More developing nations like Mexico and India look to see booms in the middle class from the advancement of automation. 

All the high paying tech jobs are being filled with people here on H1-B visas from China and India.

“If you want to take the island, burn the boats”Alexander the Great, who created an empire that stretched from his home in Macedonia to India, ostentatiously burned his ships when arriving in Persia in 334BC.

I have some friends raking that in, hoping the company they work for doesn't go belly up, hoping telecommunication advances won't source their job to IT teams working in India for a fraction of what they cost to employ here.

Funny story - I once rented to a couple young men techies from India who actually shared a really tiny studio apartment. 

As far as churches: are you only Christian/Jewish/Muslim if you can go to your house of worship weekly?

They will stumble through a transaction using reps in India and they do not maintain the homes while they are going through the bid process.

Now there is a drain to North Carolina, Texas and India because of technology.Compounding this is the huge expense to live in the city.

What can I say being an Indian(from India) and the water crisis. 

Then, sometimes the original guys on the lease would just go back to India and different guys would move in.