how to live here
Neighborhood walks, day trips, food, transit, tianguis, expat logistics — the guides I wish I'd had when I moved here.
20 CDMX Places I Keep Going Back To
The longer you live somewhere, the less useful the travel guides become. The algorithms keep surfacing the same twenty restaurants. The listicles recycle the same places year after year. And the real discoveries — the ones that make a city feel like yours — come from getting lost, following a…
April 22, 2026
Taxco: Silver, Sunsets, and a Canyon You Didn’t Know About
Taxco is the city that looks like someone carved it into a mountain and then painted it white. Colonial buildings cascade down a steep hillside,…
April 8, 2026
San Miguel de Allende: Often Called the Prettiest Town in Mexico
San Miguel de Allende has been called the prettiest town in Mexico so many times that it almost sounds like marketing. It earned the label…
March 25, 2026
A Weekend in Guanajuato: Tunnels, Color, and Wine You Didn’t Expect
Guanajuato is one of the most visually striking cities in Mexico. Colonial-era buildings, now painted in every color, stack up the sides of a narrow…
March 1, 2026
Puebla and Cholula: The Best Day Trip You’re Not Taking
Puebla is two hours southeast of Mexico City by bus (~130 km), and most CDMX residents treat it like a footnote. That’s a mistake. Puebla…
February 5, 2026
A Weekend in Oaxaca: Mole, Mezcal, and Everything Between
Oaxaca is the trip every CDMX resident eventually takes, and the one they never stop talking about afterward. It’s a one-hour flight or a six-hour…
January 10, 2026
Teotihuacán Day Trip: Balloons, Pyramids, and a Cave Restaurant
Most people visit Teotihuacán, climb a pyramid, and go home. That’s fine. But the full day trip — starting before dawn with a balloon ride…
November 25, 2025
Finding an Apartment in CDMX: What I Wish I’d Known
Finding an apartment in Mexico City (CDMX) is either straightforward or maddening, depending on how much Spanish you speak, how flexible your timeline is, and…
October 18, 2025
What to Buy at a CDMX Tianguis (And How to Haggle)
The first time I went to a tianguis, I overpaid for everything, accidentally insulted a vendor by squeezing his avocados too hard, and came home…
September 10, 2025
12 Hours in Condesa
Condesa is Roma Norte’s slightly calmer, slightly more self-assured older sibling. Same quality food, same tree-lined streets, but a different energy — less hustle, more…
August 1, 2025