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tigerswood said:
Wow how did this HOF bad take get missed?
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Wo, this is incredibly bad. Thanks for pointing this out.

Plama, bro, there is a lot of good shit south of the U.S. I would live in a number of places in S.A. tomorrow if given the option. At this point I prefer S.A. travel to Europe in most respects.
 
Chile was def top 3 coolest places I've been on earth and I'd put it above anywhere I've been in Europe. Can't wait to go back one day soon.
 
tigerswood said:
Chile was def top 3 coolest places I've been on earth and I'd put it above anywhere I've been in Europe. Can't wait to go back one day soon.
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yeah it was cool. shoulda scheduled more time to go to Valparaiso. Also hoping to one day make it to our Buenos Aires and/or Mendoza offices.
 
ImTheCaptain said:
what was cool about it
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Valparaíso and Santiago are just really cool cities, although Santiago has a huge traffic problem, rush hour is awful. We explored a reservoir high up in the Andes a few hours away from Santiago and it was one of the coolest things I've ever seen.

Buenos Aires is nice, but just like any other big city. We loved Bariloche in the southern Patagonia region much more.

I would probably live in Colombia right now hands down if I had the opportunity.
 
For people who don't speak spanish tho, what's S.A. like though, because most of y'all sharing these perspectives are all somewhat fluent iirc.
 
man, im not sure about ya'lls IG feeds but there is this crazy strange community of people who argue about military aircraft. Someone puts a picture up of a Russian and American fighter jet and then it's like 10k Elkmans from around the world just shitting on each other into infinity
 
Santiago is indeed a cool city with awesome food and culture. While a bit touristy, San Cristobal Hill provides the most amazing views of any big city (and surrounding mountains) I've been to. Rush hour was brutal for sure, though.

Chile has like 15 different wine regions, several of which are close to Santiago. Great mix of large producers and small, family owned wineries. A couple small organic wineries there were incredible. The ability to ski in the Andes in August (Portillo), staring at 23,000 foot Mount Aconcagua, and be at the Pacific Ocean 2.5 hours later is pretty incredible. Would love to spend a month there, including Patagonia next time.
 
cookoutdeac said:
For people who don't speak spanish tho, what's S.A. like though, because most of y'all sharing these perspectives are all somewhat fluent iirc.
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I'm terrible at Spanish, and it was a non-issue. Even at this one winery we stumbled upon where the owner/manager's wife claimed that we were the first Americans her daughter had ever met, and she was like 8. Kinda cool. They were having a big party for locals and kept shoving food/wine at us and refusing our money (we insisted eventually they take it).
 
tigerswood said:
I'm terrible at Spanish, and it was a non-issue. Even at this one winery we stumbled upon where the owner/manager's wife claimed that we were the first Americans her daughter had ever met, and she was like 8. Kinda cool. They were having a big party for locals and kept shoving food/wine at us and refusing our money (we insisted eventually they take it).
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word, I am so so bad at other languages and hearing them correctly.. so i'm always curious about how navigable a place is if you have to speak mostly english.. we had a trip to the D.R. like 7-8 years ago that was pretty awful in this regard, so many miscommunications leading us (and others) astray.

dying to do a trip to patagonia though
 
My Spanish is serviceable, but not fluent by any stretch. That said, I've never had any issues in S.A. I've been to Chile 5 times in the past 10 years and I can't wait to go back soon. Generally, everyone I've met in Chile has been super nice. I spent two days for work about 10 years ago at a copper mining camp about 400km NE of Santiago up in the Andes and although none of those workers spoke so much as a single word of English, they were incredibly welcoming and just wanted to share grilled meat and cheap wine. It was awesome. Valpo is a really unique and cool city (albeit an exhausting place to walk around) and Santiago is just a really nice big city. It's one of the cleanest big cities I've been to (Buenos Aires, while awesome, is one of the dirtiest). And as tiger mentions, there are a ton of really accessible wine regions that are starting to put out some really good wines. One of the owners of our local wine shop is from Santiago and he hooked us up on our last visit with some visits to some otherwise private wineries and it was incredible.
 
wfudkn said:
My Spanish is serviceable, but not fluent by any stretch. That said, I've never had any issues in S.A. I've been to Chile 5 times in the past 10 years and I can't wait to go back soon. Generally, everyone I've met in Chile has been super nice. I spent two days for work about 10 years ago at a copper mining camp about 400km NE of Santiago up in the Andes and although none of those workers spoke so much as a single word of English, they were incredibly welcoming and just wanted to share grilled meat and cheap wine. It was awesome. Valpo is a really unique and cool city (albeit an exhausting place to walk around) and Santiago is just a really nice big city. It's one of the cleanest big cities I've been to (Buenos Aires, while awesome, is one of the dirtiest). And as tiger mentions, there are a ton of really accessible wine regions that are starting to put out some really good wines. One of the owners of our local wine shop is from Santiago and he hooked us up on our last visit with some visits to some otherwise private wineries and it was incredible.
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so the tldr is that the welcoming attitude and friendliness helps make the language barrier not too bad

we were really close to doing a trip to chile this year, but flipped a coin and decided on iceland instead, but then covid ruined it all anyway
 
I studied abroad in Santiago like 13 years ago now, so I'm sure a lot has changed, but the subway was actually really good, as were the buses, so I don't remember traffic being an issue

one thing about Chile though is that they speak Spanish at one of the fastest clips of any country that speaks it in the world, drop a lot of syllables too, so can be tough

good place to learn Spanish though because if you can speak it there, you can speak it most anywhere -- when I lived in Guatemala, where over half the country has a first language other than Spanish, the pace of speech was so slow and easy to follow


re: valpo, if you just google image the place you get a sense of what makes it so great
 
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