A factory worker in Tijuana hearns 2.88 US dollars per hour, and that is at the border where the cost of living is a lot higher than in the rest of Mexico, you also have to take into account that a family in Mexico also consists of the grand parents, parents, brothers and sisters and the kids, all living under one roof and pooling theire resources.
Grand parents take care of the little ones and also prepare the food for the family, the other members go to work wherever they can, there will be no expence for taking care of children, food will be purchased in bigger quantities and at places where it is cheapper, el mercado or tiangis instead of the super store.
So the vehicle is pooled or public transportation is used, as opposed to the US where the father goes his way to work and the mother goes the other way and the kids are dropped of at the day care or school, you have expenses that do not exist in the nuclear families in Mexico and are seldom seen.
We can not compare the standard of living from Canada, the USA, Mexico and the rest of Latin America, and do not forget that in Mexico and further down a lot of barttering is done for goods and services, that means that there is enough money to purchase gasoline for the old junker.
So GENTELMEN do not get rattled up, there is nothing that we can do, except pay the piper at the pump, they have us over a barrel of oil!
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