Given how successful Bingo night was at one of the senior centers in Carlsbad… I’m going to have to talk to one of my condo’s HOA board to organize such an event…so that the really bored old lady and dude on the HOA board can find something more productive to do instead of pestering people with random bullshit…
That said. Some of my employees from Mexico City recently decided to move from Mexico City to Utah. They liked it better there because they said the cost of living for them is affordable more so than CA…So a lot of my engineers on my team that currently is in Mexico City is seriously considering relocating to Utah. I think my senior engineer from there just closed escrow on a house. So I can see how it can be appealing to new immigrants moving forward who are just starting out.
They would have done this sooner but the trump administration previously put a hold on a lot of visas along with the pandemic, the embassy was basically shutdown and my engineers couldn’t even get their TN visas renewed. But now that things are opening up again, and visa applications are starting again by the Biden administration, the backlog is receding so we got a lot of folks on TN visas that we are now applying for H1-B status with the eventual move to permanent residence. That’s great news.
So I think EconProf, you are correct. Having a lower cost of living, and housing cost, is beneficial to a lot of peoplem specifically the high tech immigrant workers first starting out looking to plant their seeds in the U.S who can now work remotely. A lot of them figured out it makes more sense to do this in places like UT than CA these days.Over time, I’d expect UT to end up being more diverse as more immigrants starting out find these places are better for their wallets.
