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“Wow. This is really something.” It was the late 90s, and I was sitting at a palapa in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. The unspoiled beauty of everything that surrounded me had me completely stunned. Back then, Playa del Carmen had a population of about 50,000 people. By the early 2000s, it had become one of the fastest-growing cities in the world and today has a population of more than 300,000…
