I would love to move to Latin America at some point. However I think it is really important to work to integrate into the community if I do. I’ve spent a good amount of time in Mexico and seen a lot of ex-pats that have an “us vs them” mentality with Mexicans and I find this really depressing (I hope there is less of this in other places)

Lots of Americans living in Mexico I’ve met either have remote jobs or own businesses geared to tourists, make no effort to speak Spanish, have people ship them supplies rather than shopping locally, and some have complained to me that locals are hostile to them.

I see a lot of benefits to moving to Latin America. But it seems obvious to me that if you have the benefit of an American salary, some of that should go to the local community you live in.