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Ciudad ViejaThis forum post is dated 05/17/10. If you feel it is old or outdated, please follow up with a question or comment and someone may be able to update it, or reply with newer information if you have it.
| Ciudad Vieja I've never been to Uruguay nor Montevideo but I have had experience of living in cities where re-gentrification has taken place in delaborated neighbourhoods (Toronto's Cabbage-Town, Montreal's Vieux Montreal, Québec's Basse Ville etc.). Real estate prices may be enticing but what you want to suss out is whether or not there are conveniences and neighbours close to hand. It's one thing to have bought a bijou of an appartment but if the closest place to buy gorceries or do your laundry is blocks away, it mayn't have been such a great find after all. Or worse yet, you're constantly vandalised because the demographic balance between those who respect the law and those who break it hasn't reached a critical mass in favour of the former, as opposed to the latter. Deserted, uninhabited streets are a magnet for delinquent behaviour, no matter how civic minded the population of a city may be. And sadly, law enforcement is usually found where people are and not where crime is. |
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