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Quake exodus threatens Mexico City's trendy districts
Published Sun, Sep 24, 2017 · 09:50 PM
Mexico City
WHEN Fernando Bustos moved to Mexico City years ago, he had no doubt about where to live. The Roma and Condesa neighbourhoods - sidewalk cafes, hip restaurants, thriving art and music, historic architecture - had captured his imagination.
He was not thinking about their vulnerability to earthquakes, such as the one in 1985 that devastated both neighbourhoods and plunged them into a long funk.
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