{"id":4080,"date":"2024-10-15T15:52:08","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T22:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=4080"},"modified":"2024-10-15T15:52:09","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T22:52:09","slug":"local-residents-not-happy-with-expats-moving-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2024\/10\/15\/local-residents-not-happy-with-expats-moving-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Local residents not happy with expats moving in"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Social media forums, Business Insider, and YouTube are full of content about how wonderful it is for (usually) Americans to move abroad (most can&#8217;t, actually) where everything is cheaper. It&#8217;s cheaper only because of dollar aribitrage &#8211; and is driving up costs for locals, who earn low incomes in the local currency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are not happy about this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Comment shown are from X.com on October 15th &#8211; and just comments posted over a 2 hour period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"527\" height=\"52\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4081\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image.png 527w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-300x30.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"534\" height=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4083\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-2.png 534w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-2-300x38.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"516\" height=\"147\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4082\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-1.png 516w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-1-300x85.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"485\" height=\"45\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4084\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-3.png 485w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-3-300x28.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"510\" height=\"43\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4085\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-4.png 510w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-4-300x25.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"515\" height=\"64\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-5.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4086\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-5.png 515w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-5-300x37.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local residents not so happy with richer expats from America and other rich countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}