Why is Mexico City so fucking big?

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>>71349171
Its been growing for the last 692 years it had to get big at some point

4u

1 = mexican = 2 muricans = 4 normal people, so they need a lot of space

>>71349304
But isn't that true of every city outside of the US/Australia?

Why is mexico so foggy

>>71349304
Really cool pic
>>71350283
It is fog and smog. But in november/december the smog goes away due to the wind.

>>71350283

Cities surrounded by mountains dont let the smog escape. the same happens in Santiago.

>>71349171
It only looks so big to you because Americans are so small. From the position of an European that's small.

>>71349304
Why Mexico City is so big and have only few buildings?

>>71350366
That doesnt happen in Rio
Are our mountains not big enough

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>>71350369
Really made me think

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>>71350390
A normal city have only a few buildings. The brazilians cities are abnormal.

>>71350283
Pollution and mountains

Same reason LA is foggy

>>71350283
That's air pollution.

>>71349171
Because they only have one city that dominates the country instead of having many other important cities like America

>>71350402
>Rio
>surrounded
Correct me if I'm being retarded, but, isn't it a coastal city?

>>71350800
i hate brazil so fucking much

>>71350800
That looks terrible. How can people live like that?

>>71349171
They don't know how to put a condom on

>>71351830
Looks like New York to be honest

>>71351830
They are monkeys, they don't mind.

>>71352110
no it doesnt at all

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>>71352148
New York is fucking full of skycrapers too

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>>71352224
New York is too cramped too.

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>>71350390
because is big and we have enough space for sprawl.
Also Mexico city is a bunch of several districts and each district has its own downtown per se. Skyscrapers are located in several small points like pic related which is Santa Fe, also Polanco, Insurgentes and Reforma.
The rest of the city is housing, 5-8 storey apartments and parks.

>>71350800
spiczillian (you)

>tfw you'd love to live in Mexico but you're scared you'd be abducted, raped or beheaded

It's a shame, I find Mexico really beautiful.

>>71351830

Sao Paulo is the most important city in the world no one wants to visit. You literally only go there for work.
It is an ocean of apartment buildings from the 70s.

>>71353109
This will change with the new mayor. Dória will make São Paulo great again!

>>71352983
You can live in South West USA. New Mexico and Arizona look like Mexico and have a similar culture but are safer

>>71353323
But I like genuine Mexican culture not the fake USA imitation.
Also the U.S is a fucking warzone compared to Europe, so there's that.

>>71352983
meh... you're missing it. What's life without some risk

>>71353608
Yeah, only if you go to the ghetto.

>>71353642
I've seen death anon. I've been pretty paranoid after that.

>>71353716
Where do first generation immigrants without savings usually end up? Yeah, that's right, in the 'ghetto' as you so eloquently put it.

>>71350800
whoah are those apartment buildings like the ones in the soviet union

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>>71350390
1. Mexico City's soil used to be not stable at all
2. There has been a lot of earthquakes in the past, and the soil makes it much worse than what it should be
3. There are tons of historic buildings that you can't destroy

>>71349171
>Why is Mexico City so fucking big?
because a lot of people live there you water head

>>71349171
>>71349304
>>71352766
Why does Mexico City look like a wave of buildings? Where is it going to hit?

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>>71355270
forgot pic

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>>71355270
Huh?

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>>71355307
That is not Mexico City, just stop.

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>>71350283
Smog and mountains

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>>71355309

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>>71355349
It's literally the first result when you type in "mexico city aerial view".

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>>71355521
It doesn't matter, it really is not Mexico City. That is like posting a picture of some slum in New Jersey and calling it "New York".

That place is called "Ecatepec City" and is in a different state (Mexico City is a state by itself).

>>71354292
They're like the ones in Tokyo too

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Mexico City looks like shit from the air because it is huge and flat desu.

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>>71355960
But this is how those buildings look like from the ground (not all of Mexico City of course, just the ones from that one picture).

>>71355349
I was told a joke about those two.
In one, poor animals are made to suffer for the entertainment of a few idiots.
The other one is the Plaza de Toros.

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>>71356018

Mejihermano, ¿cuánto se tardaría en ir de una punto a otra de Ciudad de Méjico a pie?

>>71356058
That is a nice one lel.

>>71355960
Cities in the Spanish sphere are ugly as hell from above, we make them for the people IN the streets, not the photographers in helicopters.

>>71356120
Yo he caminado por 4 horas seguidas y recorrí 30 kilómetros, aunque iba caminando muy lento y me detuve en algunos parques por varios minutos. Aunque no es recomendable la verdad, la mejor forma de transporte por la ciudad es el metro.

