But Oaxaca City, the capital of one of the country's poorest states and a college town teeming with students, isn't quaint or stagnant; it's a small but dynamic city, still emerging economically from the social unrest that put it in the international spotlight, and crippled its tourism industry, in 2006.
Despite living in a town teeming with people who knew how to make jeans, recruitment hasn't been easy.
That's a lot of glorious idiosyncrasy in one camera-ready package, especially in a town teeming with copy-hungry journalists.
Following the death of his young wife and muse, Camille Doncieux, Monet moved to Giverny, a town teeming with the artist's favorite flower, the water lily.
AT THE turn of the 20th century, St Ives was a tiny, picturesque town teeming with fishing boats and with artists.
A remote Old West town teeming with creepy, malfunctioning robots that stare at you with murderous eyes, where everything seems on the verge of going haywire while its enigmatic creator sits back waiting for the chaos to unfold.
Only now, it's like opening my front door and finding my town teeming with life!
Last Friday, Susan Bissell, UNICEF's chief of child protection, spoke to a room teeming with students from the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, the Harvard Kennedy School, the Harvard Law School, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
Passing periods at Belmont High School used to mean pushing your way through a hall teeming with students.
For Young People, Few Prospects The parking lot of the Subway sandwich shop, the only chain eatery in town, teems with high school students trolling for action.
It is just one of a number of New York City public school buildings teeming with students despite an overall drop in enrollment in the past few years.
