July 7, 2024
¿Cuál es el mejor vividero de Colombia?

El clima, el acceso a educación, entretenimiento, la tasa de empleo y seguridad son factores determinantes para decidir dónde vivir. ¿Es mejor vivir en una ciudad grande o en un lugar más tranquilo?, ¿mejora la calidad de vida vivir cerca al mar?
Para este capítulo hablamos con Amalia Londoño, ex secretaria de cultura de Medellín; con el ex alcalde de Barranquilla, Jaime Pumarejo; con el docente de Transporte y Logística, Darío Hidalgo; con la publicista Socorro Jaramillo; y con el ex alcalde de Montería, Carlos Ordosgoitia.
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I' m Roberto Pombo. Welcome
to my questions. An average rush program
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sponsored by KFAM, family compensation box, climate, access to education, entertainment,
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employment rate and security are determining factors
in deciding where to live. It
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is better to live in a large
city or in a quieter place. It
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improves the quality of life, living
close to the sea, which are the
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best living areas in Colombia. For
this chapter we spoke with Amaria Londoño,
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former Secretary of Culture of MedellÃn,
with the former mayor of Barranquilla, Jaime
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Pumarejo, with the teacher of Transport
and logistics DarÃo Hidalgo, with the publicist
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Jaramillo and with the former mayor of
MonterÃa, Carlos Ordos Goikio am Roberto Pombo.
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And this is chapter 90 of my
welcome questions. I recently met the
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daughter of a friend who was in
the country on a short vacation. She
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was living in Pittsburgh, a city
north of the United States, in the
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state of Pennsylvania. I had to
ask him a lot of questions, because
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as far as I understand it,
Pittsburgh had become practically a ghost town,
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but it turns out that this city
experienced a resurgent worthy of telling. So
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let me give you a recount.
Pittsburgh has always been known as an industrial
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city. It is part of what
is known as rast Belt or Oxide Belt,
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a region that was rich in industries
such as automotive coal mining, among
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others. In fact, it could
be said that the industrialization of the United
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States began there in the early 19th
century with the construction of iron foundries to
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process minerals and coal mined in the
same region. He quickly became the largest
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steel producer in the world, in
a city of chimneys burping black smoke and
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Holin. In the war of recession
it became a key city to manufacture weapons,
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and that led to the construction of
railways and more development. The city
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' s growth continued for several decades
of progress around the steel industry, especially
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in decades like the forties during World
War II. However, not everything is
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forever. Since the 1980s, what
became known as the steel crisis, caused
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the disappearance of several steel mills.
Some ninety- nine hundred and eighty-
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nine hundred and eighty- three jobs
were lost in this sector in the Pittsburgh
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area and its environs. The factories
that had employed thousands of people, who
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had sworn to thousands of middle-
class families for generations, closed down and
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poverty began to grow. In the
absence of business it meant that the unemployment
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rate in the Pittsburgh area reached a
dizzying eighteen percent. In that decade,
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the city and the region were plunged
into a crisis that for many also caused
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a severe opioid crisis. The rust
belt then became a belt of poverty.
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To better illustrate my point, I' m going to tell you an example.
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There was a time at the beginning
of the 21st century, when it
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was possible to buy a house for
a dollar, but, as in many
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stories, the protagonist lived a second
chance. The number of inhabitants increased again,
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as did the average income per person. But what made it stop being
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a ghost city to become an important
business center. It basically became a technological
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center around the robotics center of the
University of Carne gim Mellon and is now
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known as the Robont Down or Robot
City. This has made the autonomous car
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industry also established in this city,
where a Google campus was built and little
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by little it turned the headquarters of
multiple startups or companies of technological entrepreneurship.
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Culture has also played an important role
in this grand revival, and places such
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as the Caridge Art Museum or the
Andy Warholl Museum that is the birthplace of
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this city, which is the world' s largest museum dedicated to a single
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artist and spreads over seven floors of
a Victorian warehouse. Reformed in this way,
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Pittsburgh was determined to become one of
the most attractive cities for Americans,
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or what we call a good living
in Colombia. This whole story put me
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thinking precisely about our cities, what
they offer and what they seduce so that
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many people few or some will come
to live in them. Writer Gina Schnuel
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wrote for the New York Times an
article on this topic and, paraphrasing it,
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says that there are not two people
looking for the same thing in a
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city or place to live, but
that there are basic needs that most seek,
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such as more affordable housing, better
public transportation for access to resources and
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services. Schnother also says that city
initiatives often do not really address the needs
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of their residents and sometimes create bigger
problems than those they want to solve,
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especially for the most vulnerable people.
Writing sets the example of Vancouver, a
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city in British Columbia, and points
out that, although it is often considered
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one of the healthiest cis s ns
in the world, some of its projects
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to make the city more habitable,
such as the addition of luxury housing,
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have contributed to gentrification and have made
rental prices out of reach of many.
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That is why Andy Hong, director
of the University of Utah Laboratory for Healthy
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Ageing and Resilient Places, raises the
question of habitable cities. For whom.
