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Buquebus takes pets in crates - not in the main cabin, but in a sort of hallway between the cabin and the hold. If it's hot, you can tie the dog to the wall of the hold and the car attendants will watch over her. I've seen many dogs travel like that, and they seemed calm. Giving the car...

Lunch at the neighborhood restaurant, housekeeper wages, gardener, and ADT alarm monitoring have all gone up 100% since 2007.

Once at a party I asked those who had been held up or robbed to hold up their hands. All twenty people there did. Then I asked those who had been robbed twice to hold up their hands, and about half the people did. All those people lived in la Recoleta. Since moving to BA five years ago, my...

Quite true - San Isidro is clean and pleasant, but no one would accuse it of being stimulating and vital. It's a place for retired people like myself, or families with children. Small children, that is, because when they reach their teens they get so bored that their parents move the family...

PhilipDT, why don't you try San Isidro? It is clean, at least half the people use the corner trashcans, prostitutes don't venture this far from downtown, dogs have their own yard bathrooms, sidewalks are mostly whole, and there is so little foot traffic that no one wastes time painting graffiti...

Good point...! ;)

Last time I flew with my dogs, all they needed was the USDA form, filled and signed by their vet, a valid rabies vaccination, and a health certificate. Try to arrive during the week, as the fee for checking the dog doubles on weekends and holidays. Good luck....!

Do a search for the word SENASA - I've posted information about taking dogs to Uruguay several times.

You are right - both parties are at fault: the corporations for bribing local politicians to unload unsafe products, and the locals for electing such politicians. The Botnia mill is a case in point. It was built to use the Kraft pulping method, which had been banned in Spain and other...

From Live and Invest Overseas - Dear Live and Invest Overseas Reader, "Vicki and I returned to Argentina last month after a six-month absence," writes Intrepid Correspondent Paul Terhorst. " We're installed in our home and enjoying the spring here. "My impressions so far: "The Argentine...

You are right that it's the fault of both sides: foreign companies dump their defective stuff in countries whose government officials can be bought. It is our fault as much as theirs, for electing such corrupt politicians. For instance, Botnia built a paper mill which employs the polluting...

Disco and the local Coto and Carrefour do that too - you pick the stuff and they deliver it. Even better, you shop online and they deliver. Coto has courtesy remises for people buying more than two hundred pesos of groceries. So, there's no need to fume in those long lines.

Sorry, but Carrefour belongs to a French conglomerate. The company is so abusive with their suppliers that two people I know refuse to sell through it and sell through Coto and Disco instead. The fact that a foreign company chooses to run such a shoddy operation overseas reflects as badly on...

I think you are mistaken about the credit card supermarket deals. They work like this: you pay for your purchase in six monthly installments, in pesos, WITH NO INTEREST. With today's inflation rates, paying in cash is a no-brainer. Sadly, the deal works only with Argentine-issued credit...

John, with your kind of attitude you are likely to do fine in Argentina, or anywhere else in the world. People who fail are those who whine in front of a locked door without even noticing there's an open window right beside it.

I've been in Uruguay four years now, and some of the expats I met have already gone back home. Once the rosy glasses are gone, the warts emerge with a vengeance. I've gone from ADORING everything in Uruguay to HATING all Uruguayans, after being swindled by many and having had my place in the...

Wonder why you are the only expat there.

There are nuts in every country, and we can certainly grow prize ones. But Brigadier is right in that many expats are too quick to pass judgment. In my opinion, they can also be very slow to learn about their host country: much easier to criticize an alien culture than to puzzle it out...

I did not know that. When the first dealer told me that was their policy I thought they were a bunch of pirates, and visited another dealership. Only to be told exactly the same thing. Even paying for a car in cash in full does not lock the price. Apparently this insane policy is dictated...

There are many places for those willing to go off the beaten path. -- Salta is lovely, and lively too. Jujuy is a little quieter and cheaper, I believe. -- Mendoza is expensive and crime-ridden, but nearby San Rafael is beautiful and inexpensive. -- Tandil, in Buenos Aires, is inexpensive...