Stupid shit in Medellin

[Mtndew704]

I am genuinely curious to know what folks find so great about Mexican food. I have tried it in many countries, and been to Mexico itself 5 or 6 times. Whenever I have Mexican food I always get the feeling the menu is just a study on how many different ways a restaurant can serve up 5 or 6 ingredients. Cheese / beans / tortilla / sour cream / pico / jalepenos. Plus it always tastes like fast food.

What am I missing?

I love tacos and all types of them so that's the biggest draw for me.

[JustTK]

The food alone is worth the trip to CDMX.

I am genuinely curious to know what folks find so great about Mexican food. I have tried it in many countries, and been to Mexico itself 5 or 6 times. Whenever I have Mexican food I always get the feeling the menu is just a study on how many different ways a restaurant can serve up 5 or 6 ingredients. Cheese / beans / tortilla / sour cream / pico / jalepenos. Plus it always tastes like fast food.

What am I missing?

[Villainy]

I already explained why loan participation dividends were going to go up, and you are so fucking stupid or demented, you are clueless as to why. You bragged about two investment classes that get crushed with higher interest rates and I suggested one that does well when rates go up.

I guess I could have anticipated your post. Everyone who doesn't agree with you is "fucking stupid or demented". I tried to explain to you that REITs have a wide variety of specializations. Some do well in some economic environments some do well in others. Only an uninformed blowhard would think that they all preform the same. Oh well, I guess it is impossible to enlighten someone who can't read.

You are so fucking stupid you do not even know the conditions that benefit your own investments.

You have an opinion on everything don't you? You don't have any idea what investments I own other than a general idea about certain groupings. Within each group there are hundreds of possibilities but you "know" which they are and how they perform.

If you think interest rates stay high or are going higher, like I do, and you need income, you buy loan participation funds. If you want to take on more risk, you go short.

If you think interest rates are going lower, then you want to be in REITs, dividend paying stocks, and bonds. If you want more risk, you go long growth stocks.

Really? Is that what you think? So you are assuming interest rates are going to continue to go higher? How much higher and for how long? One thing that you seem to forget about loan participation funds is that they lend on a variable rate basis. So when rates are climbing they earn more income and thus pay higher dividends. Right? But there is more to the story. What about the borrowers? The companies that are healthy start taking their free cash flow and pay down the variable rate debt first. So you start getting more and more redemptions. What about the businesses that don't do so well and can't afford to pay off their variable rate debt? Well if rates keep climbing they go under and then you are left with some bankruptcies or loans in various stages of default.

It isn't all gravy Elvis. By the way, what is going to happen in late spring 2023? Year over year comparisons will start to decline. Because the base year month had the higher level of inflation. That is unless you think inflation is going to continue at 8+ percent into perpetuity. When rates start moderating, your loan particpation funds will start recording less earnings and therefore less dividends.

So now let us go over how fucking stupid your comment is about dividends in loan participation funds going down. The dividends go down when interest rates go down. Did you say that? No. Did you make a prediction based on interest rates? No. Do you know what the market is predicting with regards to interest rates in 2023 and 2024? No.
You are so fucking stupid that you make no case that loan participation dividends have to go down outside of your own fucking ego.

Yes Loan Participation Funds start paying smaller dividends when rates are coming down AND when they start recording large redemptions and defaults. Apparently you forgot about those factors. Which shouldn't be a surprise, since you were jumping up and down about some LPF that had rising dividends but also had a drop in share price. You then admitted you didn't even own it.

Do you own any LPCs?

I'll try to remind you of something. Calling someone, who doesn't agree with you a "fucking idiot" doesn't make your argument any stronger. It is the sign of someone who is uneducated and can't reason intelligently.

[Elvis 2008]

You make suggestions that are devoid of any reasonable or logical basis.

LOL. You just described yourself.

That would be great. IF it was sustainable. But maybe you noticed that they pay a monthly dividend and it varies depending on earnings. So it almost quadrupled for these two months. But is it a sustainable dividend? The obvious answer is that it is not. So color me unimpressed.

I already explained why loan participation dividends were going to go up, and you are so fucking stupid or demented, you are clueless as to why. You bragged about two investment classes that get crushed with higher interest rates and I suggested one that does well when rates go up.

And you can't even begin to point to any reason to expect a more successful year in 2023 or 2024.

You are so fucking stupid you do not even know the conditions that benefit your own investments.

