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Montevideo, 1.5m pop, is a great city to develop some sort of bipolar disorder.
Pre-70s architecture is spectacular. Art decó, art noveau, colonial, modernist, even some local take on streamline moderne that was HUGE and it's everywhere. You find something new with every walk, as its buildings are so crammed too.
>But goverment and construction firms can't stop bulldozing these just to make cheap money and labor. These guys are challenging themselves to build the ugliest buildings and the most toxic urban projects of all time. Also, there's a low life culture that vandalize them for fun.
Great to walk. Every neighborhood has lots of small shops and street markets near. Even if you need to go downtown for more specific errands, I think it couldn't take more than 2 hours from side to side.
>In recent years niggers are all around in the street looking for trouble and whatever they can take from you. Used to go to gigs downtown and come home on foot at 4am, talking with friends, 35 blocks. Not anymore.
It's mid-distance travelling most of the time to go to work, study or friends. Should not take more than 30min to reach anywhere.
>This is infuriating. Drivers are very aggressive towards bikers for the small slow-paced city it is. Government do not invest in bikes, neither in the corporate owned public transport. It's all about importing the lowest of new Chinese cars and buses.
We had a wonderful walkable and bikeable city, with beaches and lots of parks, but the new Uruguayan is too amused by new malls, appliances and cars.
