i think i've just become allergic to big cities
😛 i'm sooooo sick of people asking me for money when i'm sitting on a patio eating. it boils my blood that they can mess with you, but if they were eating at home they would be pissed if you knocked on their door and asked for money. relating-wise, i don't think people from rural Midwest areas would relate better to a huge Metro area like CABA, but for sure they'd have a better chance of hearing English spoken in BsAs. but i've always thought if you want to move somewhere, you should assimilate and learn the language
😀 so far, i found a giant 3-bedroom/2-bathroom house 13 mins from the main upscale street of Mendoza for $750/month USD via Zelle, month-to-month, so we'll see how it goes. it's -3C to 11C this week, but even today when it said it was 10C (50F) on my weather app, with no wind and fierce sunshine, i was tanning shirtless in the backyard. so it just really isn't that cold (of course when the sun goes down you need a hoodie to go to the store).
maybe just less European ancestry, so some kind of Native American/Inca style of body types that are prone to collecting fat with the 21st-century processed grains and sugars diets that are the only things sold in the kiosks? no idea. sometimes it's jsut poverty that causes people to eat like sh*t because the calorie-dense but nutrition-devoid foods are the cheapest (same as in the USA).
having a small house is definitely nice with a backyard versus having a 9th-floor apartment that your dog has to pee on a piece of artificial turf on the balcony drain...but here south of Mendoza in this poor area by the vineyards there are loose/wild/whatever dogs EVERYWHERE, so my dog actually hasn't left the house since we got here a couple weeks ago. he's used to running 3-6 miles with me at least twice a week, so i've had to throw tennis balls in the small backyard and exercise him that way, which is annoying and takes time. i'll soon be by
@Vince's favorite
mendocino park, where my pup will be frolicking like a crazy...i ran the city center 3 times now, and there are almost no dogs (very similar to the nice areas of CABA like Belgrano and Palermo). obviously as you get away from the downtown areas, more and more dogs appear. i find it strange that Argentina is so developed in so many ways, and claims to have a sanitary superiority with their bidets and all that, but the amount of Argentines who 'own' a dog (has a collar, they feed it, leave a water bowl out, it lays in front of their house, goes in and out of the yard) yet allow it to just roam around the streets is crazy! i know the dogs are smart, but every time i see a dead one on a highway, i think: 'man, how could that have been prevented?' - also, those dogs are chasing scooters and cyclists, and sometimes me when i run, so i can't be the only one that kicks them. why own a dog if you don't spend time with it and it is at risk for getting hurt and also it bothers people? very different culturally from the USA, even the country folk that have working dogs or outside-sleeping dogs.
fun fact i just realized when one of my old friends sent me a photo of a weekend trip: the area of Mendocino California has the same name as the adjective for someone from Mendoza,
mendocino. i know it's all probably from Spain, but i thought it was pretty interesting my friend was in Mendocino at the same time i just got to Mendoza. travel really is cool to compare things and learn about the world.
en.wikipedia.org
hm, i haven't found this so far. General Paz in Cordoba was pretty similar to BsAs. outside of the Palermo/Crespo/Belgrano/Nunez area (i'd say Recoleta, but the amount of weirdos near the tourist stuff and the train station make me hate Recoleta with all the beggar Peronists always lurking around), CABA has a ton of dog crap everywhere and tons of trash just like NYC. so far in Mendoza downtown, the trash seems a LOT less, prices are a little lower, parking is less crazy, less traffic, air seems cleaner, cars yield a little bit more, and there aren't cops riding around doubled-up on motorcycles with shotguns in their hands
😛 i'll leave a review after 3 months, but i'm not really seeing anything that BsAs has that Mendoza
doesn't, other than a huge population. flights are more expensive, and have to route through SCL or EZE, most of the time. what did that ex-wife say was the best part of Mendoza?
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money/Twitter wise: i'm going to predict, based on nothing at all, that we saw the highest USD/Peso exchange rate yesterday. today's MEP:
www.ambito.com
