¡Viva Mexico!: Bare-Bones Approach Lets Mexico City Embrace Winter

Bare-Bones Approach Lets Mexico City Embrace Winter - NYTimes.com: "It is one of the fascinating quirks of Mexico City — the way Chilangos, as the city’s residents are known — deal with the weather. Deep in this country’s Aztec roots, there is admiration for submitting to the elements, and it seems to re-emerge every winter with force.

It is not simply the lack of central heating that confounds Americans and Europeans in this mountainous city at an altitude of more than 7,000 feet. It is the ubiquity of the cold as well. In expensive restaurants, in grocery stores and museums, in the homes of the poor, middle-class and even the wealthy, a small space heater is often the only thing breathing warm air." Dec. 28, 2010