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| the local 75 cent paper |
On our first weekend here, we decided to go apartment hunting.
We have been staying at the lab house which the researchers rent out to
keep frozen samples and extra twin beds. NYU had been wonderfully
generous with a stipend for living, and we had been recommended by others to
spend $500-650 for a decent place. Apparently, though there isn’t much
crime surrounding it, the cocaine industry has driven up prices drastically
here as wealth is now possible. There
are still tons of places for $300, but just not safe to have a laptop in.
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| check out that Sunday afternoon eyeshadow and fake lashes |
Our first place we saw was a stone’s throw from the third ring (the city
is concentric circles). There was a bus
straight in towards the hospital, and the place was very modern with a guard. The neighborhood was just that- a real neighborhood. It was perfect, and reasonable at $600/month. And we found it ourselves!
We told our local friend Omar about our prize. He seemed shocked- the third ring was a
little too far. So we asked him to drive
us back when it was dark (anytime after 7pm, thanks to the proximity of the
equator). There were no lights, and the
neighborhood seemed more like just a ’hood. “GET OUT JACKIE! WALK AROUND NOW WITH THOSE KIDS!” he joked as
his scare tactic. It wasn’t terrible, but
not somewhere for a white girl and her laptop.
So, back to the drawing board we go.
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Neighborhood by day, not a place for 2 gringas at night
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