Too much pollution - spicy on the eyes !

@@krisg3984 that's India dude.

From me chaotic...is NY, L.A, Bogotá, Lima, Moscow, Istanbul, Big cities in África, entire India and another locations in Asia...CDMX is nicer.

@@joserobertoramirezarevalo4610 Bogota Chaotic ..??? Are you serious , when have you been there the last time ? Ok transmilano is garbage . Besides that it is not that bad

@@joserobertoramirezarevalo4610 - Speaking of chaotic, Ho Chi Minh City4 has them all beat. Fabulous to visit, but definitely would be a challenge to have to live there. Mexico City is tame compared to HCMC.

Me, too. Most videos about cities just mention tourist attractions, and maybe a local bar, in which I have no interest. Geography controls historical human development, including cities, that’s what I want to learn more about.🙂

I agree with this comment very much. The tourism videos don't even scratch the surface.

@@kimberlyperrotis8962 While travel is about experiencing a given place, geography is about *studying* that place.

Yeah, if You are inside México ( the country) and You Say i AM going to México , that means You are going to México city, but if You are in any other country and You Say i AM going to México that means You are heading to the country.

Same thing with "Québec" within Quebec...often refers to Quebec City and not Quebec as a whole (I live in Montreal).

EXACTLY EVEN THE LOCALS CALL MEXICO CITY JUST MEXICO I HEAR A GUY IN STTE OF MICHOACAN SAID I'M GOING TO MEIXCO(MEXICO CITY) CRAZY

The city was planned to look like an European city like Paris, Reforma avenue looks strikingly similar to champs elyseum in Paris for example with lots of trees. And neighborhoods like Roma and Condesa are similar too of what is found in Europe.

No, thank you there’s too much to see and do United States them to spend money on the Mexican culture

what's there to see in the US? the worst urbanism in the world? transphobia? children built like swiss cheese?@@jamessveinsson6006

@@jamessveinsson6006 Well, it's your loss. I'm a New Englander and I'm partial to my part of the country. Yet, I've been to several parts of the U.S. and enjoyed all of it. Mexican influence in Texas, Arizona, Nevada and California (all places that I've been to multiple times) defines these states in large measure. I've also been to about thirty countries in Europe, Asia the Middle East, Africa, the Caribbean and South America. Travel is the best education. I hope that you explore the vast and beautiful United States and also get a chance to see some of the world. It seems that you are missing out.

It is not “one of the world’s great cities.” To put it in the same league as London, Paris, Rome, Tokyo, Singapore & until recently NYC, is woke, PC-inspired nonsense. Mexico City is more in line with perhaps Lagos, Buenos Aires, Jakarta, Mumbai or Cairo. Nice try though.😂

@@Invinoveritas204 Well, it's your opinion. I've been to several of the cities you mentioned. I've lived in NYC off and on and visit frequently. I have relatives in London and have visited more time than I can count. I'm not from Latin America or Hispanic. Yet, I found Mexico City as awe inspiring as Rome or Istanbul. Certainly, better than NYC or London, but perhaps because I know these cities too well. The rats in the NYC MTA and the trash (rubbish) everywhere in London are a turn-off.

And the entire state of Florida😂

@@Dynamic241 good riddance

But they are not dumps

All of california’s Central Valley

@Dynamic241 that must be why so many billionaires are buying homes there 🤡🤡🤡

Cenotes are fucking huge tho

The thing is that as a matter of fact, Yucatán is full of rivers but they are underground and connected the cenotes being places where you can have access to that huge system. Is a very different geography indeed

At one point New Spain controlled 2/3 of the US when French Louisiana was Spanish, as well as most of the Caribbean Islands and even the Philippines.

All are administered by Mexico City the capital of New Spain.

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I caught that too, I don't know where he got the borders for the Viceroyalty of New Spain but those shown weren't accurate at all, also he kept talking about the "Spanish colonizers" as if the way the British and the Spanish managed things on the Americas were equal and the same.

​@@BN.ja05what's better than "colonizer"? Colonies can be self sufficient like pre-USA, and they can be completely subservient like those of New Spain

@@hobog The fact You assume New Spain or any Viceroy of the Spanish Empire was "subservient" to Madrid and therefore a colony just like the 13 British ones further North were to London makes me think You're not very well versed on how the Spanish Empire worked and how it was vastly different from the British one, which is why the term colonizer aptly defines the latter and not the former, the answer You seek is on the demographics of hispanic and anglo countries, also why do You seem to assume that all europeans and their empires funcioned similarly? Iberians and western germanic peoples are quite different.

Would be wonderful for Mexico City, especially its residents - along with any and every city - to overcome their problems and prosper. I think Mexico City has to get smaller and make it attractive for more people to live in other Mexican cities and towns (generally preferred when people live in a country to stay in the same country, if they can) because there is a way to make other towns and cities full of vitality, abundance and prosperity. Imagine Mexican towns and cities use the One Small Town Contributionism philosophy and create community unity, co-ownership and benefits for all the people who contribute, while uplifting their communities to be great places to live and visit. That's what any town can do with the One Small Town platform. If Mexico City 'could be' an abandoned city by 2150, it would be better if there were viable alternative places for millions to go and live, bring Mexico City down to a more manageable few million people and the cultural hub can remain a place many people can visit, but not overload the area with too much infrastructure demand and sink too far down.

