Mexico is Falling Apart!!

It is amazing the number of buildings that are falling apart in Mexico due to neglect and disuse. They're everywhere, even in seemingly nice areas that have large shiney new resorts, if you look around a bit you'll find the falling apart grey concrete structure with broken out windows, missing doors and exposed rebar and wiring. Some look like the construction was only partly finished but the are using the building anyways, while some look like they were merly started and abandoned, and yet others were completed but have been reduced to derelict status after years of scavenging and neglect. We saw several that were still being used, either for shops or being lived in.

Since I'm talking about building in Mexico, this is probably as good a place as any to mention the copious use of concrete. It's amazing, the things that are made out of concrete. Yes, of course, buildings are. Pretty much all of them unless they're old enough to be stone and mortar, which is a kind of concrete anyways. Sidewalks and some streets, thats obvious. Benches. Handrailings. Fenceposts. Telephone poles. Picnic Tables, diving platforms, pool slides, stools, they even made the dang poolside umbrellas out of concrete!










I'll definitely agree that they're pretty creative in the application of concrete.