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Yikes, can you say more about the circumstances surrounding your colleague's kidnapping? I'd love to visit BA sometime soon but stories like this give me pause.
by whitepoplar 3y ago
Yikes, can you say more about the circumstances surrounding your colleague's kidnapping? I'd love to visit BA sometime soon but stories like this give me pause.
- drak0n1c 3y agoHe didn't seem hurt from it physically, just mentally messed up from it. He's an iOS dev so maybe he had a Macbook out. Don't know the neighborhood. I've heard that the city limits can be risky, there is a big policy demarcation between "Buenos Aires autonomous district" and the surrounding Buenos Aires Province. I wouldn't be too discouraged from going though as a foreigner not carrying much, and the crime rate has reduced since then (robberies down 20% from 2016-2022). https://www.courthousenews.com/argentines-feeling-unsafe-despite-declining-official-crime-rates/ https://www.courthousenews.com/argentines-feeling-unsafe-des...