Actually, a lot of the trash does not get picked up - it's already blown around the streets because it's been sitting out for hours like this. Except in Recoleta, as was mentioned, where they have guys walking around at night with brooms cleaning things up.
So instead of saying that the government should make things a little less fascist* and more open market, less corrupt, etc, or whatever they think might help to give more opportunites to more people, someone says "oh, the trash in the streets is actually a good thing because the REALLY, REALLY poor can recycle the dregs of crap from those not as poor or even well off."
It seems to me an apologist attitude at best. The city is what it is. I see one side that basically takes umbrage to anything at all detrimental to the Reputation of The City. Even garbage in the streets is ok!
Most of us who are talking about the lesser side of life here are simply mentioning the other side of things from those who have their heads in the clouds and think that everything here is gloriously golden. Yes, some of this bothers us - but it doesn't mean we hate Buenos Aires. Far from it in my case.
Frankly, I'm getting tired of people popping in on the extreme side of things and saying "if you don't like the city why don't you leave?" (I'm not saying everyone who is apologizing for the city is saying that).
I find it interesting that on a forum for EXPATS in Buenos Aires, a place where we can all get together and help each other survive a little better an experience that isn't always easy, that we keep getting criticized and told to leave because we talk about the things that bother us.
Get real guys! Those who find the city perfect in every way, that find no issues whatsoever or that can let whatever does bother them slide right off and keep smiling - GOOD FOR YOU! I bow to you, you are obviously better evolved than we who find issues and need to talk about them. You are the people who are saint material and I congratulate you all for being so good.
So let the rest of us who have not attained sainthood deal with our mortal issues in peace without telling us to get out!
* I say this because the government is openly Peronist and Peron was a Mussolini disciple and if the Kirchners had their way they would have Brownshirts openly intimidating candidates from other parties to ensure they stayed in as complete power as possible.
So instead of saying that the government should make things a little less fascist* and more open market, less corrupt, etc, or whatever they think might help to give more opportunites to more people, someone says "oh, the trash in the streets is actually a good thing because the REALLY, REALLY poor can recycle the dregs of crap from those not as poor or even well off."
It seems to me an apologist attitude at best. The city is what it is. I see one side that basically takes umbrage to anything at all detrimental to the Reputation of The City. Even garbage in the streets is ok!
Most of us who are talking about the lesser side of life here are simply mentioning the other side of things from those who have their heads in the clouds and think that everything here is gloriously golden. Yes, some of this bothers us - but it doesn't mean we hate Buenos Aires. Far from it in my case.
Frankly, I'm getting tired of people popping in on the extreme side of things and saying "if you don't like the city why don't you leave?" (I'm not saying everyone who is apologizing for the city is saying that).
I find it interesting that on a forum for EXPATS in Buenos Aires, a place where we can all get together and help each other survive a little better an experience that isn't always easy, that we keep getting criticized and told to leave because we talk about the things that bother us.
Get real guys! Those who find the city perfect in every way, that find no issues whatsoever or that can let whatever does bother them slide right off and keep smiling - GOOD FOR YOU! I bow to you, you are obviously better evolved than we who find issues and need to talk about them. You are the people who are saint material and I congratulate you all for being so good.
So let the rest of us who have not attained sainthood deal with our mortal issues in peace without telling us to get out!
* I say this because the government is openly Peronist and Peron was a Mussolini disciple and if the Kirchners had their way they would have Brownshirts openly intimidating candidates from other parties to ensure they stayed in as complete power as possible.
