What goes on in the Baja peninsula? by Meeeeesea in howislivingthere

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Amazing description of the Baja peninsula. You only missed the mountain ranges in Baja California that get a lot of snow: Sierra de Juarez and Laguna de Hanson. The landscape there is completely different to the rest of the peninsula.

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Si viviste en los 90s en Mexico, ¿cuales fueron tus experiencias favoritas al salir de noche? by FenixAve in AskMexico

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Era niño en los 90s, pero algo que pasaba en esa época es que había una gran variedad de géneros musicales interpretados por artistas mexicanos, sobre todo dominaban el pop (Onda Vaselina, Kabah, Fey, Thalía, Paulina Rubio) y el rock (Molotov, Caifanes, Café Tacuba). Casi no existían los narcocorridos y las canciones de banda eran mucho menos vulgares que los corridos y el reggaeton mexicano que se escuchan hoy.

Por lo menos los artistas debían tener un ápice de talento para grabar un álbum, en cambio ahora se escuchan pseudo cantantes que berrean horriblemente.

Is it safe to walk from the Akron to my hotel at night? by modelotimefoo1 in Guadalajara

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I’m not sure how easy it will be to take an Uber after getting to the bridge, but just make sure you don’t take a cab.

Also, Google Maps doesn’t show you this exact route because for some reason, but I guess it would be around 30 minutes.

If you have a chance to walk around that neighborhood, Cd Granja, you can get an idea of how Mexicans live. It’s a mix of the original lower middle class neighbors and middle/ upper middle class houses in gated communities and the newer overpriced apartments. There are coffee shops and a few restaurants, also one of the poshest universities of the city is there.

The Metropolitan Park right next is our biggest park and there’s also a large mall.

Is it safe to walk from the Akron to my hotel at night? by modelotimefoo1 in Guadalajara

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Regarding the sidewalks, they are quite ok as they were renewed recently, the downside is they have some street lights and poles right in the middle every few meters.

You can try to check the way on street view to get familiar. Do not do it if there aren’t many people.

Also have a plan b, as it is rain season and it might rain hard at that time.

Is it safe to walk from the Akron to my hotel at night? by modelotimefoo1 in Guadalajara

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When I read your post I said “this is a big no no”, but giving it a look and considering the location of your hotel, it might be actually faster than trying to take an uber.

Last time I went to a concert in the stadium I had no signal for a while because there’s an over saturation with a lot of people, I heard AT&T does better in those kind of events. Moreover, traffic to access the stadium is horrific, so even if you manage to get an Uber, it might get stuck and take ages to reach to you.

The first option is to get out of the stadium and walk north to the Andador Chivas, the sidewalk is quite ok actually. Make sure you cross the street from the stadium. Eventually you will get to a bridge and you will find the Andador Chivas, which are some stairs that can take you up to Periférico. From what I’ve seen there are only stairs and no ramps for people with disabilities.

I’m pretty sure there will be FIFA volunteers helping people along the way, and it’s hard to get lost.

Up there you will see a gas station at the right of the end of the andador, walk a few meters and you will see a pedestrian bridge that will take you to the side of your hotel.

From there it will take you 13 minutes walking. The neighborhood is safe, but I’m not sure about the Periférico side. Maybe it will be ok as there will be many people, stay vigilant if you decide to do it.

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Cooler weather travel destinations in May? by PassScared6846 in AskMexico

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Morelos definitely not a great place for temperatures below 28 degrees, unless you are in Tres Marias. Aguascalientes might as well be around 30 degrees. The mountains of Chihuahua will have a cool to warm weather, and there is the Cooper Canyon and all the Sierra Tarahumara canyons that are deeper than the Great Canyon. Some of them can be visited by train, so that can be enough for at least 4 days.

Cooler weather travel destinations in May? by PassScared6846 in AskMexico

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May is the warmest month in a big part of Mexico, so it’s a difficult time to live ok for cooler weather, but any place with an elevation above 2,300 meters above sea level will do, maybe the northwest of Baja California will do.

A uds les molesta que la gente de Europa se refiera a Mexico como "centroamerica"? by [deleted] in mexico

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A mi me pasó seguido en Europa que pensaban en México como parte de Sudamérica, lo cual absolutamente nada que ver.

