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You're a permanent resident who doesn't even live in the U.S. (good luck continuing to pull that off), you live with your partner, and you are complaining about the wait time? Do you know how many U.S. citizens wait a year or more separated from their foreign spouses/children while they wait for...

Ugh, I will be out of town, or I would totally go to this!! What a great idea!

Exactly, the buses are bigger; therefore, it's safer to be on one than near one. Or at least it feels that way haha. I love not needing a car here and my favorite thing to do is stare out the colectivo window. I miss my rides from San Telmo to Palermo on the 29. And I've never been robbed or...

This is so true. The public transportation here is pretty great and you certainly don't need to fear using it. I personally fear for my safety much more in a taxi since they drive like maniacs! I've been in too many near accidents crossing those intersections with no stop signs. It's always the...

I have a lot of pesos I need to get rid of in the next month and a half. I've started drinking really expensive wine, eating out at nice restaurants, taking taxis and going shopping for stuff to potentially sell down the line back in the U.S. Turns out Buenos Aires is a pretty nice place to live...

I've always had good luck with encargado/as, and I've lived in seven different buildings here. Although I've never had an actual portero, which I've always translated as doorman, as in someone stationed near the door at some sort of desk 24 hours a day. My encargados lived in the buildings and...

Had about 10 minutes of what sounded like pretty large hail here in Almagro around 10:30 this morning.

Try telling that to a 9-year-old girl who was really into musicals. Once in college as I started studying the country and the language, often with Argentine professors, I developed many more reasons for wanting to move here. But the movie is what planted the seed at a very young age.

The year was 1996. I was 9 years old and one day, my best friend and her dad pulled up to my house to pick me up. I got in the car and they were listening to some soundtrack for a movie that hadn't come out yet-- "Evita." I loved the soundtrack, loved the movie later when we saw it together...

Re: the drinking stuff, nine time out of ten I prefer wine over beer. Once, I was the only one drinking the wine I'd brought to someone's home. After more than six hours of eating, talking and hanging out, I'd had exactly 3/4 of the bottle. That's three glasses. Everyone else had probably had at...

Please start this thread, frenchie! I think we may have had one like it before, but there are so many new members that it doesn't matter. I'd certainly enjoy reading all the responses.

I think it's generational. The young people of Almagro are so overjoyed that it's not cold anymore that they have been running around for the past week like it's January, in flip flops or sandals, shorts/skirts and short-sleeved t-shirts. The crocs are out, too (shudder). It's the older folks...

My husband and I are in a very similar situation. He just got reimbursed for a bunch of business expenses from the past four months and suddenly we have gone from living frugally to having spare pesos and we leave in less than two months...too bad they are worthless everywhere but here, right...

Well, my husband and I moved back voluntarily in that no one physically tied us up and put us on the plane. I wouldn't say we wanted to come back, though. But after three months of unemployment for both of us in what they say is the third-most expensive city in Latin America (Bogotá, where you...

Look in those bags, now!! You don't want anymore trouble. Hell, I'd sell the contents and dump them on the street at this point if I were you. And publish his/her name, please. Don't protect the jerk. Go read the forum terms of service. I don't think it mentions anything about publishing...

That's the night I fly to the U.S. for a visit, so I won't be able to make it this time. Have fun!

LOL, well, you should hear what happened with me and a FedEx package of extremely important documents that was supposed to be delivered to my door today. Argentine ineptitude at its finest, and it only cost my parents like 100 bucks. :angry: I thought about making a post about the whole story...

I've asked myself the same question over the years. At the end of the day, no. I can vent here when I'm sitting at home and then in "real life" spend more time having conversations that don't consist of moaning and groaning. I can't say I'm a huge fan of the Argentine tradition of nonstop...

This thread was very timely and helpful since my husband needed a couple pairs of nice shoes for a wedding and all the related events that we have to attend soon. We planned to check out both DAZ and Correa, but went to DAZ on Avenida de Mayo first and he ended up buying three pairs of shoes and...

Hilarious video!! Now that I'm "old" (27), I still get them but I don't get nearly the amount I used to. Don't miss it in the slightest. Used to make me feel like an animal at the zoo.