Tampico is like New York City #1

I've always thought that Tampico it's like New York City, well in very different sizes, but the same, we have our own Central Park (which is getting better thanks to the promotion and the investment of the actual governorship on it) called "Laguna del Carpintero" [Carpenter's Lagoon] we also have our own Saint Patrick's Church, The Cathedral of Tampico, I love its interior, it's bigger and it's amazing every detail on the ceiling I mean it's like watching the space and see all the stars clearly, all the images of saints, sculptures on the faҫade and the mural at the top of the entrance, those two columns and the english clock in one of them is very stylish that totally amazing. Both cities are surrounded by a river, in the case of New York City there is the Hudson River, and here in Tampico City we have de Panuco River.

I've never been in Manhattan (not yet) but I can think of lots more similarities between NYC and Tampico, the Barrio Chino here in Tampico it's like China Town in NYC.

We don't have a Liberty Lady to receive our visitors, but at least we have "Pepito el Terrestre" to keep oneself amused, actually I've noticed that there are lots of new statues in Downtown, unfortunately I don't have pictures to prove this but I remember all of them, there are two in the main street, the one which is in front of Sears, we have "Pepito el Terrestre" on The Plaza de Armas and at the Plaza de la Libertad (Liberty Square) we have a Soldier as in a position ready to attack, there is also the statue of Humphrey Bogart in front of

this famous square in some kind of tribute to the movie "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" filmed in Tampico (at least a few scenes), more recently the statue of Porfirio Díaz (former president of México) in the balcony of a café in front of the same square. All this statues all over the city reminds me to the ones placed in Manhattan, at Central Park.

Tampico City

    The municipality of Tampico is located at the south-eastern end of the state of Tamaulipas. It borders to the south with the state of Veracruz connected by the Tampico Bridge and to the west with the State of San Luis Potosi. To the north it borders with the municipality of Altamira, which is my hometown, and to the east with Madero City, forming these three cities together what is known as the Metropolitan Zone, sharing some of its services and businesses, educational and cultural activities, as well as employment sources.
    Nowadays, the municipal government has joined forces with the state government are working together in a Project called  the “Mega–Proyecto Laguna del Carpintero” that includes the construction of a convention center, an aquarium, a hotel and a shopping mall.

I Love New York

I really love this cosmopolitan, noisy and crowded city, maybe that's what I like the most, I have a dream, as soon as I finish my degree, I want to go and live there and stay until I die, I've heard things about missing this and that from my hometown, but who cares! As soon as I enjoy my stay there and get my own piece of New York.

I don't want to run away from Tampico, No way!! Actually I also love Tampico city, I know there's no other place where I'd rather would have liked to be born, but New York Tampico, I mean it! it's the safest city I know... I've lived and heard things and stories about some other places, and cities bigger than Tampico, and they're not as safe as Tampico is, and those other little cities which are safe, it's because they're so boring. Tampico has lots of options to go out at night, eventhough everything is closed after 4 am, but one here always has the beach as an option to keep partying.

There are many restaurants, clubs, live music & video bars, stores, parks, hotels, cinemas, colleges, and lots of places to visit in this city, from the Metropolitan Park, the Old Canseco Hospital, the Tampico's Historical Downtown, Liberty Square, The Arms' Square, The Cathedral of Tampico, Miramar Beach (which actually is in Cd. Madero only a few minutes away from Tampico's Historical Downtown).

Tampico seems to have it all in one place, it can be as crowded as New York, as peaceful as Hawaii, as romantic as Paris, and as fun as Las Vegas. Definitaley I'm glad I was b0rn here in Tampico.