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Netflix to invest $1B in Mexico over next 4 years
- tombert 2y ago...So, do they need any American software engineers to work in Mexico who want to spend about four years outside of the United States for reasons that will not be enumerated. Asking for a friend.
- giancarlostoro 2y agoI mean there are plenty of US embassies in Mexico, so not impossible to do.
- speakfreely 2y agoI'm not sure what point you're trying to make. Also, there one US embassy in Mexico, and multiple local consulates.
- electriclove 2y agoOnly if your friend is willing to get paid a local salary ;)
- tombert 2y agoOh he's not going to like that.
- Mr-Frog 2y agoEntry-level total comp at Google Mexico is about 80k USD, which is comparable to 180k in local purchasing power. [Edit] on second glance, my original datapoint for Google was questionable, but it looks like Lyft/Amazon definitely gives offers in the 50k-70k USD range.
- jjmarr 2y agowtf that's barely less than Canada? and significantly more on a purchasing power basis. How do I move to Mexico?
- Mr-Frog 2y agoThis is the absolute top of the top, domestic tech in Mexico pays pretty poorly. Google (as of last year) also let people transfer from high COL to lower COL, reduce their base, but keep the original RSU contract, which will probably skew reported compensation.
- jjmarr 2y agoDomestic tech in Canada also pays significantly less. Entry-level for some banks is like US$50-60k
- wkat4242 2y agoSame here in Spain. You need to be with a multinational. Local companies pay shit.
- FirmwareBurner 2y agoIt's the same in all of Europe. You need to work for international big-tech to make decent money, which is also very competitive in terms of job applications. Domestic SW shops pay shit.
- AlotOfReading 2y agoThat salary is actually below the minimum income for permanent residency (but above the 4 yr temporary residency threshold). If you want to stay beyond 4 years, you'll need to either pony up for a sufficiently expensive house or show $300k usd in a bank account over the past year.
- jjmarr 2y agoCan you give an idea of how much I'd have to spend on a house? And also what I'd get for that money?
- almosthere 2y agoWhat is the salary? I bet it's in my range but I'm in the USA.
- speakfreely 2y agoAverage software dev salaries in major Mexican metros are around 30,000 to 45,000 MXN per month. So around $2,000 USD a month.
- suavesito 2y agoWhich is a lot, at least in terms or how much you can buy. Mexico is really cheap, compared to USA.
- kevin_thibedeau 2y agoIt is a hit on your retirement savings if you intend to return to a more expensive country.
- wkat4242 2y agoThe thing with purchasing power is that it doesn't apply to everything. In particular foreign goods. So while low cost of living countries offset their low wages with cheaper housing, food and local services, imported stuff still costs the same and is relatively expensive as a result. Basically in those countries it really sucks to buy a computer, camera, even cars.
- tombert 2y agoI spent two weeks in Juarez a few years ago for my wife's visa stuff. The hotel was pretty cheap, the food was pretty cheap (and delicious!), but I was surprised to see that an Xbox was actually more expensive than it was in NYC. It makes enough sense, Microsoft isn't a charity, they're selling the console at a fairly competitive price already in the US, it's not going going to magically get cheaper just because it crossed a border, but it was still surprising to see that.
- plagiarist 2y agoWhat's the cost of living and healthcare like?
- xyst 2y agoYou might not return after a 4 yr extended stay, to be honest. Or NFLX ends up going bottom of the barrel contractors to replace
- zitterbewegung 2y agoIt doesn’t look like this is a software engineering play but instead they want to make more content instead in Mexico .
- yieldcrv 2y agoThere’s about to be drone strikes out there so thats a no for me dawg Maybe Roma Norte will be cool but thats it
- theultdev 2y ago[flagged]
- ceejayoz 2y agoDo you really think we didn’t hit civilians during Trump’s presidency? He did loads more drone strikes than Obama. We just stopped counting the civilians. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47480207.amp https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47480207.amp > During Mr Obama's eight years in office, 1,878 drone strikes were carried out, according to researchers. Since Mr Trump was elected in 2016, there have been 2,243 drone strikes. The Republican president has also made some of the operations, the ones outside of war zones, more secretive. As a result, things have different today: under Mr Trump, there are more drone strikes - and less transparency.
