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It's not weird at all. It's comparing a Mercedes S Class to a VW bug. Cheap malbec to fine grand cru Bordeaux. Life is all about being able to tell the difference. Being able to discriminate. It's what makes us human. My point is there are far far worse places than CABA. Some better, but a...

USA has just about anything you could want to buy. Buy! Buy! But it also has this. And it is seriously bad. Third World bad in many places. “Last year, the United States tallied more than 20,000 murders — the highest total since 1995 and 4,000 more than in 2019. Preliminary FBI data for 2020...

Yet a new study by Matthew Killingsworth, senior fellow at UPenn’s Wharton School, suggests that money does buy happiness after all. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/it-turns-out-money-can-buy-happiness-study-finds/ar-BB1epW44

Lived in Bangui, Dhaka, Beirut and Port-au-Prince among others. Be damned glad you're in CABA.

This all seems rather silly. Your financial status determines your quality of life wherever you live. This has been true since Narmer, the first pharaoh of ancient Egypt. It continues with today's pharaohs Bezos and Musk. It will always be so. We very much enjoy our summers in Argentina. Sorry...

The solution seems fairly simple. Separate business-class-only travel for the wealthy and healthy. Steerage-only travel for the masses. This is inevitable.

Why doesn’t Argentina simply close all borders/airports, curl into a ball, and hibernate until all this very bad stuff goes away? Then awaken, and ask the IMF for a big fat handout.

Thanks for the update. Good thing we enjoy Mexico City! And perhaps Spain will get its act together and accept some sort of Vaccine Passport this summer.

Anyone have a clue as to when USA tourists may be allowed in? Especially those who've been vaccinated. Thanks!

From the looks of things, a great many people should be paid not to have kids.

I returned to USA to get Pfizer vacs in Fl. Glad I did. You get what you pay for. When it comes to health, that's important. And you get this too. https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/pfizer-begins-trials-testing-third-dose-of-covid-vaccine/ar-BB1e0CMu

Verifly in action at Denver airport...

I’m hoping that an app like Verifly, which American Airlines now requires, eventually includes vaccine info. Some countries are using it, and Spain, Greece and a few other EU destinations are discussing a similar vaccine passport. Eventually test/vaccine status could be incorporated into US...

Thanks again. What I figured. I'll be hanging out in Mexico City until then. Mex City is basically LA South; I can walk to 17 different Starbucks from my AirBnB in Polanco, which is all sorts of wrong in a country with a huge peasant population. FYI, the USA vaccine process is ramping nicely and...

Thanks for the information! Here's something to ponder: I'm a USA citizen who lives half year in CABA; I have an apartment there now. Because I'm only a tourist, I can't return. But on Feb 19, I'll get my second dose of the Pfizer vaccine. So by March 19 or so, I should be reasonably...

The reason I spend 5 months in CABA is because it doesn’t operate at the pace of NYC or Tokyo. It’s a wonderful change. Argentina is one of a kind.

Indeed. Love BA. But 6 mos a year for me. In a world where most cities are very similar, BA remains a very distinctive place. Not the easiest place to love, but worth the effort.

“There are no nations. There are no peoples. There is no America. There is no democracy.“ This has never been more true, although written 50 years ago by Paddy Chayefsky for the film “Network.” Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates learned this long ago. The peasants are the only ones debating...

Ok. Two days of chaos, and, OMG, an assault on democracy! But all that matters, and all most folks care about—except this board, apparently—are their investments. And yesterday’s Day of Infamy and today’s Day Following the Day of Infamy have resulted in a meteoric rise in the Nasdaq and Bitcoin...