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Reading this, I would be worried
about what are the minimum requirements for a
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city to be a good place to
live, transfer the question to Dario Hidalgo,
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professor of Transport and Logistics at Javeriana
University, and this told me one
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of the topics that makes a good
place to live is to have easy access
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to the opportunities of urban life,
to be able to walk, to be
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able to reach by bicycle, to
have an excellent public transport network. The
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trancones that in the case of Bogotá, because they are serious, diminish this
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condition of living places. However,
because the city works hard to improve its
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public transport, with the construction of
mass transport and networks for walking and cycling,
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and surely we will be a better
living place. In a few years.
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This has been the case of large
cities such as Paris, where Mayor
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Han Hidalgo has promoted a structural change
in the way Parisians access their destinations,
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with a topic of proximity of having
things close to pedestrian networks, which Paris
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has always had very good pedestrian networks
and also with the increase in the use
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of the bicycle, which has been
the gigantic one during its term of office.
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Of course, an efficient public transport
network makes a better living room for
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many people. The answer for the
best place to live in the country is
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related precisely to the economic, to
the ability of the city to offer better
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jobs, better paid. And it
is known in this program that we have
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analyzed it before that Colombia is a
tremendously centralist. Bogotá concentrates all the institutions,
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much of the labor supply, Most
of the most important universities are here
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and that' s why it receives
so many people from the rest of the
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country Something similar happens with other capital
cities such as MedellÃn, Barranquillo, Cali,
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and is that many people seek to
be in a big city because precisely
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it brings us closer to those possibilities
of work and education that lack municipalities and
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smaller ones. If you belong to
that group, your money and ideal is
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between Bogotá and MedellÃn. I say
this because, according to the Modern Cities
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Index of two thousand and twenty-
three, these are the two most modern
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cities in the country. This must
be added that Bogotá and Antiogia are the
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two regions that contribute the most to
the national gross domestic product. Also the
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PIP Percapita is the highest and Bogotá
is the fourth city with the lowest unemployment
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rate. There is a list called
Wolts Best Cities or the best cities in
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the world and in its tenth edition
it only included one Colombian city and that
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is Bogotá. Eighty- one.
The list includes a hundred cities where the
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attraction of employment is measured by visiting
investments. MedellÃn, for its part,
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is the city with the lowest unemployment
rate. It is also the city in
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which the Antioquian economic group has a
large part of its companies. It is
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already almost a truth of grujou hair, which is a prosperous region. In
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two thousand twenty- two, the
famous Time Out tourism magazine interviewed twenty-
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zero people in the world to list
the best cities in the world to live
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in, and that year, Medellin
ranked third only below Edinburgh, the capital
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of Scotland and Chicago. I looked
for the Secretary of Culture of MedellÃn,
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Maria Londoño, and asked why Medellin
is a good living place for those seeking
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stability and economic development. This is
their answer, because MedellÃn is an entrepreneurial
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ecosystem. We are close to many
cities in Latin America. We are at
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a good time of cultural exchange.
There are non- traditional investments, for
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example, in the art world.
In the cultural world we have a large
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offer that has increased in recent years, of programs very nourished of culture And,
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moreover, we have many nearby municipalities
where the cost of living is more
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accessible than in the city and there
is a metropolitan area with very good housing
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options that is connected through the metro
of MedellÃn. Perhaps the locals feel very
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fast these changes, that massive influx
of people from other sides. Many of
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us decided to move too, but
MedellÃn is still a meeting point, of
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work and projection for young people and
also for people who want to spend another
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phase of their lives. When they
retired. We see that many people also
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arrive in the city from other places, because it can also be much quieter
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and offer many other alternatives. However, despite all the good reasons to live
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in any of the two largest cities
in the country that I have just listed,
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it also has its bemoles and is
that they are precisely the two most
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expensive cities to live on the other
side of the spectrum is in another group
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of cities. If you want to
live well for a lower price. According
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to the February consumer price index of
two thousand twenty- four, made by
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DAME, the cheapest cities to live
in are Ibague, Popayán and Villavicencio.
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Also along this line is Bucaramanga,
because, according to the report of Bilis
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Global of Habitability two thousand twenty-
three, done by the Research Analysis Division
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of Economs, the capital of Santander
ranks five hundred thirty- nine of the
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cost of living among five hundred forty- nine cities analyzed all over the world.
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This index places Bucaramanga there not only
as the cheapest of collos, but
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also as the most accessible in that
regard in all South America and to get
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an idea other cities of the country, like MedellÃn, was ranked four hundred
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eighty- seven of the five hundred
forty- nine cities evaluated in total and
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is the most expensive in Colombia all
the world. But to this great advantage
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we must add another that other cities
also share and it is something that we
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have already talked about in another chapter. From chapter forty- three, I
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recommend quietness and the passage of time. If you live in a city of
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about a million inhabitants, you will
know what I' m talking about,
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and it' s easy to reach
any point in less than an hour,
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the possibility of going back to the
house to have lunch every day and even
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to take a nap is a benefit
that can' t be measured in pesos
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or dollars. David Peters is an
associate professor and rural sociologist of Extension at
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Iowa State University and is also the
author of a research on the reasons that
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drive quality of life in the small
cities of Aiua and found that, while
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a high quality of life was associated
with typical factors such as higher incomes,
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lower poverty and many jobs, the
main drivers of quality of life were social
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capital and civic measures. According to
Peters, getting large businesses into a small
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town can be costly, time-
consuming and requires a great coordinated effort.
