What It's Really Like Living in Mexico City 🇲🇽

What do you love about this city? What do you love about Mexico City? Something you want to change about this city? Is there something you don't like? So one thing about Mexico City is it's a very loud city and so I'm in a park right now called Parque Mexico just to find a quiet environment to hopefully talk to some people. Let's see what we can find. And so if it's easier for you to speak Spanish, you can? Or if you want to speak English? What is one thing you like about life here? What is one food they have to try here? My favorite enchiladas, de mole. Now on the other side, is there something you don't like? Earthquake. And how long have you been here? Like a month and a half. Oh cool, so you've had the real experience, you got some time to get to know the city. For sure, yeah. I'm here for like six months. Amazing, well so far what do you love about the city? I mean it's beautiful right? Like it's like one of the most beautiful cities in terms of the amount of greenery, the amount of stuff going on, the little shops, the food. You know, I think it's like genuinely like the best city in the world right now. Best city in the world, wow. I think so. I mean I was in Paris, I was in Madrid. Like the food, the drinks, the cocktails, the like people here, I think it's like top-notch. The whole package. Yeah, everything. So I love it, that's why I'm here for a while. Amazing. Well on the flip side, a month and a half, there must be something that's starting to annoy you, something you don't like as much? I don't know that it's annoying, but like you know it takes a while to get used to the pollution and the altitude, which is like murder you when you first come here, you know? It's like it's so high, it makes you super tired and then the pollution kind of gets to your eyes a little bit. So you just kind of like take breaks throughout the day. That's a good tip for someone who's like coming here for the first time, they might. Plan an extra day so that you can take a nap one of the days because it definitely takes a little bit to get adjusted to. What is your name? Hector. Hector, what do you love about Mexico City? I love the street food and I hate the pollution. Okay, so I actually wanted to share some of my own thoughts on what I love and hate about Mexico City, given the fact that I've been to this city many times now, as longtime viewers of this channel will know. So I'm going to get straight to that, but first I want to take a moment and thank today's sponsor, Surfshark VPN. A VPN stands for a virtual private network and essentially it creates an encryption between your computer. I don't know why the palm of my hand is a computer, but just like stick with me on this metaphor. Okay, your computer and the internet, all the fingers are the internet. 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They're hooking us up with an 83% discount if you use the code NEWTRAVEL, links down below. Now let's talk about what I love and hate about Mexico City. Now people who have seen my Mexico content before know that I love this place because of the diversity of neighborhoods. How it really feels like not one city, but like a hundred different cities. There's very rich neighborhoods, very poor neighborhoods, very modern neighborhoods, very historical neighborhoods. There's literally the canals you can float down if you go down south to Chochimelco. There's the ancient pyramids you can see if you go north to Teotihuacan. I mean, just the amount of history and diversity in this place is incredible. And that's why I love Mexico City and I keep going back time and time again. Now, what do I hate about it? Okay, I could say the pollution and what some other people have been talking about, the traffic, but I'm going to say something different. I hate Mexico City Airport. I just hate it. It's a world-class city with a third-rate airport. I know they were talking about building a new one and then they stopped and now I guess we're stuck with the old bad one. But every time I go to the airport and it just reminds me like, you guys deserve a better airport. And I hate it even more after my recent trip because I got scammed. Shout out to the OXO in Mexico City Terminal 1. I think it was Terminal 1. Yeah, basically I was trying to buy a SIM card for my phone and I was trying to get a Telcel 10 gigabyte SIM card and I paid for it. No problem. It's all good. Got the SIM card. It was working and then I went on my way and it was good until like a day and a half later when it stopped working. They scammed me. I paid for 10 gigs. They only gave me 500 megabytes. So like 1 20th of what I paid for. And then this is the craziest thing. Like when you find that OXO on Google, see that 2.1 stars? Like everyone for the past three years has been getting hit by the same scam and writing reviews about it and nothing's been done. Anyway, that's my little rant for the day. Now let's get back to the streets and see what some other people have to say. Are you from Mexico City? Yeah, I live here in the city. Tell me what you love about the city. I love the people. I love the food. I love there is so much culture here in Mexico. I love the art. I love to do sports. Yeah, mostly food. Okay, lots to love. Can you find something you hate about the city? Yeah, it's kind of hard. Some things that I really don't like about the city is the noise, the traffic. Yeah, we can... Even here I tried to find a quiet place, still we can hear the traffic. Yeah, even in like the quiet places that are here in the city, there are no like... There's always noise. It's not really bad all the time. Like sometimes there are people playing some instruments in the street or some dude just singing. And what I don't like is the insecurity, the traffic, the bureaucracy. Bureaucracy, yes. Well, thank you very much for your time, friend. You're welcome, you're welcome. Okay, I'm here with Graham. Graham actually stopped me on the street because he recognized me from the old School of Mexico City videos. Yep, that's right. Then I came to live here for a few months. I was studying at UNAM in the side of the city doing some research. And yeah, pretty much Dan's videos just told me all about Mexico, the cool places to go. So I was like, I have to stop this guy, yeah. Amazing. Well, then you were here as a student. You got a different perspective on the city. What do you love? What's your take on the city? So I've lived in a lot of different places. And I was thinking of somewhere where I could live long term. And I decided to come back to Mexico City because I just feel like... I don't know, like it's the one place where you have everything. You can find any kind of restaurant you want to go to. The city is so diverse. It's so modern. But at the same time, you have a lot of really traditional areas. Yeah, pretty much it. Amazing. Now on the other side, have you been here long enough to find something you hate? I wouldn't say hate. But look, Mexico is some of the best food I've ever had. Like seriously, it really is all it's hyped up to be. I can't adapt to like their regular white bread. I just can't. There's sugar in it. And yeah, I mean, I like the kind of traditional sweet bread. But they put sugar in everything. Yeah, everything is the candies, the bread. People here, they love sugar. Like Mexicans have quite a sweet tooth. So yeah, but it's really hard to find. Like there's nothing you will hate in Mexico ever. It's just an amazing place. Mexico is a multicultural country. I mean, you can find everything. And it's like a story. It's like a paint. Also, you have the other point of view from other countries. And we love to be friends with everyone. And no matter what happened or no discrimination, I mean. Now on the other side, is there something you dislike? Something you want to change about the city? I mean, we as human beings, we have a lot of problems. We have so many different points of view. But at the same time, we are so young in comparison with other countries. So we're learning. And I think for me, it's like that learning, the thing that I think is not the best. But I can feel it as a, I don't know how to say in English, as a lesson. Yeah. So if something goes wrong in life, you look at the positive and you look forward to it. Amazing. Muchas gracias. Gracias a ti.