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I believe that I understand precisely what you seek, and I empathize. I mentioned the reputation that Salta has in at least one circle to add a dimension to the suggestion; and I noted what that circle is, to allow you to assess the probability that Salta might accord with what you seek. Of...

Unofficially, I've been told that the fee is imposed only upon tourists who fly into Chile. Come by bus, train, car, or ship, and entrance still is free. It's been that way for more than a decade.

Mr. Schmidt, if you're set upon Argentina, do indeed pay attention to Salta capital. It's a large, progressive city, but more conservative in its progressivism than any other that I know of in this country: decent dress, social deference, careful and cautious. Telling may be that a radical...

A difference in sense of humor, I suppose, for to this native English-speaker a funnier name is that of "Open Door", a small town in the province of Buenos Aires.

Pericles, this is very interesting and I thank you for posting it. One aspect still puzzles me, though: if the vaccine be for an entirely different disease, how can it be blamed for deaths from smallpox? Do your sources aver that a vaccine made from cowpox actually causes smallpox?

I've found much that is less expensive in Argentina than it is in the United States. Unfortunately, though, most of that is also cheaper, inferior in quality. The chief attractions to living in the Far South must be other than lower cost, I think, or one mustn't care about the quality of the...

Mostly out of curiosity,* "Evergreen" and "Lee", why didn't you obtain the prescriptions and buy the spectacles in Bs.As.? Wouldn't the quality have been comparable to what's obtainable in the U.S.; the cost, less; and the getting, much sooner? ------ *Full disclosure: I ask in part...

The careerists in the American military (I know, from eighteen years' ununiformed service as son and grandson of military officers) almost invariably oppose entering into war. It is, in fact, civilians -- president and congress -- who send those careerists and fellow volunteers (volunteers to...

I suppose "oxente!" to be exactly right: almost all entities that ask money of wouldbe volunteers do so to turn a profit. A genuine charity may decline the assistance of one who has no needed skill, but it almost never will ask him to pay to give it help.

Welcome, Aida. You'll find many, many unmarried semi-couples who've come down here for a short while (a year or two, often much less time); lots are young Americans, of course. Just start reading!

And racist Brazilians aver that "money whitens." Yep, we see every day what money can do. (The lack of it is no less powerful; how many Americans, Canadians, and Northwestern Europeans would be here if the cost of living were the same as at "home"?)

You must forgive my compatriot (I assume that "arty" is an American). Perhaps because our upper classes are so small that most of us seldom if ever encounter them, we tend to label any woman a "lady" and any man a "gentleman". As a lawyer, I've even heard judges address brutish, convicted felons...

American medical care is terribly overpriced and, save at its finest institutions, no longer superb. However, comparing it to Swiss or northwestern European systems is not reasonable. The United States has for many generations been taking in the world's "undesireables" -- the uneducated, the...

Nor do I. For what it's worth, neither the shelter nor the church I mentioned above said anything about a monetary donation, let alone a fee to volunteer!

I've helped at an animal shelter near the Congreso and at a church in Belgrano. There are shelters and churches throughout the city, and I'd guess that each would welcome any assistance, JHB.

I second "Movistar" -- even though I did buy my 'phone at a neighborhood store. Never a problem in over three years.

That's certainly true; but the measure remains mandatory. If you wish to be admitted to a state, even as a transient tourist, you must comply with its requirements, no matter how foolish or bad. Indeed, you've but three choices, RR: comply; decline, and not enter the country; or "go...

That reminds me of a prognostication made from Berlin (I think) about 1890: that within a century no Western capital would be habitable, because the rate of natural increase in their human populations would have added so many horses (for transport, obvio) to their comparatively small areas that...

Why not use Jimmy Carter's favorite, the neutron bomb? It kills the people but leaves the buildings intact. (Does anybody remember J. C.?)

Paperbound or cloth?