Recent content by Ronnie Hotdogs

Will Argentine business owners lower their margins before the place implodes though? I very much doubt that it’s within the Argentine psyche to do so…

Going straight to 1400 and staying there until they run out of funds to support it?

Cueva is 4-6% Commission to the real estate thief is 4% + IVA Notary fees are 2% of what’s on the escritura. Various other fees that I can’t remember can probably take it up another 2% So it’s something like what you say 😀. If you calculate 16% and it comes in lower you’ll happily pocket the...

Perhaps a can of soda and some food.

Personal items are liable to be stolen, see posts regarding honesty and "trust" in Argentine society...

If I'd got up to take a piss and left my stuff on my seat and came back to some gringo in my seat I'd be a bit put out too.

I like the place to be honest but in my experience honesty is not very highly valued in Argentine society. Most Argentines are therefore not very trusting either, especially not with strangers.

No it’s a shite hole.

I’ve left sunglasses in a changing room and went back 2 mins later gone. Daughter left her little purse somewhere when she was 3 or 4 years old with few pesos in a it got the purse back, pesos gone. Taxi driver picked friends up from recoleta mall to cañitas and charged them triple. Day of my...

I was channelling my inner porteño

Now he knows where the foreigner lives… 😀

Another reason is it’s a part of the school curriculum from kindergarten age.

Mostly because they say they have the original rights to the islands and it was Britain who kicked them off back in 18 whenever. Britain are still the colonial power exerting their influence on the free people of Argentina etc etc etc. So regardless of the Falklands war - Las Malvinas son...

If the silly fuckers had never invaded in the first place there‘s a very good chance they’d be in Argentine hands.

First ever Argentine president to talk any sense on the matter.