- theultdev 2y agoIt matters what you hit, not how much. Note how you didn't have any specific events of Trump hitting civilians to cite. https://www.hrw.org/report/2014/02/19/wedding-became-funeral/us-drone-attack-marriage-procession-yemen https://www.hrw.org/report/2014/02/19/wedding-became-funeral...
- ceejayoz 2y agoIt does, indeed. https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-afghanistan-airstrikes-increased-civilian-deaths-by-330-since-2016-2020-12 https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-afghanistan-airstrikes... > Civilian deaths skyrocketed in Afghanistan under President Donald Trump, whose administration relaxed the rules of engagement for airstrikes in 2017, according to a new study from the Costs of War Project at Brown University. > Airstrikes killed 700 civilians in Afghanistan in 2019 alone, more than any other year since the early days of the war in 2002, according to the study. "There were more weapons dropped from the air in 2018 and 2019 than at the height of US presence in Afghanistan in 2011," the report stated.
- aboardRat4 2y ago[flagged]
- IncreasePosts 2y agoPretty sure if women find you gross in America, they will find you gross in Mexico.
- aboardRat4 2y agoMaybe, but I don't live in the USA and have no idea whether women there find me gross.
- IncreasePosts 2y agoPretty sure if women find you gross in the country you live in, they will find you gross in Mexico
- speakfreely 2y agoIf you're upset about the deterioration of rule of law under Trump, I have some bad news for you about Mexico.
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- WheatMillington 2y agoAah yes the treasured American pastime of pretending you're going to leave when the Other Team wins the presidency.
- tombert 2y agoMy wife is a Mexican immigrant. I was joking a bit, but not completely, I do have to think about the possibility that this stupid administration decides to ramp up their deportation efforts even more.
- imperial_march 2y ago[dead]
- _7acn 2y ago“Hmm, who else should we demoralise? Let’s go for the Mexicans!”
- ks2048 2y agoBig day for the makers of sepia tone filters.
- alephnerd 2y agoIt's Spanish language content. The whole sepia filter trope is only in American language content referring to Mexico
- crazygringo 2y agoI'm assuming that was the joke... ;)
- alephnerd 2y agoFair enough XD You never know if someone is serious in their replies on here sometimes.
- bainganbharta 2y ago[flagged]
- dgfitz 2y agoIf it means anything, this whole exchange, both in the humor of it and the fantastic display of humanity at the end of it, made me laugh, and then smile. I appreciate this thread.
- BoiledCabbage 2y agoI don't get the joke then. The article is Netflix is making product X. OP replies "big day for people who make tools to produce product Y". What's the joke? If Netflix were making English language/targeted content filmed in Mexico the the sepia joke makes sense to me, but not for Spanish targeted. What am I missing?
- chneu 2y agoWhoooooosh
- atleastoptimal 2y agoAtonement for Emilia Perez
- 373974922 2y agoTop actress Carlos Gascón.
- paxys 2y agoThey are going to produce 20 films and TV series in Mexico annually, so 80 total over 4 years, at an average cost of $12.5 million per piece of content. The same production in the USA would easily run 10x that, maybe more. No brainer to move more production overseas.
- crazygringo 2y agoThis doesn't say anything about moving US production there. It's presumably mostly Spanish-speaking content for Spanish-speaking audiences. Yes you can get Vancouver to stand in for New York City. No, you can't get Mexico to stand in for the US in most scenarios.
