¿Cuál es el mejor vividero de Colombia?

0:06 I' m Roberto Pombo. Welcome to my questions. An average rush program sponsored by KFAM, family compensation box, climate, access to education, entertainment, employment rate and security are determining factors in deciding where to live. It is better to live in a large city or in a quieter place. It improves the quality of life, living close to the sea, which are the best living areas in Colombia. For this chapter we spoke with Amaria Londoño, former Secretary of Culture of Medellín, with the former mayor of Barranquilla, Jaime Pumarejo, with the teacher of Transport and logistics Darío Hidalgo, with the publicist Jaramillo and with the former mayor of Montería, Carlos Ordos Goikio am Roberto Pombo.

0:58 And this is chapter 90 of my welcome questions. I recently met the daughter of a friend who was in the country on a short vacation. She was living in Pittsburgh, a city north of the United States, in the state of Pennsylvania. I had to ask him a lot of questions, because as far as I understand it, Pittsburgh had become practically a ghost town, but it turns out that this city experienced a resurgent worthy of telling. So let me give you a recount. Pittsburgh has always been known as an industrial city. It is part of what is known as rast Belt or Oxide Belt, a region that was rich in industries such as automotive coal mining, among others. In fact, it could be said that the industrialization of the United States began there in the early 19th century with the construction of iron foundries to process minerals and coal mined in the same region. He quickly became the largest steel producer in the world, in a city of chimneys burping black smoke and Holin. In the war of recession it became a key city to manufacture weapons, and that led to the construction of railways and more development. The city ' s growth continued for several decades of progress around the steel industry, especially in decades like the forties during World War II. However, not everything is

2:34 forever. Since the 1980s, what became known as the steel crisis, caused the disappearance of several steel mills. Some ninety- nine hundred and eighty- nine hundred and eighty- three jobs were lost in this sector in the Pittsburgh area and its environs. The factories that had employed thousands of people, who had sworn to thousands of middle- class families for generations, closed down and poverty began to grow. In the absence of business it meant that the unemployment rate in the Pittsburgh area reached a dizzying eighteen percent. In that decade, the city and the region were plunged into a crisis that for many also caused a severe opioid crisis. The rust belt then became a belt of poverty.

3:30 To better illustrate my point, I' m going to tell you an example. There was a time at the beginning of the 21st century, when it was possible to buy a house for a dollar, but, as in many stories, the protagonist lived a second chance. The number of inhabitants increased again, as did the average income per person. But what made it stop being a ghost city to become an important business center. It basically became a technological center around the robotics center of the University of Carne gim Mellon and is now known as the Robont Down or Robot City. This has made the autonomous car industry also established in this city, where a Google campus was built and little by little it turned the headquarters of multiple startups or companies of technological entrepreneurship.

4:28 Culture has also played an important role in this grand revival, and places such as the Caridge Art Museum or the Andy Warholl Museum that is the birthplace of this city, which is the world' s largest museum dedicated to a single artist and spreads over seven floors of a Victorian warehouse. Reformed in this way, Pittsburgh was determined to become one of the most attractive cities for Americans, or what we call a good living in Colombia. This whole story put me thinking precisely about our cities, what they offer and what they seduce so that many people few or some will come to live in them. Writer Gina Schnuel wrote for the New York Times an article on this topic and, paraphrasing it, says that there are not two people looking for the same thing in a city or place to live, but that there are basic needs that most seek, such as more affordable housing, better public transportation for access to resources and services. Schnother also says that city initiatives often do not really address the needs of their residents and sometimes create bigger problems than those they want to solve, especially for the most vulnerable people. Writing sets the example of Vancouver, a city in British Columbia, and points out that, although it is often considered

5:59 one of the healthiest cis s ns in the world, some of its projects to make the city more habitable, such as the addition of luxury housing, have contributed to gentrification and have made rental prices out of reach of many. That is why Andy Hong, director of the University of Utah Laboratory for Healthy Ageing and Resilient Places, raises the question of habitable cities. For whom. Reading this, I would be worried about what are the minimum requirements for a city to be a good place to live, transfer the question to Dario Hidalgo, professor of Transport and Logistics at Javeriana University, and this told me one of the topics that makes a good place to live is to have easy access to the opportunities of urban life, to be able to walk, to be able to reach by bicycle, to have an excellent public transport network. The trancones that in the case of Bogotá, because they are serious, diminish this condition of living places. However, because the city works hard to improve its public transport, with the construction of mass transport and networks for walking and cycling, and surely we will be a better living place. In a few years.

