DA,

One thing that I see here where there are many more recent immigrants than slightly farther north, is the difference in who is working the lower end jobs, and what they will do them for. In one blue collar town I lived in recently the typical anglo wouldn't do a one hour mowing job for less than $50. I literally laughed in their faces when I got quotes. The immigrants around here would do it for $20. When I was a kid I would have done it for less than $10 (and that is accounting for inflation--I mowed huge lawns for $5.)