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We went to Opus today, awesome place. My wife found exactly what she wanted at a good price. That whole area is baby central, we could not believe how many childrens furniture stores there were within a block or so. Thank you very much! Mark

Hi folks, Baby is maybe 7 weeks away and we are scrambling to get her room ready. Anyone know a good place that has a nice selection of baby furniture? In particular my wife wants a cuna functional (hope I spelled that correctly). We also need a good chair for my wife and baby for feeding...

Syngirl, I don't think you sound insane, actually I'm impressed and you are my new hero. I will admit I'm probably going to pay someone who can do this for me, I'm such a wimp. But at least now I know what we are talking about. Anyway, I've been asking around and my family has been saying...

Do the same rules apply to rental houses as well? I would swear that our cucarachas are coming in from the sewer or whatever that dang stinky area is with the metal top outside in our laundry area. Maybe even coming up from the drains or something? Most are in my wife's bathroom (great...)...

I think maybe you have misunderstood something I said. I asked sarcastically where I moved because of the response that I got that somehow tipping is bribery or somehow obnoxious. And that is not the first time I've heard it since I've been here in Buenos Aires. A very strange idea to me and I...

ElQueso, thanks very much. I have asked what wait staff made and whether tips were taken into account and my family here was not sure. Nice heads up, thank you for the info.

Wow... where in the heck have I moved to? I'm not bribing anyone. This is strictly performance based. Good waiters/waitresses who offer good service get good tips. Lousy wait staff get very little if anything. Not quite sure I understand how this is bribing anyone. Sorry, maybe I am...

Thanks for the info David. Problem is, the bar for ordinary level of service is pretty darn low here in BsAs isn't it? I wish more of the waiters income WAS dependent on tips - it evidently isn't here. If it was I bet the service would be much much better than it is. The limited amount of...

Well... I wasn't going to say anything but... if you give me some time to get settled and know my way around I might be interested in hitting a few with some of the folks here. In a former life I played tournaments and then settled in the Atlanta area where I was a teaching pro for 15 years...

Ok folks, Can someone help me out with how to tip here in Buenos Aires? Family is not helping because they go from the level of my wife and mother-in-law hardly tipping at all, I mean like 25 centavos, to my father-in-law 10% and of course I'm used to tipping 15-20% based on service. In...

Hi Howard, I'm from the US. Grew up in Maryland, moved to Atlanta area in 1978 and lived there for 20 years. Moved to Phoenix for a couple of years, then down to Miami where I met my wife in 2001. My wife wanted to learn english and we were pretty sure that would not happen in Miami so we...

I just want to say a big thank you to everyone on this forum. A week ago I was thinking I had enough of Buenos Aires, that it had beaten me, and I was packing our s*** and going home. I won't vent here with all the details because most of it has already been posted here by others. I guess...

I had a feeling it was not going to be straight forward getting money from outside Argentina into an account here. But I was wishing. We would not need to deposit more than about $2000 US per month into a local account here. If that can be done without raising much of a stink we may open an...

I have recently moved to Buenos Aires with my wife who is Argentinian. She is expecting our first child and wanted to be near her family. We have been here for a month and a half and I am struggling to adjust but I'm working on it. Anyway, any recommendations on a local bank? We are considering...