Living in Nápoles

Nápoles took shape in the 1930s and 40s on streets named after US states (Pennsylvania, Dakota, Alabama) and still mixes its original Californian-style houses with newer residential towers. The World Trade Center marks its center, with the Pepsi Center beside it and the muraled Polyforum Siqueiros on Insurgentes, while Alameda Nápoles and its clock keep the blocks around Georgia street feeling like a neighborhood. What you'll find for rent is mostly apartments, and a good share of them come furnished, which suits people arriving in the city for work. Houses rarely come up; for those, houses in Del Valle offer far more choice.

What to consider before renting

Concert nights at the Pepsi Center and expos at the World Trade Center fill the surrounding streets, so if you rent around Dakota or Montecito, ask how the building handles guest access and parking: street spots are metered (parquímetros) on weekdays and disappear entirely when the venues have something on. There is no Metro station in Nápoles: Metrobús Line 1, with the Poliforum and Nápoles stops on Insurgentes, carries most commutes. Two neighbors widen the search on foot: apartments in Escandón, just across the Viaducto, and Ciudad de los Deportes, which begins a few blocks south around the Plaza México. A little further north, past the Viaducto, Condesa offers considerably more variety to rent, at higher prices.