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This is pretty interesting to me. The pattern is similar to what's happening between Mexico and the US: A lot of people emmigrated from Spain(Mexico) in the pas

This is pretty interesting to me. The pattern is similar to what's happening between Mexico and the US: A lot of people emmigrated from Spain(Mexico) in the past , looking for better jobs and pay (I remember seeing plenty of Spaniards working in Scotland hostels when I traveled there). The locals (Britons/Americans) revolted against said immigration with the justification of lost jobs, and reduction of wages. Now the roles inverted somehow: Spaniards/Mexicans don't like people immigrating to THEIR country. Even if they do it legally and inject money to the local economy. Mainly because they are making the cost of living higher than what the locals can afford. I personally don't care people coming to gentrify Mexico. Globalization cuts both ways, and.

zrn900 2y ago
> Now the roles inverted somehow: Spaniards/Mexicans don't like people immigrating to THEIR country. Even if they do it legally and inject money to the local economy. Its simply because that 'injecting money to the local economy' thing is a false proposition. A rich immigrant doesn't buy 100 shoes, 10 cars, or a dozen breads every day. They consume only as much as any other person would do. Their benefit to the local economy is negligible as a result. But... > Mainly because they are making the cost of living higher than what the locals can afford. ...the difference between the Spanish, the Mexican immigrants in the US and the new wave of (mainly Angloamerican) immigrants in places like Spain is that the latter are rich immigrants. Even in the case of a merely working class American or Brit moving to Spain, the immigrant has much more income or life savings than the average Spaniard due to the high cost of living in the US or the UK etc. So when they come to cheaper places, they directly gentrify even the white-collar professionals from the city centers and coastal areas. If a white collar lawyer and engineer cant cope up with the rising housing costs and food prices, there is no way that the average Spaniard could afford those either. So in the current dynamic, these rich individuals gentrify the people of the target nation out of their cities entirely, like in the case of Barcelona. Some locals started to call this 'a colonization' recently.

zrn900 2y ago

> Now the roles inverted somehow: Spaniards/Mexicans don't like people immigrating to THEIR country. Even if they do it legally and inject money to the local economy. Its simply because that 'injecting money to the local economy' thing is a false proposition. A rich immigrant doesn't buy 100 shoes, 10 cars, or a dozen breads every day. They consume only as much as any other person would do. Their benefit to the local economy is negligible as a result. But... > Mainly because they are making the cost of living higher than what the locals can afford. ...the difference between the Spanish, the Mexican immigrants in the US and the new wave of (mainly Angloamerican) immigrants in places like Spain is that the latter are rich immigrants. Even in the case of a merely working class American or Brit moving to Spain, the immigrant has much more income or life savings than the average Spaniard due to the high cost of living in the US or the UK etc. So when they come to cheaper places, they directly gentrify even the white-collar professionals from the city centers and coastal areas. If a white collar lawyer and engineer cant cope up with the rising housing costs and food prices, there is no way that the average Spaniard could afford those either. So in the current dynamic, these rich individuals gentrify the people of the target nation out of their cities entirely, like in the case of Barcelona. Some locals started to call this 'a colonization' recently.