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corre@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu (Alan D Corre) wrote:

>In article <4iasnr$iko@bob.sbt.net> xanadu@sbt.net (Craig Chilton) writes:
>>linda@netbistro.com (linda) wrote:

>>>I'm sure they're lovely places, but I don't think I've seen a prettier 
>>>city than Vancouver, B.C.

>[snip]

>>But that's just the opinion of one person.  Anyone else have a
>>nomination for "Most Beautiful North American City?"


>I must say I was impressed with Mexico City. The boulevards are like Paris.
>It is not its fault that it is so overcrowded. Can you imagine what the
>traffic jams would be like if they had not put in a subway a few years ago?
>And the Anthropological Museum is just wonderful. And what are we doing
>holding a normal conversation? It seems strange.

>-- 
>			Alan D. Corre
>			Emeritus Professor of Hebrew Studies
>			University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
>                            Alanis not Morrissette

Good one, Alan.  By "North America," I had meant Canada and the U.S.
(because although I've seen much of Mexico, I haven't been to quite
all of ITS towns & cities of 25,000 or more.  Yet.  :)   )

Mexico City is a most exceptional place.  I went to college there,
when the Univ. of the Americas was still on the Toluca road.  (It's
since moved to Puebla.)  I called Mexico City by a nickname with which
I dubbed it, when talking to friends: "Cosmopolis," because it's so
cosmopolitan, as you observed.  And with a population of around 20
million, it may well be the world's most populous city.  My favorite
pastime while attending college there was to go out to nearby
Amecameca on weekends and climb 18,000-ft./5,500-m Mount
Popocatepetl,  Its a symmetrical volcano, easy to climb except for the
very thin air above 14,000 feet.

Today, Mexico City is tarnished by horrendous smog problems throughout
the Anahuac Valley, and terrible poverty and pollution on its fringes.
Yet it is still a very noteworthy city!

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       -- Craig Chilton     xanadu@sbt.net