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Kudos to @steveinbsas and @wineguy999 for eschewing Nestlé products. My reasons are to do with their aggressive marketing of baby formula to communities that can least afford it leading to infant malnutrition through overdilution. I'd be interested, @steveinbsas in what it was about cafe...

Regardless of the rights and wrongs of it, I'm not sure how keen I would be to commit my internet connectivity - not to mention my cash - to an owner who has a long track record of switching his products on and off again on his whim

Twenty-one attendees - is that a new record? Coffee Chat certainly seems to have been going from strength to strength. It's not really practical for me to get there and I think I've just been once, a long time ago, but I appreciate what @gracielle and @Neil have been doing week after week for a...

I keep meaning to take a look at Viber (https://www.viber.com) I believe like Skype, it's free Viber to Viber and (mostly) a few cents for Viber out. It's not US owned which you may or may not see as a good thing.

Unless you think those seeds are over 2000 years old, don't throw them out just yet. (See Wikipedia article "Oldest Viable Seed) Seriously though, I've grown things from old seeds and what seems to happen is that some germinate and some don't. You might as well give them a go than throw them...

You can fix that misunderstanding from the Settings menu of BAExpats. Go to Settings > Styles > Fonts and then from the drop-down menu, select Irony Font (This has also been a tongue-in-cheek reply ;-) )

To be fair, Argentine people get ripped off by tradesmen too so don't be too hard on yourself.

First of all, congratulations on your relationship. Second - and I'm not picking on you personally @bamark because this just happens to be a convenient thread on which to hang a general query - I'm always surprised that people who ask these sorts of questions never seem to mention the...

Let's hear it for time/patience! Everybody ought to have something they do, simply because they enjoy it, and for me, one of those things is cooking from scratch. Let's also hear it for therapy! I've been making bread by hand for decades. It started when I was really under a lot of pressure at...

Ha! You are not the first to ask that question! Use the search function and ask for Baked Beans and you will turn up loads of results.. ...including this one https://baexpats.org/threads/if-you-could-import-one-thing-what-would-it-be.33856/page-2#post-310003 which includes this link suggesting...

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/world/americas/argentina-us-trade-deal-trump-milei.html archived at https://archive.ph/OI13v

Is there a list in your home country? In my home country, the prices of these sorts of services are usually a closely guarded secret until the mark has more or less irrevocably committed to buy.

Changing social attitudes. 1968 has finally arrived in Buenos Aires.

How do "Most People" stay in Argentina? "Most People" aren't trying to prise a loophole out of what is already one of the world's most generous and inexpensive immigration systems. "Most People" are either coming as tourists and leaving within 180 days and not returning within the year or they...

Try https://archive.ph/HMDhh

Is this story filed under "Expat Life" because Maduro is now living the expat life? :-)

You mentioned language difficulties in your thread about a cardiologist: I made some suggestions. You've now expanded upon your original comments: let me expand upon mine. Most Argentine doctors can speak English. This is a fact. For instance, for many years medical students at UBA Medical...

I know I've said this before but it might have been years ago but I always read the articles you post to this thread and I always enjoy them. Thank you @Ries

......which, in my opinion, makes it all the more important that you find out what really affected the whole of your family in this way before it happens again. Food poisoning might just be a dodgy takeaway but CO poisoning could come back and bite you all most tragically if not identified.

Alternatively, if you anticipate that a family member is planning to murder you, Agatha Christie style, by arsenic poisoning, do what they do in her books and take a prophylactic dose. You could do it every day through the water supply. For best results, anticipate the murder several...