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Retired to Mexico after being a lifer long Texan. The difference between Guadalajara, Monterrey, Mexico City and Texas cities Dallas, Houston, etc is major as far as enjoyment on a day to day basis. Much mre interesting. Great exciting street life, the arts and culture are everywhere not just in temples, public transportation is really effective.
People in Texas talk about urban density. If you really want to learn about this - talk to a person from Mexico.
People from Mexico move to Texas not because their cities are not good urban models, they have a government and economic system which fails them. Mexican people are among the hardest working people on the planet as studied show. Texas is fortunate to have our Mexican brothers, sisters come.
It is a pointless discussion. It is great that you have fallen in love with the old European aspects of Mexico, but that is exactly what they are: old European. Neither Houston nor any other American city is ever going to look like this. We dumped European ownership before there was much development of our country and we went off in our own direction. Mexico was under Spanish control for longer and maintained a very heavy Spanish influence thereafter. Mexico wanted to look like Europe. The set of pictures that you posted that were not of natural beauty (which Houston can do nothing about) look like any decent sized city in Spain (or elsewhere in Europe for that matter).
Well, a lot of US cities looked a lot more like European (northern European) cities up until subsidized suburbanization and then urban decay and then urban "renewal" came in and crashed the party. Kind of a pity in a lot of ways, but we had cheap fuel then and there was a lot of pollution from industry in urban areas making it unpleasant at the time so it sort of made sense.
On topic: yes, Mexico's cities are often beautiful. It's too bad the government had been so horribly ineffectual down there and the demand for narcotics so strong up here. Ah well.
You are right. Living here I don't deny your point.
But to say Texas cities are more interesting and enjoyable as a citizen to live in than Mexico is a stretch. I have personal experience in both.
As a U.S. Texan I would have much preferred that Texas cities were more desirable for living but it just did not turn out that way.
As a fellow Texan I understand what you mean. I remember going from San Antonio to Monterrey one time and it left me wondering so many questions. Why does Monterrey seem so progressive compared to other US cities? Why is it so crowded everywhere, like nobody stays in their houses or something? What did Monterrey do that it's neighbors to the north particularly San Antonio and Austin can imitate to get rail?
When I got home to Dallas I started investigating more about it's rapid system and I couldn't believe that it actually opened up 5 years before Dallas' and 14 years before Houston's!
The number of Mexican immigrants living illegally in the U.S. has dropped significantly for the first time in decades, a dramatic shift as many illegal workers, already in the U.S. and seeing few job opportunities, return to Mexico.
Monterrey and San Antonio though different are like sisters connected to the rib.
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