6/10: De tour to the World's Best City of Buenos Aires 🇦🇷 👑
Buenos Aires was not on my original itinerary, but an opporunity came for me to visit a friend there and I embraced it.
Following my visit to underdeloped Paraguay and third-world Bolivia, I didn't expect much from Buenos Aires. Especially knowing Argentina's history of repeated inflationary (and hyperinflationary) episodes. But man, how wrong I was! This city was absolutely fantastic! It is a beautiful modern European-like city.
There were billboards saying something like "The best city in the world". You can argue what is the definition of "the best city", but Buenos Aires is undoutedly one of the world's most vibrant and exciting cities globally. Why so? Because:
- 🏛️🌳 Classic European architecture
- 🏃♂️🌿 Huge paks to play, do sports, hand out
- 🍷🎶 Countless high quality restaurants, bars, cafes, events
- 🚌🚆 Extensive public transportation network
- ☀️💨 Real "buenos aires" (meaning "clean air" in Spanish). It felt so refreshing after La Paz!
All of these benefits come at a cost. Buenos Aires is way more expensive than Bolivia and Paraguay. I would say cost of living is comparable to Madrid. But you get what you pay for. And in Buenos Aires, you get order, beauty, and vibes you can't find in many other places.
[!Warning] My impressions are from downtown Buenos Aires. Since the city's population is 3 million and the metropolitan population 13 million, there are neighbourhoods which are unimpressive, sketchy, and outright dangerous.
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Lastly on Buenos Aires, since the election of Xavier Milei, Argentina has been changing. Milei positioned himself of as a right-wing libertarian. In reality, it seems to me he is much more of an extravagant middle manager for the globalist cabal of the World Economic Forum, the International (enslavement) Monetary Fund, and the banking establishment. While Mile's government has lowered inflation and made life somewhat better for locals, my understanding is that he is introducing laws which will facilitate the financial terrorism, asset-stripping, and economic enslavement of Argentina similar to playbook which has been applied in much of the EUSSR, USASSR and "the west". The Argentinian future does not seem super bright to me... though I deeply hope I am proven wrong!