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Not to defend the "not showing up" behavior, but it's not unique to porteños. Being someone who runs a business here, a restaurant, I get to experience the "showing up" behavior of lots of cultures, and I find the worst, to date anyway, have been my former fellow New Yorkers. It's very common in...

I don't know if I'm a wealth of info, though thanks for the plug, and I'll give it a shot. As noted, goose not available (unless you want to go to the pond by the planetarium and try to catch one yourself). Duck, chinatown and occasionally in the supermarkets. Quail and partridge, not hard to...

Not quite that simple, though, yes G, the Yellow Fever did hit the black population in disproportionately large numbers - mostly because the black populace was concentrated in a few areas of town where the outbreak started. But, prior to that, in the 1865 war, blacks were conscripted into the...

It's not like she's claiming it was an original idea. Argentina used to go on daylight savings time, up until 1999. Since then, when a previous president put an end to it, it's been voted on five times and been rejected by the Congreso. She just finally said the hell with putting it to a vote...

Favorite so far is Comedor Nikkai - http://www.saltshaker.net/20061130/house-of-the-rising-sun

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While they won't stand up to an H&H bagel, the best (really, the only reasonably close to real) bagels I've found here are at Big Mamma on Juramento in Belgrano (they used to have one in Las Canitas as well (on Matienzo), but it's been changed to "Mama Europa" - I haven't checked it out since...

As someone noted, Illy is available here, Segafredo, and even Lavazza, they're just not commonly used by most cafes and restaurants because yes, they are more expensive. the best coffees I've found here are at the Est. Gen. de Cafes - the main one (where they roast the beans, and they'll even...

I've found that most of the stuff that I would think about going to Walmart for, I can get at either the Carrefours in the city, or at Jumbo, and often at lower prices, including a fair amount of imported stuff.

I would check to see what's covered by your U.S. or other plan while you're here (you don't have to tell them you're moving permanently or long term, just ask what coverage is while you're out of the country). While it's true that insurance or hospital plans are less expensive here than in the...

I'm curious as to why you'd find it surprising that there are martial arts options here...? Martial arts are taught all over the world. Buenos Aires by itself probably has a couple of hundred school options, plus almost every gym here offers some sort of MA program, and that doesn't begin to...

There are lots of martial arts schools in BA - ranging from TKD to Kung Fu (Pa Kua seems to be most popular), Karate, Aikido, etc. Best source for info here is: http://www.redmarcial.com.ar/