I live in Urquiza, not very far at all from Saavedra. Our barrio is mostly houses and small apartment buildings (ie 6 floors or less). While people have bars on their windows, a lot of houses don't really even have much of a fence (especially some of the houses near the parks by the highway, a lot seem surprisingly exposed).
I also consider the area safe, however I will tell you that last night at about quarter to 7 in the evening -- about the same time I'm expecting my husband home -- it appears someone tried to force their way in. I didn't even think anything of it at the time -- we live in a 3 storey townhouse -- when you go in the front door there is the garage and a storage area, then you go up a flight of stairs, there's another door, and you're in the living/kitchen area. So I was in the living room with our toddler playing, heard the door downstairs trying to be opened and assumed it was my husband. When he didn't come in I assumed he must have gone to the almacen or something. 20 mins later I see him down in the drive getting out of his car, and go out on the balcony to ask if he just got here -- yes he says. Then he couldn't even get the door open -- I went downstairs and tried to let him in from my side. We have two locks -- a top bolt -- which was locked and I had forgotten to take my key out so he could open from the outside, so I would have had to open for him anyway -- and the bottom lock that triggers the latch -- when I tried to open this one the bolt would only slide part way and then jammed. I had to let him in via the garage door, and this morning we changed the lock -- the locksmith said that definitely someone had tried to force it. So really I was lucky I had the bolt on as well. We only lock the door between the living and downstairs entrance at night -- but like I say, this was about quarter to 7 -- I'm starting to think maybe I should have it locked during the day too. There's no way this was a mistake of one of the neighbours putting their key in the wrong door -- there's only 4 townhouses in the building, 2 have entrances around the corner, we are the entrance right on the corner, and then you have two garages between our front door and our neighbours.
Saavedra is safe too -- but believe me, it's had it's share of break-ins as well. In this city if you ask enough people, you'll find at least one family that's had a break-in -- and when I say enough people, you really only need to ask about 8-10. I've heard of more and more break-ins in Palermo as well, it's a problem in the entire city, the federal govt won't do anything about it because they like to make sure Macri looks bad, and Macri's Metropolitana -- who, by the way, patrol my neighbourhood all the time since we're only a few blocks from headquarters -- have pretty much 0 power. It's a fact of life here, you need to be vigilant, and always be careful locking your door and looking before you open it -- and it's a lot better to be rude to someone and NOT let them into your building, then potentially let a thief enter (many "thieves" entering buildings are extremely well dressed, I'd rather potentially be rude to the true friend of a neighbour than let my building be victim to a robbery).
I also consider the area safe, however I will tell you that last night at about quarter to 7 in the evening -- about the same time I'm expecting my husband home -- it appears someone tried to force their way in. I didn't even think anything of it at the time -- we live in a 3 storey townhouse -- when you go in the front door there is the garage and a storage area, then you go up a flight of stairs, there's another door, and you're in the living/kitchen area. So I was in the living room with our toddler playing, heard the door downstairs trying to be opened and assumed it was my husband. When he didn't come in I assumed he must have gone to the almacen or something. 20 mins later I see him down in the drive getting out of his car, and go out on the balcony to ask if he just got here -- yes he says. Then he couldn't even get the door open -- I went downstairs and tried to let him in from my side. We have two locks -- a top bolt -- which was locked and I had forgotten to take my key out so he could open from the outside, so I would have had to open for him anyway -- and the bottom lock that triggers the latch -- when I tried to open this one the bolt would only slide part way and then jammed. I had to let him in via the garage door, and this morning we changed the lock -- the locksmith said that definitely someone had tried to force it. So really I was lucky I had the bolt on as well. We only lock the door between the living and downstairs entrance at night -- but like I say, this was about quarter to 7 -- I'm starting to think maybe I should have it locked during the day too. There's no way this was a mistake of one of the neighbours putting their key in the wrong door -- there's only 4 townhouses in the building, 2 have entrances around the corner, we are the entrance right on the corner, and then you have two garages between our front door and our neighbours.
Saavedra is safe too -- but believe me, it's had it's share of break-ins as well. In this city if you ask enough people, you'll find at least one family that's had a break-in -- and when I say enough people, you really only need to ask about 8-10. I've heard of more and more break-ins in Palermo as well, it's a problem in the entire city, the federal govt won't do anything about it because they like to make sure Macri looks bad, and Macri's Metropolitana -- who, by the way, patrol my neighbourhood all the time since we're only a few blocks from headquarters -- have pretty much 0 power. It's a fact of life here, you need to be vigilant, and always be careful locking your door and looking before you open it -- and it's a lot better to be rude to someone and NOT let them into your building, then potentially let a thief enter (many "thieves" entering buildings are extremely well dressed, I'd rather potentially be rude to the true friend of a neighbour than let my building be victim to a robbery).