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- xtracto, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13For the ones that do not believe that the low income houses p hoto is real let me tell you that they are. They are homes built by something called the INFONAVIT (Instituto Nacional para la Vivienda del Trabajador or National Institute for the Worker Home). And yes, they ARE that similar. Some from the University lived on those houses. I lived in a similar neighbourhood, I rented a house 2 stories house, and all the houses on there were similar (with two floors).
I lived in Mexico for 6 months, and let me tell you it is a terrible place to live in, but it is a great pleace to visit, there are lots of monuments and attractions. The Chapultepec castle is one of the most awesome places I have ever been.
As someone else already said, this kind of overcrowded and polluted sight is only charasteristic of Mexico, DF. If you go to the southeast (Yucatan Peninsula, Campeche, Merida or Chiapas) you will have nice calmed cities (Campeche's City center is World History Human Heritage bye the Unesco).
If you want great sea adventures you can go to the Southeast (Baja California Sur, Los Cabos, La Paz etc). And if you want a more "civilzied" active city you can go to Guadalajara or Monterrey.
If you like cheap beer, women and policeman (I actually read that statement from some bbs logs about the CuervoCon) you can go to Tijuana :).
And for the one that said that he could live like Bill Gates here, let me tell you there is some truth in your statement, as some of you could have guessed, I am fom Mexico, I am living in UK now, and one of the things I miss from being in Mexico is that over there you can get a maid who cleans your house, washes, irons and orders your clothes, a housekeeper for as low as US$200 monthly (and that is what my parents used to pay, I think it was a bit overpriced by the prices there). If you have an extra room in your home you can *even* get a housekeeper live over there so you will have her 24/5, they are usually girls that live in the countryside (pueblos) and go to the city to get a job. You give house & food and a modest payment and they do all I said, and some even cook (just beware, if you maid is young your children may be tempted to f**ck her... I met a friend in Highschool who harrassed his maids, and if they didnt "complied" he said bad things about them to his father so they subsituted them with another)
Anyway, here in UK I can barely afford to pay my rent and I am sure that if I wanted to have a maid I would need to pay her something like £15,000 yearly plus social security and whatnot... and god forbids she sometime gets burned by the stove... as she could sue me for all I am worth (not that I am worth that much).
Well, there it is, an insighful comment on digg, for all of those stupid comments here. - slodaze, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The last shot of the Televisa building looks fake, but I can tell you that the building looks exactly like that with regard to layout, paint, etc. I used to work at HP right across the street.
I lived in Mexico City for 5 years. Sure, it was dangerous, but not as bad as some big cities in the US. I took taxis off the street daily, and never had a problem with them. Some kids tried to mug me once, and I had a lot of problems with the police, until I learned how to deal with them - 50 pesos (about 5 bucks) and you were on your way.
One thing that people don't seem to realize is the incredible wealth in Mexico City. I've heard that Mexico has more millionairs than any other country except for the USA. Huge parts of Mexico city are like Beverly Hills, except much much larger.
The smog isn't bad anymore, and Mexico City doesn't really have smelly parts anymore either. Its the altitude that you really feel after climbing a flight of stairs. - tablatronix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This must be where the word sprawl comes from.
I bet the US looks like this in about 100 years. - xtracto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://maps.google.com/?t=k&ll=19.63893,-99.104136&spn=0.006417,0.009141&t=k
- stuman321, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Look real to me, not so much "unreal"... I think the word you are looking for is surreal....
- author20, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1The shots are very spectacular, but they of course, don't reveal the incredibly evil and diabolical souls of the ultra-rich in Mexico, where a few hundred people own 90% of the wealth, and create conditions so extremely life threatening and oppressive to 40 million Mexicans that almost 100% of them want to come to an over-taxed, economically destroyed America. The richest nation in Latin America is rouge, and it was just announced a Mexican telecomm tycoon just passed Bill Gates as the richest man in the world, and that his wealth equals almost 9% of the Gross National Product of Mexico. Time to invade this rogue criminal state, collect ten trillion dollars in stolen taxes from California and other boarder states, jail all corrupt government officials (the president of Mexico is finally going after teh drug cartels but it is too little too late), and stop virtually ALL immigration from Mexico to the US. By the way, Mexicans and Cubans want to kill all Americans, that is the dirty little secret in Miami and Los Angeles, where white Americans and Black teens are shot down in the streets by gangs of El Salvadoran and Mexican teens who are taking over neighborhoods while silent politicians engage in dictatorial takeovers of school districts, county budgets (against state and federal law), while they use their positions to exclude native Americans from government. Yes, check out how many whites, Blacks and asians work in Miami and Los Angeles. Can you say "ethnic genocide?" They have been at war with Americans for decades, time to turn this thing around.
