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Migrants in the city
Upon receiving the assignment “migrants in the city” I decided to visit Rocky Point Mexico and stop in the border town to take photos of migrants in an American city. Initially, the intention of this trip was to celebrate my girlfriend’s best friend’s 25th birthday. The migrant in the city assignment was a convenient way to justify my being in attendance rather than staying home and doing homework.
The night before we stayed up all night packing and preparing for the weekend getaway so, on the car ride down, I fell asleep and forgot to get pictures of the border town prior to entering Mexico. After arriving in Mexico, I was struck by just how similar Rocky Point was to an American city at this stage in its real estate development. I began to think that maybe this could be an interesting twist to the migrant in the city requirements and instead of reporting on a place in America that looks like México, I could report on a place in México that looks like America. There is no better word to describe the look and feel of rocky point Mexico other than astonishing. Real estate in that city is as hot a commodity as it is in Scottsdale Arizona. The reason for this is that Rocky Point Mexico is the closest beach town to Arizona so it draws many snow birds and U.S. residents to buy pharmaceuticals and memento’s for cheaper than in the U.S. At any rate, "Rocky Point" Puerto Penasco, Sonora Mexico has become a superior investment alternative to real estate in the U.S. and elsewhere in Mexico. Studies show that Rocky Point to be in the third year of a 25 year upward real estate cycle. Even though Rocky Point is still small and relatively underdeveloped, it is attracting investments at a higher rate than any other resort area in Mexico, surpassing even Cancun and Los Cabos. Long term real estate appreciation will be driven by a limited supply of beachfront property paired up against the virtually unlimited income and population growth of the southern U.S.
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