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Sounded pretty snarky to me.
Just for shits and giggles, I looked up what a plain jane haircut costs in the rural agricultural area where I live in the USA.
Great Clips, the chain with 4400 franchises in the US, and which is based on low cost, affordable prices, starts at $26 . That’s roughly 40,000 pesos.
Me, I dont pay for haircuts up north, because a few years ago I built 16 custom stations for a friend who owns a salon , and gave her a good deal, so she wont let me pay.
One interesting thing- I can always recognize a tourist or expat in Argentina by two things- bad haircuts and dirty shoes.
Argentines are impeccable about both.
I often walk by dumpsters in Retiro, and see inhabitants of the villa pop out, covered in literal garbage. With snappy fades that are no more than a week old.
I see homeless people on the street, and their 20,000 peso addidas knockoffs are clean and neat.
I was driving way up in the dry andes, 30 km from the nearest town, no human artifacts visible for miles, turn a corner and there is a teenager with a hundred goats. As warren zevon would say, his hair was perfect. And while he was wearing a llama poncho, the fake air jordans below glowed white like the clouds.
Even the pampas hippies have styled their dreads…
Barber shops are a big thing in Argentina, and then you see the tourists going on $30,000 antarctic cruises, wearing a thousand dollars of Patagonia brand clothes, with pockets on their goddamn hats, and they have the crappiest haircuts you can imagine, and scuffed up $300 dollar expedition sandals.
Argentines shake their heads in wonder.
Priorities.
Just for shits and giggles, I looked up what a plain jane haircut costs in the rural agricultural area where I live in the USA.
Great Clips, the chain with 4400 franchises in the US, and which is based on low cost, affordable prices, starts at $26 . That’s roughly 40,000 pesos.
Me, I dont pay for haircuts up north, because a few years ago I built 16 custom stations for a friend who owns a salon , and gave her a good deal, so she wont let me pay.
One interesting thing- I can always recognize a tourist or expat in Argentina by two things- bad haircuts and dirty shoes.
Argentines are impeccable about both.
I often walk by dumpsters in Retiro, and see inhabitants of the villa pop out, covered in literal garbage. With snappy fades that are no more than a week old.
I see homeless people on the street, and their 20,000 peso addidas knockoffs are clean and neat.
I was driving way up in the dry andes, 30 km from the nearest town, no human artifacts visible for miles, turn a corner and there is a teenager with a hundred goats. As warren zevon would say, his hair was perfect. And while he was wearing a llama poncho, the fake air jordans below glowed white like the clouds.
Even the pampas hippies have styled their dreads…
Barber shops are a big thing in Argentina, and then you see the tourists going on $30,000 antarctic cruises, wearing a thousand dollars of Patagonia brand clothes, with pockets on their goddamn hats, and they have the crappiest haircuts you can imagine, and scuffed up $300 dollar expedition sandals.
Argentines shake their heads in wonder.
Priorities.