- Pairos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hi, I live in Mexico City and I'm sure all these photos are real. I know some of them look unreal, trust me when I look at them everyday I think the same here are the google earth links to the pictures that have been marked as unreal or doubtful above...
The one with the helicopter...
http://videodan.com/Televisa.kmz
The Spaceship looking house (a friend lives like 5 minutes away from it)...
http://videodan.com/spaceship.kmz
I think this is the same Bus Stop, it's one of the busiest ones if no the busiest...
http://videodan.com/indiosverdes.kmz
I hope this helps, and just as a suggestion, don't state that something is false if you're not certain.
Enjoy - hacker_dude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Excellent. I grew up in and around Mexico City (birth to 25 years old) and I've seen most of those places (albeit not from aerial shots).
Remember mexicans are a lot more willing to use vibrant colors so some of the photoshop look might be due to that. Mexico is also very sunny, and aerial pictures are from far away, which blends patterns into solid colors.
I'm putting extra background information on my blog for those who are interested. I took today's zocalo with a reconstruction of the same area in 1520 when the spanish arrived so you can open them side by side, and also an old map of the city and factoids.
http://www.hackerdude.com/2006/02/08/background-on-mexico-city/ - crowdofone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1be prepared to lose half an hour or so staring at these!
- macgabriel87, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1yeah really
- cathode, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Stunning... those low income homes especially. talk about uniform
- IHaveIssues, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Who would go through this much trouble?
http://homepage.mac.com/helipilot/.Pictures/vistasaereas/CornerHouse.jpg
Loks fishy to me. - YouKnowWho, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Pretty Nice Pics.
- Ollekebab, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Old, but still awesome!
- mushoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Nice Hacker Dude.
Thx for the maps. It's amazing and sad to realize how much that lake and the area surrounding it has changed in half a century. It conjures up a heavy feeling of ambivalence that is hard to cope with. - orb_nsc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hey, I can see my house!
- mt2k3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1For the Ixtapaluca low income houses, I think those ARE real, I just took a look at Google Earth, and it definitely looks similar...
If you just put Ixtapaluca, Mexico in Google earth you will see it, you cant miss it - bubbatex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have traveled to Mexico City as well as many cities in Brazil - and this is how is looks. It is amazing how "compacted" living space is in Latin America. When you fly over Brazil - you will see miles and miles of farms or trees - very few houses. Then you will see a city and it will be PACKED into a relatively small space. More like Europe. Readily available transportation and the need to wander has certainly made the USA a truly unique geography.
- godwept, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4I'm going to take this opportunity to tell all of you that your comments bother me because your all so concerned with grammar, whether "stuff" sucks or is "duped", or just simply saying something stupid so you can get your blog link posted once again. Grow the ***** up and try leaving a comment about the topic for once! I'm going back to /. where there's at least some maturity left. FAWKing frustrating,!.,,, 's.,
PS. Sorry for the off topic comment but I had to get this ***** off my chest. ;) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://homepage.mac.com/helipilot/.Pictures/vistasaereas/MontondeCasitas.jpg
That reminds me of the Sim City industrial/housing zone selector! Insane pics. - mushoo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"Who would go through this much trouble?
http://homepage.mac.com/helipilot/.Pictures/vistasaereas/CornerHouse.jpg
Loks fishy to me."
Mexico is littered with pompous architects who desing houses like these just because there people with a lot of money (politicians, stars, crooks, other architects) willing to flaunt their money. Its like a big ***** You to all the other people living in *****-holes. Then the ***** wonder why they get kidnapped. - jehova, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I live there. In fact, I work just across the "border" from Neza (which isn't actually a part of the city, but it's part of the metro area). Those pictures are real my friends (except for the last one). The one where you see the blue skyline against our gray sky is just amazing. It is true you almost never see the blue sky down here...
