I stayed for a week last May in the Ciudad with my buddy.
Mexico City is an amazing place. Huge with beautiful architecture, friendly people, delicious food, and amazing history. I advise any guy on this board just to go there just for the tourist stuff alone.
It is considered the safest place in all of Mexico as the government has concentrated most of its resources there over the last decade in order to prove to the world that Mexico can at least have a safe and beautiful capitol. Consequently, I never felt endangered at all and marveled at how clean everything was (versus other parts of Mexico), but did notice police and army personnel everywhere.
Here are some tips:
1) I personally find the standard Mestizo to be one of the ugliest people on Earth. They're generally short and fat with unattractive facial geometry. It's unfortunate but with that being said the white/European indigenous are fucking amazingly beautiful. There are also a ton of European/South American expats living in Mexico City, mainly from Spain, France, Argentina and Germany.
2) The three safest places where you can find the above-mentioned girls are Polanco, Condesa, and Roma Norte, with how expensive each area is in descending order. In other words, the richest Mexican girls live and socialize in Polanco, most of the poorer expats live in Roma, and Condesa has a mixture of both.
3) My buddy lives in Condesa, which has a ton of great restaurants and bars where meeting women is easy. I actually didn't even try to meet girls in Condesa and invariably started talking to some cute Mexican and American girls one night in a great bar. It was a rooftop bar called Condesa DF. I would advise any player to go to that bar. Michoacán in Condesa also has a ton of outdoor restaurants/bars/cafes.
4) Tacos cost between $0.50 to $0.75 and are amazingly delicious. I ate them almost every day and saved a ton of cash. If cooking is more you thing, there's a huge market in Roma Norte that has every kind of perishable food item that you'd need.
5) Taxis are considered safe EXCEPT for the ones which are old VW Bugs. The bugs, based on their pollution, are trying to be eliminated from the Ciudad, hence any legitimate cab driver has to have a newer car that emits much less emissions. Taxi drivers driving an old Bug are likely fake and could be a kidnapper.
6) Mexico City gets over 250 sun days a year and has a temperature that never really swings much. It's located at an elevation between 7,000-8,000 feet, thus it doesn't get much hotter than 80 degrees in the summer and much cooler than 50 degrees in the winter.
7) Nobody at a cash register ever has any fucking change. You need to carry around tons of change at all times. Most annoying part about the place.
8) You will get Montezuma's revenge if you drink the tap water. It's virtually guaranteed. Since all of the produce in a restaurant will invariably be washed with tap water, you should avoid any uncooked food unless you're preparing it yourself. I made the mistake of ordering a salad one day and had diarrhea for almost seven days afterwards. Buy bottled water for everything since it's so cheap.
9) The Anthropology Museum (Museo de Antropologia) is top-three museum that I've ever visited. Please go there if you have time.
That's all I got. I'll subscribe to this thread to answer anything else about the place, but I went there to hang with a buddy so my data sheet is a little bare.
Mexico City is an amazing place. Huge with beautiful architecture, friendly people, delicious food, and amazing history. I advise any guy on this board just to go there just for the tourist stuff alone.
It is considered the safest place in all of Mexico as the government has concentrated most of its resources there over the last decade in order to prove to the world that Mexico can at least have a safe and beautiful capitol. Consequently, I never felt endangered at all and marveled at how clean everything was (versus other parts of Mexico), but did notice police and army personnel everywhere.
Here are some tips:
1) I personally find the standard Mestizo to be one of the ugliest people on Earth. They're generally short and fat with unattractive facial geometry. It's unfortunate but with that being said the white/European indigenous are fucking amazingly beautiful. There are also a ton of European/South American expats living in Mexico City, mainly from Spain, France, Argentina and Germany.
2) The three safest places where you can find the above-mentioned girls are Polanco, Condesa, and Roma Norte, with how expensive each area is in descending order. In other words, the richest Mexican girls live and socialize in Polanco, most of the poorer expats live in Roma, and Condesa has a mixture of both.
3) My buddy lives in Condesa, which has a ton of great restaurants and bars where meeting women is easy. I actually didn't even try to meet girls in Condesa and invariably started talking to some cute Mexican and American girls one night in a great bar. It was a rooftop bar called Condesa DF. I would advise any player to go to that bar. Michoacán in Condesa also has a ton of outdoor restaurants/bars/cafes.
4) Tacos cost between $0.50 to $0.75 and are amazingly delicious. I ate them almost every day and saved a ton of cash. If cooking is more you thing, there's a huge market in Roma Norte that has every kind of perishable food item that you'd need.
5) Taxis are considered safe EXCEPT for the ones which are old VW Bugs. The bugs, based on their pollution, are trying to be eliminated from the Ciudad, hence any legitimate cab driver has to have a newer car that emits much less emissions. Taxi drivers driving an old Bug are likely fake and could be a kidnapper.
6) Mexico City gets over 250 sun days a year and has a temperature that never really swings much. It's located at an elevation between 7,000-8,000 feet, thus it doesn't get much hotter than 80 degrees in the summer and much cooler than 50 degrees in the winter.
7) Nobody at a cash register ever has any fucking change. You need to carry around tons of change at all times. Most annoying part about the place.
8) You will get Montezuma's revenge if you drink the tap water. It's virtually guaranteed. Since all of the produce in a restaurant will invariably be washed with tap water, you should avoid any uncooked food unless you're preparing it yourself. I made the mistake of ordering a salad one day and had diarrhea for almost seven days afterwards. Buy bottled water for everything since it's so cheap.
9) The Anthropology Museum (Museo de Antropologia) is top-three museum that I've ever visited. Please go there if you have time.
That's all I got. I'll subscribe to this thread to answer anything else about the place, but I went there to hang with a buddy so my data sheet is a little bare.