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Instead, investing in social capital projects
is a much lower burden on the limited
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resources of a small city. Then, when the quality of life improves,
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it will be much easier for these
new companies and citizens to arrive. And
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one aspect that today has gained value
is mental health. Imagine for a moment
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that you have spent the last hour
in a museum, a three- lane
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bandage in which everyone is full,
although only two kilometers to reach your destination,
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it will most likely take you another
half hour to reach it. This
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scenario is going to repeat it early
in the morning before going to work and
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at the end of that same day, after finishing the day of work,
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This scenario bends to the strongest.
If what you want is to get to
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your job about twenty minutes NEIVA valleydopar
without getting away are the best times of
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displacement and are the vines that people
are looking for. In this sense,
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many cities have progressed to become what
is known as fifteen- minute cities,
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that is, cities where all the
inputs and services we need in the day
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- to- day are left at
a distance that covers fifteen minutes, whether
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on foot by bicycle, a place
where schools and hospitals and commerce concentrate on
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small areas, a kind of micro- city within the city. Several capitals
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of the world have already begun to
implement this type of urbanism, such as
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Paris and New York. Living in
large cities affects mental health and I don
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' t say so the urban design
center of mental health according to the tyn
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tang, which is dedicated to responding
how you can design a better mental health
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in our cities. The urban environment
can affect people in two ways. Key.
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One is increasing the stimuli that bombard
us every day. According to this
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center of thought, this can have
the effect of an overload increase the basic
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levels of excitement, stress and body
preparation, but also encourage people to look
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for the hibro quiet and private spaces. Over time, this impulse can evolve
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into a social isolation associated with depression
and anxiety, and also forms the basis
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of the ecological hypothesis of schiovermia.
On the other hand, the urban environment
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affects mental health by eliminating protective factors, that is, they have less access
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or it is more difficult to access
nature, physical activity and have less time.
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According to the analysis of this group
of experts, the inhabitants of the
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big cities can feel insecure, have
less privacy and even sleep less due to
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factors such as overcrowding, light,
noise and stress. Why small or intermediate
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cities are better mini- banks.
He tells the question to Carlos Ordos Goitia,
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former mayor of MonterÃa and former president
of the capitals. Let' s
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hear your answer. The premise is
based on a natural reality, which is
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based on comparing the quality of life
of citizens in general, but much more
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focused on the family. Having said
this, the result among cities with greater
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population size verses of intermediates is perception
and reality where conditions are established much more
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favorable to intermediate ones. These are
essentially due to daily balances, proximity and
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access. The intermediate cities in Colombia
have developed in such a way, especially
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in the provision of specialized services,
medical, financial and cultural, among many
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more, as well as ostensibly improving
the security problems that take away the tranquility
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of the citizens, which is perhaps
the problem where the greatest concern arises in
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the country. An important factor is
the cost of living, new housing and
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the basic basket, which is always
lower in intermediate cities. Also strategic road
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development to avoid lost time in city
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accompanied by cycling routes and cities focused
on parks and green areas, where citizens
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have access regardless of the cardinal point
where they live. Anyway, the dream
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of every city is to build fifteen- minute cities, as is the case
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with MonterÃa. You' ve heard
that song from the killer sound that says
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in the sea life is more tasty. Well, it' s not just
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a sticky phrase. For many people
it is a truth of a fist.
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If we stick to what the studies
say, yes, living near the sea
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improves health and well- being.
One of these studies was done by the
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European Centre for the Environment and Human
Health, the School of Medicine, the
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University of etc, in which they
took advantage of the population census of the
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United Kingdom and the question in which
each person was asked to qualify his general
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health status in the previous twelve months
as good, quite good or not good.
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The result was that the Aracosta proximity
was positively associated with good health,
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with a small per significant increase in
the percentage of people who reported. To
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have good health among the populations that
recidivate closer to the sea and, according
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to similar analyses of accessibility to green
areas, the positive knowledge of the coastal
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proximity may be greater among the most
socio- economically disadvantaged communities. There is
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a rather eloquent extra fact that the
increase in blue space visits is significantly associated
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with lower levels of psychological distress.
According to a study by the University of
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Michigan with former mayor of Barranquilla,
Jaime Pumarejo, to tell me why the
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city of Near to the Sea or
with Sea are the best living places.
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This he told me was in a
town with sea one night after a concert
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said Joaquin Sabina, at the beginning
of a beautiful story. That is the
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Colombian Caribbean facing the Caribbean Sea,
behind the imperious snowy Sierra de Santa Marta
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and extending to Córdoba. In every
village there is magic, there are miracles
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and there are people open to the
world, because they are used to migration,
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because they are used to being outside
and not to taking refuge in the
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walls of their homes from the cold, but to going out, to venture
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and to know what the world brings, to make an ethnic group that is
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done every day with the arrival of
people from the interior, from the outside
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and an incredible sancocho that unites us. That is the magic of a people
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in the Colombian Caribbean, at the
front of the Caribbean Sea and on the
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banks of a river like the Magdalena
River, there is a factor that is
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paramount when it comes to choosing a
place to live, and it is the
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climate. There are two types of
animals, then hot blood and cold blood.
