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I was taken to the Sanatorio Trinidad with a ruptured appendix a few years ago. I have never encountered - or even heard of - comparably great care at any hospital in the US. Three doctors met the ambulance when we arrived at the guardia, and I had a dedicated team working on me through the...

Plaza Italia station on the D subte.

A few years ago when I was last looking at clothes dryers, there was no national product whatsoever. All were imported. Which probably means there are none in the stores right now. . . . I bought an Indesit, which performs reasonably well. It's smaller, and therefore slower than the US machines...

nyer4ever, the Correo used to track incoming registered mail from the US. But the US wouldn't track incoming registered mail from Argentina. I complained about this up to the Postmaster General and got the reply that entering the tracking data for incoming international mail other than the...

Both Kirchner presidents have always governed via executive mandate. They have had the emergency power of "decree" from the beginning, and vastly more laws have been published by decree than by legislation since Nestor took power. Add to this the dangerous personnel changes in supposedly...

If there is any risk of a military takeover in the next crisis, I think it would be because la presidenta has eliminated all alternate centers of political power in the country, so - at least in the public's mind - there's no one ready to take over when she goes. The Argentine military is...

At least the listings in the US markets are ADRs (American Depositary Receipts) that trade in USD and cannot be exchanged for the underlying security in pesos. For anyone who's interested in investing dollars in Argentine companies :D, you can see the NYSE list at...

I'm from New York City, Miles, where the remnants of various rent control programs still operate from the 1940s and 50s. I think most New Yorkers now agree that they were counterproductive in the long run, by discouraging both the development of new housing and the maintenance of existing...

Sorry to disagree, Christian. The government is at fault for maintaining fiscal policies that are causing terrible inflation. And then lying about it through INDEC and trying to cover their missteps through a dependent and collusive central bank. With the buying power of their savings eroding...

Here is a link to an old post with some info http://baexpats.org/expat-life/5189-bad-experience-amazon-2.html#post35352. I've since used UPS a few times for packages to and from the US without problems other than cost, although I've noticed that when I go to their office on Cabildo, they...

Medical doctors tell me that until some years ago, the system here was modeled along French lines. Studies required French because the technical papers they used were mostly French publications. Gradually that has changed in favor of Anglo-American models and publications, but I notice the Euro...

This is only the latest attempt to restore rental controls that were repealed many years ago when the rental market dried up completely. A friend with an inmobiliaria points out that 2 similar proposals were introduced to congress in recent years without going anywhere. Neither of the senate...

This just "legitimized" the practice that's been going on since Cristina fired the last independent director of the BCRA in early 2010 for refusing to transfer dollar reserves to cover a shortfall in foreign interest payments. It's very old news - typical of the WSj these days.

A year ago when I tried to send a ~4KG package to the US from the neighborhood Correo office, I was told that 2kg was the limit, and that larger packages were accepted only at the Correo Internacional. I then went to the Correo Internacional, where they told me 2kg is the maximum that the US...

I use ML mostly to find out the prevailing local price of sometime before going to a store. Especially with electronics, prices in local stores seem to be all over the lot, and I find many vendors make up a price that's almost always higher than what is advertised on ML. When I check prices on...

In that case, PennStateForever, ignore all talk of costs, employment, security.... In fact, all your original questions are premature. This is Argentina, and things change fast here. By the time you arrive, we could have inflation tamed, full employment, and a 7-peso dollar. Or we could be in...

I recommend he take anything and everything that might make a difference, including deeds, academic records and matriculaciones, monotributista inscriptions and payments, DDJJ, your employer's letter - use your imagination. They probably won't be looked at, but once he's in the interview it...

I have one of these that comes to my apartment a few times a year, addressed to a prior owner who apparently also had property in the provincia, and who, according to neighbors, died 15 years ago. I have called ARBA. I've sent them emails. I have told the guy from the Correo to return it...

But Joe, it follows the chronological sequence of the story, so you don't need all those annoying pre-tellings and re-tellings! :D Did you notice that, at least according to the announced casting, the compression eliminates not just Erda and the Norns (of course, since they do and say nothing...

Sorry to tell you this, but there are lots and lots of people trying to teach English here, and very few make a living from it. A good friend is retired from teaching languages here at the University level. She speaks 5 or 6 languages fluently, does commercial translations, leads the...