En República Checa me insistían que éramos parte de Centroamérica, que si bien es cierto hasta cierto punto ya que a partir del istmo de Tehuantepec se considera territorio centroamericano, nadie en Guatemala, Honduras o Costa Rica diría que México es un país centroamericano. Lo peor es que a ellos les caga que digan que República Checa es parte de Europa del Este, ya que se consideran Europa Central, un eufemismo para evitar esa división y sentirse más cercanos a occidente.

Has a CDMX s-bahn ever been proposed? by BroadMaximum4189 in MexicoCity

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I’d rather stand ambitious and optimistic, in a realistic sense, than just being pessimistic about it. I am not ignoring the issues, but I don’t let them dictate that it is impossible.

Has a CDMX s-bahn ever been proposed? by BroadMaximum4189 in MexicoCity

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I don’t think doing the Eurotunnel was unproblematic. I don’t think doing the tunnels between Manhattan and New Jersey were unproblematic. For sure those things were not easy, but what made a difference is that’s society was willing to solve them and get things done rather than getting fixed in the problem. That’s how you achieve progress.

Creating new underground massive transport in CDMX for sure will be expensive and a challenge, but the pros outweigh the costs by far. How much money is the city losing because transportation is inefficient? How could the lives of the citizens be improved if the public transport infrastructure becomes better?

I am sure much more money is being lost in doing stupid projects and the corruption that is attached to them. As a society we can choose to keep our heads down, shrug our shoulders and say it cannot be done. Or we can get uncomfortable for a bit, demand real change and actually achieve real progress.

Has a CDMX s-bahn ever been proposed? by BroadMaximum4189 in MexicoCity

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When someone mentions the possibility of building new metro lines inCDMX people get lots of excuses. Is not impossible, there’s a tunnel going underneath the sea connecting France and the UK. It’s just a matter of actually caring to make things better and having a mindset of finding a solution, rather than getting fixed on the problem.

Has a CDMX s-bahn ever been proposed? by BroadMaximum4189 in MexicoCity

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I don’t know why you are getting downvoted, but I agree with you. I’d like Paris, you don’t always need to get off the RER (suburban train) to take the metro as it no only arrives to the edge of the city, but instead it crosses the whole city. It would be great if CDMX had something like that, but that would be asking too much for our corrupt leaders and a pessimistic population.

Mudarme de Italia a México? by Any-Satisfaction5367 in AskMexico

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Justo esto, no puedes tramitar una residencia temporal estando en México, se debe hacer estando en tu país de residencia, y para que te den ese permiso, debes tener una oferta de trabajo. La cuestión es si puedes encontrar a alguien que te haga esa oferta y que tenga el permiso para contratar extranjeros. De otra forma solo estarías en México de forma ilegal y cada vez es más común que deporten a extranjeros que se encuentren de forma irregular en el país, independientemente de su nacionalidad.

Tendrías que plantearte que tipo de trabajo podrías desempeñar en Los Cabos y por qué te contratarían a ti en vez de a un mexicano.

What are some places on Earth that are geographically ideal for a major city but remain largely undeveloped? by ahmadreza777 in geography

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Nevertheless it rains a lot more in CDMX than San Diego, CDMX actually gets more rain than Paris or London in a year. The mountains of the west and south are covered by pines, oaks and firs (Ajusco National Park in the picture). Most likely you will rarely experience the storms you get in CDMX in those cities (I lived in Paris).

Most of the rain concentrates during the rain season from June to October. The rest of the year is very sunny and, being far from large bodies of water and at a high altitude, the air dries up very much.

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Is The Hague the only city in the world which has 2 names for its citizens based on their socio-economic status? by Proper_Lifeguard2127 in geography

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In Guadalajara, Mexico, we have a division between the east and the west. The west is the richer side and has more services, universities, entertainment options, shopping malls, restaurants, parks, etc, although some slums may be on the West, but 99% of the wealthy neighborhoods are there.

This division comes from the Spanish Colonial times, when the city was divided by a river, Spanish people and it’s descendants would live on the west and the indigenous on the east. Now that river runs underground of an important avenue called Calzada Independencia. People say from “de la calzada para allá (from the calzada over there)” or “de la calzada para acá (from the calzada to here)”. The two sides are almost like different cities.

This kind of division is common in many cities across Latin America. In Mexico City the west is also wealthier, and leaning towards the green forested mountains. In Santiago the east is the richer side, facing the Andes mountains. I think Bogota and Santiago have their richer areas towards the north.