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I would dare say that the same
thing happens with us humans, and
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in this case, the blood type
is inversely to provide the climate in which
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one prefers to live. A research
of two thousand eleven by psychologists in the
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Netherlands found that people tend to fall
into one of four summer- loving categories.
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Their mood improves when it' s
hot and sunny who hate summer.
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His mood decays when he makes carol
and that sun who hate the rains.
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His mood decays in the rainy and
unaffected yas. Those who are not very
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affected by the climate are not greatly
affected by their mood. But beyond these
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preferences, they all have in common
that affects the mood. Another research found
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that with low moods, most people
relate low moods to low temperatures below ten
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degrees Celsius or high temperatures above twenty- one degrees Celsius, high humidity,
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fog and rain to high mood.
On the other hand, average temperatures are
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generally related between ten gras centigrade and
twenty- one degrees centigrade. The lonely
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days, the high atmospheric pressure and
the clear sky. Energy is also another
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factor affecting temperature. Usually, cold
weather gives the body the signal to calm
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down and hibernate, which means less
energy in the winter months. Warmest temperatures,
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on the contrary, can increase energy
along with mood, but only up
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to twenty- one degrees centigrade.
After that, you may get tired and
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feel the need to escape the heat. But even though everyone feels or feels
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better in the cold or in the
heat, there is a perfect temperature.
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Several recent research projects have shown that
many other organisms also find that the most
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stable temperature for their biological processes is
twenty degrees sensed. In short, according
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to all these data, the climate
that one should look for in an ideal
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living room is the temperate climate between
eleven and twenty- one degrees that has
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been cleared. In that case,
one should look for the coffee shaft.
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That is a region that enjoys a
good quality of life according to the cities
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network as we go, eighty-
six percent of the marisaleños, eighty-
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one percent of the pereiranos and seventy- five percent of the inhabitants of Armenia
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are proud of their city and,
according to the national survey of quality of
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life of the Dano, the departments
of the coffee axis stand out for having
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the highest levels of satisfaction after Bogotá. They are the departments in which most
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households have access to the Internet and
finally, the coffee- axis departments are
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the ones that reported the most that
they have the perception that the things they
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do in life are worth the sherry. I think reaching that level of peace
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existence is worth it. I sought
help Jaramillo, a publicist who lives in
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this region several years ago and who
devised the King' s heart campaign after
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the terrible earthquake that affected the coffee
axis in nineteen hundred and ninety- nine
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I asked him to tell me why
he axisd. Coffee maker is a good
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living room. Here' s your
answer. What a good place to live
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means. A good viridor is a
place where one can breathe pure air and
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sometimes seem to be the accomplice of
a space conversation. A good place to
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live is done by people in the
quindÃo. We have the privilege of being
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part of that heritage of humanity which
is the coffee cultural landscape. We have
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the time to enjoy unforgettable moments.
Around a cafe we are embraced by imposing
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mountains and accompanied by transparent rivers.
The birds are the ones who, at
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dawn, announce the new day that
at the end of the afternoon is said
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goodbye with so much of a collection
being, the strength of its people,
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the kindness with the understatement and the
solidarity with the neighbor makes this wonderful place
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to live as you see. It
is our majestic quindino who more than twenty
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years ago was the inspiration for the
QuindÃo campaign. My heart and clear,
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a very important aspect to decide in
which city of Colombia to live. It
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is one that I mentioned at the
beginning in the case of Pittsburgh' s
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success, the offer of culture and
entertainment. In this case there is also
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for all tastes excuse in cachaquism.
But I want to start with Bogotá.
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It is the city with the most
museums around sixty, with a cinema with
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permanent programming, a series of libraries
that envy in many countries and music festivals
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for free and for all tastes.
According to the register of the Chamber of
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Commerce of Bogotá, in Colombia,
the annual collection that the live music shows
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achieved in two thousand twenty- two
reached twenty- six thousand four hundred and
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twenty- five million, and only
Bogotá achieved more than half of the total
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collection, with fourteen thousand seven hundred
and fifty- two million. Medellin,
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Cartagena, Cari and Barranquilla are also
cities rich in cultural offerings, but only
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in Medellin is the Antioka Museum,
the Museum of Modern Art of Medellin,
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better known as mam A and the
I Festival that is distributed between Cartagena,
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Medellin and Jericota. Finally, there
are several measurements to solve the question about
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Colombia' s best living room.
On the one hand, there is Living
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Cost, a portal that is dedicated
to comparing the cost of living between the
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cities of the world and last year
made a ranking of the best places to
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live in Colombia, taking into account
factors such as rent costs, public services,
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food, transport, minimum wages after
taxes, domestic product, per capita
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group, human freedom index, life
expectancy, population homicide rate, mortality due
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to trauma caused by transit and rate
of perception of corruption. In this list,
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the first cities are Bogotá, MedellÃn, Cali, Barranquilla and Pereira.
