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I'm guessing that, Covid or not, they were going to overstay anyway. Like many, many others I had to wait eight months before I could return home but thanks to the Argentine moratorium on visa expiry, when eventually I left it was without penalty. There were hundreds,maybe thousands of stories...

You have two irresistible forces bearing down on each other: the need to make public transport affordable to the users and the need to make it affordable to the state. All public transport that I know of in metro areas is subsidised because the economic and social benefits make it worth while...

The money changers in Brazil have each seen hundreds of thousands of new Benjamins and they know the look, the feel, the touch and even the smell of the good ones: most people in Argentina have never even seen a AR$10,000 note so how could they tell what's real?

The main thing about money is confidence. You can show a trader a bright, shiny, strange new piece of paper. You can tell them it's the new AR$10,000 note but without their regular experience of AR$10,000 notes, how do they know the one you are offering is genuine and not a fake? Better, from...

Okay @perry, I'll bite. I'm neither for nor against Milei, I'm just sitting on the sidelines and watching what happens in the world's first (I think) Libertarian, Anarcho-Capitalist state but it seems to me that just walking away, visiting your new-found high-powered world leader mates and the...

Actually, Schweppes and Canada Dry are just brand names of the company that owns them - Coca Cola. In some places, both the Schweppes and the Canada Dry branding appear on the same ginger ale label. My guess is that, like so many other things, rather than sell the same product all over the...

We do this a lot. My other half always picks the best available window seat and watches everything going on outside. I do the same but I also pay attention to the "Historias Minimas" playing out within the bus itself.

This is wonderful! A thread where I can agree wholeheartedly with everything that everyone has said before! So for me it's all these things you've all mentioned plus the small traders who make such wonderful products in their small, family owned premises. Whether it's ice cream or pasta or...

I defer to the knowledge and experience of the professional property people on this forum but.. ...why does everybody who has posted so far look at this as nothing more than a bricks-and-mortar deal? I wouldn't expect foreigners - foreigners to Argentina, that is - to know that much about María...

In my opinion, Bariloche depends upon the four Cs: Chocolate, Cerveza, Choriso and Circumstances and the greatest of these is Circumstances. When absolutely nobody came to visit Bariloche in 2011 it wasn't incompetence or corruption on the part of the Kirchner presidency, it was a bleedin' great...

Do you have a cite for that, @perry ? I'm seeing over GBP11.50 in the UK and more than EUR12.50 in Ireland

Okay, so I have a hypothesis that Milei is doing all this with his eyes wide open, That's not an endorsement, by the way, just an observation. Milei is an avowed libertarian anarchist capitalist, no? Libertarian approximates to "get your government out of my business;" Anarchist approximates to...

So...... Was the decision by the president to play a set at Luna Park made before or after Blinken's surprise performance in Kyiv?

I reckon an alternative translation to "Piece Of Sh*t" also works here.

Given ChatGPT's propensity to hallucinations, wouldn't someone need to be pretty fluent in the other language in order not to risk communicating something unintended?

https://maps.app.goo.gl/QV2Kh3qurhfZq6dj8 On Federico Lacroze, just down the street from the railway station and Subte

Just a headsup that this article by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard is the first in a series of five in the Daily Telegraph about the economy in Argentina. If you are motivated enough to want to read the others, they are very easy to find.

Museo Fotográfico Simik in Bar Palacio (one of the bares notables) in Federico Lacroze, Chacarita had lab facilities and meet-ups for photographers when I last went along there. Actually, not the last time I went there. The actual last time I went there was for an evening of jazz which was not...

I think it might be both or either (180 days and/or one renewal per year) Like you, I am careful not to break the rules of the country where I am a guest and when I returned recently, the 90day entry would have pushed me over the limit but the immigration officer seemed satisfied with my...

Are you talking about the limit for bringing cash over the border into Argentina which as far as I am aware is still USD10,000? That's just undeclared cash: you may bring in as much cash as you wish provided you declare it and can demonstrate where it came from. But there are risks associated...