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Originally Posted by 202_Cyclist
Did you enjoy Chile? We’re (hopefully) going to Argentina and Uruguay in November. We were going to visit Santiago as well but they had extensive protests last year.
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I really enjoyed it. As far as what I noticed about both Valparaiso and Santiago, both cities seemed to have less disparity between rich and poor compared to Lima. That's not to say there aren't differences in quality of life for poor Chileans compared with wealthy Chileans, but the disparity seemed less than Lima. Overall it just seemed more developed. And the subway system in Santiago was rather impressive! Lima has plans for a more robust rail transportation system (it's desperately needed as traffic is horrible in Lima), while Santiago already has a very well developed system. Even Valparaiso has a subway line (which I rode).