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The Ranquia Portal did a similar exercise
and for that it took into account the
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survey of perception of the quality of
life carried out by the network of cities.
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As we go, most of the
polled flourished security and coexistence with sixty
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percent, employment with fifty- one
percent and mobility with thirty- nine percent.
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According to this list and with these
criteria, the best living areas in
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Colombia are Barranquilla, Pereira, Girón, Zipaquirá and Puerto Colombia. In the
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end, it doesn' t matter
if you are looking for a big city,
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with opportunities and full of noise,
a smaller and better mobility, a
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village facing the sea or one in
a cold mountain, a city where living
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is cheaper or where the income is
better, Because, fortunately, this is
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a country with living places ideal for
all tastes I am Roberto Pombo and this
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was chapter ninety- five of my
questions. See you in the next chapter
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from now on. This chapter of
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I' m Roberto Pombo. Welcome
to my questions. An average rush program
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sponsored by KFAM, family compensation box, climate, access to education, entertainment,
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employment rate and security are determining factors
in deciding where to live. It
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is better to live in a large
city or in a quieter place. It
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improves the quality of life, living
close to the sea, which are the
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best living areas in Colombia. For
this chapter we spoke with Amaria Londoño,
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former Secretary of Culture of MedellÃn,
with the former mayor of Barranquilla, Jaime
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Pumarejo, with the teacher of Transport
and logistics DarÃo Hidalgo, with the publicist
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Jaramillo and with the former mayor of
MonterÃa, Carlos Ordos Goikio am Roberto Pombo.
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And this is chapter 90 of my
welcome questions. I recently met the
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daughter of a friend who was in
the country on a short vacation. She
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was living in Pittsburgh, a city
north of the United States, in the
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state of Pennsylvania. I had to
ask him a lot of questions, because
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as far as I understand it,
Pittsburgh had become practically a ghost town,
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but it turns out that this city
experienced a resurgent worthy of telling. So
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let me give you a recount.
Pittsburgh has always been known as an industrial
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city. It is part of what
is known as rast Belt or Oxide Belt,
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a region that was rich in industries
such as automotive coal mining, among
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others. In fact, it could
be said that the industrialization of the United
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States began there in the early 19th
century with the construction of iron foundries to
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process minerals and coal mined in the
same region. He quickly became the largest
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steel producer in the world, in
a city of chimneys burping black smoke and
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Holin. In the war of recession
it became a key city to manufacture weapons,
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and that led to the construction of
railways and more development. The city
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' s growth continued for several decades
of progress around the steel industry, especially
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in decades like the forties during World
War II. However, not everything is
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forever. Since the 1980s, what
became known as the steel crisis, caused
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the disappearance of several steel mills.
Some ninety- nine hundred and eighty-
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nine hundred and eighty- three jobs
were lost in this sector in the Pittsburgh
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area and its environs. The factories
that had employed thousands of people, who
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had sworn to thousands of middle-
class families for generations, closed down and
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poverty began to grow. In the
absence of business it meant that the unemployment
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rate in the Pittsburgh area reached a
dizzying eighteen percent. In that decade,
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the city and the region were plunged
into a crisis that for many also caused
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a severe opioid crisis. The rust
belt then became a belt of poverty.
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To better illustrate my point, I' m going to tell you an example.
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There was a time at the beginning
of the 21st century, when it
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was possible to buy a house for
a dollar, but, as in many
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stories, the protagonist lived a second
chance. The number of inhabitants increased again,
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as did the average income per person. But what made it stop being
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a ghost city to become an important
business center. It basically became a technological
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center around the robotics center of the
University of Carne gim Mellon and is now
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known as the Robont Down or Robot
City. This has made the autonomous car
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industry also established in this city,
where a Google campus was built and little
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by little it turned the headquarters of
multiple startups or companies of technological entrepreneurship.
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Culture has also played an important role
in this grand revival, and places such
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as the Caridge Art Museum or the
Andy Warholl Museum that is the birthplace of
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this city, which is the world' s largest museum dedicated to a single
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artist and spreads over seven floors of
a Victorian warehouse. Reformed in this way,
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Pittsburgh was determined to become one of
the most attractive cities for Americans,
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or what we call a good living
in Colombia. This whole story put me
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thinking precisely about our cities, what
they offer and what they seduce so that
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many people few or some will come
to live in them. Writer Gina Schnuel
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wrote for the New York Times an
article on this topic and, paraphrasing it,
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says that there are not two people
looking for the same thing in a
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city or place to live, but
that there are basic needs that most seek,
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such as more affordable housing, better
public transportation for access to resources and
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services. Schnother also says that city
initiatives often do not really address the needs
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of their residents and sometimes create bigger
problems than those they want to solve,
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especially for the most vulnerable people.
Writing sets the example of Vancouver, a
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city in British Columbia, and points
out that, although it is often considered
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one of the healthiest cis s ns
in the world, some of its projects
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to make the city more habitable,
such as the addition of luxury housing,
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have contributed to gentrification and have made
rental prices out of reach of many.
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That is why Andy Hong, director
of the University of Utah Laboratory for Healthy
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Ageing and Resilient Places, raises the
question of habitable cities. For whom.
