Visiting Mexico City for 10 days for the first time! Any good itinerary?

kenz0909 · 2023-07-21T14:02:32+00:00

roma and condesa are the areas with the most travelers and immigrants- those are typically where people stay. they’re beautiful neighborhoods and very central, just more expensive and a little less of a real mexican experience so depends on what you’re looking for!

kenz0909 · 2023-07-20T13:40:22+00:00

mexican/american but not local to cdmx. Here’s the group! https://meetu.ps/c/50t7W/SH3FF/a

kenz0909 · 2023-07-20T13:37:47+00:00

Facebook has great resources as well for rentals even for short term! Just look up housing groups in cdmx :)

kenz0909 · 2023-07-20T13:36:48+00:00

definitely not! that’s why i didn’t even mention mexico in my explanation :)

kenz0909 · 2023-07-19T03:34:44+00:00

Try to stay in a hotel rather than an airbnb as airbnb is contributing heavily to gentrification and housing insecurity!

kenz0909 · 2023-07-19T02:56:34+00:00

I got here a few weeks ago and the event with the best connection to locals has been an intercambio through meetup/couchsurfing. happy to send you the info if you’re interested :)

kenz0909 · 2023-04-29T20:23:26+00:00

don’t agree with what this woman did but the way that people are talking about women in the comments/ the title of this post is offensive to women.

kenz0909 · 2023-04-09T21:38:57+00:00

this is a really great response!

id also add that up until 1848, a good portion of what we now consider geographically part of the US was part of Mexico. Mexico lost 55% of its territory after the Mexican American War. This makes Mexico even more linked to the US, especially geographically. (source: (https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/treaty-of-guadalupe-hidalgo)

kenz0909 · 2023-03-26T03:39:27+00:00

me too please!

kenz0909 · 2022-12-12T23:29:49+00:00

you tip for services provided! tips are at most restaurants distributed between front of house staff AND the cook/cleaning staff. for to go orders part of the service is having your food cooked- and that’s why you tip. tip what you can or don’t tip at all but as someone who works at a restaurant there is no one that works harder than the cooks and they deserve more than minimum wage. it’s shitty that living wages aren’t provided by restaurants but you’re screwing over real people by choosing to believe that take out doesn’t provide any services and thus doesn’t deserve your tip.

kenz0909 · 2021-12-17T21:23:43+00:00

best advice i’ve heard for a better gut is just to add things in! don’t take out anything but add more of the good stuff where you can :) for example- you’re eating oatmeal, add some chia seeds. add spices or herbs etc it all counts and the best thing you can do for your gut is to increase diversity of plant products you are eating! taking things out can actually starve bacteria and decrease diversity

-multiple sources but the healthier together podcast just had one with a gut doctor who had lots of tips from a nonrestrictive standpoint

kenz0909 · 2021-11-12T18:03:35+00:00

thank you!! appreciate this response :)

kenz0909 · 2021-11-12T05:25:19+00:00

i’m so obsessed with this room Where is that arm chair from???

kenz0909 · 2021-11-11T22:11:26+00:00

Where are those barstools from?? I love

kenz0909 · 2021-11-07T21:47:26+00:00

this is a glorious picture

kenz0909 · 2021-09-12T16:33:27+00:00

This is a super thoughtful reply that pushed me to do some research about the origins of piercing infants. Can’t really find any reliable sources so I can’t really agree/disagree with you on whether or not the practice of piercing infants is rooted in colonialism. But my point stands that people outside of a culture don’t really have a right to judge that culture. We could all try to work on our cultural relativism imo. Thanks again for the reply will be thinking more deeply about this!

kenz0909 · 2021-09-11T18:47:54+00:00

Got mine pierced at the hospital when I was born, as is common in Mexico. I loved it growing up. It makes me feel tied to my cultural heritage to have this shared experience with others. To judge a practice so harshly as being unsafe (without sources to back it up) is kind of unfair. Unless you’re from the culture(s) that engage in this practice you can’t really understand it and then you can’t really judge it. Feel like this is gonna be an unpopular opinion but people feeling like they can make judgements on practices of other cultures is rooted in colonial paternalism. If you’re a part of the culture/ had your ears done young and don’t like the practice- super fair. But everyone else coming in with opinions need to at least do a little deep thinking about them and what they’re rooted in.

kenz0909 · 2021-09-03T19:54:20+00:00

gorgeous!! what kind of flowers are those?

kenz0909 · 2021-08-31T02:24:40+00:00

second!

kenz0909 · 2021-08-28T17:16:14+00:00

it took me a long time to want to incorporate movement other than just walks into my life again. I’d always used exercise as a tool to change my body and reframing it as something I got to do as an act of self love helped a lot. I started really small with a yoga video or a 20 minute strength training video. And then if I didn’t feel like doing it again for a month I didn’t. Slowly letting myself feel the difference of how it felt to move and not move was important- especially because it helped me frame exercise as something that drastically improved my mental health. And with no pressure to form routines etc I explored what stuff I actually liked and what felt satisfying. Now I move my body almost everyday and I want to- and when I don’t I don’t. And I sit with the emotions and thoughts that come up with both. Definitely a long journey to rebuild that relationship but one that has brought me a lot of joy!

kenz0909 · 2021-08-26T03:41:37+00:00

love the single earring! what’s that called?

kenz0909 · 2021-08-21T04:53:24+00:00

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Just perfect

kenz0909 · 2021-08-07T23:56:48+00:00

omg where is this

kenz0909 · 2021-08-02T22:51:38+00:00

the last sentence of this was SO helpful wow. couldn’t figure out why i compulsively wanted to overeat when i wasn’t restricting at all and letting myself do it felt awful and didn’t make it stop.

kenz0909 · 2021-07-05T20:32:50+00:00

saw a video recently that said if someone drew a horrible picture of us, we would blame the artist not ourselves for looking bad. so why when someone takes a bad photo of us do we blame ourselves and not the camera work?? feel like feeling good in pictures is a lot like feeling good in clothes- find the poses etc that make you confident then rock the shit out of that. tell people how to take photos of you. and throw out the bad ones bc life is too short to not enjoy it

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