If you think interest rates stay high or are going higher, like I do, and you need income, you buy loan participation funds. If you want to take on more risk, you go short.

If you think interest rates are going lower, then you want to be in REITs, dividend paying stocks, and bonds. If you want more risk, you go long growth stocks.

And V, you are so fucking stupid that you think these statements you think these statements are up for debate.

So now let us go over how fucking stupid your comment is about dividends in loan participation funds going down. The dividends go down when interest rates go down. Did you say that? No. Did you make a prediction based on interest rates? No. Do you know what the market is predicting with regards to interest rates in 2023 and 2024? No.

You are so fucking stupid that you make no case that loan participation dividends have to go down outside of your own fucking ego.

And no, I am not interested in listening to some dumb shit who thinks what he bought is going up and has no reason or a stupid reason as to why. If you buy something and have no case made for why it has to go up, that is not skill. It is luck.

And I have seen not one speck of skill from you V. Not one speck. You do not know what the fuck you are doing.

[Villainy]

Never said I bought it. Obviously, you have no clue as to why I posted it.

Yeah, that is what I expected of you. Good luck to you. I think it is best if this is the last word anyone says on the topic.

You never bought it? But you were holding it out as a prime example of your sage advice. Only problem is that it won't even turn a profit in 2022. (Dividends not covering principal loss).

And you can't even begin to point to any reason to expect a more successful year in 2023 or 2024.

I can see why you don't want to discuss it further. You have demonstrated countless times that you don't know the difference between speculating and investing. You make suggestions that are devoid of any reasonable or logical basis. You criticize anyone else who doesn't agree with you with a child-like understanding of fundamentals. And your profound knowledge and expertise comes from watching a clip of Jim Cramer on CNBC.

Yes, Elvis, I can see why you want to end the discussion.

[Elvis 2008]

Your silly comments belie your complete lack of understanding. REITs are frequently very specialized. Some own apartments, some own malls, some shopping centers, some offices, some gambling properties, some single-owner retail, some own hospital properties, some industrial property, some marijuana growing facilities, some self-storage. Are you getting the idea?

No one cares.

I'm up on all but a few of my picks.

I am not sure what that means.

You claim you bought this ETF in April

Never said I bought it. Obviously, you have no clue as to why I posted it.

That would be great. IF it was sustainable. But maybe you noticed that they pay a monthly dividend and it varies depending on earnings. So it almost quadrupled for these two months. But is it a sustainable dividend? The obvious answer is that it is not. So color me unimpressed.

Yeah, that is what I expected of you. Good luck to you. I think it is best if this is the last word anyone says on the topic.

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[Villainy]

And your REITs have been clobbered. Here you are mouthing off again when you lose money. I told you the smart thing to do is buy loan participation funds when the Fed is raising rates. Obviously, you were too stupid to do it. One such fund is SNLN. Since I started talking investing in April, its monthly payout has gone from 3 cents a share to 12 cents a share per month.

Any of your REITs quadrupled their payouts? How about your dividend paying stocks?

Maybe one of these days V you will actually pick an investment that actually does well.

Your silly comments belie your complete lack of understanding. REITs are frequently very specialized. Some own apartments, some own malls, some shopping centers, some offices, some gambling properties, some single-owner retail, some own hospital properties, some industrial property, some marijuana growing facilities, some self-storage. Are you getting the idea?

There are some types that I avoid like the plague. Office REITs for just one example. CoVid initiated a work from home displacement which seems to be continuing, so I have no interest in those types of REITs. I only had one REIT investment coming into 2022 but as inflation rates accelerated I picked several super strong REITs at really attractive prices. I'm up on all but a few of my picks.

But now let's talk about your investment advice. SNLN. You claim you bought this ETF in April when it paid a monthly dividend of $0. 0309 a share and now you're thrilled because the November dividend is $0. 1177 a share. That would be great. IF it was sustainable. But maybe you noticed that they pay a monthly dividend and it varies depending on earnings. So it almost quadrupled for these two months. But is it a sustainable dividend? The obvious answer is that it is not. So color me unimpressed.

Perhaps you looked at the principal change during that same time??

You say you bought it in April (I routinely doubt anything you say with respect to your investments). Well the average price in April 2022 was 15.55 per share. Where is the ETF today? 14.69. That is a 5. 5% drop in value. So when I look at the monthly dividends paid over the last year. It looks like you are going to end the year with a net nothing to show. Dividends not even equal to the drop in price. And yet you wonder why people don't take your investment advice?? Could it be because you are analytically challenged or because just don't know anything??

