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Please excuse my garbled draft a few posts back. I submitted that mess accidentally and thought it was erased before this website then disappeared from my screen. Here is what I meant to say. I find articles stating groceries to be cheaper in other major cities around the world to be very...

Certainly, grocery store prices in Nice are priced one-quarter higher than BA's. And Nice's groceries are a wee bit cheaper than Canada's. Nice, being a smaller city, is noticeably cheaper than Paris for many other things too. We're keeping track of the cost of everything we buy here in order to...

If you still want to lose the weight rather than have to lose your expensive and good clothes, you may want to try "The Dukan Diet". It's the only one that has worked for me. I did it religiously for 6 months last year, lost 10 pounds more than I aimed for and haven't regained any weight in the...

sylvie, I'd ask and trust Dr. Samuel Pelcman on Av. Sta Fe to refer you to an oral surgeon he thinks best for you if the type of surgery you need isn't one he does himself. I lived in Canada until recently. Every complex or expensive thing dentists there said I needed I always pass by Dr...

verbocarne, I hope you make sure that you'll finish your law degree and any articling where you are now living first!!!!!! These are what need your attention first and most. One doesn't just 'get' a law degree. The worst that could happen is that you could lose the investment you've made in...

Well I was a parent with a child living in foreign countries with him between the ages of 5 and 15. The odd time that I brought a food treat from North America for him, he thought it was just weird. He wanted only what his friends or class mates liked. For a couple of years, he even took to...

Greg, Uh-huh, spending $CAD1300 on a return flight, meal and expenses to go to the nearest US city just to open a US-located bank account; never being able to view that account online from anywhere; paying for an additional currency exchange transaction from one's income every month to run a...

Greg, thank you but I keep an eye on my bank accounts and get online statements as I need them and have to see what bank charges are. I would never have a Canadian pension issuer deposit my pension directly into a foreign account that I can’t even view. I want to see the CAD to US exchange rate...

If a Canadian goes to the US and opens a US-located bank account with any bank there, he will not be able later to sign-in online to do anything with that account online. He cannot even view his account online! To access that account online, you have to have a US social security number: that's a...

“Lost in BA”, The Argentine government does not set the AR exchange rate although it does intervene in the market by buying pesos with $US to ‘improve’ the exchange rate. If as you say “There is ONE exchange rate for everyone and it's what the market says” and that “to not trade currencies...

Citygirl & "Lost in BA", Due to the very thing that's hurting you while earning or starting with pesos, my husband and I had to stop in the middle of our preparations to fulfil a dream to retire in BA. We had to do a complete about-turn in February/March. We were supposed to be living in BA by...

If you want, need or think it’s right to pay in pesos at the official rate (as I do), I’d suggest that each person discuss this personally and respectfully with a dentist rather than think of a price posted on a forum as one cast in stone. A service provider stating a price doesn’t make a...

Oh, I didn't realize that you support pesification and the elimination of the black market. That changes everything. I was addressing my post to all those supporters of the black market which I only now know doesn't include you. Then there are those residents who both earn in pesos and also...

I'm very impressed by Carrefour's menu, its nutrition and the fact that a commercial grocery store would do this for poor people. I wonder why supermarkets in North America don't do this considering all our single-parent families without money who feed their kids hot dogs day-in, day-out for...

Why would it be wrong for BA's professionals (accountants, dentists, engineers, lawyers, physicians) to charge in pesos at the 'blue' rate but right for eveyone else who deals in services and goods (property, cars, etc) to charge in 'blue'? Why do people on this forum who promote the selling...

‘Lost in BA’, I like your name. I was not wanting in any way to invade your privacy. I already have too many of my own dental details to find gathering anyone else’s the least bit interesting, and some of my work has involved ensuring that people’s privacy rights under 3 separate legislative...

I'm correcting an error in my post, above. I wrote $CAD3500 when I meant $CAD 35,000. So my 4th paragraph should have said, When my local dentists in Canada tell me that I must bring them $CAD 35,000 in 4 days to start a new batch of dental work that, in fact, I don't need, Dr. Pelcman has...

Per “Lost in BA”: “Does anyone know what these (braces) should cost? The dentist told me that just the bottom would cost the same and both the bottom and top and run about $2500 USD. Also the dentist wants to give an exchange rate of 6 pesos:1USD which also significantly increases the cost in...

"May work" is right. It's better not to buy too many pesos. From January to March at least, other visitors posted on TA that even though "Banco de la Nacion" at EZE had told them to present their peso-purchase receipts from that branch on their way out of Argentina, when they flew home a week...