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I will quote you MoonShot because you are succinct in your responses. I would add: it helps to be freshly showered and well soaped in the crevices. Brush your teeth and buy a bottle of Listerine. It...

Our good friend and underground reporter Osteoknot shared an idea that hasn't been mentioned. If you book your hotels or apartments with booking.com and have some level of history with them you can...

I can hardly imagine paying a taxi driver with a 50 mil bill either. If you go from Nequi in Bello to La Estrella, I doubt you would get a fare up to 50 mil. Not really the point though. People with...

How in the world did a taxi driver give you a 50,000 (50 mil) note? What did you give him? The 100 mil note didn't come out until 2016. No one in their right mind should give a taxi driver a 100 mil...

You might just walk into a branch take a number and wait your turn and the bank will gladly turn your 100 K or 50 K bills into 20 Ks or 10 Ks.

Very good point and an embarrassing pitfall to avoid. We could also distinguish "A ella, me gusta" vs "A ella, me cae bien" but I doubt anyone here knows. Or cares.

I don't think you understood the point. No puedo esperar means I can't wait.

The app doesn't know that you are using an English idiom. The way to express your excitement is to say "Estoy...

Your best course is to speak Spanish at least at a conversational level. But, that isn't going to be possible for you this trip. Just remember something about Google Translate. Don't try to be clever...

I use DiDi and have never had a bad experience. I also have no qualms about grabbing a taxi if it is more convenient.

DESERVE might have been a rather strong choice of words but his point isn't far off. It is Darwinian natural selection in our modern world. People who come to Colombia to monger or do drugs without...

You should practice your manners, especially with people here on the forum who have spent far more time in country than you have. I don't doubt that you spoke to Colombian officials BUT:

1. You...

Yeah I read that on GringoPaisa (a Facebook group) I listened to the video and didn't hear anything remotely like what was said on that page. I heard lots of gasps and screams but not anyone urging...

Yeah, like New Orleans in July. Uggga Muggga.

With respect, the inability to communicate easily in Spanish does not "exponentially" increase your chances of being a victim. I think it is something different, a lack of understanding the culture,...

I would say they are basically equivalent. The risk of getting drugged and / or robbed is proportional to your level of common sense. You won't get drugged like in a movie. You get drugged when...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_homicide_rate

Medellin didn't even make the top 50.

I could not agree with you more. As a young teenager growing up on a farm in New Mexico there were illegals coming up from Mexico to work. There were all sorts of derogatory names people called them....

With all due respect you probably should hold off coming to Medellin for a year and use that time to really read the forum. I'm not talking about the last trip and not knowing the fair market price...

How many of these fine upstanding tourists would wear their bling and pull out their iPhone 15's in the worst ghetto section of their respective cities? How many would go strolling alone in those...

This might not apply to you, who knows. But Schwab says that if you are traveling abroad it is a good idea to set a travel notice. It will lessen the chance of a transaction being declined because of...

$300 is $1,200,000 COP I don't quite know what happened. I proof-read before posting.

$300 is 200,000 Colombian Pesos. I know a few girls that might get that much one or twice a month but consistently? Probably can count the number of girls who can pull that in on a consistent basis...

With respect. If you did a search you would find that the topic of "How To FaceBook" has been discussed many times and there is a complete guide in the 'Links to Reports of Distinction' section. Go...

Don't know the girl so I can tell you if it is "worth it" but she is asking almost 3 times the norm for a really delicious hot girl. You obviously don't know Spanish and your translator app, while...

Like many things in many places the most obvious way to get something not widely available is to offer up an incentive. How much? How bad to you want it?

I have a friend who has the same...