Bad Decisions in Buenos Aires Hood, Villa 31 🇦🇷

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1. 1:57

   Microcentro

   🏘️ Neighborhood · Microcentro

   Street changers calling 'cambio' offer a better 'blue dollar' rate than official exchanges; a mate gourd and kit cost about $3.

2. 12:18

   Avenida Corrientes

   🛍️ Shopping · San Nicolás · brief mention

   Standing-room pizza slices nearby cost about $1; the thick, cheesy Argentine style is eaten with a knife and fork.

3. 22:42

   Villa 31

   🏘️ Neighborhood · Retiro

   Not safe to enter alone; the main shopping road has Bolivian food, a Maradona and Messi mural, and cheap dental clinics.

4. 25:46

   Retiro Railway Station

   🏛️ Historic site · Retiro · brief mention

   Security guards in the area warn visitors to keep cameras and phones out of sight.

5. 26:02

   Museum of Immigration (Hotel de Inmigrantes)

   🏛️ Museum · Retiro

   The government housed, fed and clothed new arrivals here for free until it closed in 1952.

6. 1:02:26

   La Bombonera (Estadio Alberto J. Armando)

   🏢 Landmark · La Boca

   Outside on match days, sellers offer choripán and fernet with Coke; fake tickets go for $50–60 and crowds can turn rowdy.