Thinking about moving to Colombia, anyone been?
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I haven't been to Columbia no, but I have met a lot of people who have been.
If anything, it's a place of extremes - some cities are very warm whilst others are cold due to altitude. That's about the extent that I can tell you. Like most countries in South America, I imagine you will find a lot of wealth surprisingly close to a lot of poverty.
Also, I wouldn't move to South America unless your Spanish (or Portuguese if appropriate) was in decent form!
Sorry for my inability to help!
If anything, it's a place of extremes - some cities are very warm whilst others are cold due to altitude. That's about the extent that I can tell you. Like most countries in South America, I imagine you will find a lot of wealth surprisingly close to a lot of poverty.
Also, I wouldn't move to South America unless your Spanish (or Portuguese if appropriate) was in decent form!
Sorry for my inability to help!
I went to Colombia back in the early 1990s.....Bogota had bad pollution, hookers and dealers just about everywhere, more people seemed to live on the streets and in abandoned cars than in the buildings and there was piles of rubbish in the streets and as We walked past one there was a body lying in it....told the police who shrugged and said if we didn't kill him then what business was it of ours where a man chooses to die! Charming.
It was one messed up Country back then, although I hear it has cleaned up a lot since and I wouldn't mind revisiting the country now as a tourist.
Where about in Colombia are you thinking of?
It was one messed up Country back then, although I hear it has cleaned up a lot since and I wouldn't mind revisiting the country now as a tourist.
Where about in Colombia are you thinking of?
I was in Bogota for two weeks ten years ago, I loved it, BUT, def very dangerous, I stayed with a friend who worked with American oil company and had a decent safe place to stay, armed guards etc, one house across the road had a dude sittin on a chair with a shotgun and an Alsatian outside all day lol, and this was within a gated community , " pubs" we're amazing, lovely climate in Bogota, springlike all the time as despite being near the equator it's at altitude. In bars u bought a sealed bottle of spirits to avoid gettin spiked as this was common apparently, fantastic Latin vibe though
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Never been, but I did just watch a episode of Banged up abroad, regarding some drug trafficking from Columbia. Safe to say, don't swallow a kilo of cocaine and expect not to have issues!
A lot like Glasgow then.
Because not everyone wants to go to SE Asia like everyone else?
All I know about Colombia is from the three guys on my course, however we didn't really talk about Colombia much, although apparently there isn't much London Pride there...
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Yeah, this was my first thought. What attracts you to the place Ahleckz?
Why?
EDIT: Not that I don't think moving away is a bad idea at all. I've got a little project on until September, but if that doesn't go the way I'm planning on then I'm probably going to do the same. I'm just wondering why Colombia.
EDIT: Not that I don't think moving away is a bad idea at all. I've got a little project on until September, but if that doesn't go the way I'm planning on then I'm probably going to do the same. I'm just wondering why Colombia.
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Do it, what a life experience it would be.
Would love to do something like this.
Would love to do something like this.