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I live in Mexico City. To me, it is the most exciting and most |
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friendliest city in the world, but I have to admit that it can |
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be more uncomfortable and very more stressful than other |
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places. It is the oldest city in North America and was being built |
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on the remains of the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan. It is also |
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one of the much most modern: new buildings and roads are always |
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being constructed, making districts you thought you knew more well |
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look unfamiliar! If I would feel like a less urban sight, I raise my |
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eyes and look at the mountains which surround the city like as |
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the rim of a dish. In the south east there are two volcanoes, |
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Popocatepetl and Ixtaccihuatl, which are permanently be covered |
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with snow. If fewer people have had cars in Mexico City, we would |
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be able to enjoy this poetic sight many more often. Unfortunately, |
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the
pollution usually prevents you from seeing very far at |
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all. Newcomers, even
young ones, sometimes look like as if |
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they are old and sick because the
altitude (2,240 metres) can |
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make breathing it difficult at first. But, if I
could live anywhere in the |
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world, I would still choose Mexico City. |
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