Hello everyone!
I am new to the forum and I welcome all the help I can get:)
I am looking for a "cultural map" of Mexico. I don't want to move to an "expat" community, a "beach community", but would like to move to an area in Mexico with decent weather, access to universities, some public transportation, and a middle class life style. The less "Americanized" the better. I have to started to take intensive Spanish classes.
Think of it this way.....if I was to introduce a foreigner to the USA (I myself came here from Scandinavia) it would have been helpful to go thru the following (non-politically correct) exercise.
East coast: - especially NY, MA, and so forth folks are direct, it's all business, weather is hot in summer and cold in winter. Great public transportation - high % of college educated population, first . rate art, museums, technology.
LA, AL, GA,MS, SC and NC "deep south" friendly, somewhat racist, much more more laid back than the east coast. Hot and humid.
WA,OR,CA much more liberal, into healthy lifestyles, expensive real estate, not much public transportation, etc.
Clearly all generalizations and one can argue the finer points of liberals in Austin even though it's Texas, conservatives in rural Oregon while Portland is liberal, etc.
However, all I am looking for are the general trends if that's even possible...
Then there's the issue of "machismo".....how bad is it really?
Thank you!
Mrs. Larsen