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Reading this, I would be worried
about what are the minimum requirements for a
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city to be a good place to
live, transfer the question to Dario Hidalgo,
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professor of Transport and Logistics at Javeriana
University, and this told me one
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of the topics that makes a good
place to live is to have easy access
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to the opportunities of urban life,
to be able to walk, to be
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able to reach by bicycle, to
have an excellent public transport network. The
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trancones that in the case of Bogotá, because they are serious, diminish this
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condition of living places. However,
because the city works hard to improve its
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public transport, with the construction of
mass transport and networks for walking and cycling,
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and surely we will be a better
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This has been the case of large
cities such as Paris, where Mayor
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Han Hidalgo has promoted a structural change
in the way Parisians access their destinations,
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with a topic of proximity of having
things close to pedestrian networks, which Paris
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has always had very good pedestrian networks
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of the bicycle, which has been
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Of course, an efficient public transport
network makes a better living room for
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many people. The answer for the
best place to live in the country is
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related precisely to the economic, to
the ability of the city to offer better
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jobs, better paid. And it
is known in this program that we have
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analyzed it before that Colombia is a
tremendously centralist. Bogotá concentrates all the institutions,
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much of the labor supply, Most
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and that' s why it receives
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country Something similar happens with other capital
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and is that many people seek to
be in a big city because precisely
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it brings us closer to those possibilities
of work and education that lack municipalities and
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smaller ones. If you belong to
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between Bogotá and MedellÃn. I say
this because, according to the Modern Cities
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Index of two thousand and twenty-
three, these are the two most modern
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cities in the country. This must
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two regions that contribute the most to
the national gross domestic product. Also the
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PIP Percapita is the highest and Bogotá
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rate. There is a list called
Wolts Best Cities or the best cities in
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the world and in its tenth edition
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is Bogotá. Eighty- one.
The list includes a hundred cities where the
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attraction of employment is measured by visiting
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is the city with the lowest unemployment
rate. It is also the city in
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which the Antioquian economic group has a
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already almost a truth of grujou hair, which is a prosperous region. In
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two thousand twenty- two, the
famous Time Out tourism magazine interviewed twenty-
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zero people in the world to list
the best cities in the world to live
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in, and that year, Medellin
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of Scotland and Chicago. I looked
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Maria Londoño, and asked why Medellin
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stability and economic development. This is
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ecosystem. We are close to many
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a good time of cultural exchange.
There are non- traditional investments, for
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example, in the art world.
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offer that has increased in recent years, of programs very nourished of culture And,
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moreover, we have many nearby municipalities
where the cost of living is more
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accessible than in the city and there
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options that is connected through the metro
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fast these changes, that massive influx
of people from other sides. Many of
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us decided to move too, but
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work and projection for young people and
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phase of their lives. When they
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arrive in the city from other places, because it can also be much quieter
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and offer many other alternatives. However, despite all the good reasons to live
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in any of the two largest cities
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it also has its bemoles and is
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expensive cities to live on the other
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of cities. If you want to
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to the February consumer price index of
two thousand twenty- four, made by
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DAME, the cheapest cities to live
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Also along this line is Bucaramanga,
because, according to the report of Bilis
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Global of Habitability two thousand twenty-
three, done by the Research Analysis Division
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of Economs, the capital of Santander
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cost of living among five hundred forty- nine cities analyzed all over the world.
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This index places Bucaramanga there not only
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also as the most accessible in that
regard in all South America and to get
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an idea other cities of the country, like MedellÃn, was ranked four hundred
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eighty- seven of the five hundred
forty- nine cities evaluated in total and
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is the most expensive in Colombia all
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we must add another that other cities
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have already talked about in another chapter. From chapter forty- three, I
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recommend quietness and the passage of time. If you live in a city of
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about a million inhabitants, you will
know what I' m talking about,
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and it' s easy to reach
any point in less than an hour,
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the possibility of going back to the
house to have lunch every day and even
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to take a nap is a benefit
that can' t be measured in pesos
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or dollars. David Peters is an
associate professor and rural sociologist of Extension at
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Iowa State University and is also the
author of a research on the reasons that
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drive quality of life in the small
cities of Aiua and found that, while
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a high quality of life was associated
with typical factors such as higher incomes,
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lower poverty and many jobs, the
main drivers of quality of life were social
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capital and civic measures. According to
Peters, getting large businesses into a small
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town can be costly, time-
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Instead, investing in social capital projects
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resources of a small city. Then, when the quality of life improves,
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it will be much easier for these
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one aspect that today has gained value
is mental health. Imagine for a moment
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that you have spent the last hour
in a museum, a three- lane
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bandage in which everyone is full,
although only two kilometers to reach your destination,
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it will most likely take you another
half hour to reach it. This
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scenario is going to repeat it early
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at the end of that same day, after finishing the day of work,
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This scenario bends to the strongest.
