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I think a lot of the depression comes when people really care about the people back home and now are so far from them, and the move is permanent. Girlfriends are important to women and being in a new place without close friends can be difficult. To me culture shock seems more prevalent with...

Dogs are people too (grin) well family members anyway. I am sure he loves you and vice versa. I vote to take him with your family.

I would be about as convinced of the accuracy of the crime statistics here as I am of inflation statistics.

Thanks so much Lost In Buenos Aires for posting this. I had no idea you are a journalist. Great! If you had posted in Newcomers I don't think I'd have seen it. I've been involved with a lot of new expats and I find culture shock (depression) common. We can call it something else but usually I...

Just one more comment Germano. She isn't "some girl selling posters." It's amazing that you made that out of what I wrote. She now has printing machines (I can't remember what they are called but they look like the type used for printing architectural prints), and a full scale marketing...

Yes but I think the discussion is about a word that describes us rather than our point of origin. We can all say I am from Canada, I am from Switzerland, I am from England. I am from the United States. No problem. But a Canadian can say I am . . . well . . . Canadian. Switzerlanders can say I am...

Regarding our discussion about whether there is a middle class in Chile, I know you saw my point. People who are well to do are well to do for a reason. Some may have inherited it but for most it did not fall out of the ethers on them, as with the family I described. If only we could help...

I have friends in Chile. I don't think money falls out of the sky on them but they work very hard and they do very very well. Started out the father made some kind of change purses and sold them on the street, the girls came along and both went into business a few levels up from him. One started...

Quote: If I had such a poor view of this country id probably pick up my toys and go home. But I like it here and I also study here because I am paying one fifth of what I would be paying in a comparable school in the USA. I dont feel I am taking advantage of Argentina or that they are...

Doesn't Argentina also provide public medical care to anyone that is here, DNI or not? Does anyone know? I am under the impression that they do.

Yes Lejana, but Canada has a name. The U. S. does not really have a name. United States of America. It was supposed to be sovereign states loosely united under a very small central government is the reason for that. Like someone from Florida was a Floridian, Georgia was a Georgian at one time...

WOW Camberiu hits the Bull's Eye. Nothing is free. I have had this conversation with so many Argentinians it is amazing. And they do NOT get it, for the most part. A rare few do. Most of them honestly think it is free. And that includes the middle class that pays most of the taxes. Of course a...

Lost in Buenos Aires: I don't really know. That's just what I am told by Argentinians who tell me not to consider living there because you have to pay for everything there (that's a quote). Not that I am (going to live there) I do plan to visit friends there, and I have several. I do know they...

For SLeslie23, regarding Montevideo. I have spent a lot of time in Montevideo and I am completely at home there. I like it. It is a lot more honest than Argentina, if that means anything. I have seen an unattended grocery cart with a purse in it and a truck sitting at the curb with engine...

I try to be careful about that because I know it is offensive to some people. But Argentinians ask if I am American so I know some use that term. There really is no word for us, as has been pointed out. If I say North American they don't know if I am from Canada. 'Course now I can just say I'm...

This is very interesting. I went with my son a while back to talk to a Price-Waterhouse accountant about taxes, etc., in Argentina. In the conversation I told him that I keep hearing Chile is in better shape than Argentina, but I've been in Chile. Most of the buildings look like they need to be...

Many thanks for the comments. My dehydrators have a thermostat I can set the heat and . . . they work like an appliance should work. I checked the site from nyer4ever and indeed they are available here, even the same brand--and yes a fortune. My nine-tray dehydrator would cost $700! I'm going to...

I have two of them in the States but I don't know what customs would do to me here if I had them sent. If they're that much might be too expensive for me here but I'll check the links. Many thanks.

Does anyone know if you can buy food dehydrators in Argentina? I would like for it to be a normal dehydrator with several trays, a fan and a thermostat so the temperature can be controlled. Are there such things available here?

Tex. I am laughing because you are SO RIGHT. I don't know why they consider Argentina Third World. I can't see how it's any more Third World than the U.S. (now don't be afraid to straighten me out on that but that's an honest statement). And now true confessions. When my son wanted me to come...