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This points out (and an entire thread has been devoted to) the difference between expatriate and immigrant. I guess that the OP in this thread is most interested in hearing from men and women who are, or who at least originally intended to be, immigrants, permanently changing their homes and...

"Home is where the heart is"? (And, as we've all experienced, "the heart has reasons, that reason cannot know.") I agree, "cri-cri".

Because American monetary inflation is much less than the Argentine, the American dollar is a more constant currency than the Argentine peso (or austral, or . . . ) in pricing.

The problem's more complex than anyone can solve, I fear. Even targetted subsidies encourage the poor to increase the number of children they have and thus with other measures act to perpetuate poverty, regardless of attempts, generally unsuccessful, to better education and largely eliminate...

I hope that this was a simple mistyping!

BB, this is a bit of broad porteño humor (have you looked at official statistics within the past year or two?). Even I thought it was funny.

It's not so clear to me. I perceive the Kirchners to be opportunists, with the amassing of personal fortunes their chief goal.

You'll enjoy it -- I live in New England, and the weather at this moment is near perfection. I'm interested in knowing your overall reasons for remaining in Argentina. I agree that the country has many problems (most, traceable to its own people), though for me the benefits may be weightier...

Mr. Martin, if I could have "thanked" you for half your previous posting, I would have: your first paragraph is telling. But I haven't found that Argentina is so thoroughly corrupt as at times may appear -- thank goodness!

Really? Perhaps in the former Soviet bloc, but nowhere in the States that I know of.:)

Interesting. Mexico's put at 23rd-best. Pretty clear, then, that the ten or twenty million Mexicans in the United States illegally are not impelled by lust for "the good life" but by simple greed -- or so this report would have us believe.

These things are so subjective! A comparable report earlier this year put Denmark first, other northwestern European countries in most of the remaining top-ten places, and omitted all Latin American until (if I remember correctly) place forty or so. In short: go where it pleases you. These...

'Sorry, Bob, my weak attempt at humour. Of course we know that the triskelion is the symbol of Man . . . and of Sicily . . . and of Brittany . . . and . . . . I just felt sorry for the cat.

But it isn't a Manx, Bob!

Yes, it does. 'May vary from chapter to chapter, though.

It exists, too, in France; or, at the least, it did in my childhood. There, and then, the list as such didn't exist: not published, and virtually at the discretion of local officials. The reason given for requiring their approval before the birth name could be registered was (if I remember...

Perhaps there simply are no qualified journalists ON the NY Times.

And to top it off, Katie, Almagro's a nice place to live.

Rich man, if you can afford to buy without knowing the price!

Belgrano is where I generally stay. If you enjoy walking (I do), you'll find the entire barrio within easy walking distance of Palermo; I've walked to the Microcentro more than once, but only when not pressed for time. Belgrano (especially "Belgrano R", southwest of Av. Crámer) is "sleepier"...