Recent content by Alby

OK, but I think we've talked before, or if we haven't perhaps we should, about the CABA phenomenon of five or six quick food types (yet another media luna/criossant/coffee joint, yet another hamburger joint, yet another empanada joint, yet another pizza joint, more lately yet another Venezuelan...

It's certainly possible. Elections around here do seem to be being decided by small margins. Macri's victory in 2015 was fairly narrow in the end. Colombia on Sunday. Lula didn't win by that much in an election of 120 million votes. The last three Peruvian elections have each been decided by...

The dynamic duo, working in tandem again, this time to wish numbers down rather than up.

I'm looking around at my belongings now and doing the math. 43,000 pesos per month forever doesn't add up. Nor then does spending 43,000 to save 10,000. Very helpful discussion.

It's a good reminder. I bought the Santander policy as I needed something to stop them charging me the account keeping fee. The building administrator says a policy additional to the consorcio policy never goes astray. But, now your post makes me wonder if the cost of it really adds up.

No, a DNI is NOT issued with a precaria. A precaria is a precaria. A DNI is a card and number you receive if your precaria becomes a temporary residency. That said, try Medicus. In 2020, they gave me a policy when I was only holding a precaria. I had to sign a form agreeing to tell them when I...

We think we value diversity and seemingly consider Argentina would benefit from more of it. Yet how many of us REALLY engage with the diversity that exists even in our home countries? If we were to ask ourselves to name top 50 lists, let's say of cultural figures (e.g., writers, journalists or...

When you talk to the accountant, expect the answer to go something like this: As you know, as a non-tax resident, you will have to pay tax on the value on December 31 of each year of your in-Argentina assets (i.e., your apartment). If you bought the property during the month of December 2024...

I don't know if anyone on this board is Anglo-Argentine. I was hosted at an Airbnb 10 years ago by one. We spoke in Spanish. But one day, her mother (well into her 80s) called by, and I overheard them conversing in English. And I felt as if I were overhearing a conversation written by Oscar...

My point was quite different. I was trying to say that YouTube videos are too generic for many specific problems, whereas filming your unique problem and loading it to AI can lead to spectacular results. I was never able to fix or service anything with a Youtube video (am not particilarly handy...

Here's a question for anyone who might know about urban roads: Has anyone noticed the exposed tram tracks that still run along parts of Las Heras in Recoleta and Parlermo? Does that mean this road has not been resealed in those parts since before 1961, the year the trams disappeared in Buenos...

Wait til they wake up to the fact that by photographing/filming your precise problem and loading the images to AI, you can step through a tailored solution, as if the guy from the ferret shop had come home with you, without having to infer from generic videos. The same goes for car repairs and...

In Valparaíso. (Or Montevideo before 1992).

The guy from the first place seems almost bemused that she is interviewing him and tracing the origen of this fascinating and unique product. His biggest seller? Why the ham and cheese, of course. (I remember in the late 80s seeing the ham and cheese version called the "Carlitos". I've not come...

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