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There is that building right on the 9 de Julio (the lane towards south even bends around it), I think it's the ministerio de salud. Might offer a good viewpoint but I don't have any good contacts there. Anyway, the best thing about filming from there would be that it is one of the ugliest...

Argentine hooliangs are at least wise enough to beat up anybody who pulls out a camera to film/fotograph them while rioting. I guess canadian police already got more than a few of those on the vancouver fotos. Anyway, the barras form a part of argentine football for many years already and I...

Just want to say that actually you can get a monedero at any of those "open 25h" shops/kiosk or however they are called. There are lots of them. I did not care about getting it personalized though since I did not care whether I am able to recover the remaining credit in case of theft. Someone...

In Austria people also get a lot of benefits and yet I hardly ever spend more then 5,5€ at McD (the 1$ stuff = 1€, the Menus are mostly around 5 or 5,5, which would be about 30 pesos). Above that, nobody expects you to clean up your stuff when leaving. Instead of waiting in line if they can't...

I was told that they can't verify my creditworthyness if I don't have a national document or a CUIT (roughly said a tax number for businesses and self-employed) and therefore can't give me anything but pregapo. Seemed logical to me. What you described seems unlikely for me to work, but...

Like John.St said. In many countries you are in serious trouble if you offer a bribe. Even in Argentina it is risky if you do it that open, and also kind of insulting to the corrupt officer. It has to be done with style unless they openly request it from you. That's why most travel guides advice...

The only thing I can say is to better check transparency international reports [1] before moving to a new country next time. Of course it is outrageous and if you are running a business you will suffer even more than as a private person, no matter whether you are a foreigner or a local...

My experience are that argentines are extremely loyal and helpful towards their closest contacts (particularly family, close friends and, especially in the conurbano, long-term neighbours) but don't care about anybody else and will not leave out any opportunity to rip them off. That's what...

There is plenty of information on that, but in short: yes. Until a total of 180 days it should be perfectly legal. Above 180 days it is not perfectly legal any more, but seems to be still tolerated anyway unless you (ab)use it to stay for years or behave stupidly, or have bad luck.

That's the most disgusting food I have ever seen. Reminds me of the day when I was told that chinchulines have no filling, that they are just either cleaned out or not. Had to check wikipedia to believe it and never ate them since then.

I spent a total of 7 weeks @ http://www.academiabuenosaires.com/ and absolutely recommend them. Classes are 1-5 students (in my case we were always 2-3) and their teachers are very good. I have a good impression of vamos spanish too, but only from hearsay. If you have an unlocked iPhone, 3G...

Personal has offers but I have mixed experiences. At some places it worked fine, at other places it was horribly slow. Sometimes the speed was fine but the connection was interrupted very frequently. Claro also has mobile broadband but I have no experience except that I once was on a...

People are generally dressed quite well, in the upper social clases at least. Leaving aside short-lived trends of youth culture, the general dresscode is like in Europe or the US. If you are working at a generally more formal department like law or business administration, a formal dresscode...

gouchobob: I once saw a car crash where one of the driver took an iron chain, the other one that metal X-thing to unscrew tires to attack or intimidate each other. I don't know how it ended (I was on a colectivo), but I am pretty sure that nobody died. If they would have had firearms, it might...

My impression was that children handle that stuff pretty well. IMHO its just bollocks to think that a pair of naked boobs corrupts one's morale. It is role models that does. Corruption, people who get away with crimes, narzism, egoism, etc. Nevertheless, I found some things irritating as well...

I loved living in Avellaneda. What I hated most was not safety issues, but the frequent piquetes on puente pueyrredon. Nevertheless, at least concerning the partido's part "Gerli", there is no doubt for me that it is significantly more dangerous than Boca. By knowing lots of people there (and...

I think some of the people here are way to negative. Yes, there is a lot of crime in BsAs. Nevertheless, I think the majority here is able of enjoying life and does not suffer THAT much from crime. I think that the couple who created this thread had quite a bit of bad luck for that to actually...

Discrimination is a difficult topic. You might be able to force them to drop the limitation from the rules, yet they are still free to give bad gradings since they can always justify with something else. For this reason, I hate it that in Austria (and I think that it is the same in the US) you...

I don't think so, actually Santiago F's explanation is the most logical for me. Of course you always see people making the sign of the cross when passing a church in a colectivo. Yet, BsAs is full of transvestite prostitutes and telos. They don't seem to take the catolic church too serious. I...

I totally agree but there aren't other reasources I'd know of. If one asks an argentine friend they generally just give you a few words and don't even think about some others. You have that http://www.youtube.com/user/scoopingargentina#p/u/2/-5AqSuxWEgE on youtube but it is just 6 videos for 6...