Zihua...the real Mexico

Excerpt from Fly on the Wall

"Agree with you Paulf except for the comment about Zihua "being the real Mexico". I have seen and heard the comment a number of times and after visiting quite a few places in Mexico I really don't know what or where the "real" Mexico is. Mexico is very diverse from the big cities of the center to the indigenous towns and villages of the mountains, Oaxaca and Chiapas etc."

11/12/2017
@ Fly on the Wall
My translation/interpretation would be to use the word AUTHENTIC, instead of "real ", that may be slightly more on target, that one could say that comparing the two, since Ixtapa is in effect a tourist development, and Z is more of the natural "Real McCoy".
As U commented, there are so many Mexicos within Mexico, that finding a precise "real" or authentic one, could be MANY places.
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"I think it was Labrat who used to have a handle that said something about Zihua being a "quaint little fishing village" . But I am not even sure its just that anymore."

I think tacked on to the end of that saying, or at least a variation of it is:
"A drinking village with a fishing problem."