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Welcome, Sophie! My best advice for seeing the city is to just strike out in some general direction, and walk. The city is an amazing place, and you will discover parks, plazas, small stores, even smaller museums, and beautiful architecture. Palermo is a good place to live and work, so enjoy!

You mean like "Yanqui go home" or "bad información?"

Maybe he should have dropped his campaign ads in favor of running this poster of Karina instead?

Gee, I must say "gracias" a dozen times in a meal, because like you, I'm grateful for the waiter's assistance. Never thought about this possibility, but will ask some Argentine friends. When we sometimes haven't received change, we have just thought the waiter must have assumed the rest was...

... And their wallets. Oh, wait! They already did that!

At times, this can be a completely understandable confusion.

Ah! I took it literally to mean that the existence of a blue dollar was the problem, not that the rate is the same as a year ago, while inflation has continued its march. Yeah. Not good. There are some silent elements of inflation that can hit you in the face, though not among the...

Bajo, how can this many professors afford to teach for free? Is teaching a part-time job, and the profs do it for charity, while supporting themselves with other work?

Why?

When I started this thread, what puzzled me was that, while it was clear that there was more determining the parallel rate than simply the obvious ones, still, I did not posses enough information to guess what other determining factors were. I went back and read articles like Bianca Fernet's...

Popcornflix has been highly recommended to us by porteños who watch a lot of movies. What they like is that there are lots of very recent movies, and that it is free. On Netflix, we've just watched the Australian tv series called Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, set in the late 1920's. Despite...

I would gladly get on that scale, as long as my luggage was on it WITH me, so I could pretend that the luggage was filled with the Encyclopedia Brittanica, while I, myself, must weigh next to nothing! And I do like the idea that the final ticket price might be based on the total weight I was...

I don't need any products, but perhaps I can help you in your search for herbal teas. This place gets rave reviews from all the people we know who have been there. They specialize in exotic teas and tea blends. If they don't sell herbal teas, they will surely know who does...

Jeez, Matt - why so angry?

Not to mention La Parrilla Secreta de Tito. Possibly right across the street from you, but the only sign of any kind is the one that says "cerrado...."

Thanks very much!

Maybe we need to have our own blind tasting, to give expats with discriminating palates a chance to shine?

Ejcot and Tom -- These two links actually led to the same site, which curiously offers a "free" subscription for viewing. Not wanting to enter the information required (e.g., security code from cc -- why needed for a "free" subscription? Didn't sit right), we were blocked from seeing games...

Yikes! Time to get out of the cab.

Diego, I think that my words might reflect the views of some others on the forum. We very much appreciate and respect the people of Argentina, and we also admire the beauty and the abundant natural resources. As a large group, we differ greatly in our opinions of the government of your...