7:11 This has been the case of large cities such as Paris, where Mayor Han Hidalgo has promoted a structural change in the way Parisians access their destinations, with a topic of proximity of having things close to pedestrian networks, which Paris has always had very good pedestrian networks and also with the increase in the use of the bicycle, which has been the gigantic one during its term of office. Of course, an efficient public transport network makes a better living room for many people. The answer for the best place to live in the country is related precisely to the economic, to the ability of the city to offer better jobs, better paid. And it is known in this program that we have analyzed it before that Colombia is a tremendously centralist. Bogotá concentrates all the institutions, much of the labor supply, Most of the most important universities are here and that' s why it receives so many people from the rest of the country Something similar happens with other capital cities such as Medellín, Barranquillo, Cali, and is that many people seek to be in a big city because precisely it brings us closer to those possibilities of work and education that lack municipalities and smaller ones. If you belong to that group, your money and ideal is between Bogotá and Medellín. I say this because, according to the Modern Cities Index of two thousand and twenty- three, these are the two most modern

8:43 cities in the country. This must be added that Bogotá and Antiogia are the two regions that contribute the most to the national gross domestic product. Also the PIP Percapita is the highest and Bogotá is the fourth city with the lowest unemployment rate. There is a list called Wolts Best Cities or the best cities in the world and in its tenth edition it only included one Colombian city and that is Bogotá. Eighty- one. The list includes a hundred cities where the attraction of employment is measured by visiting investments. Medellín, for its part, is the city with the lowest unemployment rate. It is also the city in which the Antioquian economic group has a large part of its companies. It is already almost a truth of grujou hair, which is a prosperous region. In two thousand twenty- two, the famous Time Out tourism magazine interviewed twenty- zero people in the world to list the best cities in the world to live in, and that year, Medellin ranked third only below Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland and Chicago. I looked for the Secretary of Culture of Medellín, Maria Londoño, and asked why Medellin is a good living place for those seeking stability and economic development. This is their answer, because Medellín is an entrepreneurial ecosystem. We are close to many cities in Latin America. We are at a good time of cultural exchange. There are non- traditional investments, for

10:13 example, in the art world. In the cultural world we have a large offer that has increased in recent years, of programs very nourished of culture And, moreover, we have many nearby municipalities where the cost of living is more accessible than in the city and there is a metropolitan area with very good housing options that is connected through the metro of Medellín. Perhaps the locals feel very fast these changes, that massive influx of people from other sides. Many of us decided to move too, but Medellín is still a meeting point, of work and projection for young people and also for people who want to spend another phase of their lives. When they retired. We see that many people also arrive in the city from other places, because it can also be much quieter and offer many other alternatives. However, despite all the good reasons to live in any of the two largest cities in the country that I have just listed, it also has its bemoles and is that they are precisely the two most expensive cities to live on the other side of the spectrum is in another group of cities. If you want to live well for a lower price. According to the February consumer price index of two thousand twenty- four, made by DAME, the cheapest cities to live in are Ibague, Popayán and Villavicencio.

11:35 Also along this line is Bucaramanga, because, according to the report of Bilis Global of Habitability two thousand twenty- three, done by the Research Analysis Division of Economs, the capital of Santander ranks five hundred thirty- nine of the cost of living among five hundred forty- nine cities analyzed all over the world. This index places Bucaramanga there not only as the cheapest of collos, but also as the most accessible in that regard in all South America and to get an idea other cities of the country, like Medellín, was ranked four hundred eighty- seven of the five hundred forty- nine cities evaluated in total and is the most expensive in Colombia all the world. But to this great advantage we must add another that other cities also share and it is something that we have already talked about in another chapter. From chapter forty- three, I recommend quietness and the passage of time. If you live in a city of about a million inhabitants, you will know what I' m talking about, and it' s easy to reach any point in less than an hour, the possibility of going back to the house to have lunch every day and even to take a nap is a benefit that can' t be measured in pesos or dollars. David Peters is an associate professor and rural sociologist of Extension at Iowa State University and is also the author of a research on the reasons that drive quality of life in the small cities of Aiua and found that, while

13:05 a high quality of life was associated with typical factors such as higher incomes, lower poverty and many jobs, the main drivers of quality of life were social capital and civic measures. According to Peters, getting large businesses into a small town can be costly, time- consuming and requires a great coordinated effort. Instead, investing in social capital projects is a much lower burden on the limited resources of a small city. Then, when the quality of life improves, it will be much easier for these new companies and citizens to arrive. And one aspect that today has gained value is mental health. Imagine for a moment that you have spent the last hour in a museum, a three- lane bandage in which everyone is full, although only two kilometers to reach your destination, it will most likely take you another half hour to reach it. This scenario is going to repeat it early in the morning before going to work and at the end of that same day, after finishing the day of work, This scenario bends to the strongest. If what you want is to get to your job about twenty minutes NEIVA valleydopar without getting away are the best times of displacement and are the vines that people are looking for. In this sense, many cities have progressed to become what is known as fifteen- minute cities,

14:39 that is, cities where all the inputs and services we need in the day - to- day are left at a distance that covers fifteen minutes, whether on foot by bicycle, a place where schools and hospitals and commerce concentrate on small areas, a kind of micro- city within the city. Several capitals of the world have already begun to implement this type of urbanism, such as Paris and New York. Living in large cities affects mental health and I don ' t say so the urban design center of mental health according to the tyn tang, which is dedicated to responding how you can design a better mental health in our cities. The urban environment can affect people in two ways. Key.

