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[*] posted on 11-13-2008 at 11:31 AM
Changes in La Paz


We just arrived home again after spending the summer on our boat in No CA. It was getting cold and it's nice to be back in warm weather. Great drive down with the highway in pretty good shape most of the way. Looks like they are widening the road wherever major work is being done.

Passed the new Wal-Mart/Sam's Club site entering town. Doesn't look like it will be long before the grand openings. Now I read where construction will soon start on another commercial mall in the same area. Stores expected to open include: "Liverpool, MM Cinemas, Soriana, Coppel, Home Depot, Costco, a fast food court, a gas station and 2 hotels."




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[*] posted on 11-13-2008 at 12:07 PM


Good News !!!

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[*] posted on 11-13-2008 at 08:04 PM


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Originally posted by morgaine7
Home Depot will be nice. :yes:
Welcome back!

Kate

Thanks Kate. Good to be home.

I suspect all the big stores will do well. I've just read in 3 different current 'sources' that the population in La Paz is now 200,000, 250,000 and 300,000. Whatever the real figure is, it seems to be growing quickly.




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[*] posted on 11-13-2008 at 11:37 PM


With all the construction going on everywhere in town I would have thought Home Depot would have been there before Wal-Mart



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[*] posted on 11-14-2008 at 01:06 AM


Pues por supesto La Paz esta chiquito.

Interesting question: How big is La Paz?
The population is reported to be 176,500 and the number of visitors a year is 145,000. But, as a local, you know that the city was packed in 2000 the local population has been growing? So, lets say the population for 2008-2009 winter for La Paz is approximately, 225,000 and the number of visitors, both National and Foreign, will be 150,000 (versus 1.5mil for Cabo) means that the average population is about 250,000-350,000 with greater numbers over Christmas and New Years.

Now I have been to parts of La Paz where the people say they have never been to the water, and I have been to other parts where people say they never have been to the mountains. It sure seems like a big city to me, I think the number is bigger than the reported numbers, I think the number for the area of La Paz is 350,000 and the visitors 200,000, but its spread out.

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