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Hey Friends and Forum Peeps!! I arrived last night into Ezeiza from Miami. Loved taking the morning flight from Miami because I didn't arrive totally strung out like usual and also because there were no other planes here when we landed! I highly recommend the morning flight even though you...

If you make it in Nuñez... I will come...

In Arg you are free from many of the negative things about the USA... you are also free from many of the good things about the USA. For $50K/year you can live well here and be able to go back often enough to get your fix of America and bring back your creature comforts that they don't have...

The oil or actual tea tree oil shampoo? The latter would be faboosh.

Steve you're our resident expat encyclopedia!! So sharp!!

When my mom came (the most hysterical mom on the planet by far) she felt pretty safe in Alto Palermo area. But when I told her about my sublet in Almagro she said, 'isn't it dangerous the further you go from Palermo?' I told some Americans from my hometown recently that pedestrians don't have...

I thought you meant to dance swing!

One of the main reasons I'm applying for citizenship is so I never have to go to Retiro EVER AGAIN! ;)

But can you pay it in Aeroparque if you are leaving out of EZE a few days later and not going somewhere overland? It's not far from my house so I'm thinking to go and get it out of the way instead of going early to EZE and stressing out...

Went to Rey de Copas recently and had the best cocktail - the Tropical punch or something like that. OH MAN it was good

$450 pesos or USD? Or did you mean $45 USD?

FBI documents don't take forever if you go through a channeler! anyway you probably already knew that, sorry to rub it in. For the apostille I don't know yet... I'm sending it from within the states when I go home to visit... praying to a higher power that it gets processed and back to me...

as far as criminal clearance, you only need it "apostilled" (i.e. certified) from the dept. of state in DC. From the state, you get your certified birth certified from your county's records office and then send it to secretary of state for apostille. let me know if that's not clear...

Colon and nearby Parque El Palmar (national park full of palm trees) are places I've been wanting to check out... Tandil too. thoughts?

by coconut butter, do you mean coconut oil?

Correction if you are an Argentine working en blanco... I think this person is Israeli.

#2 is correct. But anyway the 35% applies to both tourists and residents whether you pay in cash or not. But your TLV return ticket shouldn't be affected, I don't think.

Once there was a travel show about travel scams that was featuring Buenos AIres. The host was dead set on proving that he would get a fake bill from a cab driver. He basically announces that there are so many fake bills that he is going to get scammed into ending up with one. He gets a 10 peso...

What is El Galpon? Mercado Solidario Bonpland? Places you need to discover!!! Brands that sell plain yogurt (non-organic) : Yogs, Dahi. (in the pretty glass cups that you can save and reuse) Yogs is now marketing it as "cooking yogurt" probably because the poor Argentines were spitting it out...

GarryL, all very good points but the people going so far to give up their citizenships are doing so because they have millions if not billions at stake in their hidden away Swiss bank accounts and probably living in chateaus in Monaco and Andorra!! Nothing to do with the average working folk...