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Dear Nancy, Thanks a lot for the information. The place is only a few blocks away from where we used to live and I never noticed it. I have been looking to their wines in their Facebook website and it looks like they have a great selection of things that are beyond the usual suspects. I will...

Hi Everyone, Long time for me without visiting Baexpats. We lived in Baires 2011-2013 but then we have to come back home (France) because of work. We are visiting Argentina again for vacations in a couple of months and we would like to take the opportunity to buy some good wines for our cellar...

Mercado Libre http://listado.mercadolibre.com.ar/vaso-submarino#D[A:vaso-submarino,B:3]

There are Polo matches all year around but the "season" runs from August-December. The calendar is here http://www.aapolo.com/torneos/temporadas-oficiales When the tickets are out, you can find in the Association page among others http://www.aapolo.com/

Paranoia!?? You will see when the zombie invasion surprises you unarmed ;-) In my nuclear proof basement I even store garlic, silver bullets, a cross, two pictures of Bergoglio and unlimited number of videos of Crisitina talking in cadena nacional.

I understand your point. Now, I live in Buenos Aires where the murder rate is 6 per 100,000 per year. Probably in my neighborhood is about 1 per 100,000. Assume all those murders are because of breaking in (and not domestic disputes, economic crime, drugs dispute, etc). Then I need to evaluate...

As I said, culture matters a lot. I can see your logic, that is, the structure of your reasoning. However, the structure of your propositions says nothing about its content and on the validity of your deductive reasoning. I think the content of your proposition are very much affected by your...

It is amazing how culture matters so much. In my country nobody would think of carrying or owning arms, except if you live in the country side and you are into hunting. You guys talk about guns as if they were iPads. Allegedly crime rates are higher here than back home but I personally could not...

Buyers pay notary, real estate agent, and several registration taxes (depends on the value of the property, if it is first home, etc) Seller pays to AFIP (tax authority) I am almost sure foreigners can buy with temporary residency, they need to apply for a CDI (tax number). I think there are tax...

Agree. Because of the ridiculously low fiscal value, there are now fair market values estimates and the AFIP will not allow you to register the house for less than that. In practice in means that you could have an 80% in white and 20% in black real estate deal but never something where the...

A quick culture note here. Your friend is probably refering to the phrase "El que no llora no mama y el que no afana es un gil!" in Cambalache, one of the most famous Argentine Tangos. However your friend missed an important point... the lyrics it is not refering to Argentina in particular but...

There is absolutely no problem in buying and paying out of the country. If the amount is over a threshold, you need to show the origin of funds. We did it that way. Zero problem, money from one US account to another US account. The only money that was paid inside the country were the fees and...

just tried. it does not for me.

Thanks a lot for your contributions. I really liked your posts. All the best in NYC. We are also thinking of leaving after only two years here. We will go home for one year and see how it goes and come from time to time to BA. We will not sell our house for now, maybe next year if it is still...

Last time we bought tickets, the price difference between resident and non resident was not of the magnitude you mentioned here. Still it is cheaper for residents. When we first arrived my wife had her DNI "en tramite" and we used Aerolineas to go to Patagonia. Leaving from Buenos Aires they did...

I worked in Durban in 2011 and I doubt it has changed much in the last 18 months., everyone lives in Gates community outside the cities or in fortified houses in Morningside. Have you ever seen a white man walking in downtown Durban? I had not. Medellin a much improved city still had murder...

You do not need to be sorry for me, but thanks anyway. Once I read a list of things that people need to be give up to be happy...and number one in the list was to give up the need to be always right.

While I agree with your statement (returns are very low at the moment), I understand the person mentioning BA been in the radar. This is my second time in Argentina and I have to say that the first time (before 2000) there were no many expats living here or having a second home in BA. Nor there...

The irony is that in most African countries, real estate is way more expensive than BA because of lack of supply and expats trying to get a decent place. On BA been overpriced, it depends on how you measure it. If you use, the price of square meter with respect to the average local salary, I...

If you think BA is a fifth world city you have never been to Africa, most Latin American or Asian countries.