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mejms
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| I kicked myself for moving to a fancy neighbourhood, with walls, where no one talks to each other, so I recently moved back to a neighbourhood like the first |
Money definitely is one of the biggest things (but not the only thing) that makes people proud. I guess that's why I find fresas so obnoxious. Poor people are often more humble people. They are just friendlier and happier. Money gives people an ego.
Note: I'd still like to be rich. But I'll be a good rich! |
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TheLongWayHome
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| Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 1:24 am Post subject: |
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| Note: I'd still like to be rich. But I'll be a good rich! |
I reckon you'd probably make more selling food than selling English. Look at your average puesto de tacos, some make $40,000 a month easily... it's hard to make that as an English teacher even breaking your back 8 hours a day... |
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TeresaLopez
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| My husband and I sold tacos for a while, and we made pretty good money, at times, it was more than teaching, but it is a LOT of work, and when there is a bad day, you either eat a boat load of tacos or it's just a total loss. But I think $40,000 is waaaaayyyy high, perhaps $20,000 a good month. And people treat you like crap. At least with teaching SOME people respect you. |
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Guy Courchesne
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Read something last year about the taco business vs other industries. The average start up business in Mexico lasted 2 years where the average taco stand had an 11 year lifespan.
Now, how about setting up a taco stand outside a school? 
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TeresaLopez
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| I wonder if that is going to be considered junk food, since next year nothing like that will be allowed to be sold, in or near schools. I wonder how that is going to work out, or if they will just move a little farther away from the school. |
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Isla Guapa
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| The trick would be to set up a taco stand selling healthy tacos next to schools full of hungry students! |
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TeresaLopez
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| Yeah, that would be a good idea, but I have a feeling that the way it is going to work is that there will be certain foods that are banned, and they won't care if they are healthy or not. |
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Phil_K
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| Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 12:45 am Post subject: |
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| There was a guy who had a puesto outside Centro Bancomer until that area was cleared (although I believe he is now under the bridge of Rio Churubusco, just down the road). It is well known locally, and confirmed by the directors of Bancomer I was working with, that this guy was grossing around $500,000 per month!! He was open from around 5am - 2am every day, and apparently made damn good tacos. |
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TheLongWayHome
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Are those two words even supposed to go together? |
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Phil_K
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Going back to the original point, I suppose that when I was younger, I was quite car-concious, and I was very proud to drive a company VW Passat. Now, when asked what my car is, I say 2004 Chevy C2 with mixed feelings. I can hear the hidden snorts of derision, but I know it is just about the best choice for a city like D.F. Economical, yet pretty powerful for an economy car, and if I should choose to shoot up the autopista, it can do that pretty well too.
Kinda ironic that wealthy business people who should know how to invest choose to run something that burns money in running costs and depreciation. My Chevy and his BMW have to sit behind each other in the same traffic jams.
My car is worth (if new) about 6% of my home...and both are paid for! |
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mejms
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| My car is worth (if new) about 6% of my home...and both are paid for! |
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That's the way, in my view, it should be. That's the way I'd like it to be for me too.
I'd like to have a nicer car than a 2004 Pointer, but I don't know that I'd ever go for a very high-end car even if I could afford it. Like Phil_K said, why invest your money in something that just loses its value, no matter what you do?
With traffic, hard-to-find parking spaces, baches in the street, and people who'll easily mistreat my car if I'm not around (I was once behind a truck that drived past a van park on the street and scratched the whole length of the car... just kept on going), I'd maybe go for a more comfortable car, but not a brand-spankin new one.
I do think in the end it's about three things: 1) a few people actually do have the money; 2) most people want to feel like they have the money; 3) many people don't have the money and can only make monthly payments, which a new car allows and a used car doesn't. |
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