How many Snowbirds in MX?
A friend just asked how many Americans snowbird in MX? I answered with probably bogus numbers and commented that there were a lot more Canadians than US. I guessed US in the hundreds and CA in the tho...
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Belgique wrote:
I guessed US in the hundreds and CA in the thousands.
I guess the developed stretch 80 miles long from Tijuana to Ensenada already has more than a thousand of US/CAN expats. A few hundred is what is living in one highrise, and there are dozens.
Ratio of US to CAN varies from place to place. In Baja it's mostly West Coast expats and showbirds - SoCal and BC, few times more CA-plated cars than BC-plated. On the mainland are all others.
I agree with somebody that RV-ing is in decline here. Land is becoming expensive, easier to sell to developer than struggling maintaining the park. Electricity is expensive, why they don't do more metered camps, puzzles me. Probably afraid to invest.
Another factor is - Mexico is becoming less exotic, more developed, more Americanized (and more expensive again), many RV-ers don't like this. Expat homeowners and hotels clientele don't mind.
Mexican RVs? Sure... Used as homes on somebody's else land. Not too comfortable, but no pains of construction either. Somewhat similar to what most of us are doing there, only trailers of Mexicans are in worse shape, usually left behind by some gringo because they were afraid that it would fall apart if they try and tow it back North.
