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    commuting distance from upscale cultural
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    centers these types are often troubled
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    they use use drugs and drink heavily and
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    for certain never open any businesses
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    and so don't actively displace anyone
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    what they do though is signal safety
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    that makes way for the arrival of phase
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    2 Phase 2 is hipsters but Campanella
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    calls them the creative class those in
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    the creative class fetishize the
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    starving artist types and are often
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    semi-ring they kind of follow cool
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    around the country unlike the broke
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    Bohemians hipsters are typically college
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    educated hyper liberal and usually open
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    businesses like coffee shops organic
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    food stores juice bars yoga studios
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    barber shops with OS brick inside vegan
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    co-ops and essentially introduce oat
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    milk to the hood gradually the area
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    becomes a colony of the greater hipster
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    Network and begin seeing cross traffic
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    from cities like Portland Oregon who
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    begin imposing their Aesthetics and
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    cultural Customs onto the area however
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    rent and cost of living itself does not
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    actually rise until the third phase
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    begins which Campanella calls the
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    Bourgeois Bohemian phase this is marked
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    by the arrival of art collectors people
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    who refer to themselves as socialites
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    burning man camp leaders cultural
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    investors and most importantly real
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    estate developers with a taste for the
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    hip who are aware of the area's
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    skyrocketing cultural capital and see a
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    massive business opportunity which often
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    takes the form of a city- sponsored Arts
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    District it's between Phase 2 and three
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    that you find the most tension because
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    that's when the displacement happens in
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    this phase entire neighborhoods are
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    often bulldozed to make room for luxury
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    hotels trendy fine dining restaurants
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    and hip corporate storefronts resulting
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    in unaffordability for both locals who
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    are totally out of this coolness Matrix
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    and the hipsters in both Bohemians that
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    made the area cool in the first place
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    after the shiny new apartments are built
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    and the landlord raises the rent the
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    fourth phase begins which is the arrival
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    of the rich the young professional class
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    like Tech Bros and finance guys who have
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    absolutely no interest in anything cool
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    and view cultural capital as basically
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    meaningless by the time phase 4 is
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    complete and yuppies have taken over
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    you're left with a sterile metallic
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    ghost town full of empty apartments that
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    basically nobody wants to live in the
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    developers who banked on the cool Factor
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    are bummed and the cycle of
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    gentrification has now re started on the
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    outer radius of where it began spreading
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    like a nuclear bomb in all directions
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    destroying everything in its wake in New
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    York you could say the bomb was dropped
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    in Williamsburg the blast radius is
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    currently incinerating Bushwick bedy
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    Ridgewood and further out into the
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    buroughs in Mexico City it's safe to say
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    the g bomb was dropped in a neighborhood
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    called Roman Norte a historic district
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    just Southwest of the center of town I'm
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    not sure if you know this but Mexico
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    City is unbelievably large in size and
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    has a higher population than New York so
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    there was a ton of neighborhoods for
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    transplants to choose from but Roman
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    norte's primary cultural appeal was its
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    food it's been a hot spot for Mexican
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    Cuisine since the 1950s dude I mean you
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    can get you know some chili keiles or
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    some tacos for four pesos and it's like
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    [ __ ] good you know I love it it's
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    great the prices are great here do you
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    feel the upgrade the prices uh no yeah I
