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MotherF
Joined: 07 Jun 2010 Posts: 1450 Location: 17�48'N 97�46'W
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Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 2:03 pm Post subject: |
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Olivo, who earns five figures a month and lives in Mexico City's upscale Pedregal neighborhood, considers himself middle class. |
Can't they give us a little more info? 10,000 is "5 figures" but so is 99,999. And that's quite a difference! |
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Dragonlady
Joined: 10 May 2004 Posts: 720 Location: Chillinfernow, Canada
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Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 1:06 am Post subject: |
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MotherF wrote: |
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Olivo, who earns five figures a month and lives in Mexico City's upscale Pedregal neighborhood, considers himself middle class. |
Can't they give us a little more info? 10,000 is "5 figures" but so is 99,999. And that's quite a difference! |
You tell me... which end of your scale would it take to live in Mexico City's upscale Pedregal neighbourhood ?
DL
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Guy Courchesne
Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City
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Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 4:10 am Post subject: |
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Pedregal eh? Somewhere on the higher end of those five figures. But even there, he'd be on the low end of what his neighbours make. |
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Tretyakovskii
Joined: 14 Aug 2009 Posts: 462 Location: Cancun, Mexico
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Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 10:55 am Post subject: |
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I suppose this is slightly off topic, but one of the things that hasn't been mentioned on this thread so far is how many of those who are a little affluent, and live in nicer places, are involved in the drug trade or other illicit activities.
Ours is a slightly upscale place. In 18 months one neighbor was assassinated, in debt over one million USD to people who didn't like not getting repaid; one neighbor was arrested on an Interpol warrant and charged with importing 40 KG of cocaine into the U.S., and another seems to fit the profile- black hummer with smoked glass, no visible means of support- but is still free.
More than 50% of the neighbors appear to have real jobs; the rest, who knows. |
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Phil_K
Joined: 25 Jan 2007 Posts: 2041 Location: A World of my Own
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Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 3:02 pm Post subject: |
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For that reason, if I were super-monied, I'd prefer to live in one of the nice but not ostentatious neighbourhoods in D.F., such as Coyoac�n, La Florida or San Borja Insurgentes.
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notamiss
Joined: 20 Jun 2007 Posts: 908 Location: El 5o pino del la CDMX
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Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 3:18 pm Post subject: |
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Seconded what Phil said. We�re not super-monied, of coursed, but comfortable enough. I�m satisfied with where we live, I wouldn�t want to be any more upscale. On our block, we have some tin-roof cinder-block houses, a couple of vecindades, but also some maestros and doctores with�how to describe them?��middle class houses,� and the rest are in between. |
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Tretyakovskii
Joined: 14 Aug 2009 Posts: 462 Location: Cancun, Mexico
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Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 8:51 pm Post subject: |
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I'd prefer to live in one of the nice but not ostentatious neighbourhoods in D.F., such as Coyoac�n |
Second that, Phil, what a beautiful part of the city. We were stunned by the tranquil atmosphere and beauty of the zocalo, there. |
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Phil_K
Joined: 25 Jan 2007 Posts: 2041 Location: A World of my Own
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Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 10:16 pm Post subject: |
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Tretyakovskii wrote: |
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I'd prefer to live in one of the nice but not ostentatious neighbourhoods in D.F., such as Coyoac�n |
Second that, Phil, what a beautiful part of the city. We were stunned by the tranquil atmosphere and beauty of the zocalo, there. |
During the week, yes, but at the weekend it is filled with people, traffic, franeleros and hysterically whistling policemen. I was thinking a bit further west of there. If you have the opportunity to go again, check out the Del Carmen and Barrio Santa Catarina areas, and Chimilistac on the opposite side of Av. Universidad. |
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Dragonlady
Joined: 10 May 2004 Posts: 720 Location: Chillinfernow, Canada
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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 2:08 am Post subject: |
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Phil_K wrote: |
... at the weekend .... |
For several years I'd correct my SS if they wrote that. Then I learned me some English and stopped.
Even started using it myself
DL
TEACHER: Jorge, what do you call a person who keeps on talking when people are no longer interested?
JORGE: A teacher |
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Phil_K
Joined: 25 Jan 2007 Posts: 2041 Location: A World of my Own
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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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Then I learned me some English and stopped. |
No you didn't! |
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Dragonlady
Joined: 10 May 2004 Posts: 720 Location: Chillinfernow, Canada
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 2:44 am Post subject: |
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Phil_K wrote: |
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Then I learned me some English and stopped. |
No you didn't! |
I sure done did!
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kona
Joined: 17 Sep 2011 Posts: 188 Location: USA
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Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 3:58 am Post subject: |
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BadBeagleBad wrote: |
I think in the US it is less economic and more education that determines if you are middle class, but not so much in Mexico, where a taco vendor can make more than a teacher (and often does). |
I think a taco vendor can make more than a teacher in the US too. |
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