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Go to Mexico or Ghana for a higher standard of living and more freedom?
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Go to Mexico or Ghana for a higher standard of living and more freedom?
I was watching a Youtube video today about some people (from Ghana) homesteading in Ghana. They got a nice piece of raw land and are building an underground cistern, which was what I tuned in for. They hired people to clear the land and a backhoe to dig the cistern hole. They use polytanks for the house. They’ll put in an orchard. They don’t have a bunch of county restrictions on how they build. I can’t afford to hire equipment or workers, or buy polytanks, and don’t know many people who can. Some friends moved to Mexico, where the cost of living is lower. A lot of people are doing that.
An idle thought: I don’t plan to move to Mexico, Africa or South America, but the invaders might finally find they were used to bring down the house and there’s no house left for them to grab. Whoever can from the West might replace the invaders in the invaders’ own countries, which will have more room and more opportunities with them gone.
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It’s a world of adventure to move to a culture where you don’t look like anyone else. It can be a great learning experience and economical, but it has a realistic cost. Go in with eyes open.
Living outside your nation of citizenship is not a panacea. At best it is a negotiated arrangement. As a non- citizen, unlike the US and UK, you have few rights, and in disputes with the locals that becomes apparent. Most nations do not allow you to own land or real property. You will NEVER vote in their elections and are likely to disappear should you stick your nose in their politics especially criticizing in print or attending rally’s. Yes, the cost of living may be lower based on your currency’s value, but in some ways that makes you a fat juicy sheep ripe for girlfriend/ boyfriend schemes, faked car accidents, faked libel claims, etc. Best to live small and keep a measured footprint. Also keep your mouth shut about their religious views and social programs like how we treat the disabled, because “ you’re not a citizen.”
Due to CIA treachery and fake NGOs, if you’re American, you’re suspect. You will find even volunteering at an orphanage may be prohibited or require endless paperwork that never gets approved. Know of expat groups who gave out food to the poor during Cv shut down who got told to cease and desist as it made local govt. look bad. Why? because “we feed our own people” even though that was woefully untrue. If you see someone lying in the street w blood coming out, walk by and get a local to help. It may be a faked trap to extort money or rob you. Even if someone else hit them w the car or motorbike, suddenly you’re the one who ran them over and everyone from the police, judges, victim want apiece of the pie. Being a good guy isn’t rewarded, but punished.
All this said, are them some decent, lovely people to meet and befriend? Yes, but remember, when it comes to brass tacks, familial demands, cultural standards will win out. The relationship you thought you had was a fair weather situation. In many places, money is god and they will do anything to get it.
The last bit is that the post-plandemic landscape doesn’t operate by the same rules. Governments are eyeing citizens as nuisances sitting on assets they want. If you own something as a foreigner, you’re the low hanging fruit. The good old days of retiring to the low cost place may be gone. Proceed with caution.
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Good points to consider. Cross culture can be complicated, especially when the new place is very family or tribe oriented. You’re either born into it, or not. When push comes to shove, you get the shove, not a cousin! Even in the US you can run into that in a milder form. There are ex-pat communities in many places. But I imagine that if one person in the community makes a bad name the whole community will get to wear it.
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True! My sister-in-law married a man from Mexico, and they moved to Mexico about 4 years ago. Probably to his home area. They’re probably doing fine there, but she has a good “in” and can avoid some common ex-pat problems.
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Thanks. Sold off property overseas. Re-entry to US has been eye-opening.
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Things have been developing fast in the US. Really, there’s nowhere to escape what’s coming in. I think we’re only managing to delay the trouble reaching us out here.
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