2. It is no wonder there are so many perfume ads. They are not shy with the cologne. You choke walking behind some people. It's cheap, too.
3. There is a black market for Dollars. The official exchange rate I get with Visa is 4.9 peso/1 USD. The "street" value of the U.S. Dollar is much higher. We can get 6/1 from dudes standing on street corners yelling, "cambio! cambio!"
4. We have met 2 separate Americans that were ripped off by taxi drivers. The scam goes like this:
a) You hand him a 100 peso note (or 5) from the back seat.
b) He switches your bill(s) with a fake(s) in his lap while you are not looking.
c) He hands it back to you saying you gave him a fake.
d) You give him more money.
e) One young lady did it twice with one driver, making her cab ride from the airport US$90!
f) The guy we rented the apartment from when we first got here went over this scam thoroughly. We thought he was being over cautious. I guess not.
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