drealm wrote:
The thing is if a city isn't built for socializing then random encounters won't happen.
If you look at La Paz on a map there's really just one socializing corridor and this is the board walk. This is similar to Ensenada. There also don't appear to be too many restaurants along the board walk.
On the other hand if you look at any colonial city they have a nexus of parks, plazas and markets spread all over the city. If you want to create situations where you opportunely run into women it strikes me as important to pick an older city. My experience in Tijuana was that no such place existed.
What are your thoughts on this Jester? You approach women in public and I don't. Do you think women will give better responses in an ugly city with no benches, parks or plazas for people to sit down on and rest (like tijuana)? Or do you think women will respond better in a slower paced area with colonial architecture? I don't know. What is your guess?
I think this a +1 classic observation you have made here, about "Architecture and Urban Planning for Meeting The Opposite Sex"....... Ensenada IS linear as you say, with little contact with strangers except in the tourist shops at the harbor, where it is too commercial to get far, Yes, slow-paced strolls are good, but thats usually going to be MILF's. For the young honeys, i think they're likely to be at the mall. But you might find Miss 19-year-old WITH her mother at the park with three younger siblings, and to me that would be a perfect pickup situation. Miss 19 will have no fear. Mami will be sizing you up and giving her daughter a chance to receive some attention, Mami will also carry the conversation and flirt with you herself perhaps, and the little siblings might be like a pet dog, easy to use to open up conversation. So I suppose more young honeys in twos and threes at the mall, but perhaps easier to meet in the park IF Daddy is not around. An old picturesque twon, if it is fullof shops, might combine the benefits of mall and park.
SO maybe Guanajuato, yeah. BUT you do have the tourists there. I have thought about Morelia or Queretaro, but those are actual cities with industry etc, not like Guanajuato.
I did meet a BEAUTIFUL stripper from Morelia, in TJ. Slender, pure European.
Re Culiacan, yes thats narco central, but its not the crazy Zetas gang, and you'll be okay unless you try to pick up a girl who's with a narco in a club or something. Probably safer than TJ, and as you saw TJ wasn't unsafe at all, just noisy and crowded.
What has FSchmidt told you about Xalapa? In the hills down near Veracruz I think. I heard from someone else that women there were hot.
Actually GDL and the DF should be considered due to major airports. DF has Tlaquepaque or whatever, the cool artsy district, Europeans have moved there for example. Nice but not snobby. Cathedrals, museums etc. Hipster/alt rock vibe I think, not sure. (I know someone from there). Coffeehouses etc. Some parts of the DF also have bike rental, the kind you dop off and pick up.
GDL has a chain of coffeehouse/bookstore/libraries that I thought would be interesting. NOTHING like that in TJ or Ensenada, I'm sure. The city also offers easy moped or scooter rentals, again not the whole city but the cool parts I guess.
But there are LOTS of cities in Mexico that are like 500000 population, an old colonial downtown, in the mountainous central part of the country, starting from GDL and south and east of there.
I think also if YOU like the place, architecture, climate, activities etc, then it will be the "vibe" or "aura" you will emit while there will make you more approachable. If you're in a place interesting to you, noone will wonder why youre there, they wont classify you as a sex tourist. And asking girls for directions to the museum or cathedral would be a natural.
Actually Guanajuato is a conservative town, very Catholic, so it wouldnt be a classic pickup spot. But social conservatism actually might appeal to you.
The ENTIRE state of Jalisco is known for beautiful White women with a down-to-earth attitude. GDL is part of it, but Jalisco's Alta Plana( to the north and west of GDL I think) has the same rep for women. Lots of French blood. And no tourists. But now again we are etting into time on the bus.
Probably you should look at Mexicali on the web. Its a big city with business, state government offices and universities full of women. Much Whiter than Ensenada (I see the difference in the tourists who come to Ensenada from there). My gf visited and kept complaining about the "low-class" people at the beach at my house. But walking down at low tide, to a slightly more upscle resort, she flt more at home. Mexicali folks, getting out of the summer heat. I wouldnt try Mexicali or Tecate in the hot months, noone will come out, and those who can leave, do. The problem is tat even Mexicali may not be old enough for you, even though it is probably the first city in Baja.
Tecate is a minor tourist destination, both for the famous brewery and for its park and central square, which is exactly as you described. Also it would be easy to get to. I guess you could try that along with Mexcali if goingfor proximity.
But final thought, I DO think you are right to pick a place you like and would enjoy walking around. IMO thats very very important. I am looking forward to getting back to my fantastic beach house in Ensenada for example, but as far as a place to meet people or enjoy a cafe district its not the best place.
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