Madrid vs Buenos Aires (comparison of Spanish speaking global cities)
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It has been a while since I visited this thread. I reiterate ... parts of Buenos Aires are truly beautiful. But, beauty only has so much value if you can't make a living. And, that's the quandry Argentinians face on a daily basis (though, admittedly, much less so than in a total mess like Caracas). All the beautiful beaux-arts buildings in the world can't fix Argentina's economic mess. And, pretending to be a first-world city in the third- (at best, second-) world does nothing to address the issue. I would love to visit Buenos Aires, but I really have to wonder how nice it would be to walk down any of the streets adjacent to the the beautiful boulevards in the photos. It's like Rio De Janeiro ... Leblon's nice, but God forbid you walk a few blocks into the favelas.
Sure, but then you could say the same thing about any number of first world city. Even the global powerhouses of New York, London and Paris have undesirable neighborhoods. Nothing like the favelas of Rio, but nevertheless run down and decrepit.
Madrid sits on a high plateau in the middle of the Iberian peninsula - the city experiences a climate somewhat akin to a hot summer Mediterranean climate.
They used to teach us either "6 months winter, 6 months hell" or "9 months of winter and 3 months of hell".
Sure, but then you could say the same thing about any number of first world city. Even the global powerhouses of New York, London and Paris have undesirable neighborhoods. Nothing like the favelas of Rio, but nevertheless run down and decrepit.
Argentina has a lower murder rate than the US. While you should have some street smarts like in Chicago (which is much more dangerous than BA), you'll be fine for the most part. You're not really going to be worrying about wandering off into a favela either. Argentian doesn't really have the level of poverty as Brazil or Mexico. It's going through economic struggles, but they're more similar to modern day Greece or Portugal or late stage Soviet Russia than they are Colombia or Brazil.
Now the European countries are lucky to be part of the EU and to be in a more prosperous stable part of the world (well in recent history) but BA is essentially a first-world city in a second-world country in a continent that fluctuates between low first-world (Chile, Uruguay) chaotic second-world (Brazil, Peru, and Colombia) and some ****-holes (Venezuala).
Now the European countries are lucky to be part of the EU.
Hilarious. Jokes aside I suspect Madrid is richer but stuck in the middle of the country...so no sea. Is Buenos Aires at the ocean? If it is...it's the better option.
It has been a while since I visited this thread. I reiterate ... parts of Buenos Aires are truly beautiful. But, beauty only has so much value if you can't make a living. And, that's the quandry Argentinians face on a daily basis (though, admittedly, much less so than in a total mess like Caracas). All the beautiful beaux-arts buildings in the world can't fix Argentina's economic mess. And, pretending to be a first-world city in the third- (at best, second-) world does nothing to address the issue. I would love to visit Buenos Aires, but I really have to wonder how nice it would be to walk down any of the streets adjacent to the the beautiful boulevards in the photos. It's like Rio De Janeiro ... Leblon's nice, but God forbid you walk a few blocks into the favelas.
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