Always Best To Stay Under The Radar
[QUOTE=LoveItHere69;2610955]I do everything alone. I made the mistake of talking with those gringos when I stayed at Botero Boulevard for 3 weeks. There are about 9 of them. 2 stay in Botero Boulevard. 4 stay in Premier Plaza. 3 stay elsewhere. Most have been here 7-8 months. Some are on a pension or Social Security. One I was told lives off mommy dearest. Many of the others are living here off their unemployment benefits.
Hate those guys with a passion. The main reason I quit talking to them is that they would talk for hours about nothing. Most have never been anywhere else in Colombia because they have little money so nothing to learn from them. Bunch of Chesters. One wanted me to walk with him and he would approach young looking girls. If a cop were to approach him and ask him why he was talking to the young girl, I know what he would do. He would point to me 50 feet away (because I had no interest) and tell the police that he was talking to the girl for me because I do not know Spanish. So many stories.[/QUOTE]The best way to go as you have surmised is totally under the radar in Centro. I talked with one of the guy's you mentioned and one of his Chicas came up to him and asked him if I was a gringo as I pass as a Colombian from what I've been told. And the next day when I was in Centro she comes up to me asking me to go with her. There are a lot of girls in Centro that I will call "gringo hunters" who specifically look for gringos as they typically are paying way more than the locals.
I totally agree that these guys are a bunch losers, but they would probably say the same about me. And these same guys you mentioned are also doing young girls as well. I was talking with one of them one day, and a young girl started to come up to us and I immediately split.
I don't want any attention when I'm in Centro. I'm fortunate that nobody gives me a second look when I'm lurking around, and don't want to be marked or associated with any of these guys just like you.
For most gringos in Centro, they are obvious foreigners which can draw a lot of attention, and any attention in Centro and in the entire Country for that matter, is not a good thing.
As a reference, and on the extreme end of being a foreigner in a foreign land, when I was in India walking around in various parts of New Delhi it was like people where watching my every move, looking at me with this look in their eyes as to what the hell are you doing here.
My point is, that the last thing anybody needs, especially in Centro, is any added attention.