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I don't really see people complaining, or saying that they can't afford BA, on this thread. Folks are just pointing out the obvious insane inflation over the past ten years in Argentina. And if I were Argentine, and making 3000 pesos a month, I'd be pretty damn concerned about it myself...

Hah! Yeah, that tomato appetizer is an obscene rip-off. It's just a tomato! A big, good tomato but, still, just a tomato. So, if anyone happens to be heading to Peter Luger's at some point in the future, do yourself a favor and skip that tomato appetizer. Some people love that damn tomato...

A lot! And they only take cash or their Peter Luger credit card. And it's out of the way in Brooklyn. And the interior of the place looks like a crappy German beer hall. But dinner reservations are always booked two weeks in advance because of the consistent quality of the food (and the...

Since I am currently in NYC, let me clear something up quickly: New York is FAR more expensive than Buenos Aires. Those of you who think that prices in BA have jumped to NY levels are being ridiculous. Sure, BA isn't as cheap as it was right after Argentina's economic collapse, but one would...

Wow, Digger, you really know your stuff. I just read another post of yours about Argentine coffee and that was spot on as well. Nice to read some well-informed posts here instead of the usual back-and-forth ranting. The only thing I would add is that since, like you said, men everywhere want...

Jeez, really? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratlines_(World_War_II)#The_Argentine_Connection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Peron#Protection_of_Nazi_war_criminals I mean, Nazis spread out throughout South America, and some even ended up in the US, but Argentina took in an awful lot of Nazis...

Mature countries confront racism, bring it out into the open. It's an ugly, painful, difficult process. Often lots of people get killed along the way. But it's necessary. Every country in the world has some work to do, but some are much further along than others. I'm sure there is loads of...

Family connections. There are loads of people throughout the world in loveless marriages that are more like business relationships than anything else. If Carlos Slim's daughter wanted to marry you, but you found her intolerable, you wouldn't even consider it for a second or two? Money can't...

Hah! Yeah, that's it. "What the f**k do women want? Everything." I lucked out and found a great Argentine girl myself, but in the month or so I was in Buenos Aires before I met her, I had the same damn conversation like a million times with Argentine girls I met. It got old fast. What I...

Yikes. Well, at least you brought this thread back to its original topic (more or less). For a thread entitled "Dating in Buenos Aires," there's been a bit too much back and forth about maids and cleaning. Anyway, I was having a conversation recently with a friend about how much women's...

Hah! It's every thread, no matter what the topic. Some serious loons here at BAExpats.org. What?! Crazy talk. Have you spent much time in the south of Brazil? There's a reason why so many supermodels get plucked out of there. There are some ridiculously gorgeous women in southern Brazil...

Haven't we been over this ad nauseam here at BAExpats.org? There's a huge difference between people who have fled their home country in search of opportunity elsewhere (and who have built a life in a new country and are dependent on income earned in that country) and "expats" with money to burn...

SaraSara, I'd bet that the majority of people posting here at BAExpats.org who come from countries once colonized by Europeans are, in fact, 100% "ethnically European." Big deal. Only in Argentina have I seen so much European ass-kissing. And I'd bet that there are more than a few Argentines...

Hah! Love it. And, c'mon, people, you all know that Buenos Aires is a pseudo-European shithole. Even if you love the place, there's no need to go into denial about it. Most Argentines are so desperate to see themselves as European that Argentina barely has a national identity of its own...

Wegmans! Hah! I went to college in upstate NY and always did my shopping at Wegmans. Nice supermarkets. They still have the hot pepper displays that explain how hot the peppers are in Scovilles? Since you've got tough Argentine taste buds, I recommend going straight for the 100,000+...

Question for those who use bidets: do you use them in other people's homes? And, further, do you use them in the homes of people you don't know all that well (like, say, at a party at a friend of a friend's house)? Seems sort of gross to me to use a bidet that's either not yours or in your...

Hah! Of course not, it's Buffalo! Anyone judging the entirety of the massive United States of America based on a few days in Buffalo is a moron. This thread (and I have to confess I haven't read much of it yet; lots of posts here) has left me wondering how many Americans posting here really...

Yawn. Well. after three years in BA, I think the guy was pretty much spot on until the nonsense about how "Buenos Aires is a feeling, a state of mind" that "sucks you in." Seemed like he was just trying to end his article on a positive note and tossed in the kind of BS filler that Lonely...

Yeah, jeez, if money isn't an issue, Paris, of course.

This is what's happened for me as well. I've had to maybe explain myself a couple of times, but I've never had any real problems flying one-way into Argentina.