The view from the office.

I worked this week from Mexico City, known locally as CDMX. I’m staying in the Condesa neighborhood, which since Covid has become a mecca for digital nomads.

It’s a perfect place to work remotely. CDMX has Los Angeles weather, European architecture and the vibe of the West Village. Condesa is clean and safe. People are friendly.

The neighborhoods surrounding Condesa, including Roma, Roma Norte and Polanco are filled with coffee shops and cafes and some of the best restaurants in the world, all at a fraction of the price of big-name places in the U.S.

CDMX is massive, with 22 million inhabitants. But it’s really a collection of many small cities and towns. Condesa in particular has the feel of a village. I had coffee this morning at Pisca and saw a dog off leash from its owner trot over and stop in for a treat. It’s obviously a daily ritual.

The place feels very international, a sense re-enforced by the people I met, such as Brunella Tipismana, a Yale student from Peru doing an internship at El Pais, one of the big newspapers.

Yesterday, at Malcriado, I sat next to a Brazilian woman pitching her startup to an American. They start in Spanish and then switch to English. This could be New York or Miami or LA.

And yet, there are many charming and uniquely local experiences. One day, the doorbell rang and outside there was a young man offering to sell me a jar of honey from Oaxaca. I bought it.

It’s so great to travel.

It reminds you that the world is so large and yet so small.