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It's true. I've been traveling around Europe for 4 months and in every single country, prices are lower than in BA. Even the products imported from Argentina (fruits and vegetables, wine, dulce de leche) are cheaper than in Argentina. Now please excuse me while I go swim in my 2-euro blocks of...

You can buy all of those spices at New Garden Villares. 100 grams of turmeric or cumin runs about 7-8 pesos (one of the few things still cheaper than in the U.S.)

I always use a money belt tucked under the waistband of my jeans, and no guard has ever noticed or asked me about it.

World Nomads travel insurance covers Argentine residents in the US, and offers packages for anything from 1 week up to a year. It won't cover pre-existing conditions, of course, but any medical or dental problems that occur during the trip should be OK.

Do you have a heavy-duty deadbolt on the door? If not, it's probably a worthwhile investment.

The Bonpland co-op market (http://asamblearia.blogspot.com.es/p/mercado-bonpland.html) has some great prices on basic staples. Granted, I haven´t been there since January, so lord knows what´s changed, but a few months ago a kilo of lentils was 6 pesos, a kilo of unshelled walnuts 34 (!), a loaf...

I'll be returning to BA for 2 months, starting in late May, and am stocking up in preparation. I've already bought 2 kilos of raw almonds (€7.90) and 2.5 kilos of coffee (€10) in order to avoid the rape that is buying those items in Argentina. Next up: chocolate aisle. Now I just have to hope...

To be honest, I'm always surprised at the number of young Americans/Brits/Aussies who move to BA on tourist visas and assume that they'll immediately land a white-collar job -- despite not having working papers nor speaking the language. Yes, there are a few opportunities (usually multinationals...

Ours gets $80 total, for 3 hours of work once a week. Sorry, but your porteña friend kind of makes me want to throw up. Most mucamas travel an hour or more each way, in truly crappy TBA conditions, to scrub up our grime, and Argentines think they should be grateful to earn less than the...

Adderall is banned in Argentina, no?

Or they just go ahead and close the entire store:

If you buy low-fat, just be careful to avoid Sancor's "Omega-enriched" milk (low-fat milk laced with delicious GMO corn oil and maltodextrin in order to make it "healthier.") I accidentally grabbed it once and almost spit it back out upon first taste, wondering how on earth it could have gone...

Might I suggest creating a new thread with a subject such as "Cat In Need of Immediate Home?" The post will probably reach many more people that way instead of bogged down on the 12th page of an old, non-related thread. I'm not in BA to take her, but I really hope the poor thing finds a new and...

If you arrive with a few months of rent money set aside, you should be fine. Teaching English will support daily expenses (food, entertainment, cell phone), but not daily expenses plus housing. And definitely not expenses, housing, plus domestic travel. Let's do the numbers: assuming you find...

Puerto Madero just feels so... artificial. I don't see why one would move all the way to Buenos Aires to live in the one neighborhood completely isolated from Buenos Aires, that caters almost exclusively to tourists and businesspeople. Don't get me wrong, on a warm weekend day, I love to walk...

You should be able to find it at any of the grocery stores in Chinatown.

Maybe Miranda or Juana M? Those are the two parrillas I know that actually offer pretty good fish and vegetarian options (and fun atmospheres.)

This happened right near where I grew up, and the reason it's become national news is because it's such a shocking case. Yes, in the U.S., access to handguns means gun violence (this usually occurs in urban ghettoes where violence is fueled by drugs and gangs, but occasionally in the suburbs as...

Thieves broke into the home of family friends in Belgrano a few months ago... they tied up the father and beat him for 2 hours in front of his 6 and 8-year-old kids. Then they raped the children's nanny (again, in front of them.) Turns out that within the span of a few months, 5 of the 9 houses...

This is a good resource for discovering different cultural events throughout BA (many of them free): http://agendacultural.buenosaires.gob.ar/ One that I particularly enjoy is Gallery Nights, which I think will be coming up in April. If you're into food, you might want to check out a...