Assessing poverty in Colombia is not quite so simple
As reading DANE stastistics from a Web page. First of all, the work force in Colombia is very "informal" meaning it is hard to know who to count as employed and not employed.
There are many different ways to look at it depending on your methodology. I have this annoying habit of actually analyzing and synthesizing data before I accept it. I prefer a more direct comparison to the USA since I would want to know roughly what levels would be equal to feel like you are living in poverty between these two countries, where I spend most of my time, Colombia and USA. To wit (these numbers are rounded), the poverty level here in Pussy Prison or the USA is around $12,000 USD per for a single individual per year, which equals about 45 million COP per year.
Half the Colombian workforce is at or below the minimum wage of around 12 million pesos per year. If I generously attribute the cost of living (which does not necessarily equilibrate the quality of life) to be about half in Medellin as it is in USA. Then we can use a cut-off of around 22.5 million pesos per year for people living at or below what would be considered the cost-corrected level of poverty for the United States. I think everyone would agree that living at or below the minimum wage would not be much fun, in either country. This puts around 80% of Medellin's living below this level. This is consistent with around 80% of the people in Medellin living in the lowest two social stratas used by the government to develop social welfare programs (although the strata system does not consider the income per person).
I was using a poverty level of 10% for the USA, that could be off as when I Google it now I am seeing a range, but 80% from above is 8 X bigger than 10% which is where I got my guesstimate.
Granted, it's easy to manipulate and use the numbers that support one's viewpoint but that's where I got mine and it's consistent with my empirical and real-world observation. Perhaps I overstated my cut-off point as poverty. More like, "it would suck to try and live on this amount of money. " I certainly consider it debatable and not the final word. In fact, anyone else can have the last word on this as I need to Keep on Keepin' On!
I have never seen a place with more barbers per capita than MDE
[QUOTE=Havana927;2684006]How are the barbers in medellin? Better to get your cut at home?
Because the barbers in Dr are pretty good.
I usually get my haircut and do my pedicure and manicure stuff.[/QUOTE]Can't say how good they are, I've had one haircut in the last two years, jajaja.
With so many barbers, there have got to be some good ones, one would think.
Medellin Trip: Days 4 - 9
My posting is slowing down a bit (getting a bit lazy as well). This is mostly because the last few days have been less crazy than the first few.
I came to Medellin for two reasons. First, of course, the women. And second, I wanted to improve my Spanish drastically in a short period of time. I am completely self taught in Spanish. And before this trip, I'd say that I was at a beginner level (still had trouble with some conjugation, object pronouns, and past / future tenses (god I hate grammar terms sometime)) And now, just 9 days later, I can confidently say that I have moved into the intermediate level.
For the last 6 days, I signed myself up for a Intensive Spanish class. I'm talking 6 hours a day in class, using 80% Spanish 20% English, one-on-one with a professor. It was great and I met some amazing people (my teachers) who had amazing life stories. I choose Baselang as my school because I would be able to continue online after the program (but there are tons of other schools in Medellin as well). I paid $400 for unlimited one-on-one classes for the week. By the last day of the week, I was having (broken) conversations about the war in Ukraine, the economic situation in Venezuela, and other "high level topics". It is crazy how fast you can learn a language if you really put effort into it. Plus, at night, there was the added bonus that I was able to practiced what I learned in class with chicas.
Anyways, this is what my schedule looked like for days 4 - 9.
Wake up 7-8 am.
Class 8:30 - 5 pm (with breaks in the middle).
Visit a Casa / Call Over a Facebook Girl to My Apartment: 5 - 7 pm.
Dinner: 7-8:30 pm.
Call Over FB Girl #2 to My Apartment: 9 pm.
Call it a Night: 11-1 am.
As to the chicas:
Chica #6: Fun chica, tiny little spinner. Kinda of shy. One of the best BBBJ in my life, but was just okay in bed. Likely would not repeat.
Chica #7: Casa Chica at Energy. Ok time, but, like many others have said on this form, the casas may not be for me because I like to be in my own space. Likely will not repeat with her.
Chica #8: A FB girl "in-denial" (only does this occasionally). Oh my god, she was so much fun. We got out the tussi and went round after round for 5 hours (she came over at 7 and left at 12). Almost forgot about the money when walking out and I had to remind her. Tall, skinny morena and was great to converse with. Unfortunately, she has not responded to my attempts to schedule a second date:
Chica #9: Fun FB girl. Spinner with a great body. Short, but intense session. And as a plus, I was able to negotiate an amazing rate with her (125 mas taxi). Planning to repeat tonight jaja.
Chica #10: A repeat of chica #2 from day 1. One of my favorites. Only does this on occasion, which, in my opinion, makes her super into everything. Again, we brought out the party supplies and went round after round for 4-5 hours. It was absolutely disgusting. Licking all over, pounding her all over my apartment, wowww. And this time, we even went raw, which felt amazing. Planning to see her again, hopefully with a friend for a threesome.
Chica #11: FB chica that is well known among the mongering seen (friends with a lot of other mongers on FB). Extremely attractive and fun, but wasn't that great in the sack. Didn't see that into it and kept putting pressure on me to finish the session and cum, which was a big turnoff. Likely will not repeat.
Chica #12: Extremely fun, tight little spinner. And by little, this chica must have been 5 ft. She had an amazing body and great attitude. We went through all the positions and 69'ed for what seems like forever. Would repeat.
Chica #13: see chica #9.
You pay $75 for a haircut? I hope they trim your eyebrows, nose and ear hair, too
[QUOTE=DirtyDJ;2684054]It depends on how picky you are. I just told them to clean me up and make me look good and I got a cut every week. I have 2 barbers back home that I pay 35 and 75 respectively. The Colombian barbers were about $5 US.[/QUOTE]In Medellin $75 USD would get you laid twice, jajaja.
And what pray tell makes one barber worth over twice as much as the other guy?
These are the important matters that occupy my mind. Ostee Out.
Here's an old barber joke / riddle. You arrive in a small town in bad need of a haircut. There are two barbers, one has a purrfekt haircut and the other guy looks a mess like his hair was cut with hedge trimmers. Which barber do you go to?
The one with the awful haircut under the assumption that they cut each other's hair. Jajaja, obvious but not so obvious, and I guarantee you most guys here picked the guy with the good haircut, jajaja. Not because they lacked the logical ability to solve the riddle but because we are instinctively drawn to attractiveness without thinking. Think about that and get back to me. Very related to mongering.
