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El Gallo · Joined: 05 Feb 2007 Posts: 318

Hopefully another fun thread like Phil K's Mexico-Why?

Other than the obvious - family, friends, lovers - and food for which I think there was already a thread, what are you homesick for?

My list:

- clean streets

- real, green grass in lawns and parks

- people doing what they said they would do when they said they would do it.

Not much more - I love it here.
Please add what you don't miss, too.

- the rat race

- paying 40% of my high income to taxes

- my feelings about the political state of my country (which I will spare you here)

hlamb · Joined: 09 Dec 2003 Posts: 431 Location: Canada

Being able to find the clothes I wanted in my size (I'm considered an average size in Canada but my hips are too wide for Mexican pants).

Being able to turn on the radio and listen to CBC whenever I wanted.

El Gallo · Joined: 05 Feb 2007 Posts: 318

Can't help you with the clothes but this may help with CBC Radio:

http://www.cbc.ca/listen/

thelmadatter · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 12:49 pm Post subject: miss

Im a BBW, so buying clothes here is pretty much out of the question (although Mexico is now #2 in obesity - guess who is #1 ), but I sew. I miss patterns... Never learned to sew without them. I can alter pattern but watching real pro's just cut with their mental patterns astounds me.

NY style pizza and (real!) bagels.

Being able to mail-order stuff. (well, technically you can buuuuuuuuut)

Not worrying about having or getting change.

I miss hearing different languages around me (Im from NYC area) and different ethnic foods readily available (What do you want for dinner tonight, Vienamese, Thai, Italian......?)

Huge English-language bookstores.

Do NOT miss U.S. TV commericials, esp. the Ronco type.

Do NOT miss the cost of utilities and rent in the States.

Do NOT miss Greyhound (Mexican bus lines got them beat by long shot!)

Do NOT miss the holier-than-thou attitude of people who disagree with me politically, esp. in academia. In Mexico, all they care is that I can do my job, not whether I am PC enough.

Prof.Gringo · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 4:46 pm Post subject:

What do I miss?

Mostly some foods...

Good mac and cheese, Velveeta from Kraft.

Cap n Crunch cereal

Thanksgiving dinner with pumpkin pie

Seeing certain things make sense such as people keeping their word, and being able to stand up and say what you think.

I do not miss-

Bush

Republicans

Rednecks

Ghetto gangsters

"Mexican"-Americans that do not speak Spanish, have never been to Mexico except for TJ or Juarez, know nothing of Mexican history etc and yet they feel they are "experts" in all things Mexican.

People saying "Happy Mexican Independence Day!" on Cinco de Mayo

Racist and ignorant so-called Americans

People telling me all the time "If you don't like it here why don't you leave?" or my other fav "America, love it or leave it"
Don't worry, I already did. Laughing

Phil_K · Joined: 25 Jan 2007 Posts: 2041 Location: A World of my Own

El Gallo · Joined: 05 Feb 2007 Posts: 318

miss:

cherries and cherry pie

don't miss:

McDonalds

(oops there are three in the city where I work) Rolling Eyes

El Gallo · Joined: 05 Feb 2007 Posts: 318

miss:

The Denver Broncos

don't miss:

The Washington Redskins (what a racist name, anyway)

The Dallas Cowboys (Texans like George Bush)

The Oakland Raiders (thugs like George Bush)

leslie · Joined: 08 Feb 2003 Posts: 235

hlamb · Joined: 09 Dec 2003 Posts: 431 Location: Canada

Yes, I know about cbc online, but I missed being able to turn on the radio at any moment and hear whatever show was on. I'm back in Canada now, so this is not an issue anymore.

I too missed the summer Canadian fruit. Peaches, plums, huckleberries, all fresh as can be. That's about all I'm eating these days!

Milenka · Joined: 30 Jun 2008 Posts: 113 Location: Mexico City

guatetaliana · Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 1:54 am Post subject:

~walking through the mall/grocery store/park/other public place and hearing 8 different languages spoken around me at once.

~backyards with grass

~drivers who use turn signals and are observant of their fellow motorists

~metro/subway that can get you anywhere you want quickly (probably all you DF residents don't have to miss that one...)

~fashion that's 3 seasons old being sold at 3 seasons-ago prices rather than full price

~NOT having to re-attach stuff in the car with duct tape every few days thanks to all the topes

~access to international ingredients and eco-friendly items at the grocery store

Don't miss
~the weak steaks that just can't compare with what you get in MTY

~gas prices

MO39 · Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 2:26 am Post subject:

aliaeli · Joined: 04 Jun 2008 Posts: 46

What I miss:
Cheap prices and sales on fashionable clothing
Organic products
Knowing what I am eating exactly
Being part of the drama and excitement of the election year Sad

Especially THIS time around
Drinking from the tap
Cheap books
Craigslist (I know there is one for DF, but it doesn't compare)
Free nights and weekends cell phone plans

What I don't miss:
That attitude of self-entitlement
The attitude that I-don't-need-anything-from-anyone
15 dollar DVDs and CDs
Polluting the environment with my car 'cause there was no other way to get around the city
the lack of cheap or free awesome things to do
prices of produce

cummings93 · Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 2:40 pm Post subject: I miss

A non cobblestone road to ride a roadbike on.
A clean stream to fish in.
A non cobblestone road to jog on.
Don't miss:
annoying republicans, and supporters of the current regime
Oh wait, I live in San Miguel de Allende, so I I still have to put with the aforementioned.
sigh.