Why is Mexico City so fucking big?

Why is Mexico City so fucking big?

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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

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

Why is mexico so foggy

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

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

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

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

That doesnt happen in Rio
Are our mountains not big enough

Really made me think

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

Pollution and mountains

Same reason LA is foggy

That's air pollution.

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

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

i hate brazil so fucking much

That looks terrible. How can people live like that?

They don't know how to put a condom on

Looks like New York to be honest

They are monkeys, they don't mind.

no it doesnt at all

New York is fucking full of skycrapers too

New York is too cramped too.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Yeah, only if you go to the ghetto.

I've seen death user. I've been pretty paranoid after that.

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

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

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

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

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

forgot pic

Huh?

That is not Mexico City, just stop.

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Smog and mountains

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

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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).

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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.

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).

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

That is a nice one lel.

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.

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.

It's like Los Angeles but with less Mexicans.

No, it is not.

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A pie probablemente más de 6 horas.

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?

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

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

They all live in Colombia and spain

That`s lithuania
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

Kek I fucked up I guess.

Kek

getting lost in sao paulo must be hell

Not as bad as getting lost in Rio
youtube.com/watch?v=G0PhUNoIWYs

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

Bullfighting plaza, biggest in the world

Yeah... that thing should end.

Mexico City is great

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).

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

I like Xochimilco.

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

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

It looks better from the ground

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

The cathedral

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

Heh, Lula

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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.

Yes

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

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.