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    feel like in some places the prices are
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    going up I mean Roman Norte is
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    ridiculous condesa is so expensive now
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    uh I looked out cuz I feel like Warez
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    it's like it's still a little local but
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    it's it's like the Brooklyn of the CER
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    yeah in the center um it feel like it's
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    like a old New York you know beyond
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    cultural appeal another factor that
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    makes cities right for gentrification or
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    natural disasters one example would be
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    New Orleans Louisiana in 2005 Hurricane
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    Katrina struck the city killing 1,800
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    people and displacing half of New
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    Orleans population one of the hardest
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    hit neighborhoods was the ninth ward
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    because of the city's levies breaking
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    the Lower Ninth Ward was almost totally
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    flattened by floodwaters however in the
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    upper 9th Ward a neighborhood now
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    heavily rebranded as the Bywater
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    District homes remained intact despite
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    all of these homeowners having been
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    relocated elsewhere to cities like
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    Houston and Atlanta where many of them
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    lived in FEMA trailers awaiting
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    Insurance checks and government Aid in
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    this desperate State and amid an
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    uncertain future for a broken New
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    Orleans real estate agents swooped in
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    and began buying entire blocks of
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    Bywater homes in cash from the recently
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    displaced owners setting a foundation
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    for a hipster Enclave that would Thrive
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    about 10 years later according to many
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    Mexico City locals the story of what
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    happened in Roma Norte is actually quite
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    similar to what happened in the Bywater
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    Roma was the EP center of the 1985
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    Mexico City earthquake which killed
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    5,000 and displaced 2 million residents
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    many of whom would never return
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    EX
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    you know when I first moved here it was
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    completely different area you know there
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    there's been gentrification since after
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    the earthquake of ' 85 right and it's
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    been 20 or 30 years but it really got um
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    scaled up in the last 3 four years with
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    the pandemic and everything but the
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    price have gone up a lot then you have
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    the inflation kick in too a little bit
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    later here and so the last couple years
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    have been really tough for locals tough
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    for foreigners too cuz I mean it's
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    there's a lot of um I don't know
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    exploitation of the market I think from
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    local Mexicans who own the apartments no
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    regulations from the government and
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    there's just been kind of this
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    free-for-all but I think things are kind
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    of settling down a little bit but yeah I
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    mean I've been here for 10 years I'm a
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    permanent resident pay my
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    taxes Mexican brother yeah I don't have
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    any plans to go back like I said at
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    permanent residence I pay my taxes here
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    I I bought my apartment 10 years ago
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    here and it's it's probably where I'll
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    die you pay taxes I don't pay taxes bro
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    crazy bro no one likes to but
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    okay Perfecto that's it that's it hey
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    the reason that I felt that it was
  • 00:15:50
    important to illustrate these phases of
  • 00:15:51
    gentrification in such detail is because
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    it appears that Mexico City is somewhere
  • 00:15:55
    between Phase 2 and three while
  • 00:15:57
    certainly more expensive than it was
  • 00:15:58
    Roman Norte hasn't been bulldozed
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    completely to make way for glass
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    Condominiums and certainly retains the
  • 00:16:03
    Vibrance and energy that made it
  • 00:16:05
    attractive to Americans in the first
  • 00:16:06
    place which leads me to a unifying
  • 00:16:08
    conclusion that's more important than
  • 00:16:09
    differences between language and
  • 00:16:11
    nationality no one from the locals to
  • 00:16:13
    the digital Nomads want Mexico City to
  • 00:16:15
    change the Americans Russians and French
  • 00:16:17
    transplants hos interviewed possess a
  • 00:16:19
    genuine love for the place and they
  • 00:16:21
    aren't the ones raising the rent it's
  • 00:16:22
    the landlords developers real estate
  • 00:16:24
    tycoons and city government that make
  • 00:16:26
    these calls seeing an opportunity to
  • 00:16:28
    capitalize on Hy hyperinflated foreign
  • 00:16:29
    currencies if properly regulated taxed
  • 00:16:32
    and accommodated the influx of digital
  • 00:16:33
