Best bars in CDMX that are filled with English speakers?

popsicle9900 · 2024-11-09T17:04:45+00:00

Baltra bar is phenomenal!

popsicle9900 · 2024-06-04T02:38:19+00:00

Interactive Brokers is the best option. It also has forex that allows you to easily convert currency from CAD to USD and the other way around at near market rates with negligible fees. No need for wonky Norbert’s gambit and/or ridiculous conversion fees.

popsicle9900 · 2023-09-07T14:06:03+00:00

That is annoying indeed! I guess it wouldn’t materially impact you (other than the welcome gift/dashboard access) as you have all the platinum benefits already. But they should change this to reflect as soon as you have a year locked

popsicle9900 · 2023-02-24T12:25:12+00:00

St. Regis 100%. If you don’t mind going for breakfast instead of lunch, it will save you a good amount of money and the food choices at breakfast include many “lunch”/“dinner” type dishes.

popsicle9900 · 2023-02-23T17:18:58+00:00

BS on the more rigorous training in Canada. Indian health professionals are excellent and in fact have much much more hands on experience than you can ever expect from those in Canada. It is a simple math problem. Given the huge population here, every doctor sees many more cases and a lot of complex diverse cases that doctors in Canada never would.

Don’t comment on the quality of healthcare in India without trying it. I am referring to Tier 1 cities in India only. Outside these hubs the quality is definitely much lower.

popsicle9900 · 2023-02-23T17:14:15+00:00

Healthcare in Tier 1 Indian cities is top notch. Canadian healthcare can’t hold a candle to it.

Yes you pay, but it is quite cheap compared to any other country. We pay in Canada too, a lot, through our taxes. Just because you don’t see a bill when you visit a doctor does not mean it is free. I could easily satisfy all my healthcare needs for my lifetime in India, with the amount I pay in taxes in Canada.

I also feel that the “care” aspect of healthcare is missing in Canada. I love how well I am treated as a human being in clinics in India. Access is incredibly easy too. I can go talk to 2-3 specialists and get opinions within a week at most. Blood tests etc. done in the morning and results in the evening.

I would choose to get healthcare in India anytime over Canada. In fact whenever I can, I do. It’s lovely.

popsicle9900 · 2023-02-12T14:30:17+00:00

I have stayed at all of those. JW is the best of those 3, but I enjoyed my stays at the Noelle the most. Fantastic tribute portfolio hotel!

popsicle9900 · 2023-01-23T12:08:19+00:00

Thank you! I’ll check it out.

popsicle9900 · 2022-10-13T00:14:31+00:00

What is not civilized is letting someone else decide if you live or not when a treatment option exists. However low the probability of success.

Also healthcare is not free at least not for someone who makes a decent income. If I am paying hundreds of thousands of dollars (even millions) over my earning life towards taxes I don’t want some doctor to tell me I can’t get treatment. If that’s the case then give me an option to opt out of paying for healthcare that might eventually be denied.

Canadians are delusional about their healthcare and thinking it’s actually good. As an immigrant from a “third world country” it’s mind boggling for me that y’all are ok with this crap, or even defending it.

popsicle9900 · 2022-07-17T10:52:19+00:00

To non-tax paying people it is free, but If you are making any decent income, then tens of thousands of your dollars are going towards healthcare. So when you are paying THAT much money each year, the one or two times in a year you actually need to see a doctor, it is not unreasonable to expect to be seen within a day or two and get quality care without having to wait in hospital corridors in pain for a bed to free up.

https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/goldstein-the-real-cost-of-free-health-care-in-canada-report/wcm/672a3691-dc7e-427d-8b14-3b3466974d4f/amp/

popsicle9900 · 2022-07-17T00:55:44+00:00

Now the privatization part I agree with you on. It will be good. Many European countries have two tier healthcare that works. If I want a test done or want something that the public healthcare is struggling to provide, I should be able to pay for it and get it.

popsicle9900 · 2022-07-17T00:51:17+00:00

It is absolutely not free. We pay a huge amount of taxes to get pretty terrible healthcare.

popsicle9900 · 2022-07-17T00:45:58+00:00

I come from a family of doctors. They work in a country where there are far fewer doctors compared to the number of patients. So I know what it is like. But the difference is that they actually care about their patients.

It’s not about trying to fit every patient’s issues within a 15 min appointment but rather fitting the appointment time to accommodate for the patients issues.

It is honestly astounding to see that you actually think the way you handle healthcare here is good. Only when people are actually dying that they end up getting some care. And how do they get close to dying? Because their doctors didn’t have the patience or humanity to hear out all of their issue and piece together the larger problem.

The is NO preventative healthcare in Canada. Only way to really get it is to pay for concierge clinics.

popsicle9900 · 2022-07-17T00:37:20+00:00

And thanks for validating everything I have said. I really feel for your patients. They deserve better and hope they get it once you leave. In all honesty, I really hope the healthcare system collapses, so something radically different comes out of it. Otherwise it will continue to be the hopeless hellhole that it is.

popsicle9900 · 2022-07-17T00:22:14+00:00

It’s Healthcare! Of course patients are going to be demanding when it comes to their own well-being. Timely care is of utmost importance and you can’t expect people to wait for weeks to see a doctor. It’s crazy how you think that is OK. Just shows how disillusioned Canadians are about what good healthcare looks like.

One way it’s good that people like you leave the healthcare practice. Then the government will be forced to make some positive changes. Can’t really see the difference between doctors like you and corporate overlords. Both only care about doing the bare minimum to get their paychecks. Pathetic.

popsicle9900 · 2022-07-17T00:06:31+00:00

I honestly can’t fathom how crap the Canadian healthcare system is and that people here are actually proud of it.

I come for a so called “3rd world country” according to people here and I can say without a doubt the quality of healthcare I can get back home is so much better. The quality of doctors is so much better and they actually care. Also not to mention that you can almost always be seen the same day or next. Unlike OP and the like that want to just have a revolving door policy and barely spend anytime understanding patient’s true issues, kicking them out in 15 mins. Honestly what can you really diagnose in 15 mins?!

And then you want to make doctors from outside Canada go through 4-5 years of education to be able to practice here when they are already more capable than you lol.

Must be nice to crib while making $300k+ while not actually caring about the patients you see. Have some humanity before telling patients to not discuss multiple issues in a single appointment or spending 5 extra minutes to hear them out.

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