If what you want is to get to
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your job about twenty minutes NEIVA valleydopar
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displacement and are the vines that people
are looking for. In this sense,
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many cities have progressed to become what
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that is, cities where all the
inputs and services we need in the day
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- to- day are left at
a distance that covers fifteen minutes, whether
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on foot by bicycle, a place
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small areas, a kind of micro- city within the city. Several capitals
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of the world have already begun to
implement this type of urbanism, such as
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Paris and New York. Living in
large cities affects mental health and I don
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' t say so the urban design
center of mental health according to the tyn
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tang, which is dedicated to responding
how you can design a better mental health
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in our cities. The urban environment
can affect people in two ways. Key.
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One is increasing the stimuli that bombard
us every day. According to this
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center of thought, this can have
the effect of an overload increase the basic
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levels of excitement, stress and body
preparation, but also encourage people to look
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for the hibro quiet and private spaces. Over time, this impulse can evolve
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into a social isolation associated with depression
and anxiety, and also forms the basis
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of the ecological hypothesis of schiovermia.
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affects mental health by eliminating protective factors, that is, they have less access
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or it is more difficult to access
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According to the analysis of this group
of experts, the inhabitants of the
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big cities can feel insecure, have
less privacy and even sleep less due to
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factors such as overcrowding, light,
noise and stress. Why small or intermediate
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cities are better mini- banks.
He tells the question to Carlos Ordos Goitia,
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former mayor of MonterÃa and former president
of the capitals. Let' s
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hear your answer. The premise is
based on a natural reality, which is
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based on comparing the quality of life
of citizens in general, but much more
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focused on the family. Having said
this, the result among cities with greater
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population size verses of intermediates is perception
and reality where conditions are established much more
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favorable to intermediate ones. These are
essentially due to daily balances, proximity and
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access. The intermediate cities in Colombia
have developed in such a way, especially
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in the provision of specialized services,
medical, financial and cultural, among many
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more, as well as ostensibly improving
the security problems that take away the tranquility
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of the citizens, which is perhaps
the problem where the greatest concern arises in
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the country. An important factor is
the cost of living, new housing and
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the basic basket, which is always
lower in intermediate cities. Also strategic road
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development to avoid lost time in city
traffic is another favorable condition. Public transport
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accompanied by cycling routes and cities focused
on parks and green areas, where citizens
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have access regardless of the cardinal point
where they live. Anyway, the dream
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of every city is to build fifteen- minute cities, as is the case
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with MonterÃa. You' ve heard
that song from the killer sound that says
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in the sea life is more tasty. Well, it' s not just
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a sticky phrase. For many people
it is a truth of a fist.
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If we stick to what the studies
say, yes, living near the sea
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improves health and well- being.
One of these studies was done by the
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European Centre for the Environment and Human
Health, the School of Medicine, the
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University of etc, in which they
took advantage of the population census of the
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United Kingdom and the question in which
each person was asked to qualify his general
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health status in the previous twelve months
as good, quite good or not good.
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The result was that the Aracosta proximity
was positively associated with good health,
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with a small per significant increase in
the percentage of people who reported. To
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have good health among the populations that
recidivate closer to the sea and, according
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to similar analyses of accessibility to green
areas, the positive knowledge of the coastal
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proximity may be greater among the most
socio- economically disadvantaged communities. There is
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a rather eloquent extra fact that the
increase in blue space visits is significantly associated
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with lower levels of psychological distress.
According to a study by the University of
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Michigan with former mayor of Barranquilla,
Jaime Pumarejo, to tell me why the
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city of Near to the Sea or
with Sea are the best living places.
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This he told me was in a
town with sea one night after a concert
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said Joaquin Sabina, at the beginning
of a beautiful story. That is the
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Colombian Caribbean facing the Caribbean Sea,
behind the imperious snowy Sierra de Santa Marta
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and extending to Córdoba. In every
village there is magic, there are miracles
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and there are people open to the
world, because they are used to migration,
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because they are used to being outside
and not to taking refuge in the
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walls of their homes from the cold, but to going out, to venture
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and to know what the world brings, to make an ethnic group that is
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done every day with the arrival of
people from the interior, from the outside
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and an incredible sancocho that unites us. That is the magic of a people
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in the Colombian Caribbean, at the
front of the Caribbean Sea and on the
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banks of a river like the Magdalena
River, there is a factor that is
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paramount when it comes to choosing a
place to live, and it is the
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climate. There are two types of
animals, then hot blood and cold blood.
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I would dare say that the same
thing happens with us humans, and
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in this case, the blood type
is inversely to provide the climate in which
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one prefers to live. A research
of two thousand eleven by psychologists in the
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Netherlands found that people tend to fall
into one of four summer- loving categories.
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Their mood improves when it' s
hot and sunny who hate summer.
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His mood decays when he makes carol
and that sun who hate the rains.
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His mood decays in the rainy and
unaffected yas. Those who are not very
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affected by the climate are not greatly
affected by their mood. But beyond these
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preferences, they all have in common
that affects the mood. Another research found
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that with low moods, most people
relate low moods to low temperatures below ten
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degrees Celsius or high temperatures above twenty- one degrees Celsius, high humidity,
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fog and rain to high mood.