>>71355960
It's like Los Angeles but with less Mexicans.

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>>71356235
No, it is not.

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>>71356258

>>71356120
A pie probablemente más de 6 horas.

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>>71355180
Mexico City's soil used to be a lake.

Being from a country with 3 million people, I can't wrap my mind around that it's equal only to a neighbourhood of a megapolis like Mexico City. Seriously, how do people live in cities like this?

>>71349171
It's the only part of the country with any semblance of economic opportunity, so people are eternally flocking to it from the countryside

>>71356832
Ecuador only has 3 million people? I thought you had like 4 times more people.

>>71356972
They all live in Colombia and spain

>>71356972
That`s lithuania
>>71356832
And yeah lol, i probably cross ways with over a million or more people in a daily metro commute you just get used to it, the sea of cars and people do get annoying and stressing tho
A moment of silence with nobody in sight is very much welcomed sometimes

>>71357109
Kek I fucked up I guess.

>>71356058
Kek

>>71350800
getting lost in sao paulo must be hell

>>71358695
Not as bad as getting lost in Rio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0PhUNoIWYs

>>71355349
what's that thing to the right? surely there's not enough for a football field down there

>>71358829
Bullfighting plaza, biggest in the world

>>71358864
Yeah... that thing should end.

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Mexico City is great

>>71356832

We're not that crowded even if it feels like it, the main problem here is that the city wasn't design to become what it is today. We have daily issues with public transport and let's add a poor driving culture. Also the government keeps adding new ways of public transport that just makes it worst to drivers (like new vial distributors that causes bottle necks and you have to pay for driving in).

We're just not that organized (like Japan is with much less space).

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>>71358933
Holy cow. Is there a big interest in this sport?

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>>71358987
I like Xochimilco.

>>71359046
It has been slowly losing popularity for quite some time now.

>>71359046
Enough people for it to still be around in 8 countries, including France, Spain and Portugal.
I believe Sarkozy declared it cultural heritage of southern France.
In Latin America it's done on Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru

Everything in Mexico City have beige color, this is really ugly

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>>71359131
It looks better from the ground

>>71356832
Crazy to think about, really. Australia is the size of a continent yet only has around 24 million people.

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>>71355960
The cathedral

>>71359021
It almost feels like if you are describing guatemala city. Feels bad man

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>>71359131
Heh, Lula

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>>71359258
Have you played the game Dying Light? A lot of these photos look like the second main city from that game.

Is Mexico City worth visiting as a tourist? It just seems so fucking big but weirdly devoid of much stuff outside of the small historical bit.

>>71359625
Yes

>>71359658

What are the main attractions? Also how widely spoken is English?

>>71359687
It's, I believe, the city with the most museums in the world
Every touristic place in the world has English speakers

What I liked about it is that it's a bunch of colonial towns and villages that continued growing until they were one city.

>>71350402
The fuck?

>>71354205

Dude if you are white you will live like a king. Here girls love the BWC

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>>71359687
- It is the city with the most museums in the world.
- Historic centre of New Spain
- Tenochtitlan ruins beside the Cathedral
- Xochimilco, (the remains of the canals the aztecs used)
- Coyoacán (a small colonial town that was swallowed by the city).
- Hipster boroughs and neighborhoods with tons of parks, restaurants and bars (Colonia Roma, Condesa, Del Valle).
- Rich boroughs and neighborhoods with big shopping malls and some skyscrapers with gourmet restaurants (Santa Fe, Polanco)
- Teotihuacan ruins are really close, though they belong to the State of Mexico, (a state surrounding Mexico City).
- Popocatepetl and Iztacihuatl volcanoes are also really close, though they are also in other states.
- There are some forests inside the city (Chapultepec, it has a "castle", la Marqueza, el Ajusco, el desierto de los leones, etc)
- La Villa, where the Virgin of Guadalupe supposedly appeared and left a coat with her image behind (second most visited church in the world, behind the Vatican).
- Lucha libre arenas.
- Bullfighting rings
- The Aztec stadium, where Maradona and Pelé won the world cup, it is also the place where the "hand of god" goal, and the best goal in the world were made, and the "Game of the century" was also played there.
- The zoo is quite nice and big
- "Tianguis" and "mercados" are places where people buy mainly food and some other things, and there are some notewhorthy ones like "Mercado de Jamaica", "Mercado de Sonora"

I don't know, there are a lot of things to do in here. And english is not widely spoken but you can find people who do speak it with no problems,

>>71359416
Nope, is it a good game?

