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Ex-Murder Capital to Trendy Vibrant City…
Medellin, Columbia
by Ron McGinty
C urrently, the metropolitan population of equipment. I asked the refined looking young oral surgeon
if he performed many implant surgeries. He laughed and
Medellin is over 3.8 million, making it the
second largest city in Columbia. If you like
said he trained in the USA and all he does are implants. The
money I saved paid for my two-week trip.
the winter weather in Naples, Florida, then
you will love the same weather in Medellin
Wikipedia states, in February 2013, the Urban Land
year round. It is in the Aburrá Valley, a
central region of the Andes Mountains in South America Institute chose Medellin as the most innovative city in
the world due to its recent advances in politics, education
at an elevation of about 5,000 feet. Many visitors from the and social development. The most recent survey on the
USA go there for medical services as I did and for Spanish global status of the Smart Cities by Indra Sistemas catalogs
language classes. I had two dental implants done for only a Medellin as one of the best cities to live in South America,
few hundred dollars. The new dental facility was the nicest sharing first place with Santiago, Chile, and alongside
I had ever seen with marble floors and state of the art Barcelona and Lisbon in Europe.