Why Mexican-Americans Are Choosing To Move to Mexico

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4.2 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Tens of millions of Mexicans immigrated to the U.S. to give their children better lives, but now some of those children are choosing to pack up and make their own lives in Mexico. The pandemic has fueled a major uptick in Americans looking to move abroad including a growing number of people moving to countries where their families originated from, especially Mexico. Many of those expatriates desire not just to live abroad, but also to reconnect with their ancestral homeland and heritage. But it’s a move that’s often fraught with challenges and complex questions about identity. We talk with Americans of Mexican descent now living in Mexico and why they decided to migrate in reverse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:49.3	American expats have loved going to Mexico for decades.
0:53.1	It's not hard to see why.
0:58.0	Beautiful landscape, warm weather, a lower cost of living, close-ish to home. But here's a twist that we'll be talking about this morning.
1:01.0	Let's say that your family is from Mexico and you grew up Mexican-American,
1:05.0	Chicano, Latinx here in the U.S.
1:08.0	And then you decide to head south to live as an expat.
1:11.7	We'll talk with folks who've done just that about the complexities of moving to your
1:15.4	ancestral country.
1:16.9	Can you go home again?
1:18.4	Does it make Mexican-Americans feel more unshakably American when we head for Mexico City
1:23.1	or the Yucatan?
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