What is the best capital city in South America?

[H. Ross Peron]

Santiago is a nice place to visit. Nice museums, lots of things to do... I always enjoy riding the metro. Now, actually, living there if you are not rich? Jesus F*ucking Christ, no. Now, If you can pay de stratospheric prices of Providencia/Vitacura/Las Condes is basically like living in Europe.

What are the best places to live in Chile in your opinion?

[THG]

Buenos Aires was absolutely beautiful. I was there in the summer, it truly feels like a European country in many ways.

[Red Velvet]

Buenos Aires was absolutely beautiful. I was there in the summer, it truly feels like a European country in many ways.

I understand what you mean but let’s not enter this rabbit hole  

[THG]

Buenos Aires was absolutely beautiful. I was there in the summer, it truly feels like a European country in many ways.

I understand what you mean but let’s not enter this rabbit hole  

LOL

I know Argies are incredibly insecure about being considered “European”, but Buenos Aires legitimately does feel like a city in Italy or Spain.

[Bilardista]

Buenos Aires was absolutely beautiful. I was there in the summer, it truly feels like a European country in many ways.

Yes, very european.

[Red Velvet]

Buenos Aires was absolutely beautiful. I was there in the summer, it truly feels like a European country in many ways.

I understand what you mean but let’s not enter this rabbit hole  

LOL

I know Argies are incredibly insecure about being considered “European”, but Buenos Aires legitimately does feel like a city in Italy or Spain.

That’s more because of stronger European influence in some of the architecture for example, but culturally speaking it gives me a very different vibe.

That said, all of South American countries I visited give me a different vibe between each other and I guess it’s something that works for Europe as well (I visited Paris and I was shocked with how different the vibe was in comparison to more comforting and laid back Iberian cities for example).

Argentina gives me similar vibes as Uruguay in a way. Not really European, but you can feel the strong influence in many aspects. When I visited Portugal, I thought “wow, this feels like European version of Brazil” and in Argentina I got a bit of that “Latin American version of Europe” vibes, so I get what you mean even if there are strong noticeable differences.

Bolivia is this more closed reserved culture but probably the most unique. Never been there but I dream of visiting La Paz because it’s probably the most culturally striking capitals, different than what we’re used to expect. Very beautiful and intriguing city.

Peru shares some similarities with Bolivia (strong Indigenous influence) but I feel like it’s kinda more westernized in comparison in some ways, especially if you look at the Lima capital mostly.

Colombia and Venezuela are places that I usually think in a combined way, places with some flavor of Caribbean influence as well. Ecuador feels kinda like a buffer area between Colombia and Peru, with some shared aspects from both.

Chile gives me similar vibes as Argentina but with stronger Indigenous influence (or “Andean culture” of you prefer).

And Brazil is like multiple countries inside a huge one, which is why internationally they try to sell more the vibes only from Rio (erasing the others). If Hispanic America didn’t separate into smaller countries they would be kinda like Spanish version of Brazil but on steroids with all the different influences and even more strikingly different vibes in one place.

And there’s Paraguay too but idk how to describe its vibes, it’s very unique on its own way. Hard to compare them with the others. Truly the heart of the continent.

My dream travel list is:
1. Peru (but because of Cuzco and other cities, not because of Lima)
2. Bolivia
3. Chile

A combo of these three places would make for a really interesting big travel, especially considering some similarities. The Andes area is in general very fascinating to me, especially because it sometimes feels like a distant unknown reality even though they’re on the same continent! It’s just that they are on the far-west, with big mountains near the pacific coast, while I’m stuck only with boring beaches in the Atlantic coast on the east of the continent.

Some like beaches, but since they’re so close we tend to take stuff close to our reality for granted, I guess. In the eyes of all the continent, I guess it’s us in Brazil the real “exotic” ones because of language and geographical isolation:



Passing from Venezuela-Colombia-Ecuador-Peru-Bolivia you basically have the population living in a successive line, which makes them closer to each other.

Argentina is an extremely centralized country (look at the strong red dots surrounded by white in the map), with most people living in the main cities, especially Buenos Aires. But that makes them very close to Uruguay since the BA - Montevideo boat travel is really quick.

The closest one to us we have is Paraguay and even then only a smaller % of Brazilian population lives close to that border. On the other hand, most Paraguayans live really close to either Brazil or Argentina.

Only country in the continent that might be even more isolated than Brazil is Chile. Brazil is kinda surrounded by itself in a way and it’s full of people, while Chile has much smaller population (19M vs 212M in Brazil) and also has literally a wall of huge mountains separating them and delimiting their border. They also mostly live in Santiago or nearby areas, distant from everywhere else.

