An evening walk in Oaxaca’s Centro Histórico - Living in #oaxaca as a #nomad P2 🇲🇽

but yeah tell me it's not one of the most beautiful churches you've ever seen and what's funny is that right across the street there's another church um right there um can you see it it's right in the middle of my screen there is another church right there and yeah i mean um in this area there's all of the all all different kinds of restaurants all of those all of those terraces are actually restaurants so like there are restaurants in the rooftop of all of these buildings and people go enjoy delicious meals here and that's actually one of the other things i really love about oaxaca um the best restaurants i've tried in mexico are here and they're not expensive at all um well they're definitely not as expensive as a restaurant in mexico city and the quality is just so much better that's what i really love about this place um also the people are generally familiar um there's always something going on uh today i mean we have a lot of luck but because there is not like any festivals or anything like that going around but uh going on sorry but um i'm gonna show you just this street and like all the different restaurants that are along the street one of my favorite ones is actually called magalli maiz and it's um right there it's um yeah i mean i don't think you can see it from here but ah and look there is a rooftop right there where you can go have drinks and stuff like that and i think there's going to be a concert or something this evening i just don't know what concert it's going to be uh but yeah i mean when when there's like public concerts or like open-air concerts um they usually take place here and uh there's a restaurant right there it's that one right there it's called magalli maiz it's one of my personal favorites and you can see just like the architecture of the places is just beautiful that's another of the things that i really love about oaxaca its architecture is like you know there's not really other place in mexico that resembles all of the different elements that make oaxaca so unique the food the traditions the culture uh all of this mixture of different cultures um you know uh the respect for the traditions the quality of the food and the ingredients the weather where it's hot year round but it's not super hot like in merida for instance so that's one of the things i love about this place uh so for instance in merida it would be like uh like really hot right now it's it's always hot i don't know the temperature in fahrenheit but if you are willing to make the conversion it's uh like around 30 to 40 degrees celsius year round whereas oaxaca is from 25 to 30 degrees celsius which is a much much better weather and they have it year round um so yeah i mean if you're single i'm gonna be honest with you if you're single and young i probably couldn't advise that you came and relocated here because there's not a lot of uh people that you can meet but on the other hand if you already have a family and you're looking to relocate to somewhere where it's quiet and calm and you're looking for a place to raise your kids then oaxaca is an amazing choice but yeah i mean um i see oaxaca more as a place for people to retire in rather than a place that digital nomads can live for very long periods of time look here's a church that i was telling you about earlier it's right there and uh well as you can see like it's just very chill everyone's chilling in the different benches and just having a good time uh and yeah that's um that's what a typical evening in oaxaca looks like oaxaca is a very walkable city as you can see like this street is the main street is just it's close to all sorts of vehicles it's just allowed only people can walk through here which i really like also um it's a very well communicated city uh there is an airport that has national international destinations uh very nearby so you literally can take a taxi and you will be there in 20 minutes so it's definitely a very well connected city regarding public transportation you won't really need it because it's a really small city like if you live in the down in the in the center or like in the downtown i don't know if you're calling it downtown because it's not really a downtown but like if you are in the core of the city you don't really need public transportation you can you can go walking everywhere so it's definitely a very walkable city it's another of things that i like every time that i come i've never had the need to use uber or anything like that which by the way there's no uber here because like i said people are very respectful of their traditions here so they really haven't allowed uber to get in the city yet so there's no uber here there's uber but if you use the app it will just get you a regular cab uh another of the things that goes to show how much people appreciate their culture here is um that there's no starbucks so so that's another similarity with with italy i find in italy there's no starbucks there's no starbucks here either uh only on only in the outskirts of the city you will find starbucks but in the city you won't find starbucks anywhere instead you will find local cafes which i think are of much better quality than starbucks and much more affordable um well i probably couldn't say much more affordable but they're definitely better quality because they are they are local and they take care of their customers um but yeah there's no starbucks here and also there's not a lot of fast food joints on the streets as you can see like people here go eat in the market fresh food this serves locally and this made by yeah by traditional cooks uh people here take so much pride in their cuisine that there's all of all sorts of competitions like this place going on about um gastronomy a lot of the time so like traditional cooks from all from all around the state come and get together here just so that people get a chance to try what they make and like