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No, I was and will be on a tourist status for the foreseeable future.

It's not news to me, and it sounds like it's most emphatically not news to you, but it might be news to the raving lunatics/zealots on here who think they left a model of moral rectitude and civil society behind, and moved to a country that invented large-scale, semi-institutionalised crime.

That said, you pretty much have to be a capital imbecile to put $160,000 of jewelry and valuables into a checked suitcase.

You know, before you lot carry on about how Argentina is the grand Mecca of theft, particularly in some semi-official context, consider: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/03/26/exclusive-the-stunning-jfk-airport-baggage-scandal-200-thefts-per-day/

This is the first time I've ever heard of this. I came into EZE in November 2011 with a fairly non-trivial amount of electronics on my person, and left, without incident. Was I supposed to have registered something?

¡Eita! Bienvenidos al quilombo, nuestro hogar.

When I was in BA, I stayed around Chacabuco & Independencia and had no complaints, going out at night and all. But, I was always in the company of a burly acquaintance.

I'm thinking of living in San Telmo, over the paranoid cautionary tales of the expat crowd.

So, that's roughly 24 days per book? Better pick the literature that counts. :-)

This. As a Russian immigrant to the US who somehow managed to get US citizenship after nearly two decades - and 80% of his life - here, surviving innumerable junctures of probabilistic attrition (aka I can stay contingent upon "a LOT of IFs"), I never understand what all the fuss about...

While I can appreciate the theoretical upside of the Peronist self-sufficiency viewpoint, I am struggling to understand how, in practise, cutting the country off from the rest of the world one step at a time could possibly be beneficial or desirable in any kind of long-run, strategic sense...

That confirms my exact suspicions. Thanks for the insight, After5! Wonder how they would feel about a Russian federative passport...

I'm usually not one to join the univocal moblike condemnation of all and any trade policy here, aided by the yellow conservative press. However, I have to say, this is getting a little sinister even for my comfort.

*Agents of the prefectura are serious, operate like military, and arrest people who offer them bribes.* That they are. I hired a Radiotaxi for a casual car tour of Puerto Madero one Sunday morning, and the prefectura wanted to know exactly what we were doing just casually driving around at a...

My sentiments exactly. I'm no delusional idealist, and admittedly, I didn't spend that much time in BA (a few weeks) before deciding to make my way over there. But reading this forum, one would really think it's an armed camp/famished war zone/Somalia. It's not. At most, it's a lively city...

While there are some countries that require a transit visa just for flying through their airport, it has always been my understanding that Brazil is not one of them. I do believe they have a restriction of something like 7 or 8 hours that you can stay in the airport without a transit visa in...

Curious, is the GSM radio in the 4G version still quad-band?

If Puerto Madero is exactly what you want, and you've got the money, then don't let what anyone says stop you from living there. That said, what the other posters have indicated about it is accurate. While it is most definitely safe and fancy, it feels like a very isolated Green Zone that has...

Can't say how Regus operates in Argentina, but based on extensive experience here in Atlanta, +1 to the "stay away from Regus" comment.

All immigration and passport control-related stations seem to be equipped with credit card charging equipment, from what I saw.