Recent content by dlish

I was born in Sydney and grew up there and live in BA now. I adore BA for many reasons but the claim that “Buenos Aires is a vastly more beautiful city physically than Sydney” is objectively nonsense, as is the “Buenos Aires its cleaner than good areas of Sydney” - do you not see the dog poop...

You still had to enter passport info though, correct? Instead of DNI (ie, its not anonymous)

I did a few weeks ago. Books. Came after two weeks, all good

Nobody sells a wildly profitable company. It’s a lot more likely the companies just aren’t very profitable.

Milei won by a large amount that nobody expected yet it’s only dipped to 1420. That’s less than I thought. (the news projected last week a dip to 1250-ish if he’d win) we may be back at 1500 next week

Sent $1000 via WU to myself this morning and got rate at 1545. Was actually able to pick up the cash just now and so tried a second transfer right after but it’s now adjusted down to the 1420 rate plus fees.

Milei did it again. 100% saved by Donnie’s moneyhose. Hopes of a cheaper peso out the window … the cheap times for expats are gone for good

I changed yesterday at 1540! Was great!

These announcements exist to keep the AI hype bubble up. I don’t believe for one second this project is going to materialize.

Don’t threaten me with a good time 😆

I think the opposite is true - you need to be a local to navigate the endless ups and downs and twists and turns of the economy here

If you come across this again please post it, in case I buy furniture. Thx.

Unless something changed in the past year, you can drive straight past the border stop on the Brazil side. There’s a building you’re supposed to stop at, and one year I did, but others were just driving by and since then when visiting I just asked my taxi driver to cruise by and they do.

I was out for lunch today with a some of my local Argie friends, business owners in the textile business, upper middle class folk. They were commiserating about how terrible business is. They told me that because Milei lifted restrictions on who can import, a few months back a whole crop of new...

For someone dating a local, this sure is a whole lot of super generic touristy BA stuff everyone already knows