It doesn't have the critical tourism mass, there's no middle class so no domestic demand for western-style properties and none of these is expected to change any time soon. 

@Ron Thomas Stocks are more highly correlated to factors like productivity, GDP etc. because they are businesses and the ability to raise prices (i.e. inflation) domestically is far from the only driver.

Cant do it with the USD strong compared to Yuan.Diplomatic efforts to get China to strengthen currency not working so the USA issues more debt to devalue their currency to make them more competitive in exporting.Weak dollar is not politically a good message to sell domestically.

Here, we have more police calls in certain areas but actual crimes, from drugs to murder and domestic violence have been in every area, especially drug busts.

Foreign and domestic.  

Anyway, one of my contingencies was to include a warranty for all domestic water and heating pipes and appliances.

The Alabama SOS site appears to show that an in-state address is needed for registering an LLC (domestic and foreign).

Second quarter gross domestic product (GDP), the broadest measure of economic growth, will be released on Thursday (7/30), and early estimates are for a massive decline in the range of 30% to 40% due to the partial shutdown of our economy.

wow @Bryan Davis that's some story I will add a qualification to my previous post: dead person in unit = not weirddead person in unit eaten by domestic pets = weird

If you domesticate a judgment down, here it's my recollection (you'd need to double check me) that you'd have to use Texas collection procedures.