Examples Of Spatial Inequality In Mexico

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22 November 2013 Spatial inequality can be found in many places such as Mexico. The Spatial inequality is when people move to another place to find work to help out their families. There is a lot of people moving to the city of mexico to find work. The people who are mostly going to the city’s are farmers the reason why farmers are going to the city is because these rich or just people have more things to use than a normal farmer.

There is a lot of farmer losing there job and moving to the big city to find a job just to feed their family. “Only 1 percent of the land in mexico is suitable for farming , while the rest is too dry or to rocky to grow crops.” What this quote means this that farmer can’t grow plant

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