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Canada-Mike

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  1. There's something being missed when it comes to prices. Many restaurants are doing well, and as a result, when their lease comes up the landlord wants some of those pesos. They raise the rent, and, guess what, the prices go up. The Ajijic pizza place, Garlic Brothers (?) closed or moved because the landlord wanted more than they could afford.

    I also think Wookie's points regarding both quality and creativity are well taken. I'm looking forward to trying the place.

  2. OK. Since I what I wanted on the web, I wrote to my friend who is a linguist at a University in Michoacan. This was his response:

    Criada has a very bad bias. Like slavery. People being servants. Even living in the house most of the time. They are supposed to follow exact instructions without questioning. Criada refers to "criar" raise.
     
    Historically poor people gave their child to rich people to be raised (criados). In exchange, they were servants.
     
    Me again. This is why the term comes from the verb "criar" which means to raise.
     
    Sorry, but this is what happens when you're a philosophy professor (emeritus.)
     
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  3. I'm a snowbird. I would like to politely request that the entire group not be lumped together as one large, loud, rude, uncultured mass. I have owned a house is Ajijic longer than many full-timers have heard of the place. Our personal family situation means that a] I have had to delay my retirement, and b] still cannot come down full-time.

    Yes, there are many people who have no sense of what Mexico is about, make no effort to change or learn the language, and want Ajijic to become Carmel, CA. I wish they would leave, regardless of how much time they spend in our wonderful aldea.

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