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Re: US, Argentina agree to exchange country-by-country reports on multinationals

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Post by vinay427 »

nostromo wrote: post #10
vinay427 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Boise Aries is a top 5 city in the Americas Not to be confused with the far less populous and less famously immigrant-friendly Boise. On a more serious note, I'm curious what connection you see between immigration and tax evasion. Is Buenos Aires known for certain kinds of immigration?

I'm guessing you haven't actually been to Boise? It has a huge immigrant population. Lots of Latinos, but also folks from all over Asia and Europe to work at Micron. It also has an ever-growing number of Californian expats.

Yes, I wasn't presuming otherwise, which is why I specified "less famously immigrant-friendly" instead of "less immigrant-friendly." I simply haven't heard as much about the immigration there even though I'm American, probably because Buenos Aires is a much larger city.

EDIT: Also, in case my "on a more serious note" didn't make it explicitly clear, that entire sentence about Boise was a joke.

EDIT 2: I might as well add that I looked this up [1], and Boise ranks 175th in immigration as a percentage of the metropolitan population or 101st as a percentage of cities, just among metropolitan areas (MSAs) or cities in the US. That's not exactly a "huge immigrant population" by my account.

[1] https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/us-...

Re: US, Argentina agree to exchange country-by-country reports on multinationals

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Post by klyrs »

nostromo wrote: post #10
vinay427 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Boise Aries is a top 5 city in the Americas Not to be confused with the far less populous and less famously immigrant-friendly Boise. On a more serious note, I'm curious what connection you see between immigration and tax evasion. Is Buenos Aires known for certain kinds of immigration?

I'm guessing you haven't actually been to Boise? It has a huge immigrant population. Lots of Latinos, but also folks from all over Asia and Europe to work at Micron. It also has an ever-growing number of Californian expats.

I've spent a fair bit of time in Boise, as I have family there. The truth is more complicated than a word. The "city" is friendly in terms of favorable policies; the people who live there aren't uniformly friendly to immigrants. In the late 90s, my cousin was upset that his high school banned (iirc) jackboots and cuffed jeans, until he learned that the style he'd unwittingly adopted was equivalent to skinhead gang colors; the ban was a result of actual skinheads popularizing the style. Then, last June, the literal nazis marching downtown. Granted, it's much worse in Coeur D'Alene.

Re: US, Argentina agree to exchange country-by-country reports on multinationals

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Post by baybal2 »

vinay427 wrote: post #9
nip180 wrote: post #6

It’s worth saying Boise Aries is a top 5 city in the Americas by population, and has a long history of being very immigrant friendly. I wonder if there was some tax evasion happening...

> Boise Aries is a top 5 city in the Americas Not to be confused with the far less populous and less famously immigrant-friendly Boise. On a more serious note, I'm curious what connection you see between immigration and tax evasion. Is Buenos Aires known for certain kinds of immigration?

Does immigration to South America is still a thing at all? For people besides Latinos.

South American countries seem to have had so many false starts. The moment they have a few decades good run, and it seem the country is finally starting to take off they either have a revolution, putsch, junta, or a communist government.

Re: US, Argentina agree to exchange country-by-country reports on multinationals

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Post by eafer »

baybal2 wrote: post #13
vinay427 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Boise Aries is a top 5 city in the Americas Not to be confused with the far less populous and less famously immigrant-friendly Boise. On a more serious note, I'm curious what connection you see between immigration and tax evasion. Is Buenos Aires known for certain kinds of immigration?

Does immigration to South America is still a thing at all? For people besides Latinos. South American countries seem to have had so many false starts. The moment they have a few decades good run, and it seem the country is finally starting to take off they either have a revolution, putsch, junta, or a communist government.

I don't think you should get downvoted, it's a good question. I live in Buenos Aires, and there is definitely a general perception that the country is hopeless. But for some reason we do get a fair share of immigrants from more prosperous countries such as South Korea and China. There's also a lot of people coming in from Africa, mainly Senegal from what I've heard.

Re: US, Argentina agree to exchange country-by-country reports on multinationals

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Post by onlyrealcuzzo »

klyrs wrote: post #12
nostromo wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm guessing you haven't actually been to Boise? It has a huge immigrant population. Lots of Latinos, but also folks from all over Asia and Europe to work at Micron. It also has an ever-growing number of Californian expats.

I've spent a fair bit of time in Boise, as I have family there. The truth is more complicated than a word. The "city" is friendly in terms of favorable policies; the people who live there aren't uniformly friendly to immigrants. In the late 90s, my cousin was upset that his high school banned (iirc) jackboots and cuffed jeans, until he learned that the style he'd unwittingly adopted was equivalent to skinhead gang co…

What happened in Coeur D'Alene?

Re: US, Argentina agree to exchange country-by-country reports on multinationals

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Post by Mediterraneo10 »

eafer wrote: post #15
baybal2 wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does immigration to South America is still a thing at all? For people besides Latinos. South American countries seem to have had so many false starts. The moment they have a few decades good run, and it seem the country is finally starting to take off they either have a revolution, putsch, junta, or a communist government.

I don't think you should get downvoted, it's a good question. I live in Buenos Aires, and there is definitely a general perception that the country is hopeless. But for some reason we do get a fair share of immigrants from more prosperous countries such as South Korea and China. There's also a lot of people coming in from Africa, mainly Senegal from what I've heard.

China still has huge wealth disparity. So, while China might seem overall more prosperous than Argentina, Chinese emigrants are often from parts of the country with a standard of living below Argentina's.

Re: US, Argentina agree to exchange country-by-country reports on multinationals

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Post by duskwuff »

onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #16
klyrs wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've spent a fair bit of time in Boise, as I have family there. The truth is more complicated than a word. The "city" is friendly in terms of favorable policies; the people who live there aren't uniformly friendly to immigrants. In the late 90s, my cousin was upset that his high school banned (iirc) jackboots and cuffed jeans, until he learned that the style he'd unwittingly adopted was equivalent to skinhead gang co…

What happened in Coeur D'Alene?

Former home of an Aryan Nations compound.

Re: US, Argentina agree to exchange country-by-country reports on multinationals

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Post by tyingq »

nostromo wrote: post #10
vinay427 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Boise Aries is a top 5 city in the Americas Not to be confused with the far less populous and less famously immigrant-friendly Boise. On a more serious note, I'm curious what connection you see between immigration and tax evasion. Is Buenos Aires known for certain kinds of immigration?

I'm guessing you haven't actually been to Boise? It has a huge immigrant population. Lots of Latinos, but also folks from all over Asia and Europe to work at Micron. It also has an ever-growing number of Californian expats.

Boise ranks #4 on "Percentage of population that's white"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...

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