15:26 One is increasing the stimuli that bombard us every day. According to this center of thought, this can have the effect of an overload increase the basic levels of excitement, stress and body preparation, but also encourage people to look for the hibro quiet and private spaces. Over time, this impulse can evolve into a social isolation associated with depression and anxiety, and also forms the basis of the ecological hypothesis of schiovermia. On the other hand, the urban environment affects mental health by eliminating protective factors, that is, they have less access or it is more difficult to access nature, physical activity and have less time.

16:15 According to the analysis of this group of experts, the inhabitants of the big cities can feel insecure, have less privacy and even sleep less due to factors such as overcrowding, light, noise and stress. Why small or intermediate cities are better mini- banks. He tells the question to Carlos Ordos Goitia, former mayor of Montería and former president of the capitals. Let' s hear your answer. The premise is based on a natural reality, which is based on comparing the quality of life of citizens in general, but much more focused on the family. Having said this, the result among cities with greater population size verses of intermediates is perception and reality where conditions are established much more favorable to intermediate ones. These are essentially due to daily balances, proximity and access. The intermediate cities in Colombia have developed in such a way, especially in the provision of specialized services, medical, financial and cultural, among many more, as well as ostensibly improving the security problems that take away the tranquility of the citizens, which is perhaps the problem where the greatest concern arises in the country. An important factor is the cost of living, new housing and the basic basket, which is always lower in intermediate cities. Also strategic road development to avoid lost time in city traffic is another favorable condition. Public transport accompanied by cycling routes and cities focused on parks and green areas, where citizens have access regardless of the cardinal point where they live. Anyway, the dream

17:48 of every city is to build fifteen- minute cities, as is the case with Montería. You' ve heard that song from the killer sound that says in the sea life is more tasty. Well, it' s not just a sticky phrase. For many people it is a truth of a fist. If we stick to what the studies say, yes, living near the sea improves health and well- being. One of these studies was done by the European Centre for the Environment and Human Health, the School of Medicine, the University of etc, in which they took advantage of the population census of the United Kingdom and the question in which each person was asked to qualify his general health status in the previous twelve months as good, quite good or not good.

18:40 The result was that the Aracosta proximity was positively associated with good health, with a small per significant increase in the percentage of people who reported. To have good health among the populations that recidivate closer to the sea and, according to similar analyses of accessibility to green areas, the positive knowledge of the coastal proximity may be greater among the most socio- economically disadvantaged communities. There is a rather eloquent extra fact that the increase in blue space visits is significantly associated with lower levels of psychological distress. According to a study by the University of Michigan with former mayor of Barranquilla, Jaime Pumarejo, to tell me why the city of Near to the Sea or with Sea are the best living places.

19:32 This he told me was in a town with sea one night after a concert said Joaquin Sabina, at the beginning of a beautiful story. That is the Colombian Caribbean facing the Caribbean Sea, behind the imperious snowy Sierra de Santa Marta and extending to Córdoba. In every village there is magic, there are miracles and there are people open to the world, because they are used to migration, because they are used to being outside and not to taking refuge in the walls of their homes from the cold, but to going out, to venture and to know what the world brings, to make an ethnic group that is done every day with the arrival of people from the interior, from the outside and an incredible sancocho that unites us. That is the magic of a people in the Colombian Caribbean, at the front of the Caribbean Sea and on the banks of a river like the Magdalena River, there is a factor that is paramount when it comes to choosing a place to live, and it is the climate. There are two types of animals, then hot blood and cold blood.

20:48 I would dare say that the same thing happens with us humans, and in this case, the blood type is inversely to provide the climate in which one prefers to live. A research of two thousand eleven by psychologists in the Netherlands found that people tend to fall into one of four summer- loving categories. Their mood improves when it' s hot and sunny who hate summer. His mood decays when he makes carol and that sun who hate the rains. His mood decays in the rainy and unaffected yas. Those who are not very affected by the climate are not greatly affected by their mood. But beyond these preferences, they all have in common that affects the mood. Another research found that with low moods, most people relate low moods to low temperatures below ten degrees Celsius or high temperatures above twenty- one degrees Celsius, high humidity, fog and rain to high mood. On the other hand, average temperatures are generally related between ten gras centigrade and twenty- one degrees centigrade. The lonely days, the high atmospheric pressure and the clear sky. Energy is also another factor affecting temperature. Usually, cold weather gives the body the signal to calm down and hibernate, which means less energy in the winter months. Warmest temperatures,

22:22 on the contrary, can increase energy along with mood, but only up to twenty- one degrees centigrade. After that, you may get tired and feel the need to escape the heat. But even though everyone feels or feels better in the cold or in the heat, there is a perfect temperature. Several recent research projects have shown that many other organisms also find that the most stable temperature for their biological processes is twenty degrees sensed. In short, according to all these data, the climate that one should look for in an ideal living room is the temperate climate between eleven and twenty- one degrees that has been cleared. In that case, one should look for the coffee shaft.

