Recent content by rrptownley

In Parque Chacabuco there's a public running track, but that's the problem - it's public and people get in the way. For Palermo you would have to join a club like Club Universitario de Buenos Aires or Club de los Amigos. Membership is very accesible. Parque Ruben Dario is also meant to have a...

I was there reporting. It was similar to the pension bill riots late last year but much smaller in size - bands of organised protestors agitators mostly. The police expect them, form a cordon around Congress, then the agitators start throwing rocks and launching fireworks at the police. They...

The Bubble has some good political editors but can get swamped with clickbait and articles aimed at people with a very low understanding (or will to do so) of Argentina. Another excellent news site in English which deals almost exclusively in political economic and social issues, and doesn't...

From tomorrow's paper: Saga of Santiago stirs worrying memories of the past — by Bob Cox

Newspapers in Buenos Aires are received through subscription or you can buy them at the green kioscos usually located on avenidas or in subway stations and railway terminals. They look like this:

The Herald is dead, long live the Times. Perfíl newspaper has taken the initiative to fill the gap the Herald tried to serve to the English-speaking community by launching a Saturday supplement The Buenos Aires Times. This project is headed not by the Herald's former editor-in-chief, but by...

I've heard good things about Techo and I personally know the great people at Club Union de los Pibes that need volunteers every Saturday to work with the kids.

I've noticed this year's new processor line up like AMD's Ryzen and the excellent little Pentium G4560 are selling at good prices on Mercadolibre from trusted sellers. Video cards are still a rip-off there though, closely followed by storage and RAM.

I can't give much advice on bringing parts in person through Aduana. Last time I went through I got pulled up by an officer and told I had exceeded the US$150 limit on purchased goods. I pointed out the limit was US$300, I even had the AFIP page on my phone screen as I had been doing the...

Tompkins trust is still going strong, overseen by his widow. They have conservation efforts underway in Corrientes and Patagonia that I know of.

True, Hebe is a terrible person.

Hi there, folks. My wife and I are looking to move into a new place. Monthly budget: US$950/14,000 ARS temporary contract, or, 9,000 ARS two-year contract (we have a CABA garantía). Location: Palermo or satellite barrio i.e. Recoleta to Belgrano through Colegiales to Villa Crespo. A little...

Just venturing here, but Agricultural exports are sold months in advance of the harvest. That would mean that their pricing is always speculative, very much so. Maybe exporters were expecting, like most of us all, a much higher peso:dollar rate than what we currently have. Also important to...

Sounds about right. And all the meanwhile us renters are getting royally shafted by soaring rental prices outstripping inflation. Peso prices have tripled in four years. In Palermo, tourist rentals now cost the same as 2-year contracts when you add in expensas, servicios, ajustes, and commissions.

Hey, citygirl. Closest thing to price comparison and analysis here is Reporte Inmobiliario. They have some free analysis on the website but you can get some good in-depth stuff if you subscribe for a month including barrio prices guides that are broken right down to a block-by-block...