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La Boca really sucks. If I didn't have an elderly mother in law there, I would never go. The people who live there are very frustrated and feel helpless against the criminal element.
 
I have been coming to Buenos Aires for 10+ years and have never been to La Boca because my husband considers it dangerous. :p

This coming from someone who has lived in provincia his whole life and the area in which we live (provincia, tres de febrero) isn't the nicest, either.
 
I too went to the show. It was very nice, not gorgeous as I expected, but ok. To return home, I was about an hour and a half to get out, it was a traffic hell, most of the time on Necochea street. La Boca is ugly, scary, dangerous. I was afraid, and now that I read what happened to you I confirm my thoughts. Sorry to hear this story.
 
Hey Esteban, hope you're doing a bit better now.

Yes these things can happen in any big city, it would be naive to think otherwise. It's also naive not to realize it's happening, anecdotally, to more and more people that I personally know in BsAs. Things are cyclical and Argentina may well some day once more become an economic wonderland and a nice place to be, but if I'm honest, that's not going to be soon. I know in my 9 months living there I only saw it getting worse. Saw a couple get robbed by motochorros a half a block in front of me in my last few weeks there.

And while I don't love Argentina, and thus left it, I certainly empathize with people who do love it, or call it home and have to constantly weigh the situation against what they want the city to be. It's like LA in the early 90s or NYC in the 80s. I myself love Mexico, in particular Guadalajara, but based on friends' anecdotes, petty crime is getting worse there as well as the economic recession finally hits them much delayed. Makes me wonder if I would go back there. I'm not saying you should be careless and stupid anywhere, but constant vigilance day after day after day degrades quality of life.

As I said, I hope you're already doing better Esteban and that with more time you will be able to collect your thoughts and process everything. Yes, it was 100 pesos, but being robbed and violently threatened is more traumatic than even people realize. Please, stay safe all of you.
 
Very sorry to hear that. La Boca never gives me good experience, I was either robbed or given a fake note. I decide not to visit la Boca anymore.
 
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