More people moving from US to Mexico than the other way around

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

In a twist to the decades-long trend of Mexican immigrants journeying to the United States, data show that in recent years more people have done the opposite. Mexicans and US-born immigrants are moving from America to its southern neighbor in droves.

The phenomenon has been well-known for several years. Between 2009 and 2014, 1 million Mexicans, including their American-born children, left the US for Mexico, according to the 2014 Mexican National Survey of Demographic Dynamics.

US census data also show that in that same period of time, just 870,000 Mexicans migrated to the United States.

In May, Mexico's statistics institute estimated that there are at least 799,000 US-born people living among the Mexican population. That's four times as many as in 1990, according to The Washington Post, and is probably an underestimate.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/more-people-moving-from-us-to-mexico-than-the-other-way-around/ar-AAC9MeL?li=BBnbfcN

Stop it! Numbers make the dotard's head hurt.

[Brainfodder]

1. I'd like to see Canada's #'s too in this same regard.

[former9thward]

3. 45,000 Canadians move to the U.S. every year.

7,500 Americans move to Canada every year.

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-so-many-more-Canadians-45-000-immigrate-to-the-USA-each-year-than-people-from-the-USA-7-500-immigrate-to-Canada-Are-there-more-opportunities-economic-or-otherwise-in-America

[hunter]

5. These affluent Canadians have faith they can always move back.

[former9thward]

11. Anyone can move back.

And no one knows the reasons people decide to move.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Just learned my neighbors are planning on making that move this year.

[Doreen]

4. I have a friend who has property in Mexico.

She and her husband are planning on eventually moving there permanently in a few years. They are just getting their life in the States in order and waiting for her husband to retire. They are also getting their house and property in Mexico in order first.

[BigmanPigman]

6. Are they allowed to buy land or do they

have to rent it?

[Doreen]

7. They own it.

[BigmanPigman]

9. That's interesting.

I was told about 20 years ago that if you want to move down to the Baja (ocean/coast) that Mexico still owns the land and you can only rent it. Maybe that only applies to certain areas or the rules have changed.

[Igel]

10. There are two sets of rules.

One's for on the periphery of Mexico--within 100 km of coast or border, if I recall correctly; the other is for the rest of the country. Ferners can't own peripheral land; they can own land that's unlikely to be contested or unlikely, in the event that lots of ferners buy up land cannot easily be joined with non-Mexican territory.

[BigmanPigman]

13. That makes sense, thanks!

[hunter]

8. My ancestors didn't cross the seas to North America for the "opportunity."

They came here because their own homelands had turned into shit hole death traps.

That explains most human migration for a few million years.

If Trump and the Republican Party turn the U.S.A into some kind of shit hole death trap there's nothing binding me here.

Maybe they want to build walls to keep us from leaving...

[lunatica]

12. Ok, so what is a US born immigrant?

If you’re US born you ain’t an immigrant. Period.