Another useful video. I’ve got a request, however. I think your videos would be improved immensely by adding more visuals-even just a few still photos of the areas being discussed, the homes, the neighborhoods, the local sights, etc.-spliced in while the interview continues. The format of 99% talking-head-on-a-grainy-Skype-call-format doesn’t do justice to the quality of the information provided or to the beauty of Mexico. Great info, but without more visuals I think these videos would be better suited to a print format rather than TH-cam.
I said that for almost a year now.. these videos are not really informative at all... Mexico is such a diverse country, if you interview someone about living in PV, GDL, Leon, CDMX, sinaloa, cancun, etc, the difference in flora, fauna, weather, people, culture, etc will be HUGELY different. Yet all we see are people sitting indoors in front of a bad webcam. How hard would it be to add ~50 pictures of the area he is talking about or maybe made by the person being interviewed.
In the 60's and 70's and some of the 80's, Guadalajara was another option for retirees, there was a considerable population of them living in the city, I remember they favored colonia La Estancia it was full of them. Back then, the city barely had a million inhabitants, it was very livable, it was the urban counterpart to Ajijic. The second country club in the city called Santa Anita Golf Club was founded mostly by US people. But as the city's population exploded, the retirees left. Colonia Americana, Francesa and so forth, were founded at the end of the 19 century, and their names just come from the fact they sounded modern, the architecture adopted by the wealthy people who were leaving the colonial center and building their homes in those neighborhoods was supposed to imitate the architecture of the US and France.
I know your comment is from one year ago, but I'd like to clarify some things: In the period of time you mention, from the 60's to the 80's there were almost no expats living in Guadalajara proper (most were in Ajijic and a few in Colonia Las Fuentes and Colonia Seattle) only during the summer we used to have American college students come to the "Cursos De Verano" (Spanish language summer courses). Colonia La Estancia was developed in the early 80's, it didn't exist yet during the 60's and 70's. Guadalajara reached one million inhabitants in 1964. When the land around the Santa Anita Golf Club was developed and urbanized and people started building homes there, it was probably 5% Americans and 95% middle-class Mexicans, the house building exploded in the early 80's, the ones who instigated the building of a golf club in the late 60's were the American retirees in the beginning but very few built homes there when the suburban subdivision was developed (there was no urban development beyond Colonia Chapalita going South on Av. López Mateos in the 60's, back then López Mateos was known as Carretera A Morelia (road to Morelia) and Colonia Las Fuentes was in the middle of nowhere and a few Americans (mostly retirees who belonged to the Foreign Legion) lived there, Plaza Del Sol was built in 1969. The architectural style of the Colonia Americana and Colonia Francesa houses is definitively European as you can see today because many of the large beautiful homes built then are still there, they were built at the turn of the XIX century, when Porfirio Díaz was President of México, and French culture had a big influence in the Education, the Arts and Architecture in the country, and the wealthy Mexican hacendados and entrepreneurs had "vacation homes" in France and sent their children to study there. .
The gentleman you were interviewing was boring. Wasting more time "guessing" how to explain, to respond to your questions. Maybe it was the questions that were being asked too????
Another useful video. I’ve got a request, however. I think your videos would be improved immensely by adding more visuals-even just a few still photos of the areas being discussed, the homes, the neighborhoods, the local sights, etc.-spliced in while the interview continues. The format of 99% talking-head-on-a-grainy-Skype-call-format doesn’t do justice to the quality of the information provided or to the beauty of Mexico. Great info, but without more visuals I think these videos would be better suited to a print format rather than TH-cam.
I said that for almost a year now.. these videos are not really informative at all...
Mexico is such a diverse country, if you interview someone about living in PV, GDL, Leon, CDMX, sinaloa, cancun, etc, the difference in flora, fauna, weather, people, culture, etc will be HUGELY different.
Yet all we see are people sitting indoors in front of a bad webcam.
How hard would it be to add ~50 pictures of the area he is talking about or maybe made by the person being interviewed.
They're still full of good info. I like to speed them up, say x1.75, since it's mostly slow talking. Makes it more fun to watch😉
In the 60's and 70's and some of the 80's, Guadalajara was another option for retirees, there was a considerable population of them living in the city, I remember they favored colonia La Estancia it was full of them. Back then, the city barely had a million inhabitants, it was very livable, it was the urban counterpart to Ajijic. The second country club in the city called Santa Anita Golf Club was founded mostly by US people. But as the city's population exploded, the retirees left. Colonia Americana, Francesa and so forth, were founded at the end of the 19 century, and their names just come from the fact they sounded modern, the architecture adopted by the wealthy people who were leaving the colonial center and building their homes in those neighborhoods was supposed to imitate the architecture of the US and France.
I know your comment is from one year ago, but I'd like to clarify some things: In the period of time you mention, from the 60's to the 80's there were almost no expats living in Guadalajara proper (most were in Ajijic and a few in Colonia Las Fuentes and Colonia Seattle) only during the summer we used to have American college students come to the "Cursos De Verano" (Spanish language summer courses). Colonia La Estancia was developed in the early 80's, it didn't exist yet during the 60's and 70's. Guadalajara reached one million inhabitants in 1964. When the land around the Santa Anita Golf Club was developed and urbanized and people started building homes there, it was probably 5% Americans and 95% middle-class Mexicans, the house building exploded in the early 80's, the ones who instigated the building of a golf club in the late 60's were the American retirees in the beginning but very few built homes there when the suburban subdivision was developed (there was no urban development beyond Colonia Chapalita going South on Av. López Mateos in the 60's, back then López Mateos was known as Carretera A Morelia (road to Morelia) and Colonia Las Fuentes was in the middle of nowhere and a few Americans (mostly retirees who belonged to the Foreign Legion) lived there, Plaza Del Sol was built in 1969. The architectural style of the Colonia Americana and Colonia Francesa houses is definitively European as you can see today because many of the large beautiful homes built then are still there, they were built at the turn of the XIX century, when Porfirio Díaz was President of México, and French culture had a big influence in the Education, the Arts and Architecture in the country, and the wealthy Mexican hacendados and entrepreneurs had "vacation homes" in France and sent their children to study there.
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Americana does not equate to US - it's a continent North and South
The gentleman you were interviewing was boring. Wasting more time "guessing" how to explain, to respond to your questions. Maybe it was the questions that were being asked too????
Would be better if he'd have kept his hand from in front of his mouth. But still, I enjoyed it. Thanks.