On the other hand, average temperatures are
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generally related between ten gras centigrade and
twenty- one degrees centigrade. The lonely
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days, the high atmospheric pressure and
the clear sky. Energy is also another
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factor affecting temperature. Usually, cold
weather gives the body the signal to calm
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down and hibernate, which means less
energy in the winter months. Warmest temperatures,
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on the contrary, can increase energy
along with mood, but only up
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to twenty- one degrees centigrade.
After that, you may get tired and
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feel the need to escape the heat. But even though everyone feels or feels
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better in the cold or in the
heat, there is a perfect temperature.
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Several recent research projects have shown that
many other organisms also find that the most
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stable temperature for their biological processes is
twenty degrees sensed. In short, according
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to all these data, the climate
that one should look for in an ideal
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living room is the temperate climate between
eleven and twenty- one degrees that has
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been cleared. In that case,
one should look for the coffee shaft.
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That is a region that enjoys a
good quality of life according to the cities
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network as we go, eighty-
six percent of the marisaleños, eighty-
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one percent of the pereiranos and seventy- five percent of the inhabitants of Armenia
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are proud of their city and,
according to the national survey of quality of
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life of the Dano, the departments
of the coffee axis stand out for having
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the highest levels of satisfaction after Bogotá. They are the departments in which most
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households have access to the Internet and
finally, the coffee- axis departments are
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the ones that reported the most that
they have the perception that the things they
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do in life are worth the sherry. I think reaching that level of peace
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existence is worth it. I sought
help Jaramillo, a publicist who lives in
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this region several years ago and who
devised the King' s heart campaign after
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the terrible earthquake that affected the coffee
axis in nineteen hundred and ninety- nine
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I asked him to tell me why
he axisd. Coffee maker is a good
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living room. Here' s your
answer. What a good place to live
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means. A good viridor is a
place where one can breathe pure air and
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sometimes seem to be the accomplice of
a space conversation. A good place to
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live is done by people in the
quindÃo. We have the privilege of being
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part of that heritage of humanity which
is the coffee cultural landscape. We have
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the time to enjoy unforgettable moments.
Around a cafe we are embraced by imposing
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mountains and accompanied by transparent rivers.
The birds are the ones who, at
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dawn, announce the new day that
at the end of the afternoon is said
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goodbye with so much of a collection
being, the strength of its people,
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the kindness with the understatement and the
solidarity with the neighbor makes this wonderful place
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to live as you see. It
is our majestic quindino who more than twenty
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years ago was the inspiration for the
QuindÃo campaign. My heart and clear,
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a very important aspect to decide in
which city of Colombia to live. It
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is one that I mentioned at the
beginning in the case of Pittsburgh' s
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success, the offer of culture and
entertainment. In this case there is also
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for all tastes excuse in cachaquism.
But I want to start with Bogotá.
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It is the city with the most
museums around sixty, with a cinema with
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permanent programming, a series of libraries
that envy in many countries and music festivals
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for free and for all tastes.
According to the register of the Chamber of
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Commerce of Bogotá, in Colombia,
the annual collection that the live music shows
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achieved in two thousand twenty- two
reached twenty- six thousand four hundred and
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twenty- five million, and only
Bogotá achieved more than half of the total
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collection, with fourteen thousand seven hundred
and fifty- two million. Medellin,
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Cartagena, Cari and Barranquilla are also
cities rich in cultural offerings, but only
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in Medellin is the Antioka Museum,
the Museum of Modern Art of Medellin,
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better known as mam A and the
I Festival that is distributed between Cartagena,
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Medellin and Jericota. Finally, there
are several measurements to solve the question about
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Colombia' s best living room.
On the one hand, there is Living
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Cost, a portal that is dedicated
to comparing the cost of living between the
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cities of the world and last year
made a ranking of the best places to
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live in Colombia, taking into account
factors such as rent costs, public services,
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food, transport, minimum wages after
taxes, domestic product, per capita
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group, human freedom index, life
expectancy, population homicide rate, mortality due
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to trauma caused by transit and rate
of perception of corruption. In this list,
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the first cities are Bogotá, MedellÃn, Cali, Barranquilla and Pereira.
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The Ranquia Portal did a similar exercise
and for that it took into account the
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survey of perception of the quality of
life carried out by the network of cities.
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As we go, most of the
polled flourished security and coexistence with sixty
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percent, employment with fifty- one
percent and mobility with thirty- nine percent.
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According to this list and with these
criteria, the best living areas in
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Colombia are Barranquilla, Pereira, Girón, Zipaquirá and Puerto Colombia. In the
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end, it doesn' t matter
if you are looking for a big city,
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with opportunities and full of noise,
a smaller and better mobility, a
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village facing the sea or one in
a cold mountain, a city where living
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is cheaper or where the income is
better, Because, fortunately, this is
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a country with living places ideal for
all tastes I am Roberto Pombo and this
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was chapter ninety- five of my
questions. See you in the next chapter
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from now on. This chapter of
my questions is available on all podcast platforms.
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This episode was made possible by Kafan. Family compensation box. Dirección Roberto
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Pombo, Producción General, Juan Abel
Gutiérrez, editorial advisor, Daniel San Pedro
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Espino, Guiones juan Abel Gutiérrez and
Johnny RodrÃguez. Field production Marcela Salazar and
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