[THG]

Buenos Aires was absolutely beautiful. I was there in the summer, it truly feels like a European country in many ways.

Yes, very european.

That looks like Romania /s.

[THG]

Buenos Aires was absolutely beautiful. I was there in the summer, it truly feels like a European country in many ways.

I understand what you mean but let’s not enter this rabbit hole  

LOL

I know Argies are incredibly insecure about being considered “European”, but Buenos Aires legitimately does feel like a city in Italy or Spain.

That’s more because of stronger European influence in some of the architecture for example, but culturally speaking it gives me a very different vibe.

That said, all of South American countries I visited give me a different vibe between each other and I guess it’s something that works for Europe as well (I visited Paris and I was shocked with how different the vibe was in comparison to more comforting and laid back Iberian cities for example).

Argentina gives me similar vibes as Uruguay in a way. Not really European, but you can feel the strong influence in many aspects. When I visited Portugal, I thought “wow, this feels like European version of Brazil” and in Argentina I got a bit of that “Latin American version of Europe” vibes, so I get what you mean even if there are strong noticeable differences.

Bolivia is this more closed reserved culture but probably the most unique. Never been there but I dream of visiting La Paz because it’s probably the most culturally striking capitals, different than what we’re used to expect. Very beautiful and intriguing city.

Peru shares some similarities with Bolivia (strong Indigenous influence) but I feel like it’s kinda more westernized in comparison in some ways, especially if you look at the Lima capital mostly.

Colombia and Venezuela are places that I usually think in a combined way, places with some flavor of Caribbean influence as well. Ecuador feels kinda like a buffer area between Colombia and Peru, with some shared aspects from both.

Chile gives me similar vibes as Argentina but with stronger Indigenous influence (or “Andean culture” of you prefer).

And Brazil is like multiple countries inside a huge one, which is why internationally they try to sell more the vibes only from Rio (erasing the others). If Hispanic America didn’t separate into smaller countries they would be kinda like Spanish version of Brazil but on steroids with all the different influences and even more strikingly different vibes in one place.

And there’s Paraguay too but idk how to describe its vibes, it’s very unique on its own way. Hard to compare them with the others. Truly the heart of the continent.

My dream travel list is:
1. Peru (but because of Cuzco and other cities, not because of Lima)
2. Bolivia
3. Chile

A combo of these three places would make for a really interesting big travel, especially considering some similarities. The Andes area is in general very fascinating to me, especially because it sometimes feels like a distant unknown reality even though they’re on the same continent! It’s just that they are on the far-west, with big mountains near the pacific coast, while I’m stuck only with boring beaches in the Atlantic coast on the east of the continent.

Some like beaches, but since they’re so close we tend to take stuff close to our reality for granted, I guess. In the eyes of all the continent, I guess it’s us in Brazil the real “exotic” ones because of language and geographical isolation:



Passing from Venezuela-Colombia-Ecuador-Peru-Bolivia you basically have the population living in a successive line, which makes them closer to each other.

Argentina is an extremely centralized country (look at the strong red dots surrounded by white in the map), with most people living in the main cities, especially Buenos Aires. But that makes them very close to Uruguay since the BA - Montevideo boat travel is really quick.

The closest one to us we have is Paraguay and even then only a smaller % of Brazilian population lives close to that border. On the other hand, most Paraguayans live really close to either Brazil or Argentina.

Only country in the continent that might be even more isolated than Brazil is Chile. Brazil is kinda surrounded by itself in a way and it’s full of people, while Chile has much smaller population (19M vs 212M in Brazil) and also has literally a wall of huge mountains separating them and delimiting their border. They also mostly live in Santiago or nearby areas, distant from everywhere else.

Is Montevideo pretty?

[kaoras]

Santiago is a nice place to visit. Nice museums, lots of things to do... I always enjoy riding the metro. Now, actually, living there if you are not rich? Jesus F*ucking Christ, no. Now, If you can pay de stratospheric prices of Providencia/Vitacura/Las Condes is basically like living in Europe.

What are the best places to live in Chile in your opinion?

Objectively, Vitacura/Providencia/Las Condes . I really like Concepción, is like a watered down version of Santiago but in a good way. A lot of people like the small southern cities because of the landscape, nature, and quietness. My hometown of Valdivia is very popular and all the Santiaguinos I met love living here (though I think that says more about Santiago than Valdivia because I don't think is really that good here).

[Lexii, harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy]

Buenos Aires was absolutely beautiful. I was there in the summer, it truly feels like a European country in many ways.

Yes, very european.

That looks like Romania /s.

Yeah, like many other Latin American cities, Buenos Aires is a city of close contrasts, and the area around Retiro is one of the clearest examples