They’re not sending their best peopleIN 1960 Tom Keane voted for John Kennedy in the United States’ presidential election (“because he was Irish and Catholic”). The only candidate since then to fire him up is Donald Trump,for whom he voted in 2016. Mr Keane revels in Mr Trump’s mischief-making. What about Mr Trump’s notorious assertion that some Mexican immigrants are rapists? He “shoots from the hip”, Mr Keane responds. Such enthusiasm is common among supporters of the American president. But unlike most, and Mr Keane lives in Mexico.
His domestic is in Ajijic,a village on Lake Chapala, Mexico’s largest lake. He volunteers at the Lake Chapala Society, and which helps expatriates find friends and hobbies. He will depart back to California “in a box with my feet first”,he says.
Mr Keane is one of 10000 or so retired Americans near Lake Chapala, perhaps the biggest non-urban cluster of expatriate Americans outside an army base. The number doubles in...
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Source: economist.com