- alephnerd 2y ago> No, you can't get Mexico to stand in for the US in most scenarios I'd disagree. A lot of CDMX, Guadalajara, Monterrey, and Leon looks like a similar if slightly dated version of LA, San Jose, or flatland parts of SF and Oakland - sort of like a 1980s or 1990s kind of aesthetic because of Mexico's economic boom back then. But this is absolutely about Spanish language content for the Hispanoblante world.
- blahyawnblah 2y agoWhat was their boom based on?
- alephnerd 2y agoManufacturing. Mexico was the original "China". China began booming in the 2000s because Mexico became expensive so a lot of low margins manufacturing left Tijuana and Guadalajara for Tianjin and Guangzhou [0], the same way how you now see manufacturing leaving China for cost reasons having a similar economic impact/shock [1]. It's telling that China only caught up with Mexico's GDP per Capita and HDI around 2019-20, and economic issues similar to those in Mexico in the 2000s (excluding the drug war related ones) began manifesting in China as well. For example, NPR [2], NYT [3][4], and BBC [5] reports from the early 2000s about Mexico are pretty similar to those you'd hear about China today. History doesn't repeat but it sure does rhyme. [0] - http://international-economy.com/TIE_Sp03_Rosen.pdf http://international-economy.com/TIE_Sp03_Rosen.pdf [1] - https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/cfer-2024-0023/html https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/cfer-2024-002... [2] - https://www.npr.org/2003/12/22/1556267/mexican-economy-struggles https://www.npr.org/2003/12/22/1556267/mexican-economy-strug... [3] - https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/20/business/mexico-s-jobless-rate-hits-a-6-year-high.html https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/20/business/mexico-s-jobless... [4] - https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/16/business/mexico-misses-growth-forecast.html https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/16/business/mexico-misses-gr... [5] - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/812893.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/812893.stm
- merillecuz56 2y ago[dead]
- buckle8017 2y agoBut will they all have a sepia tint?
- antoniojtorres 2y agoI’m not sure how this comment meets the rules of engaging in meaningful discussion
- bxparks 2y agoI don't understand this sepia tint reference. What joke am I missing?
- defrost 2y agoMore of a trope about the styling and colour palatte of now classic films set in Mexican territories (but often filmed elsewhere): Spaghetti westerns were a series of western films pioneered by Sergio Leone in the 70’s mostly starring Clint Eastwood. They have a very specific style to them. Mostly shot on anamorphic widescreen, they developed a language using editing and framing for confrontations between the gunslingers as well as using and updating Akira Kurosawa’s style. A lot of them are straight up remakes of Kurosawa films (A fistful of dollars is Yojimbo, Magnificent 7 is 7 samurai). The films had a bit of a sepia look to them but that mostly came from the art direction and the wide open desert spaces they shot at. They would use a handful of shots from the west here and there but most of them were actually shot in southern Spain with Italian and Spanish crews. Widescreen aspect ratio, tight closeups (chin to eyebrows), quick cuts timed to the music (provided by the great Enio Moricone). The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is seen as the masterpiece of the series (known as the man with no name series). Another major one is Once Upon a Time in the West. Tareantino is heavily influenced by this stayle and pays direct homage to him on both Kill Bill Vol 2 and Hateful 8. This might be able to give you a slightly more modernized rendition of Leone’s style. from: https://old.reddit.com/r/colorists/comments/rs7igu/spaghetti_western_look/ https://old.reddit.com/r/colorists/comments/rs7igu/spaghetti... but you can find similar comments across many film boards.
- racl101 2y agoEh... just watch Breaking Bad and pay attention to all the scenes taking place in Mexico. You'll get the point. It hits as hard as the green tint in the Matrix movies when they are in the Matrix. They might as well all be Simpsons characters.
- lawgimenez 2y agoI’m all for more Narcos series, reboot.
- thr0waway001 2y agoY'all need to get the rights to Chespirito and Chavo Del Ocho on Netflix and stream dat shit to Canada yo! Then I can enjoy my tamales and orchata watching dat shit!