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This is a factory in front of my work place, they dehidrates vegetables, so they work with food, and they polute like crazy, they are "Deshidratadora La Cascada"

The worst part of that is that the smoke goes directly to my office, exactly to my window and door, so we are breading this every friday, and when we have to leave the office, we ended all cover in smoke, smelling like it and just like we just clean a chimney.

I hope someone do something about it soon, because it also gave me headaches.

The National Geographic Traveler Magazine has a rating for all touristic places and Queretaro was ranked as 13th in the world, 2nd in latinamerica and 1st in Mexico.

This rating is not based in the number of visitor per year, but instead for what the place has to offer and the quality of everything.

You can check the rating in: traveler.nationalgeographic.com

I love mobile phones, because those are the new tech, gps, mp3, camera, communication, and more in one small device...

Motorola answer to Apple's iPhone, Sony Ericsson Walkman and Nokia XpressMusic, is the Rokr line, which in short, sucks so much is amazing, and the flagship of the line the E8 is so ugly, it is incredible that some designer was involved, it looks like the phones in the mid 90's it is even that big, and it is not a smartphone (those are big) the only "cool" thing is the morphing keypad, but the rest is so ugly is not worth the materials it is made, the worst part is that Motorola is advertising that product as a good choice, when it is not a choice at all.

Poor Motorola, they invented the mobile phones, but sucked in the business, the only nice phone they ever released was the Razr in 2003, and they have no progress from there, plus battery life still is the worst and the user interface is so bad it is almost unusable.

And the company executives wonder why they are so bad in sales and profit, spending that amount of money in advertising and promoting an ugly phone, when all the other companies had better alternatives for less money.

For work reasons I went to the city and port of Veracruz, it is, in my humble opinion, the best beach city in Mexico, is not touristic, which in Mexico means it is a real city, Cancun, Puerto Vallarta, Acapulco, any other beach town you think of is like Disneyland, fake, great but fake, why, well everything is about the tourist, the mexican food is so fake in those places, over mexicanized, while this city is large, like a million people, and the economy is diversify, industry, port, tourism, commerce, petroleum (pemex) and other stuff too.

I stay in the metro area of Boca del Rio, 10km from the downtown, I walk that one day thinking it was a shorter distance.

I truly say that of the beach towns and cities this is the only one I could live, because it is a real city, with all the things yo need of a city, and an affordable price (Cancun, Pto Vallarta and others are so overprice)

Visit it if yo can, it is a good place to be.

Many have experienced the "lost" feeling when you don't speak the local language... And I bet some feel the same sometimes with the same language.

I'm a spanish native speaker, so many can assume that every person that speaks in spanish can understand me and me understand them.

Not always, not 100%... A few years ago I called Dell to buy an affordable computer, the phone number was an 800 number in the USA and a nice guy answered my call, the problem was that he was cuban, puerto rican or dominican, and I couldn't understand everything, because we speak very different, and had some idioms I couldn't get, it was a problem for both of us, and he was getting angry because I was "sorry, could you repeat that" all the time. I was tempted to ask for another person maybe a mexican and that way maybe we could understand each other.

The problem here was the accent, and the fact that he lives in the USA so his main language is not spanish.

Now in the same country I have the problem, in mexico, when in Monterrey visiting my cousin we went out with her friends, and like half of the conversation I felt lost, for the accent.

Another time was in the USA, we forgot the camera in the hotel, and call them, the concierge was nice but didn't speak spanish, so when I started to tell him my adress he decided it was easier to give it to someone that speaks spanish, since I was spelling the entire adress. The problem with the spanish speaker guy was that he didn't understand my pronunciation and was writing all wrong, he ended up passing the call back to the concierge.

How the same language can be so different from city to city, from cultural and tradition and the mix of so many variants.

That is why the spanish language academies of the world are working to create the dictionary and grammar rules.