what they and the way they learn to cook is uh yeah just uh i mean they learned how to cook from their mother and their grandmother and their grand grandmother so it's yeah definitely very traditional and that's what people eat here people here don't eat a lot of junk food uh and yeah and the ice cream the ice cream like the one i was eating earlier is it just tastes so natural like you don't feel like you are eating you know something artificial uh like it doesn't taste heavy it it doesn't make you feel full it's it's very light so that's what i like and um yeah i mean i've been walking along the city it's very small it's a very small city to be honest but there's always something going on and there's auditorio de la getza it's also like a few steps away from here where there's always like uh cultural events going on like concerts and um that kind of stuff and then in in the center there's also where uh the orchestra of the state of oaxaca performs every now and then and also they have different cultural events but more less massive it's right there i'm gonna turn around so you can take a look it's that one right there uh with the blue with the blue roof i'm gonna walk so you can take a better look at it that theater was actually built or ordered to build by porfirio díaz look there's all sorts of banks so you have to worry about getting your money because like there's banks everywhere oaxaca is a city like i said you know uh you can have the same life lifestyle as you would in a in a in a developed city just much more affordable and uh yeah i mean uh in this area right here there's more like traditional businesses there's another bank right here so yeah you don't have to worry about that and uh well we're getting close to the theater i'm gonna turn around so you can have a better look um that's the theater and it was um yeah i mean it was um you know porfirio díaz which was mexican president for a really long period of time he gave the order to construct this theater which was actually i think it was actually um it was originally a casino which is like a place where people go and like make bets and like uh gamble that that's what that originally was but then it got uh transformed into a theater and i think that was a very good idea because uh yeah i mean there are all sorts of cultural events there so if you're into culture uh as you can see there's lots of museums there's theaters and there's lots of art uh if you if you enjoy going to markets you will be able to find all different sorts of uh crafts markets around the city and then uh and there in in those kinds of places you can purchase all sorts of crafts that are handmade by artisans and we're just arriving at zocalo which is like the main plaza of the city you know where it's the core of the city and um yeah there's lots of different all sorts of different events going on there as well um street dancers street food and the street food here is really you'll definitely find a burger you'll find a hot dog you'll find elotes so like corn esquites you'll also find marquesitas which that's actually a dessert from yucatan but for some reason people started selling here and it's become popular and it's also really good uh and there's another church right there so that's actually and there's another one right there and that's just a sculpture but yeah i mean the weather is definitely this beautiful year round sometimes it can rain a little because there is a hurricane or something like that but hurricanes are not like catastrophic here something to have in mind though is that earthquakes are frequent here so if you're super afraid of earthquakes you won't be able to live here but if you're willing to overcome that fear then this is a place that you'll really love and see i told you there's always some sort of event going on here like can you hear the music i think i think it's people that are dancing or something and what's what the best part about it is that it's free so like you can just sit there and watch and listen to the music or even you can dance it's for free and you can just enjoy yourself you can take a better look at the architecture of this church right here it's a beautiful architecture and yeah i mean there's still a lot of this this stage here was because of a concert that there was to celebrate uh independence day in mexico and yeah i was about to tell you that uh in november during day of the dead it's a very popular festivity here also christmas the night right before christmas eve there's a festivity called noche de rabanos where people make sculptures out of radishes so like literally they will make works of art with radishes and then you can get one home if you want or you can just take a picture with it and i'm gonna show you how people are all gathered around here and they're just like dancing well um right now there's no music going on but in a minute when the music goes on i'm gonna show you something sad about oaxaca is that like i told you people are very defensive here of their rights and traditions and well usually there's always some sort of protest going on so like right now there are different tents set up right there and that's people who decided to stay there and just live there as a way of protesting to defend their rights um although a lot of times these people are just manipulated to be honest by um by different union union leaderships and stuff like that so i mean they don't really know what they're fighting for but they are there still uh that's kind of sad about mexico as you know not a lot of people have access to good quality education so they're very easy to manipulate and people have taken advantage of that have taken advantage of that and we can see that happening as a result and there's and i mean the atmosphere is just beautiful it's just very relaxed you can see people like eating their ice cream and just sitting there and just chilling and talking and yeah i'm gonna show you how people are dancing right now