Hey Early Retirement
I´ve been coming to BsAs on and off since I was 2 years old, but I´ve only really been able to go around on my own since I was 15.
(c) between three years ago and now, it has been pretty much the same IMO. People rob you, all the time, very efficiently. It´s worse if you are not careful, or if you stand out. My Argentine cousin got robbed with his son in the house by pros, stole a couple hundred grand out of the safe. Didn´t touch the kid (18-19). My older family members are constantly being robbed, having their things stolen, rims, CD players. My younger cousins occasionally get robbed when they are being stupid, like crossing the train tracks in belgrano at 3 in the morning, or leaving their car doors unlocked, or wearing jewelry out in the open.
I look and talk like an ¨argentine¨ and only a few times have people tried to pickpocket me. Same with my brother. I´ve never felt unsafe, however. I mean I am completely aware of what could happen in certain situations, but never am I crapping myself out of fear that someone will physically hurt me. I know that when people come up to me it´s to take something, and not put me in the hospital. It´s a different feeling of insecurity. Of course, take in to consideration my point of view, I don´t own a house or car or that much money even. I am a younger person, I understand the feeling of insecurity increases with age, and ethnicity. As a younger person in the states, there is a huge rise in violence within the youth, and although some people don´t see it, myself and others do, and it´s not because I ride with gangstaz and hoodrats. In argentina, IMO, crime is produced by people wanting money, the system being easily abused, and intelligent people being able to easily abuse this easily abusable system...if that makes sense. In the states, a lot of the crime is produced by the EGO, and probably all the television, videogames, brainwashing, and weird drugs we keep giving children.
