It’s great. I got there on March 17th and they had a huge Feliz San Patricio sign in the city square.
I thought no way. That’s when I started walking around.
i saw a guy with a Michigan ball cap on so I said in Spanish that I received my degree there. He answered in perfect Mid-western English that he went there too.
My jaw dropped.
Very pretty place.
Ha, that sort of thing also happened to me once when I was in Santiago, Chile. The Chileans look very European and even very northern European in some of the cites- many Germans, Dutch, British and Irish there if I recall correctly. So it’s difficult to distinguish them from American or European expats. I ran into a fellow with a Tampa Bay Bucs T-shirt on and proceeded to address him in my own broken Spanish, presuming that he was a Chilean who’d made a trip there and picked up some tourist gear. But he turned out to be a born-and-bred US American from the heart of Texas who worked 20 years in West Florida, had just moved with his family to Chile and was loving it. I suspect that happens a lot down there.