Linda in Morelia
Mar 20, 2008, 5:02 AM
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Re: [Dave] Looking for home to buy or rent in Morelia
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David, what we love about Morelia....
First and foremost the beautiful colonial architecture in Centro Historico. 210 blocks of old stone buildings (many of which are cantera stone) that make me feel that I have been transported back in time several centuries.
It is clear that Morelianos take great pride in their city. It is amazingly clean; rarely do we see litter on the streets. When locals talk about their city, their faces light up.
The ability to live a lifestyle on foot. We have a car parked in a garage here ($65/month), but we rarely use it. We can walk most everywhere we want to go. Within a 10-15 minute walk of our apartment is a wide selection of restaurants, museums, theaters (including a movie theater), two large mercados, lots of resident serving tiendas (laundromats, hardware stores, etc.) and the drop dead gorgeous cathedral. We never tire of looking at the cathedral, especially at night, when it is lit up. For destinations that are a little further, we often take a taxi instead of driving because the taxi's are reasonable (25 pesos for most destinations) and it's less of a hassle. Taxis are everywhere, you never have to wait more than a minute to find one. The traffic in Centro Historico is bad -- lots of it, hard to find parking places, etc. If you don't enjoy walking, this may not be the best spot for you. Personally, I would consider living in Centro without a car, using taxi's when needed for local transportation and renting a car for day trips.
Morelia seems to us like a manageable city...in contrast to Guadalajara, where we lived for 3 months, which seemed far too spread out. We feel that we can get our arms around Morelia. We were forever getting lost in Guadalajara, but Morelia is easy.
A great language school...Baden-Powell Institute where we study Spanish. This school also has fully furnished apartments for rent ($800/month) a block away from the school.
Even though Centro Historico has the noise associated with any city of this size (population somewhere between 750,000 and 1,000,000), it seems relatively quiet to us (compared to Guadalajara). When you are inside of old buildings with very thick walls, you don't hear much noise.
We have found a few good friends here, which makes living here that much sweeter.
Enjoy your adventure!
Linda
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