23:11 That is a region that enjoys a good quality of life according to the cities network as we go, eighty- six percent of the marisaleños, eighty- one percent of the pereiranos and seventy- five percent of the inhabitants of Armenia are proud of their city and, according to the national survey of quality of life of the Dano, the departments of the coffee axis stand out for having the highest levels of satisfaction after Bogotá. They are the departments in which most households have access to the Internet and finally, the coffee- axis departments are the ones that reported the most that they have the perception that the things they do in life are worth the sherry. I think reaching that level of peace existence is worth it. I sought help Jaramillo, a publicist who lives in this region several years ago and who devised the King' s heart campaign after the terrible earthquake that affected the coffee axis in nineteen hundred and ninety- nine I asked him to tell me why he axisd. Coffee maker is a good living room. Here' s your answer. What a good place to live means. A good viridor is a place where one can breathe pure air and sometimes seem to be the accomplice of a space conversation. A good place to live is done by people in the quindío. We have the privilege of being part of that heritage of humanity which is the coffee cultural landscape. We have

24:44 the time to enjoy unforgettable moments. Around a cafe we are embraced by imposing mountains and accompanied by transparent rivers. The birds are the ones who, at dawn, announce the new day that at the end of the afternoon is said goodbye with so much of a collection being, the strength of its people, the kindness with the understatement and the solidarity with the neighbor makes this wonderful place to live as you see. It is our majestic quindino who more than twenty years ago was the inspiration for the Quindío campaign. My heart and clear, a very important aspect to decide in which city of Colombia to live. It is one that I mentioned at the beginning in the case of Pittsburgh' s success, the offer of culture and entertainment. In this case there is also for all tastes excuse in cachaquism. But I want to start with Bogotá.

25:41 It is the city with the most museums around sixty, with a cinema with permanent programming, a series of libraries that envy in many countries and music festivals for free and for all tastes. According to the register of the Chamber of Commerce of Bogotá, in Colombia, the annual collection that the live music shows achieved in two thousand twenty- two reached twenty- six thousand four hundred and twenty- five million, and only Bogotá achieved more than half of the total collection, with fourteen thousand seven hundred and fifty- two million. Medellin, Cartagena, Cari and Barranquilla are also cities rich in cultural offerings, but only in Medellin is the Antioka Museum, the Museum of Modern Art of Medellin, better known as mam A and the I Festival that is distributed between Cartagena, Medellin and Jericota. Finally, there are several measurements to solve the question about Colombia' s best living room. On the one hand, there is Living Cost, a portal that is dedicated to comparing the cost of living between the cities of the world and last year made a ranking of the best places to live in Colombia, taking into account factors such as rent costs, public services, food, transport, minimum wages after taxes, domestic product, per capita group, human freedom index, life expectancy, population homicide rate, mortality due to trauma caused by transit and rate of perception of corruption. In this list,

27:11 the first cities are Bogotá, Medellín, Cali, Barranquilla and Pereira. The Ranquia Portal did a similar exercise and for that it took into account the survey of perception of the quality of life carried out by the network of cities. As we go, most of the polled flourished security and coexistence with sixty percent, employment with fifty- one percent and mobility with thirty- nine percent. According to this list and with these criteria, the best living areas in Colombia are Barranquilla, Pereira, Girón, Zipaquirá and Puerto Colombia. In the end, it doesn' t matter if you are looking for a big city, with opportunities and full of noise, a smaller and better mobility, a village facing the sea or one in a cold mountain, a city where living is cheaper or where the income is better, Because, fortunately, this is a country with living places ideal for all tastes I am Roberto Pombo and this was chapter ninety- five of my questions. See you in the next chapter from now on. This chapter of my questions is available on all podcast platforms.

28:26 This episode was made possible by Kafan. Family compensation box. Dirección Roberto Pombo, Producción General, Juan Abel Gutiérrez, editorial advisor, Daniel San Pedro Espino, Guiones juan Abel Gutiérrez and Johnny Rodríguez. Field production Marcela Salazar and Lucía Beltrán audio postproduction Carlos Bernard