Well, no, we don't, and I remembered that I had asked the same question 25 or so years ago in Seville, Spain. In fact, we have never seen a self-service laundromat in any Spanish-speaking country we've visited or lived in. We have seen them in France.
Why is this? Why hasn't some entrepreneur started a chain of laundromats? With so many tourists and people living in apartments, you'd think it would be a no-brainer.
This answer could be worth muchos puntos. It would require some research. First, is it true that there aren't any? Second, what could prevent someone from opening one? A union of lavenderas?
Hola Jubilados,
ReplyDeleteHas la pregunta de las lavendarias been answered yet? Yo did un poco research, and learned that the agua en Mexico is pumped to edificios only at certain ahoras, apparently en la noche. I hear that the agua is stored in tanks on the roofs. Is water rationed? Hmmm -- anyway, even con no rationing, I imagine that a roof would not be strong enough to store the amount of agua to make a centralized, coin op laundromat feasable. I guess if you had a edificio next to a hill... But how do the lavendaras services que you pay to do your ropas pull that off? Es possible ellos lavar la ropa in mas grande, communal batches that use agua mas efficiently?
Sincerely,
Michael of the speakerphone.