Comments on: Mexican Cities/American Cities http://www.yucatanliving.com/editorial/mexican-citiesamerican-cities.htm Online magazine about living, working and traveling in Merida and the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:05:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Luis http://www.yucatanliving.com/editorial/mexican-citiesamerican-cities.htm/comment-page-1#comment-40321 Luis Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:18:16 +0000 http://www.yucatanliving.com/editorial/mexican-citiesamerican-cities.htm#comment-40321 Villahermosa is called in a fun way "the two lies city", because is neither a "Villa" (a Small town) nor "Hermosa" (Pretty, beauty). Villahermosa translated to English means, "the beauty small town" This is my first comment here (april 16, 2008) BTW - I live in Mérida, and this is a great website. Villahermosa is called in a fun way “the two lies city”, because is neither a “Villa” (a Small town) nor “Hermosa” (Pretty, beauty).

Villahermosa translated to English means, “the beauty small town”

This is my first comment here (april 16, 2008)

BTW – I live in Mérida, and this is a great website.

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Thanks,
Sam

]]> By: John Condatore http://www.yucatanliving.com/editorial/mexican-citiesamerican-cities.htm/comment-page-1#comment-32253 John Condatore Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:08:53 +0000 http://www.yucatanliving.com/editorial/mexican-citiesamerican-cities.htm#comment-32253 My first impression of st. Luis Potosi was Pittsburgh, Very industrialized not much social life. My first impression
of st. Luis Potosi was Pittsburgh, Very industrialized not much social life.

]]> By: Alan http://www.yucatanliving.com/editorial/mexican-citiesamerican-cities.htm/comment-page-1#comment-32110 Alan Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:00:57 +0000 http://www.yucatanliving.com/editorial/mexican-citiesamerican-cities.htm#comment-32110 RE: New Orleans and Merida...my wife and I lived in New Orleans, Louisiana, for 21 years prior to Hurricane katrina; we loved it intensely (the architecture, food, music, warmth of the people, carnival, the sheer visual beauty and sensual richness) and for all these reasons never intended to live anywhere else. Then...we were wiped out by Katrina, and relocated to a middle class suburb in Michigan (where my wife is from.) We have a nice house in an interesting older town (by U.S. standards!) good friends and family, and we absolutely love the long, cool summers when the northern sun doesn't completely set until almost 11:00 p.m. For all those reasons, we intend to make our lives here--for part of each year--for the rest of our lives. However, with all its plusses, where we are now lacks some important elements which make life worth living, and they all boil down to qualities of passion, excitement, sensuality and waking up each day knowing that you are likely to be both surprised by something unexpected and charmed by the people and poetic beauty of the place where you live. We miss all that and want to bring it back into our lives, but, for us, for a variety of reasons New Orleans is no longer an option. Recently we visted Merida, where friends from New Orleans relocated after the storm, and we both felt as if we had come home to a place we had never before even seen. The similarities between Merida and pre-Katrina New Orleans are uncanny, almost as if they are manifestations of the same place but in parallel universes. Substitute Mayan influence for Afro-Caribbean, change English to Spanish, and the two are almost identical, with a few important exceptions; Merida feels safer, and at least in the time we were there we never witnessed the out-of-control public behavior which is all too common in New Orleans. But...in both places people are friendly and warm, there is an ever present sense of life-as-celebration (music, art, dancing, carnival) and in both places the entire environment is a complex stimulation of the senses of the sort we currently miss so much. So...we will eventually be back, if only for part of the year each year, because the positives that Merida offers feed our souls, much in the way that New Orleans once did. RE: New Orleans and Merida…my wife and I lived in New Orleans, Louisiana, for 21 years prior to Hurricane katrina; we loved it intensely (the architecture, food, music, warmth of the people, carnival, the sheer visual beauty and sensual richness) and for all these reasons never intended to live anywhere else.

Then…we were wiped out by Katrina, and relocated to a middle class suburb in Michigan (where my wife is from.) We have a nice house in an interesting older town (by U.S. standards!) good friends and family, and we absolutely love the long, cool summers when the northern sun doesn’t completely set until almost 11:00 p.m. For all those reasons, we intend to make our lives here–for part of each year–for the rest of our lives.

However, with all its plusses, where we are now lacks some important elements which make life worth living, and they all boil down to qualities of passion, excitement, sensuality and waking up each day knowing that you are likely to be both surprised by something unexpected and charmed by the people and poetic beauty of the place where you live. We miss all that and want to bring it back into our lives, but, for us, for a variety of reasons New Orleans is no longer an option.

Recently we visted Merida, where friends from New Orleans relocated after the storm, and we both felt as if we had come home to a place we had never before even seen. The similarities between Merida and pre-Katrina New Orleans are uncanny, almost as if they are manifestations of the same place but in parallel universes. Substitute Mayan influence for Afro-Caribbean, change English to Spanish, and the two are almost identical, with a few important exceptions; Merida feels safer, and at least in the time we were there we never witnessed the out-of-control public behavior which is all too common in New Orleans. But…in both places people are friendly and warm, there is an ever present sense of life-as-celebration (music, art, dancing, carnival) and in both places the entire environment is a complex stimulation of the senses of the sort we currently miss so much. So…we will eventually be back, if only for part of the year each year, because the positives that Merida offers feed our souls, much in the way that New Orleans once did.

]]> By: Saray http://www.yucatanliving.com/editorial/mexican-citiesamerican-cities.htm/comment-page-1#comment-29950 Saray Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:41:47 +0000 http://www.yucatanliving.com/editorial/mexican-citiesamerican-cities.htm#comment-29950 Mmmm I am wondering what Mexican city would match for Marfa, Texas... Greetings to everybody! Mmmm I am wondering what Mexican city would match for Marfa, Texas…

Greetings to everybody!

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