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I'm still planning on moving down in a few months. I'm one of those parasites that can make his living working remotely, as long as the connectivity and infrastructure is reasonably good, so my experience may not be the most representative, especially in terms of what the local economy has to...

I would just buy locally, and not worry too much about from where. Despite whatever expats are complaining about this week, Argentines do somehow manage to stay clothed.

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I flew Pluna to Montevideo out of AEP when I was down there, and I have to say, $168 for same-day fare vs. ~$100 for the Buquebus... it was quite attractive for its time-saving quality.

It's times like this I am angry at the injustice that not everyone is an IT professional. My Hulu worked just fine in Argentina, but only because I tunneled it through a VPN out of a NAT gateway in the US.

In Russia, March 8th is also celebrated as women's day/mothers' day (we don't have a separate Mothers' Day), and has been for about a century.

Just give your friends your address in Palermo and have them hail a cab. It's not so bad.

Ipso facto, US court orders are only enforceable in the US and US jurisdictions. However, there are a variety of international treaties and conventions that give theoretical super-national force to a variety of nations' court orders for specific purposes, such as INTERPOL, the WTO, NAFTA, etc...

They should just demand that tourists carry more valuables - i.e. a 25-30% raise. :-)

Yes, it seems to me the opportunity to earn hard currency would have been welcome, and would trump any diplomatic theater.

"Los conductores de taxis, operadores turísticos, los guías de paseos en zonas de vida salvaje y empleados de restaurantes habían aceptado trabajar este feriado, para ofrecer servicio a más de 5.000 pasajeros, pero todo dio marcha atrás por la decisión oficial." The people themselves did not...

They even misspelled "Ushuaia" in the headline; classy.

Really, Argentina? http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1452115-el-oficialismo-prohibio-que-atraquen-en-usuhaia-dos-cruceros-inlgeses

You have an interesting idea of what constitutes "basic essentials", and I agree, consequently, that BA may not be the place for you.

I think being told that one doesn't exist by a lawyer is probably one of the highest compliments one can receive! :-)

High duties are one thing, but making goods unimportable (or restricted to excruciatingly small quotas), rendering them unavailable at any price, is over the top.

Oh, I know. I'm from the Soviet Union. I still had a record player when I was a little boy, long after my American counterparts started moving onto CDs. :-)

Yeah, I hear you. I'm not saying that nobody will venture to manufacture anything in Argentina as a result of this pressure; nothing is ever 100%. But to think that in the long run, Argentina is in a position to replace the mounds of cheap Chinese electronics that the entire world imports with...

That's what I don't understand about these import restrictions; they seem to be born of the presumption that Argentina has domestically substitutable industry for imports. But Argentina doesn't make iPads, and it won't! The production of most non-trivial electronics and appliances is dependent...

Yeah, but Windows 98 is an exceptionally poor choice. Even at the time, there were plenty of reasonable embedded platforms. That said, I agree that they're common, nevertheless. My favourite is always the blue screen of death on Windows-based airport arrival/departure listing screens.