More Racially Charged Snow
Not like last time. This time, I'm laying it on thick, like FIFA-thick, baby. Thickest snow in 30 years. Last night's dusting of the commoners at Plaza Italia elevation seems to have melted off today, but up in Las Condes and around SanHattan, it was still being worn. (Racist, Self-Loathing Palm Tree):
More social-climbing trees on Avenida Las Condes:
Now tell me, what does this mean to you?
Especially consider it's in the back of this truck,
Seriously, that guy epitomized flaite, his aggressive driving style, reggaeton, annoyance with me taking pictures...for sanity's sake I'll just assume he was taking that mono "snowman" off to a ritual beheading. I'll look for it on YouTube, especially since I've got this gnawing curiosity: the way they make snowmen here, where the hell's the neck?
More social-climbing trees on Avenida Las Condes:
Now tell me, what does this mean to you?
Especially consider it's in the back of this truck,
Seriously, that guy epitomized flaite, his aggressive driving style, reggaeton, annoyance with me taking pictures...for sanity's sake I'll just assume he was taking that mono "snowman" off to a ritual beheading. I'll look for it on YouTube, especially since I've got this gnawing curiosity: the way they make snowmen here, where the hell's the neck?
posted by Chileno @ 3:01 PM
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damn, I'm down here with the commoners and all we get is rain :(
Flaite has a truck?
Umm wasn't that area . . . like just forest 30-years ago? ;)
I agree. That doesn't look like a snowman, it looks like a snow alien...as I would imagine one.
Not all the arribistas make it in this tree-eat-tree world, FL.
And, yes, anonymous wanker: flaite has a truck. Gotta a problem with that?
Should he?
No, he shouldn't, because while flaite does mean poor, it is also perfectly suitable for, say, a población drug runner with a vehicle enchulado (pimped-out), the ring leader that gives all the wannabes something to wannabe. Like Chile's next president Piñera, and the "middle class".
Not Pinera please, the man is corrupt as sin!
El barrio alto once a forest ? lol
It was fundos, where fruit trees were the kings :-)
There are no forests in central Chile, just man made woods with imported species.
30-years ago the area known as la precordillera was mostly lush and untouched. Whereas now, many gated communities dot the hilly landscape. Always wondered what will happen when the fashionable Santigiaguinos realize they ran out of land and can't go further up in order to avoid the masses creeping up on them. Santiago over the decades has had so many chic "barrio altos" over the decades. Each time a new neighborhood was newly minted as the IN place they went further up and abandoned the former. As land becomes more scarce in the near future, they will have to rethink their escapist mentality.
I will defend my barrio to the death.
Hopefully, your barrio won't turn. There is something to be said about certain older neighborhoods. Especially those with their streets lined with 120-year-old Oak trees creating a foliage canopy. It would be great if more people would think more outside the box and return to the center city. Instead of trying to avoid like the problem is going to "magically" correct themselves.
There is a push to reinvigorate miguel de la barra, lastarria. Lots of cafes and bookstores and bohemian shit like that, it seems to be working. Apparently the area was a lot more dead just a few years back. Still lotsa crime there, but I think it's the closest Santiago has to a "cultural center"
we should one and for all take care about our neighborhoods, and I mean the trees the houses and the people. In ñuñoa we are trying to control the destruction of the local environment but it is a hard struggle.
outside santiago there is nothing "lush". before the city, it was all barren land with a few trees here and there. Just look outside your window when driving outside the city. Santiago is actually a a green spot inside a dusty area on google earth.
Anon
My post was not talking about the rest of the country. I was specifically talking about the metropolitan region of Chile. With regards to the comment that Santiago is an oasis among a dusty area it is not necessarly true. The lake district of Chile is rather lush despite all the cuttings of so many Alerce and Roble trees.
Bad I feel you, there were at one point so many quaint little cottages, chalets, and amazing arts & craft homes built in the early 1920's that have been bullozed to repalce them with a parking lots or some stale box-like apartment building.
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