These days you’re lucky to find a similar meal for twice that. I remember getting a steak dinner with salad, potato and wine for S/. Dining prices are significantly higher than they used to be. Amusingly enough, the guys who were smugly declaring the upcoming crash in 2009 are still offering up unsolicited advice to the next flock of suckers that steps onto the Jorge Chavez tarmac (some things never change I guess, as much as you might want them to).Īs you walk around Miraflores or San Isidro, the number of new buildings is staggering. You’d hear people say things like, “I’m thinking of buying, but I’m waiting for the market to crash so I can get a deal.” Folks who said that are still waiting. Buildings were going up like crazy and constructors kept jacking up the prices at what everyone assumed was an unsustainable rate. The one thing I know for sure is that the Lima I wrote about has almost ceased to exist.īack in 2009 all the Facebook experts were talking about how the housing crash in Lima was imminent. Now with a couple of infant children in tow, Lima is much different than it used to be, although sometimes I wonder if my own changing perspective has resulted in the perceived evolution. I’ve been living in the US for the last five years, but I try to get back to Lima whenever I can. Perseid Press has recently released a book I wrote which deals with my misadventures while living and working in Lima, Peru between 20.
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