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I've heard that parts are basically all ex-pats; non-Mexican. I was astonished to chat to someone who lived there and remote worked for an Australian company.

• hombre_fatal 2y ago
  > I've heard that parts are basically all ex-pats No, not in Puerto Escondido. It's hard to get real info as an outsider since everyone has a motivated reason to say things like that about everywhere. Tourists like to try to sound well traveled by pretending a place is beneath them because they weren't the only tourist in a beach club that they walked into that was playing Journey on the sound system and then scoff like they took a wrong turn and meant to go to some run down reggaeton club on the poorer side of town. Everyone wants to be the last person allowed somewhere, and when they're not, they just complain about how much better things were N years ago. It's like listening to someone sitting in traffic complain about traffic without realizing they are the traffic. But, one of the things about Puerto is that it's a tourist destination for Mexicans. They even just finished a huge highway that skyrocketed Mexican tourism to the place. I've been here on and off starting 10 years ago, so I've been talking about finding the "next Puerto" for a while now, but this place is hard to beat for surfing.
  • lamp_book 2y ago
    You might enjoy The Beach by Alex Garland if you haven't already read it.
• olemrmuljolland 2y ago
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