Tijuana

Re “In Castoff Doors, the Making of Castles,” May 30:

I lived in Tijuana for 25 years and I can tell you it takes determination to find places like the one so sadistically described in this article.

After living in San Diego for 10 years, what strikes my attention about Tijuana is its ever-fattening phone book, the great number of new businesses, the variety of its restaurants, the quality of the food, the new wave of immigrants from all over Mexico, many of them professionals and businessmen, and the vibrant cultural life of a city where there are five major newspapers and a people eager to engage in cultured conversation, both with locals and foreigners.

Everybody knows about the economic disparities between Southern California and Tijuana. The cultural disparities are as great, the poor side being on the economically rich side.

CARLOS TRUJILLO

Chula Vista