I wasn't born in Mexico, but I had a similar experience. There was a fancy magazine shop/bookstore/coffeeshop that sold MacWorld, MacFormat, MacUser, MacAddict, etc. And they were expensive. Everything seems so when you're 10, of course, but I imagine it truly was, if you account for currency exchange, shipping, etc. It sure consumed every christmas, birthday present and dime I could get my hands on at the time.

I learned so much from those magazines: tips and tricks, reviews of products I could never afford, industry analysis. Being featured on a Q&A session was ecstatic.

A few years ago I had coffee and a Cuban cigar at that store when I visited my parents. I heard it went out of business recently.