A tale o two cities

I am sure this has been discussed before, but I want to bring it up again here according to my recent trips experiences.

In the second half of 2016, I made 3 trips to Colombia. First 2 were to Medellin and the last one in Dec. To Bogota. In my own comparison between the 2 biggest cities in Colombia, Medellin comes out on top on most of them. But I have to say that for mongering, Bogota is my city choice. I know most of us are flocking to Medellin for its weather, more economical costs, ease of navigating the City. , and many members here are long-time residents of Medellin. I do agree that MED is a better, easier and cheaper place to live. I would choose MDE to live over BOG as well. But I found Bogota is a much bigger and better playground for mongers.

We had a recent discussion here on authority trying to clean up sex tourism in Poblado, and our concern of being labeled as sex tourist. I saw in many store, caf or restaurants while there, the "refuse sex tourism" sign, and I did get asked suspiciously about why I came to Medellin a couple times in MED by local forks, although I did have legitimate reason for my trips. In BOG, nobody cares about why you are there. I went out with my 21 year-old spinner to eat, to dance, and we never got any attention. You just blend in easily in a City so diverse and will never get noticed.

There are so many venues in Bogota one can venture out while the options in MED kind of runs out in about a week. To my knowledge, there is probably no establishments like M1 and M2 in Poblado that provide the convenience of all-in-one package in BOG, so for non-Spanish speaking folks, there is that advantage using their services. But I found in BOG, there are a lot more people with English skill. You might still need Spanish if you want to conduct a longer conversation with the chicas, but the language factor is not as critical as in MED.

I also felt that Chicas in BOG, especially working chicas are very adopted to expats. Maybe there are so many of them around. They view you as a foreigner who might be their neighbors or somebody who works in the area, instead of a guy travel for distance to find the establishments. And since it is the Capital much larger in size and population, the choice and variety are so profound, not just Paisas. All my encounters with chicas in BOG were all very good GFE, and I even keep contact with a couple of them almost on a daily basis who are looking forward to seeing me again when I return.

I posted my trip report in BOG thread, but I post this comparison here in MED thread to see what other members think.