Not a good place to raise your children :-( - TheWorkz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I went to Mexico City last year, and I remember the sickness I felt from the Air Polution. I ended up puking the first night I was there due to the change in Oxygen, breathing, and smell. I don't live in a major city currently, so I am not used to it, but damn. Its pretty bad!
- gol706, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don't care if it's not relevant for digg, these photos are awesome. The houses on built on stilts are just insane.
- xtracto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@tiburon33 (0)
"Yeah, I hear that Mexico city's cool, but dangerous. Some women don't wear earrrings or carrying anything by streets, they would either get robbed or raped"
Yeah Mexico City is dangerous, specially for foreigners (people that doesnt look "Mexican"), when I lived there I always went out with fear, and there are some basic rules you must follow if you want to be "secure" when you go out, do not wear anything that seems expensive, do not take a lot of money, but take some money that you can give thieves, do not walk on isolated places at ANY TIME, do not take street taxis (take only taxis from taxi sites). It is dangerous, but still it is cool - rockforever, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0anyone who says
'old' to this should be shot - thadesiest1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0some really unexpected pics there.....soo many cool buildings!
- andreizilla, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow. Amazing shots... I want to visit Mexico City one day.
- PsycoMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ohh man makes me wanna go back to mexico and spend a few weeks with family there. Cant wait for summer.
- DannyX0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Gread Digg
I love that place - StepJoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow, really cool buildings. Big Digg
- terrya64, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0All I can say is that some these photos look like they were created in Photoshop. Not saying any were, just that some look lthey were.
- lunalil, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0beautiful pictures!
- rosenblat, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0man... this isn't Mexico... all the pmexian ***** is made of dirst and cocaine.
- fecal2006, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0None of this pics are fake, I live here and this city has the third richest' man in the world called Carlos Slim Helu with a fortune of 30 billion dollars. And this city also has the poores't people that only have an income of 1 buck a day. It's unbelievable but it's the truth.
- pcmonger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Amazing photos!! City doesn't look anything like I thought it would.
- RadiatedAnt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"pollution in Mexico city not reaching danger levels anymore...."
HORSE *****! and I bet some of that is floating in the air too. I was visiting my cousins who live there in the good part of the city. I woke up the next day and I saw smoke coming in through the curtains! I was yelling fire! because I thought the house was on fire. It turned out to be disgusting smog I closed the windows and put the covers over my face and tried to go back to sleep. - tiburon33, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've only been to the airport of Mexico City, waiting for hours, for a flight to Cancun. The Terminals there are the largest I've ever seen. I haven't been outside the airport. Yeah, I hear that Mexico city's cool, but dangerous. Some women don't wear earrrings or carrying anything by streets, they would either get robbed or raped (This is a rumor I heard). If I had any time, of course, I would've wanted to hit the streets and enjoyed a cool bullfight whenever I could. Hey, like Vegas in Mexico-whatever you do, stays here-Hmm....Maybe I should plan my next trip, right about now....
- apotropaic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0as for the houses in the jpegs from digital 56k... been there! But it is kind of a wierd picture though. But this neighborhood does exist
- rednose15, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Incredible photos!!
- rsp9999, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Awsome!!!, 5 stars!!
- brownb2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Dugg this, just because they're not photoshopped or if they are its unoticable...!
Great pics. - wilf_brim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Digg for the shots of the low income housing. Absolutely blows my mind. How could you live there? I would have to put something unusual on the door, otherwise I would try and go in the wrong house.
- dylanA, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1wow those are amazing
- xtracto, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"Wow, from up there you can almost see the corruption!"
LOL not only see it, but in the case of Mexico City, SMELL it =op - tudacee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0great shots...and I loved is comments...it was so interesting.
dugg it. - junebug172, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I remember flying into Mexico City the first time. These pictures are great, but until you see it in person from above, its hard to fathom just how much sprawl there is. Los Angeles is the closest thing I've seen here.
- Ghazi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Counter at 146329 around noon (EST) on Feb 8. Let's see what it'll be in a couple of days.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i've been to mexico city and they have the second worst drivers i've ever seen. rio de janeiro has THE worst. south florida comes in third. nice pics.
- RAT-Man, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow. Those are great pictures.
I could imagine getting lost in that Ixtapaluca housing complex. -
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