>>71359687
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrios_M%C3%A1gicos_of_Mexico_City

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>>71359687
There's a lot of thing to see and do. Ancient ruins, music festivals, museums, natural areas, great architecture, food, etc.

>>71360207
You missed
- Tlatelolco ruins
- "University City" with the Olympic stadium from 1968
- Garibaldi square with mariachis

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>>71360403

This is one of my favorite pics of teotihuacan

>>71359687
You can start from the airport to the city historical center, take a little tour of colonial mexico, to the pre hispanic empire, you can enjoy all the museums around the main square and in the national palace, later you can move on to Porfirio Diaz mexico, the Central Alameda (a park) the palace of the arts, post office palace and so, walk trough the streets, you will find MORE museums and food, walk all the way or take a turibus (tourist trap official tour bus) all the way to the monument to the revolution and the republic plaza, follow Reforma beautiful street, modern mexico with skyscrapers and shit, it leads to a forest, chapultepec, there you will find a castle with the national history museum, you will know imperial mexico and the site of one of the last battles of the mexican american war, the monument to our fallen heroes and more.
You still have a lot to cover my friend, this city has a lot to offer

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>>71358758
MadMax

This thread makes Mexico City seem way comfier than I thought it was.

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>>71363178

If you want comfy then you should check the small towns, this is called zacatlan, Puebla

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>>71363361

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at least it has parks

>>71363895
comfy af desu

captcha: mexico centre

>>71363968
I fucking love that park on a weekday morning, living nearby fucking worth every cent no matter if it's half of my monthly income.

>>71364011

moorish califate/10

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>>71355429

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>>71364388

Why arent poor Mexicans moving to Mexico city instead of the U.S if it's so great and comfy. Especially since the US route is dangerous and if you're a girl very rapey

>>71364442
They are, and people are no longer going to the US, but instead they have been coming back for a while now.

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>>71364442
Mexican minimum wage is 4 dollars a day, American minimum wage is 8 dollars per hour.

>>71364470
> moving back
You mean deported kek
>>71364509
American rent is also $500+. Minimum wage doesn't matter. Cost and quality of living related to salaries does.

>>71364567
No, I mean moving back, so please moor, don't try to act like you are anything compared to us.

Nothing is more pathetic than a non-American regurgitating republican talking points.

>>71364567
>Cost and quality of living related to salaries does.
Well we rank 11th in GDP by PPP which means that life is very cheap in here and our GDP PPP per capita is more than double of your country.
Stop echo chambering what burgers say, it's only kinda funny when an ausie does it ironically.

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I did this with the pics ITT

>>71360642
Is this place open to the general public?

>>71360642
>Desierto de los Leones
>No es desierto
>No hay leones
What did we mean by this?

>>71366653
It is

>>71353608
>hungary
wtf do you know about genuine vs imitation
have you been to both cunts? or either?

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>huge ass city full of Mexicans

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>>71349304
>>71352766
>>71355180
>>71359258
Is Mexico city nice? Is it safe?

What's there do to? What's there to see? Is there an active nightlife? Will you hangout w/ me if I come this May?

>>71349171
Aztecs love crowds.

>>71369193
>Is Mexico city nice?
Most of it
>Is it safe?
Requires common sense travel, but no you wont get murdered/beheaded/kidnapped
>What's there do to?
See all pics above and >>71360207 >>71360563 >>71360852
> Is there an active nightlife?
Sure, but not my piece of cake
>Will you hangout w/ me if I come this May?
Would like to but im at uni at the time going

>>71369242
Is there an other city you'd recommend to visit instead?

I went to Cancun when I was 19, it was pretty and all but I didn't take in any culture as I was drunk for a week straight, it didn't 'feel' like Mexico but a city for American co-eds.

>>71369302
If your only intentions are to get drunk, party, sex and shit and not to meet the culture of my city and all of its past I suggest you stick to american tourist trap cities, Cancun, Puerto Vallarta and similar cities
Otherwise, take time in Mexico City, Guanajuato, Pueba, Guadalajara and the magic towns across the country

>>71369348
Those were my intentions when I was 19. As my post inferred I don't want that as I missed out on the sights and sounds of your country and her people.

I will look into all those places as I'm seriously considering this year, ty

[spoiler]that being said I do want to bed a Mexican woman[/spoiler]

>>71369460
I botched a spoiler, I am unworthy of Mexican woman.

>>71352983
Go to Monterey or Sonora Mexico.

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This is what my university (located in Mexico City) looks like from the inside.

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>>71370233
And 2 blocks away from there we have this.

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>>71370407
What it's supposed to look like when completed.