[Elvis 2008]

Clearly you don't understand Real Estate and why (or how) a REIT (real estate investment trust) is different. You might be the only person I have every encountered from Texas that doesn't understand Real Estate. I could try to explain it to you but you can't read so it would be a waste of time.

And your REITs have been clobbered. Here you are mouthing off again when you lose money. I told you the smart thing to do is buy loan participation funds when the Fed is raising rates. Obviously, you were too stupid to do it. One such fund is SNLN. Since I started talking investing in April, its monthly payout has gone from 3 cents a share to 12 cents a share per month.

Any of your REITs quadrupled their payouts? How about your dividend paying stocks?

Maybe one of these days V you will actually pick an investment that actually does well.

[Mtndew704]

Most of the guys who monger in CDMX probably do not have the time to post a bunch of be. S. On a sex mongering forum. Before visiting CDMX I had the same concerns as you, "how could such a huge Latin American city have so few posts on its' threads? Then I visited it and quickly realized it's not a budget destination and most of the guys mongering there most likely live quite busy lives. I don't think you get the digital nomad sex monger type in CDMX, more like the successful married American / European businessman type who is there for the weekend on business or escaping the wife for a few days. To those types of guys, time is much more important than money. They are not wasting there time posting because they are too occupied with their professional and personal life.

I could really care less what any of you do, but for those looking for a different type of experience and may want to try CDMX one day, for the right type of monger it is certainly worth a visit.

The food alone is worth the trip to CDMX.

[RamDavidson84]

I lived in Mexico from 2015 to 2021 in Tijuana and traveled and mongered extensively in various different Mexican cities and states. I started coming to Colombia is 2018 and last summer I ditched my Tijuana apartment for a better one in Medellin. Anyways since 2020 I started spending more time in Colombia than in Mexico and I believe that Colombia is much better than Mexico for not only mongering but also living, traveling, even food is better in Colombia, and you are correct that everything is much more affordable than in Mexico.

CDMX is a dirty city. I remember back months ago DramaFree, DF would post such great things about DF LOL, but I have spent significant time in El DF and I saw it from a much different perspective. And to correct you there is a street scene in CDMX such as the clocktower, Botero, or Santa Fe and it is where I spent alot of time in Mexico City, it is called la merced, particularly a big wide street with 5 or 6 lanes for care and a chain link fence separating the sidewalks from the streets. This street is called Anillo de Circunvalacion and there are street hookers lined up on both sides of the street and the chain link fence (now a green solid metal structure) anyways it runs from about mixcalco all the way to the mercado de la merced, with short time hoteles inside that market by the metro station. It also runs down Calle San Pablo where they sell the bikes and bike parts and along that pedestrian walkway street where they sell clothes and shoes I want to say it's called corrigedora or some shit. Anyways this area is CDMX's version of Botero. And the women are hideous both in their looks and their attitudes, also many have bad hygiene, many do not shave their their pussies and are hairy as can be, many use a drug called activo that is similar to paint thinner that they sniff LOL. I will take Botero and the vennies and paisas any fucking day over la merced in DF. Also prices are higher and value is lower. Expect to pay the Mexican perras of the merced $200 to 300 mxn if you want them to give a crappy CBJ with their crappy missionary sex. And if you want to see some tetas be prepared to cough up cien pesos mas. A very bad value for very ugly perras and bad service. Also hoteles in the area will run you about $300 mxn a day which is about $15 usd compared to hoteles in medellin around centro run about $40 k COP a day which is like $7. 50 usd so hoteles are twice as much too.

I have also mongered in Tijuana, Puebla, Veracruz (Puerto, Cordoba, and Orizaba), Chiapas (zona galctica, and centro tuxtla), and I've used mileroticos in Cancun. Every time I have paid more in Mexico than in Colombia, everytime the women are worse quality in Mexico than in Colombia, and have bad hygiene and bad attitudes and it feels like they don't really want to do their jobs. And in Colombia there is a plethora of beautiful energetic vennies costeas and paisas that are happy to fuck you with a smile, and many are open to BBFS (alot more than in Mexico) and they don't have the shitty attitudes like in Mexico.

As far as food, Mexican food is good, I especially love the tacos de suadero from the street vendors and birria when I'm. In the north of Mexico, but it does give you the shits there is no question about that. And you can find good Mexican food in Colombia, Medellin has several good Mexican restaurants, but you can't find good Colombian food in Mexico, so as far as price, variety, and not having to shit every 20 mins for 4 hours eating, if say the food winner is Colombia not Mexico.

