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ericksgm · Joined: 08 May 2006 Posts: 21 Location: Tapachula

Considering how big mexico is, that isn�t that much and plus isn�t Oaxaca a little bigger than Tapachula? If I had to guess, I would guess that things should be more expensive there, not cheaper.

sickbag · Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 155 Location: Blighty

3500 a month for a fully furnished 2 bedroom house in Puebla. Nice middle class ghetto.

M@tt · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 473 Location: here and there

that apartment in my photo is in jardin balbuena. my ghetto wonderland is one of the ugliest parts of a pretty ugly colonia, so i thought 4500 was a really high price for any of the apartments in the complex. i live free, though. i don't even pay utilities. that's really the best way to go if you can swing it.

if i had ever found a furnished one bedroom in la condesa anywhere near parque mexico or parque espana for under 5000 i would have moved there 9 months ago and half of my posts during that time would be irrelevant, i would probably be surrounded by well-heeled friends roasting marshmallows on a bunsen burner, and would not be moving back to indiana this coming fall. but actually back in september when this was all very relevant, guy was in incognito or planning a party or defending his job title or something. i totally blame this on him. (okay okay, he did find me a couple apartments as a favor but they weren't to my liking). guy, who thinks in square meters these days? it's all cubic now, baby!

Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

Hey! Jardin Balbuena is where my suegros live. Dissin the hood are you? Wink

I thought you might be in Agricola Oriental. JB's gotten worse since they built all those bridges. Looks like Lego Neighborhood when you fly in.

I find that you can draw a line north to south right down Eje Central. Anything east of that line means danger and long commute. Anything west is fine, more or less.

M@tt · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 473 Location: here and there

i wish the division were that clear but i have lived in front of a ghetto west of eje central also, it's called colonia buenavista. everything along the avenida that the north end of the blue line covers is also total crap. then there's the ghetto where i worked, colonia anahuac, which is also far west of eje central, right next to swanky polanco and cuauhtemoc.

mexico city is just ghetto, any way you slice it. even in expensive neighborhoods you can expect really bad infrastructure, ugly buildings, almost no green space, and the constant threat of robbery, being killed by bad drivers, gaping sewer holes that aren't covered, dangling power lines, etc. i think the city is only going to get worse over the next 6 years.
it's truly a sh*thole but i'm semi-infatuated with it and will keep coming back.
Laughing

Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

Octavio Paz couldn't have said it better, Matt. Laughing

But, I think you're too hard on Dame DF. She's won awards for modern architecture (check out Santa Fe and south Insurgentes), has hundreds of parks and green hide-aways, and free potholes.

Infrastructure needs a boost like you say. There's a bridge over Circuito near me that has a 6 inch gap across it's width. One good quake and I'm sure it's coming down. I eye it warily every morning.

samizinha · Joined: 12 May 2005 Posts: 174 Location: Vacalandia

Wow MELEE, I can't believe rooms in a house would be that cheap in Oaxaca. There's a girl from Bolivia living in the house below me now, because her dad didn't want her living in the same building as other guys her age Shocked

The family charges her 2850 a month. That's about average near the Tec.
M@tt, your post made me laugh out loud- roasting marshmellows on a bunsen burner- I've done that on the stove top here, it felt so Mexicano!

lozwich · Joined: 25 May 2003 Posts: 1536

MELEE · Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 3:31 pm Post subject:

Yeah, I don't live in Oaxaca, Oaxaca and I'm sure glad I don't right now!

Prices in the Center of Oaxaca would be much more, but I bet out in the agencias they would be comparable to the ones I listed. Especially right now, there are problaly a lot of families would are willing to rent out rooms for less because they need the cash.

Teacher's strike 3 months and counting...

Ben Round de Bloc · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 1946

Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

Homestays are less common in DF than what one would call renting an independent and private room in someone's home or in what's called a casa de huespedes. Such places are more often geared towards housing men and women who live outside of DF but work here Monday to Friday - with Pemex being the best example.

University dorms are also common, but not usually what a foreign teacher would require.

Found something yesterday for such a foreign teacher who plans to stay only 3 months. Private room and bath in a home, free internet, impeccably clean and safe, upscale neighborhood in the south, shared kitchen, at 3300 per month.

Drizzt · Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 229 Location: Kyuushuu, Japan

Wow,

I suspect I have the cheapest housing of all the posts so far. I live in Huajuapan de Leon in Oaxaca. I live 2 blocks from the central plaza here and I pay a whooping 700 pesos a month. It is, however, just a small room with an attached bathroom (hot water included!) but enough space for me.