While there have been many foreigners who have arrived in Cabo San Lucas and opened successful restaurants, bars, and other small businesses, there have also been Mexican nationals who grew up in America, whose personal fortune has also risen to successful heights here in Cabo. A local realtor, who grew up in the greater Los Angeles area, worked the traditional 9:00 to 5:00 job while providing for his wife and two daughters. He is now a highly successful multi-property owner and property manager.
The Cabo San Lucas realtor, wishing to remain anonymous, shared his experience by quoting the world’s most famous theoretical physicist.
“The great Albert Einstein once said, ‘In the midst of every crisis lies great opportunity.'” While working with several of the biggest real estate companies in Los Cabos he was able to sharpen his skills and continue the path to finally meeting his goal and becoming a seasoned real estate professional. “The job I have always dreamed of,” he said.
An American Mexican is a second-generation Latino, whose parents were born in Mexico, but he or she grew up in the USA, whose first language is predominantly English, and whose culture is of course, mostly American. The sports preference is for NCAA college and NFL football over soccer. The movie preference is for American-made movies in English over those dubbed en Espanol.
Another such individual, also wishing to remain anonymous, was a blue-collar worker, who transitioned into the timeshare industry, which drives the economy of vacation resort hotels in Los Cabos, Cancun, and Puerto Vallarta. A Northern California-raised kid, he grew up in Silicon Valley and during his timeshare career in Cabo, has been awarded the Top Salesman accolades twice.
“I love living here,” he said. “I have close relatives and grandparents in the state of Michoacan, and was down there working in the family business, but once I arrived in wonderful Cabo, I knew instantly this was going to be my home.” The income he has earned in timeshare sales has enabled him to travel every year with his beautifully sweet girlfriend to Mexico City, where they watched his favorite NFL team, the Oakland Raiders play in the 102,000-seat Estadio Azteca.
One must consider the difficulties of returning home to the country where you were born but are foreign. One must adapt to the language and culture of our parents and grandparents, who sought a better life for their children in America. It turns out that for these two successful young men, a better life for them has been right here in the beautiful vacation paradise Cabo.
