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[QUOTE=Doggboy;427492]If you're not stumbling around half drunk at 3 am or flashing expensive watches / jewelry, you should be OK.[/QUOTE]Is there a neighborhood that is better for this? What about if I am more than half drunk? So far, Recoleta seems to have been good for this (minus the jewelry, watch is generally in the safe back at the apt).
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[QUOTE=Wild Walleye;427503]Is there a neighborhood that is better for this? What about if I am more than half drunk? So far, Recoleta seems to have been good for this (minus the jewelry, watch is generally in the safe back at the apt).[/QUOTE]Drunk and stumbling ain't good anywhere. Recoleta is not immune, and there is a decent amount of snatch and grab near Recoleta Village. Personally, I have witnessed two incidents of theft in broad daylight right at Recoleta Village. I've had two cellphones swiped, both in the Centro area, not three blocks apart.
The point being, there are very few areas in BsAs where you can be completely assured that you'll not be a victim. And, I don't see San Telmo as being much worse than any other area.
On the positive side, theft, and maybe some slight roughing up is about all you'll get here.
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I have seen TWO snatch and grabs right in Recoleta. One was a purse and the other was a bracelet. I saw that one coming and I almost caught the fucker. Chased him for a long time but of course no one else would help. I DID run down a purse snatcher in Quito once and banged his head off the sidewalk a couple times before the cops showed up, at which point I melted away.
I also was in line at a Disco when two guys came in and robbed it, and I walked around the corner right into an armed robbery on the street at 5 AM or so. Those both happened in Congreso.
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Lived in highest rent part of recoleta about 3. 5 years of in-town time since 2005. Roughly, I've personally seen in that time couple motochurro bandits do snatch and scoot, a pretty darn funny robbery of the big disco on Quintana next to Alvear with some guy running away on Callao followed by 3-4 disco employees, and being a fanatical daily Herald reader, noted about on average some report of snatch, mugging, or break in about once a month. Not exactly a crime wave but enough to be prudent.
Maybe more happened but used to be a crime column in the herald till they took it out sometime after 2008 and they reported the highlight ones I guess. My take is lot safer than other barrios but crime still happens and whether you become a stat or watch a stat happening in front of you is how low hanging fruit you look