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    Apartment advise.

    Don-Yes, my advice is to check in to an inexpensive hotel for a week and check things out on your own with the agency you choose. Often, and I speak from personal experience, many of these companies are simply out to rent an apartment. You need to see where it is exactly...do you like the...
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    Is there an Apple (ipod) store in Buenos Aires?

    Guys-The ONLY Apple licensed store in all of Latin America, in fact, is on Ayacucho (entre Santa Fe y Arenales).
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    ATM withdraw limits

    THE relation is that currently with Chavez in power, the government there, completely under his control, is nationalizing everything and a strong shift towards a Socialist Dictatorship is occuring. He has monopolized support throughout Latin America and if you follow politics in this region...
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    ATM withdraw limits

    Again, Auntieapple....I think you're great! It seems to me that henryb would take the opposite position on anything just to be different. Whatever..This is an expatriate group site which I mistakenly(?) thought that it was an outlet for foreigners to air their grievances and not be...
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    ATM withdraw limits

    henryb you are completely missing the point.... I do not have a problem with rules concerning Argentina or Brazil. The problems are that there are different rules for different people and no one knows what the Hell is going on or care to find out. I do not feel Argentina owes me anything nor...
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    ATM withdraw limits

    First of all, I don't know you Auntieapple, but I LOVE you! You are so right on, about everything. I am so pissed with the way things work here as far as foreigners are concerned. I constantly feel that I have to be on guard because I am going to get screwed over. Everything from those...
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    Foreigners with property in BA

    Being naive or lucky, I bought my apartment in Recoleta in 2003 and did a complete renovation. French building, 3 bdrms, blah, blah, blah. Since then, the price of real estate in Recoleta has skyrocketed. An apartment above me just sold for two and a half times what I paid for mine and it it...
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    ATM withdraw limits

    I have the same problem. Here is the deal....I called my bank in the U.S. and told them of the situation. Only 300 pesos at a time with the $5.00 surcharge. Its a joke!! Well my bank told me they have several complaints from Americans in Argentina with the same problem. The banks here say...
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