Well, let's see.
First, it seems to me that were this Quora, a forum that has an actual and enforced "Be Nice Be Respectful" policy (BNBR)
https://www.quora.com/What-is-Quoras-Be-Nice-Be-Respectful-policy, you would be over the line of that policy on several counts, including being needlessly argumentative, as well as being disparaging towards others ("any host that can't afford to..." hrmph).
Equally it seems if your comments were a paper from my undergrads at Cal, I'd have to point out that you're all over the place, and your logic just doesn't add up. (You offered your situation as an anecdote for why you are right; but of course, not everyone is in the same situation).
And all I want to do, alas, is teach you a little bit about input costs and commodity services.
And then you have to go and disparage me again -- suggesting I don't know much about Mexico and its culture, while you do-- when I'm also a Cal-trained anthropologist with some expertise in the matter. Hmmm again.
Well, let's look at this another way.
When we put AMLO in his little white Nissan on the night of the 2nd, a bit after the shocks of the quick concessions, him about to rush to the Zocalo -- there's this big dent just behind the rear window, on the passenger side.
A few times in the next days, I joked that we should get that dent and a few others repaired. But the reality is, that dent is symbolic. That dent says, what our values are. That dent says, we have better things to attend to, more important things to take up our time, than the outside appearance of the vehicle.
To tell you the truth, I really love that dent, and the rest of the dents, on Obrador's little white Nissan.
The house I maintain in Chicago is a sort of momument and tribute, to my grandfather, his voyages from the ravages of Europe, and his life here. Though it will take me a few more years, it is very much an attempt to allow people to step back and feel what it was like to walk here and live here, in the Twenties and Thirties.
It is a sort of inhabited museum peice.
As I look across the street, the Lorraine Hansberry House, is not much today, and certainly, not well-maintained. But it is also a national monument, and a piece of history. Whatever we make out of it in the future, surely it should, by and large, have the feeling and aesthetics and represent the values of the Hansberrys, when they lived there.
We are likely to purchase a small 20 bedroom or so facing the Bosque de Chapultepec, and what becomes of that, and how it looks and is managed as an institution, is also a question of values. But I doubt it will be squeeky clean.
All that said, I'm not going to bother to pull the statistics, but I believe that far less than 1% of the population of Nayarit makes more than $11,000 USD per year, and you seem to be avoiding the point of that, as well.
But if we can find housekeepers for less than $100MXN/hr in Las Lomas above Polanco, surely, you should be able to find someone cheaper out in Sayulita.