As far as being more dangerous, and I'm only speaking from my own experience and that probably is different than yours. I would have to say that Mexico is way more dangerous than Colombia. From my time living in Tijuana crossing the border everyday for work, etc. I have seen many fights, 2 of my coworkers in San Diego had gotten killed in Tijuana, I've known people who got their cars stolen from parking lots by the border, I've been shaken down by crooked cops in zona norte. In Mexico City the crooked cops are not as much of an issue as in Tijuana but there are other dangers there in the streets.

In Colombia your biggest problem is a taxista trying to give you fake money for change, it's best to just not use taxis. Use inDriver app if you absolutely need a taxi but it is better to just use the metro system and busses in Medellin, I've never had a bus driver or a cvica card recharge person give me fake money for change not even once.

Hope this helps.

Nice post with good info. When I say Mexico has better high end food, I am referring to the nicer restaurants in cities like CDMX, GDL, Cancun, and MTY. Not like average restaurant food, but if your looking for a nice high end restaurant, Mexico has some really amazing places. Medellin has some very goods spot as well, but it's really no contest when comparing the best vs best in regards to food.

Obviously Mexico is a huge country. I was referring to mainly the cities of CDMX, GDL, Cancun, etc. You are correct about Tijuana from what I have read about it.

In terms of danger, Parque Lleras and the Clock Tower are shady. The vast majority of guys visiting Colombia are going to be mongering in those spots. I saw alot of fights this summer, alot of homeless beggars, shady drug dealers, just some unsavory people in general. If your in CDMX or GDL for a weekend and your doing the sugar baby / SA route, your just not going to deal with any of that. In those cities there is no in person mongering venues outside of the strip clubs. If that's what you want, then you hit a place like Medellin up, but be ready to deal with those shady characters more compared to the big Mexican cities. The areas of CDMX to pick up the street walkers are a bit shady, but again I am referring to guys who don't mess with street walkers, I am speaking to the type of guy who only deals with 8-9-10's off SA or the high end girls in the strip clubs.

You are 100% correct, if you want streetwalkers that are good looking and give good service at an affordable price, Medellin is the best spot in the world at the moment. If you want to ball out with very high end escorts and deal with no shady characters or bullshit of that nature, eat at outstanding restuarants and stay in classy 4/5 star hotels then CDMX and the big Mexican cities are your "best" option. They are not your "only" option.

Of course you can go high end and low in either country, I am just letting anyone on the fence know, Mexico is better for high end and Colombia is far better for low end.

[RamDavidson84]

Hey Ram. How are you? So why do you care what some of us do?

Ehh I am alright, to be honest I have been takin it real easy since summer ended and I had to return to the USA. Hope all is well with you.

I was just posting to help anyone who is deciding between Mexico and Colombia. I was once in that situation and I am just spreading some knowledge based on experience. Both places can be great for high end and low end, but my opinion is, Mexico is better for high end / SA action and Colombia is the better budget destination.

[RamDavidson84]

Seems you have compared 2 tourist places in one country with the capital of another. If you compared Bogota to CDMX or Acapulco to Cartagena would make more sense. That way we get more apples to apples.

Good point and both Bogota and Acapulco are on my to do list at some point, but I have never been.

I was comparing the places a guy is most likely to visit if hes going the high end route in Mexico compared to what the average guy does in Colombia. Most guys visiting Colombia these days are hitting Medellin up and a distance second is Cartagena.

[MiamiBoy1]

Glad I don't have to put all that pressure on myself worrying that I can not go with a chick because she is only a 6 1/2 instead of a minimum 7 that I must have. I am just out to have a good time.

There is plenty of chicks in MDE that I find attractive, 7+. You can keep all 5's and 6's and below to yourself, no worries.

[MiamiBoy1]

But that same thing goes for looks! She could be a 4 looks wise one day and a 7 another day!

No. She can't be fat one day, and fit the next day. She can't have fucked up teeth one day, and have a beautiful smile the next day. Make up and clothing can make a small difference, maybe 0. 5-1 point. 3 points difference is huge, a true 4 can't become a 7 overnight, and would probably need to undergo a whole bunch of surgeries and other procedures to become one. It seems you don't understand the 1-10 scale nor use it, that's fine, stick to your own scale, this has been argued over so many times in the MDE forum.