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re: Ask an American living in Mexico City anything.
Posted on 1/28/14 at 7:56 am to oR33Do
Posted on 1/28/14 at 7:56 am to oR33Do
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How much for a couple tacos and some arroz con pollo?
Really depends on the place. Some tacos can cost over a dollar, some can cost under a quarter. You really want to stay away from cheap tacos, though.
Five pesos is about 40 cents, but generally it's pretty good and you can find them in D.F. (Federal District) and Reforma.
Arroz con pollo is the same man, you want to make sure you don't get the cheap stuff and really play close attention to the people serving it. I've had plates that were about 50 pesos (4 dollars and fifty cents, or something like that) and some that asked for 20.
Food is cheap, but clothing and electronics are expensive. Very, very, very expensive.
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Posted on 1/28/14 at 7:58 am to CtotheVrzrbck
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How long has it been since you've not had
a) the rhia
b) the clap
c) the cartel drop a body in your neighborhood
Never had A and B but there was a body dumped about six months ago. I've only seen one bomb attack (although it could have been a firework) and only been mugged once but lost nothing of consequence. (Decoy pocket.)
I have a girl and I don't sleep around, and when I do I always wear a condom. Unless, of course, she's really hot.
Posted on 1/28/14 at 8:00 am to Swoopin
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Did you see a couple gringos driving from the airport to Los piramides last April/may? Did you help give them directions and did they seem to blend in well enough for a couple 20 something wasps?
It's funny because I severely doubt that I did but I had to think about it because I help tons of Americans (in general) around the city. I ought to open up a tourist business so people don't have to get the toothless, pudgy, broken English speakin' Mexican driving them around.
Instead, a clean cut white fellow.
If you do come, please...don't wear jorts. It's killed me, but I'm sure other Caucasians can manage.
Posted on 1/28/14 at 8:04 am to fontell
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If Mexico City were on a monopoly board would it be closer to a Baltic avenue or say, a boardwalk?
Near or on Jail.
Posted on 1/28/14 at 10:18 am to StrawsDrawnAtRandom
So if I had a friend who was a fat stabled jobbed Mexican he should move to Mexico City and live like a baller.
What about a fat stabled jobbed white guy????
What about a fat stabled jobbed white guy????
Posted on 1/28/14 at 10:25 am to StrawsDrawnAtRandom
So girls down there stay away from blonde blue eyed dudes over 6 feet? Damn even if I dye my hair I'm screwed! 
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Posted on 1/28/14 at 10:59 am to AirDawg
Sounds like you would prefer to be somewhere besides there. Why stay in Mexico City? There are nicer, safer, smaller places to live in Mexico.
You can also move to some other country and take your woman with you without issue. Many nicer places out there, why put up with the crap in Mexico City for a long period of time? You could try Guatemala as a trial run, just stay out of Guate.
pura vida....
You can also move to some other country and take your woman with you without issue. Many nicer places out there, why put up with the crap in Mexico City for a long period of time? You could try Guatemala as a trial run, just stay out of Guate.
pura vida....
Posted on 1/28/14 at 11:28 am to StrawsDrawnAtRandom
quote:Do you not speak spanish? That's no difference than them calling Puerto Ricans puertorriqueños or the japanese japonés.
Also for our nationality they say something like: ''Estadounidense'' which is essentially United Statesian
To say you're a resident of Los Estados Unidos is to say Estadounidense. It's a natural conversion in a language that was created long before today.
This post was edited on 1/28/14 at 11:29 am
Posted on 1/28/14 at 5:24 pm to bird35
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So if I had a friend who was a fat stabled jobbed Mexican he should move to Mexico City and live like a baller.
What about a fat stabled jobbed white guy????
As long as you can move them into a different economic bracket, most Mexicans will love you immediately. If you're young and dashing like myself? Well, maybe not.
Posted on 1/28/14 at 5:25 pm to AirDawg
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So girls down there stay away from blonde blue eyed dudes over 6 feet? Damn even if I dye my hair I'm screwed
Hahaha, a lot of guys seem like they have ideas. If you have the money, you'll do just fine. Trust me.
Posted on 1/28/14 at 5:28 pm to bona fide
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Sounds like you would prefer to be somewhere besides there. Why stay in Mexico City?
I don't have a lot of money but my work is fairly stable. I'm an independent English teacher with quite a few students. It would be very difficult to just haul off and move.
But I'd definitely move somewhere else in Mexico if I had the chance. Not Guatemala though, too much activity right now.
Posted on 1/28/14 at 5:31 pm to Rig
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Do you not speak spanish? That's no difference than them calling Puerto Ricans puertorriqueños or the japanese japonés.
I do, however I understand it a lot more. The Nationality is ''Americano'', or, for the butthurt Mexicans of the country, ''Estadounidense'' is literally AMERICAN but they go out of their way to make sure to not call us Americans.
Just look at the translations. Even if someone says ''America'', it'll translate it into ''EE UU'' or ''Estados Unidos'' or the United States.
The thought behind it (I'm an English teacher, I've had this debate a few dozen times) is that we are not all of America or The Americas. So why do we call ourselves that?
Posted on 1/28/14 at 5:32 pm to StrawsDrawnAtRandom
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Mexico City
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ex-military
are you a body guard for a girl that looks like Dakota Fanning?
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Posted on 1/28/14 at 5:49 pm to diddydirtyAubie
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are you a body guard for a girl that looks like Dakota Fanning?
If only. Bodyguard work is very hard to get into down here, though.
And Dakota's got a restraining order against me.
Posted on 1/28/14 at 6:12 pm to StrawsDrawnAtRandom
Since you used to live in Georgia, do you teach the Mexicans to say "y'all"?
Posted on 1/28/14 at 6:21 pm to OBReb6
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Since you used to live in Georgia, do you teach the Mexicans to say "y'all"?
I teach 'em everything from ''a yo'' to ''vittles''.
Posted on 1/28/14 at 10:11 pm to StrawsDrawnAtRandom
Do you ever get offered the strange poon for English lessons?
I had a co-worker marry a Mexican dentist about 15 years ago. She was smokin hot, he met her through " the Latino connection". Do you see adverts for meet and great the gringos?
I had a co-worker marry a Mexican dentist about 15 years ago. She was smokin hot, he met her through " the Latino connection". Do you see adverts for meet and great the gringos?
Posted on 1/28/14 at 11:29 pm to StrawsDrawnAtRandom
Have you been to Chichen Itza?
How is the bud?
Are futball games as dangerous as reported?
How is the bud?
Are futball games as dangerous as reported?
Posted on 1/29/14 at 10:39 am to Interweb Cowboy
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Do you ever get offered the strange poon for English lessons?
I had a co-worker marry a Mexican dentist about 15 years ago. She was smokin hot, he met her through " the Latino connection". Do you see adverts for meet and great the gringos?
I've been offered everything for lessons. Animals, daughters, literally everything. If people can't pay, generally I don't charge.
Posted on 1/29/14 at 10:41 am to E.Hubble
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Have you been to Chichen Itza?
How is the bud?
Are futball games as dangerous as reported?
Not yet, but my dad just got back from Afghanistan (he's also ex-military, but was contracting this time) and we have plans to next winter.
I'm not a big fan of marijuana, messes with my residual schizophrenia.
Yes. The Mexican League games aren't that bad (Cruz Azul, Atlas, Monterrey etc. etc.) but when you get to the local games they can have shootouts and the like. Still not as bad as Brazil, though.
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