That Wanderer Gringo
Anyone know what he's up to or where he is hiding?
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Naio wrote:fj12ryder wrote:Almot wrote:Apparently this works both ways, and the traffic does seem to be more south to north than vice versa.
SNIP There is a lot to dislike North of the border, but you don't notice this until after you've lived a different life for a while.
Lol, yes. US folks mostly just go south for the medical and dental care and beaches, then come back.
Though a lot of people who come north for work would probably return south if they could afford it, or spend half time there if it were safe to commute.
No, they go and cash their pay checks immediately, usually at a combination liquor store /checks cashed /western union wire transfer facility, and send most of their money back to Mexico, until another member of the family can raise the funds to be transported north out of Mexico to somewhere in a South Western state of the United States, until the whole family has been moved to the USA. Those are the facts here in Southern California.
They will end up somewhere in San Diego, Orange or Los Angeles County, here in California, sleeping like sardines in a can 4, 6 or 8 to a room, in an overcrowded apartment in the very rough part of town.
And yes, I've seen it with my own eyes. All of it, checks cashed, money wired via Western Union, and EBT card with groceries being bought on welfare, when they don't come anywhere close to dressing like folks north of the Mexican border. They dress more like street folks in Tijuana holding their hands out, begging from tourists waiting to get back in to the USA at Border Patrol inspection crossing. The difference in standard of living is quite stark.
