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whatever happened to that cabrera? Or "CIA Earthquake Girl" as I like to call her. :rolleyes:

...and now they're all getting a house/mortgage! *runs off to Villa Soldati, copy of 'Home & Garden 2010' under my arm*

another sony reader owner here...the sony is far more flexible when it comes to file formats and that's why I chose it over the kindle. the other thing worth looking into is the fact that amazon have hugely increased the price of kindle books this year. Last year, most were going for 6 to 8...

I have no faith that human-created global warming can be stopped. I'm not going to argue about the ins and outs of the whole issue, but just say that turkeys don't vote for christmas. Ever. The vast majority of politicians in the West will not vote through policies that a) cost a huge amount...

what angers me most about the naysayers is that we're moving through a predictable series of their defence walls 1. 1990-2005. It's not happening 2. 2005-c.2020. OK, it's happening, but it's not our fault. 3. c.2020 onwards. OK, it's our fault but a) peak oil is around the corner, it'll sort...

this is the forum equivalent of sending 9 SMS messages to a girl and she doesn't reply to any of them. Take. The. Hint.

Imagine a thread like this all about the UK, England, Britain, Great Britain and the British Isles (throw Eire, Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland and Ulster in there for good measure!) :) actually, it's painful just imagining it!

no that's Lawn Watching you're thinking of. Quite a different sport. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawn_Watching Was actually an Olympic Sport between 1908 and 1924. Little known fact: the guy who was the focus of the Chariots Of Fire film, the one who wouldn't run on a Sunday...he won the...

sad to hear about your problems. I've always believed in the expression "you get what you pay for" (or better, "pay peanuts, get monkeys"). Was it that cheap?? I hope for your sake it was :)

I went yesterday to colonia. Two years of stamps, each scrutinised by the migraciones officer. New stamp given. No hassle. The "crackdown" continues to bite. :D

yeah, I'll have it too, ta!

well, I went in the end. and do you know what happened on the way back? She leafed through my passport taking in every one of 2 years' worth of stamps, said "as a tourist, yes?", I said "yes", and she stamped another three months in.

Isn't it going to be on at "unsociable" hours? The warm up games are starting each day at around 10/11pm BA time. So lunch will be midnight/1am, tea at 3/4am. I will be relying on TMS on the internet.

so we can't compare expat areas with anything else because it's not relevant to us? The fact that these other areas have far worse crime figures is also irrelevant I suppose? the statement that crime is concentrated around wealthier areas is patently untrue and is typical of the usual...

well that's all fine and good steve, but the original point was that it was the expat areas that are suffering most from crime. That's just not true. In any way. if you only want to take the subset of "barrios where expats live", then what is the point of a comparison anyway? You want to...

are well-off expats noticing that recoleta and palermo have more crime than they used to have ten years ago - probably yes. do recoleta and palermo have the same crime rates as some of the faceless, concrete barrios in grand buenos aires - are you kidding me? Of course not.

well, I presumed he didn't mean that because it wouldn't be true to claim that the areas that are suffering crime in BA are places like recoleta and palermo. Far from it.

hang on, "poor people produce poverty"? Is that a good summing up of your grasp of modern economics?

I said absolutely nothing about escaping OUT of the country. ;)

get onto google maps....the whole area north of tigre is muddy deltas and waterways. Sure it's easier in the west where you could just hike across a mountain.