The airport, only about 8 km (5 mi) south of the center of Manila, is well-served by buses and taxis, and there is a Metrorail station about 2 km (1.2 mi) away.

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It had only seven syllables: Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, La, and Si.

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This, I realise, is how most chilli is now eaten: Mi Tierra's extensive menu only features it served inside or on top of something else, and buried under Monterey Jack.

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In fact, looking across the 100 largest metros, only Warren- Troy- Farmington Hills, MI, and neighboring Detroit have sharp price growth WITHOUT strong job growth: they sit pretty much alone in the lower-right part of the scatterplot graph pasted below.

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There's only one place to go for the fully evolved Tex-Mex genus: across town to Mi Tierra, more of a civic institution than a restaurant, run by the same family since 1941 and currently putting sauce-rimmed smiles on over a million faces a year.

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