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Porteros Helpful or Privacy Invaders?
| Porteros Helpful or Privacy Invaders? If you live in an apartment building (condo) that has a portero, he or she seems to know everything there is to know about you. Your coming and goings. Your friends. Your enemies! Everything!Is that an invasion of privacy, or do the services and security they offer outweigh the gossiping (chismoso)? What has been your best and your worst experience with a portero? |
| "snobbery!"
I really don't like the feeling of life in Pocitos. I can understand that some people like to have their door opened for them, like to be helped with their shopping or know where to go if they have a leak or maintenance problem, and some people like the security of having someone at their front door in the evenings...but I think all this does come at the expense of privacy and freedom.They know who visits you and when, they handle all your post, they say who can and can't use the front door (many buildings have "policies" that workers such as house cleaners, plumbers etc must use a separate entrance, exit and elevator!). Those kinds of attitudes really put me off living in the area. In centro (where I live) if a friend visits me for a few minutes and they have a bicycle they can leave it in the hall and nobody has a problem. In Pocitos thats a big no no. All the buildings have these big lobbies and the big gastos communes cover the cost of cleaning these everyday - WHO USES THESE SPACES?! It is so pointless! If we go back to the day when neighbours used to know each other, help each other out, look after each other...who needs a porter?! |
Comment #212/05/09 03:22In Montevideo - but from Germany | "Is it true ? where ?"
sigh ... no more stumbling over dirty mountain bikes in spotlessly clean doorways and tastefully furnished lobbies. No more babbling employees loitering around the hall, disturbing the sacred stillness of luxury. No more transpiring cleaners, plumbers and insurance agents daring the capacity limits of elevators and social acceptance. Vast and empty spaces, offering a glimpse of eternity, full of inspiring marble and well groomed bonsai-trees. Living in the anonymity of empty apartments used for money laundering. No neighbors of questionable provenance and an always subservient portero anticipating even the most exclusive wish ... and the gastos communes covering it all- cleaning ever day - without subsequent payment. WHERE IS IT, THIS PARADISE ? for a visit of this apartment and simultaneous screening of the cleaner, please get in touch with me through my profile. |
Comment #312/05/09 03:35In Montevideo - but from Germany | "and of course ..."
... certainly no objection to some guaranteed filthy, intimated, yet si much more entertaining gossip in case the cable television service gets interrupted miraculously again ... for days ... and again |
Comment #412/05/09 09:18Rural east Colonia departmento | "Nosey neighbours"
You don't have portero problems if you live in the campo... your neighbours will take on the gossiping tasks for free :-) |
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