Mexico City - Post Report Question and Answers
If you move here, you can leave behind your:
I think you can get just about everything. - Apr 2021
Valuables. As noted, this is a critical crime post, and muggings are a real possibility. - May 2020
Winter clothing. - Apr 2019
Winter gear! - Apr 2019
Expectation to go anywhere quickly. - Jun 2018
Bubble bath: hardly any of the apartments have bathtubs. - May 2017
Snow boots and heavy winter coats. - Sep 2016
Expectations regarding comfortable housing. - May 2016
Camping gear. - May 2016
Ideas about Mexico's weather and food. Mexico City is temperate and moderate in temperature, and if the only Mexican food you've had was in the U.S., it won't be what you think. - May 2016
Winter coats, huge SUV, expectations that you will feel unsafe all the time. - Oct 2014
Winter clothes unless you want to blend in with the locals and wear a puffy coat when it's 50F outside. - Aug 2014
Winter gear (unless, like many here, you wear your down coat and wool hat when it is 50F degrees). - Apr 2014
Your parka and the perception that Mexico City is very dangerous. - Mar 2014
idea of living in an unsophisticated city. - Jul 2013
everything, its all available here. - Jan 2013
Food - you can get anything here. - May 2012
Stamps and coins. If you put all your coins in one bag when moving out, the packers will refuse to pack it because of a law on the books saying one cannot take "coin collections" out of Mexico. But if you scatter those coins thru the pockets of your clothing, you are okay. Likewise for stamps. If they are all together in a collection, it is illegal to pack them up and take them out of the country--even if nothing has been added since you brought them into the country. But intersperse the albums among your photos/ records/ books and you are okay. Safer not to have brought them into the country in the first place. - Apr 2011
shorts (unless you are in a gym) and your heavy winter clothes. - Apr 2010
Shorts. - Feb 2010
Winter gear and civility while driving. - Jan 2010
Shorts and dependence on street signs. - Mar 2009
Motorcycle, some jewelry, any pre-conceived expectations. You really need an open mind, and not have any expectations. - Nov 2008
Bicycles, unless you live in Roma. - Oct 2008
