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Well, Argentina is (basically) half-Italian, so...
Actually the first google street view of buenos aires posted above look strangely familiar to me, but more like southern france than like italy. I don't think it looks particularly austere, it mostly looks very pedestrian friendly and makes it look like social life happens on the street and that houses are more private and rarely open to the street, like it sometimes happens in some parts of southern france.
The Boston view is great but it's also a different kind of austerity.
Actually the first google street view of buenos aires posted above look strangely familiar to me, but more like southern france than like italy. I don't think it looks particularly austere, it mostly looks very pedestrian friendly and makes it look like social life happens on the street and that houses are more private and rarely open to the street, like it sometimes happens in some parts of southern france.
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I don't know which picture you are referring to, but yes some sections of Buenos Aires are actually more French-style than Italian-style. Bs As has a reputation for being the Paris of South America, after all.
As I said, often the nicer parts of town are more convivial and feel less fortified.
If you look in Andalucia and Canary Islands, where most Spaniards were from that settled all over Spanish America, you will see houses surrounded by walls and gates regardless if neighborhood is nice or not. Having bars on windows and wall surrounding cement homes is a Spanish tradition taken to all Spanish America. Now they also add electrified wire or barbed wire on top for security reasons, but it has always been a part of Spanish tradition. Even ways cities are made is very similar to whats goes on in Spain.
Go to any Spanish city in Google Street View to see it, if you haven’t been to Spain in person.
I said it's "lower middle class" because on the 1-6 socioeconomic scale for neighbourhoods used by the Colombian govt, this hood was considered "3". But it's just plain middle class. People living here is mostly people with stable jobs (something not so common in Colombia), retirees, bussiness owners etc. Hence, they can afford a car.
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