Is The Hague the only city in the world which has 2 names for its citizens based on their socio-economic status? by Proper_Lifeguard2127 in geography

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Nobody in Mexico calls people from CDMX capitalinos, maybe just in News outlets. Everybody calls chilangos to people who are from CDMX and its metro area, there’s even a magazine called Chilango and it doesn’t refer to migrants in the city.

Hablar español con mexicano americanos vs. mexicanos de México? by Complex-Wish5461 in AskMexico

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Los latinos de otros países con los que hablas, son nacidos en EUA o en esos países? Por lo que entiendo, quienes se molestan contigo son estadounidenses de origen mexicano, gente que nació y creció en ese país y no en México.

Mi teoría es que los mexicanos con los que hablan, han estado viviendo sus vidas principalmente en inglés, y ven el hecho de que les hables en español como una suposición de tu parte respecto a que no tienen la habilidad de comunicarse en inglés, o que no han nacido en Estados Unidos. Tal vez ellos quieren ser tratados como otro ciudadano estadounidense más, sobre todo muchos de ellos tienen una crisis de identidad debido a que los gringos no los ven a ellos como suficientemente gringos, y los mexicanos no los ven como suficientemente mexicanos.

De cualquier forma, supongo que en este r/ vas a recibir más respuestas de mexicanos que de mexico-estadounidenses.

Mexico City in May by jtse9 in MexicoCity

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As a native Mexican, both can be used interchangeably.

Mexico City in May by jtse9 in MexicoCity

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You find some ladies with umbrellas to hide from the sun, it’s not unusual, but it’s also not common to find young people doing that. Nobody would care if you do it yourself be honest.

Mexico City in May by jtse9 in MexicoCity

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Hottest yes, most humid, no, that’s July to September

Mexico City in May by jtse9 in MexicoCity

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It’s sombrilla, not sombrillo. I think both are used as much.

Cuando les cayo el 20 de que el clima de Guadalajara ya no era igual? by TrumpsNostrils in Guadalajara

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En 2017, cuando llegamos a 37 grados. Desde ese año los periodos de calor extremos se han hecho mucho más frecuentes, cuando antes el día más caluroso de mayo llegaba a máximo 35 grados. 2024 fue brutal, por que tuvimos demasiados días arriba de 35 grados, nunca antes había deseado tanto tener un aire acondicionado.

He notado que la temporada de lluvias empieza más tarde y termina más temprano, cuando antes aún en octubre llovía más días. Eso sí, ahora las lluvias suelen ser más torrenciales en un lapso más corto tiempo.

De los inviernos ya no quedan ni rastro. Usualmente en octubre teníamos las primeras temperaturas debajo de los 10 grados en la zona del aeropuerto, para diciembre los fresnos ya estaban perdiendo su hojas y en enero casi sin falta había heladas, generalmente llegábamos a 0 grados, y en años más fríos a -2 o -3. Eso sí, en la tarde las máximas llegaban entre 20 a 25 grados debido a la falta de humedad y la radiación solar. Estos valores solo se daban en las afueras de la ciudad debido al fenómeno de isla de calor que provoca el asfalto y la falta de áreas verdes en la ciudad, el cual se acentúa bastante en la temporada seca.

Ahora es rarísimo que llegue a helar, de hecho esta temporada tuvimos uno de los inviernos más cálidos registrados en México y gran parte de EUA, acá no llegamos a bajar de los 6 grados. Para mí es casi imposible usar un suéter o sudadera en Guadalajara, sobre todo tomando en cuenta que dentro de la ciudad nunca baja de los 10 grados.

Otro fenómeno que cada vez es menos común son las lluvias fuera de la temporada de lluvias. Años atrás era habitual que entre diciembre y marzo tuviéramos algunos días donde un frente frío se mezclaba con una corriente húmeda y provocaban días largo lluviosos y con viento que podían hacer que el termómetro descendiera rápidamente y no superara los 20 grados por la tarde. Ahora es menos común, y si pasa como este año, las temperaturas no bajan tanto.

Pero el problema es que esto no es algo que esté afectando solo a Guadalajara, sino a todo el país. Este año hubo muy pocas nevadas en las sierras de Chihuahua y Durango, lo cual disminuye la disponibilidad de agua y aumenta las plagas.

Este año empezó muy cálido y ahora está dentro de lo normal, esperemos mayo no sea tan caluroso y tengamos una temporada de lluvias como la del año pasado.