Last time I was this early the elephant had slipped off of the turtles back.

@@alohathaxted last time I was this early the disc was still a sphere

The water supply come from rivers, lake and underground...genius.

Thank you, Jose.@@joserobertoramirezarevalo4610

Tell that to the Spanish

European people really can't think right 😂

Don't listen to him he doesn't know the future .

They were called the mexico poeple. So they basically called the city (city kf the mexico poeple)

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@@tomvlogs8463 Mexica people, minor correction, pronounced Meh-she-kuh

@@charleskummerer yeah sorry. Thx for correcting me!

colonization

cdmx is the largest, saõ paulo is 2nd

It used to be D.F but no longer, now it's just Mexico City.

North Mex weather and cartels are much rougher

@@hobog Jobs though.

let's hope not

The pay is higher in the northern states but the weather is not as nice as Central Mexico.

There are 2.5 million Americans in Mexico which about 1.2 million of them are undocumented in Mexico, up of a 150% increase

Misinformation. MC is in a volcanic area indeed but is not a supervolcano. It is well studied and the volcanos shift places but is not that dangerous

Cultural misunderstanding includes colonialism, slavery and rape by the spanish. The spanish believed in the white supremacy of their skin and genocided entire cultures in less than 200 years. The entire extinction of peoples ocurres after the arrival of the Spanish.

True I disliked the video the city is older than the USA so it's not going anywhere

Try spell-check next time: Environment: E-N-V-I-R-O-N-M-E-N-T.

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Good for u 😂no one misses you

No one cares bro 🐒

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Pocho 🫵

The region has always have a perfect climate for human settling and development. Which is why it was been a major population center for many centuries. But the actual answer to your question is: It grew massively between the 1940´s and the 1990´s, when the country experienced a major industrialization and economy shifted from agriculture to manufacture. During this period thousands of people from all around the country moved to the area for job opportunities and had very big families.

Mexico only got the territory from its own imperialism, most native groups north of the rio grande hated mexicans for siding with colonziers & invading them in the first place. You can only blame mexico stupid government for losing the states by inviting yt people against texas natives wishes to settle in texas native land.

I Know they play victim good like a chick going through a divorce

@@MoneyManuel KARMA is coming. It never fails.

You mean like witch burning? Oh wait the Spanish did that

@@darthmaul216 Witch burning? The northern and central europeans did that.

@@BN.ja05 yes, They did that as well

@@darthmaul216 Nah, Witch burning was an overwelmingly protestant thing to do and it wasn't common on the Americas under Spain or back on the peninsula.

The appalled Spanish that then enslaved the locals after they didn’t need them anymore to destroy the Aztecs. You’re not doing as good a job as you think you are at sanitizing colonialism.

It is sinking . Stupid

Mexico City's gdp is larger than the country of Peru, more than 411 billion USD. It is by far the most influential city in Latin America, and economicly more dominant than Madrid. Santiago and Buenos Aires are tiny in comparison to the ancient aztec capital.

@@guillersl9510Mexico, Bueno Aires and Sao Paulo have all similar economic outputs. That s a fact. And Sao Paulo ranks first among these

@@guillersl9510Is Mexico City really that dominant when it needs more than 4 times the population of Madrid to have not even twice Madrid’d GDP, though? With the amount of human and natural resources there, it should be competing with NY.

Take a visit. Mexico City shats on everyone.

Are you stupid or something?😂😂😂not even historically Santiago or Buenos Aires compares to Mexico city

The major reason was to take their gold. He covered that. This isn't a video about the Aztecs and their religious practices.

no, the main reason was power

Imagine kissing the asses of conquistadors this hard.

Bish this isn't a history video

Viva España desde México 🇲🇽

Brian, I'm totally impressed that you gained such a comprehensive overview while spending less than a month on average in each of those countries! So Mexico City is rising then, instead of sinking-is that what "the usual doom and gloom bullshit" implies?

I lived in England for a year, Japan for 6 years, USA for 2 years, Vietnam for a year, China for two years and 5 years travelling to the others. I didn't say Mexico City wasn't sinking - that's obvious. However - it was sinking 30 years ago, it's nothing new - and yet - Mexico City is more popular and in better shape than it has ever been in the modern era. I have spent three wonderful weeks there in the past year alone. 35 years ago MX City was a dangerous, smog-choked, crime infested kidnapping capital of South America. Much better today - which is my point. @@silversolver7809

​@@BrianBaileyedtechMexico city isn't on south America

True story. Let me rephrase. "35 years ago MX City was a dangerous, smog-choked, crime infested kidnapping capital of Latin America. (obviously Mexico is in North America but culturally it belongs to Latin America, which is Central and South America).@@koiue.g8709

​@@BrianBaileyedtech?? Mexico City is in North America 🤔