    Nomads could be a great thing for the
  • 00:16:35
    city this isn't something that
  • 00:16:36
    neighborhood natives are totally blind
  • 00:16:57
    to
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    [Music]
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    [Music]
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    for Mexico City Central Boulevard is
  • 00:17:30
    undergoing a full-fledged Renaissance As
  • 00:17:32
    wealthy Mexican and international firms
  • 00:17:35
    stake ever bigger claims on the landmark
  • 00:17:38
    [Music]
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    promon for the
  • 00:17:45
    restant okay okay okay it's creating
  • 00:17:48
    tourism and and and and money for small
  • 00:17:51
    businesses
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    [Music]
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    I came here because of the war in Russia
  • 00:18:13
    Russians are fleeing the Country flights
  • 00:18:16
    from Moscow to all visa-free
  • 00:18:17
    destinations selling out quickly okay
  • 00:18:20
    yeah I'm afraid of my life okay yeah uh
  • 00:18:25
    you working in DJ uh yeah I'm DJing uh
  • 00:18:28
    and my friend Lane we are making our
  • 00:18:30
    project it called Z
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    hry
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    rush
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    hry and also I'm working as a waiter uh
  • 00:18:41
    in a restaurant okay yeah
  • 00:19:03
    no
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    hurry no
  • 00:19:25
    rush when you really get to Mexico City
  • 00:19:28
    when you stay in these places when you
  • 00:19:29
    meet random cool artists on the street
  • 00:19:32
    you realize bro it's a beautiful place a
  • 00:19:34
    beautiful place that will likely
  • 00:19:35
    continue to grow at an exponential rate
  • 00:19:37
    in the coming years as inflation in the
  • 00:19:39
    US as well as the rising cost of living
  • 00:19:41
    make things like home ownership nearly
  • 00:19:43
    unattainable for the millions of young
  • 00:19:44
    professionals entering the white collar
  • 00:19:46
    Workforce a recent study conducted by
  • 00:19:48
    MBO business partners suggested that 70
  • 00:19:50
    million Americans are currently
  • 00:19:52
    expressing interest in adapting the
  • 00:19:53
    digital Nomad lifestyle and of those 70
  • 00:19:55
    million 9% are already putting their
  • 00:19:57
    plans into motion so what's been seen in
  • 00:19:59
    Mexico City since Co is just the
  • 00:20:00
    beginning in preparation for this Mass
  • 00:20:02
    migration a number of countries like
  • 00:20:04
    Japan have already introduced digital
  • 00:20:05
    Nomad visas which require remote workers
  • 00:20:07
    to file taxes in Japan regardless of
  • 00:20:09
    where their paycheck is coming from
  • 00:20:10
    something similar was advocated for by
  • 00:20:12
    Mexico city councilwoman Freda guen who
  • 00:20:14
    proposed something called a digital
  • 00:20:15
    Nomad tax that would charge them all a
  • 00:20:17
    flat fee of roughly 3,000 pesos or
  • 00:20:20
    $155 per month but this idea was shot
  • 00:20:22
    down by her constituents and never
  • 00:20:24
    really came to fruition because after
  • 00:20:25
    all this was an inside job in the first
  • 00:20:27
    place airb B recently struck a deal with
  • 00:20:30
    local authorities to make this place one
  • 00:20:33
    of 20 Global destinations for so-called
  • 00:20:36
    digital Nomads the mass buyouts of
  • 00:20:39
    apartments in these neighborhoods to
  • 00:20:40
    convert them into airbnbs and Market
  • 00:20:42
    them to wealthy foreigners was directly
  • 00:20:44
    facilitated by the city government who
  • 00:20:45
    pulled no punches in evicting tenants
  • 00:20:47
    without warning this woman has asked us
  • 00:20:49
    not to reveal her identity after her
  • 00:20:51
    apartment building signed a deal with
  • 00:20:53
    the home share company Airbnb she was
  • 00:20:55
    given 5 days to move out she says short
  • 00:20:58
    notice evictions are becoming common
  • 00:21:00
    place across the city
  • 00:21:36
    without proper restrictions in place the
  • 00:21:38
    only group of people that could
  • 00:21:39
    collectively stop gentrification right
  • 00:21:41
    now are landlords local landlords which
  • 00:21:43
    makes things even more
  • 00:21:55
    complicated I'm going to go out on a
  • 00:21:57
    limb here and suggest that if there's
  • 00:21:58
    one thing that landlords don't do it
  • 00:22:00
    would be supporting the People by way of
  • 00:22:02
    voluntarily reducing rent costs so many
  • 00:22:04
    locals feel that the only possible
  • 00:22:06
    solution moving forward is to impose
  • 00:22:08
    government-mandated regulations on both
  • 00:22:10
    what landlords can charge and
  • 00:22:12
    immigration itself
  • 00:22:55
    see
  • 00:23:02
    Mexico City one of the world's most
  • 00:23:04
    populated cities at nearly 22 million
  • 00:23:06
    people could run out of water in just
  • 00:23:08
    months it's being referred to as day
  • 00:23:11
    Zero and experts warn it could happen in
  • 00:23:14
    June tourism plays into this water
  • 00:23:16
    shortage a tourist uses between three to
  • 00:23:19
    four times more water than a
  • 00:23:26
    resident shortly after these interviews
  • 00:23:28
    were conducted like actually 24 hours
  • 00:23:30
    later Mexico City Government unanimously
  • 00:23:32
    approved the largest rent freeze in
  • 00:23:34
    their country's history since 1946
  • 00:23:36
    prohibiting Airbnb landlords and Roman
  • 00:23:38
    Norte from raising the prices any higher
  • 00:23:40
    and ensuring Mexican tenants who make
  • 00:23:41
    less than digital Nomads make a reduced
  • 00:23:43
    rate rent as well as government housing
  • 00:23:45
    loans in an effort to combat
  • 00:23:46
    displacement the rent freeze will also
  • 00:23:48
    require all landlords to register their
  • 00:23:49
    rental contracts with the city and
  • 00:23:51
    establishes strict fines and penalties
  • 00:23:53
    for any of them caught overcharging
  • 00:23:54
    foreign tenants or evicting Mexican
  • 00:23:56
    renters without proper notice which
  • 00:23:58
    overall is great news back to
  • 00:24:05
    host where are you
  • 00:24:13
    from as hos wrapped up his report we
  • 00:24:16
    decided to send another bilingual friend
  • 00:24:18
    of ours to a very different part of the
  • 00:24:19
    country yet a place where the influence
  • 00:24:21
    of Americans and particularly American
  • 00:24:23
    dollars has been felt just as hard
  • 00:24:41
    the it's the greatest Border in the
  • 00:24:43
    world TJ a historic Border Town with the
  • 00:24:46
    highest number of homicides in Mexico
  • 00:24:48
    but otherwise a great
  • 00:24:54
    City however Tijuana like Mexico City
  • 00:24:57
    has an American problem specifically a
  • 00:24:59
    horny Americans problem every night
  • 00:25:00
    thousands of Americans cross the US
  • 00:25:02
    Mexico border typically on foot coming
  • 00:25:04
    from cities like San Diego Santa Barbara
  • 00:25:06
    and Yuma Arizona to engage in commercial
  • 00:25:08
    sex acts with often times traffic women
  • 00:25:10
    at a full service flat fee of $100 hold
  • 00:25:12
    up one those DS guys John here in this
  • 00:25:15
    video we're going to speak to sex
  • 00:25:16
    workers and TJ recently divorced dads
  • 00:25:18
    looking for love Carefree locals dressed
  • 00:25:20
    as Nazis for Halloween and most
  • 00:25:22
    importantly American dudes paying for
  • 00:25:23
    sex via Mexico vivva Mexico I love mexic
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Tags
  • Mexico City
  • Gentrification
  • Digital Nomads
  • Remote Work
  • Housing Crisis
  • Local Economy
  • Cultural Impact
  • Migration
  • Economic Inequality