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Don't most people in CABA already have water meters? Genuine question since all the apartment blocks I've known have had meters with the water charges being apportioned to residents on the basis of sq/m and the houses I know have individual ones facing the street. In fact it was only because of...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/11/16/mileis-shock-therapy-britains-current-reforms-look-feeble/ Archived version; https://archive.ph/ed0sZ Big on words like fiscal, investment and deficit, the article doesn't mention ordinary people in either country once.

There are more than a dozen specialist Argentine shops in the Denver Metro area and I have a feeling that if there were anything like as many as 30,000 US citizens in Buenos Aires there would be a much bigger presence of US imported goods on the streets - regardless of price and import restrictions

Many people do a little detective work and find a lot of Mercado Libre sellers have a different online presence or better still, a bricks and mortar business where they sell their stock and often at much better than platform prices

https://observer.co.uk/news/international/article/trumps-argentine-bailout-stokes-growing-dissent-among-maga-faithful I'm not experiencing any barriers to reading this or any other Observer articles but if anybody finds there are difficulties then I'll post an archive link

How long are you planning to stay? I have always understood that one of the big plus points of schools like Lincoln is that not only do they follow the US curriculum but they follow the US school calendar too. That makes them perfect for visiting company executives and diplomats etc because when...

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/style/food-and-drink/article-we-know-wines-from-argentina-can-be-great-but-will-they-age/ Archive version: https://archive.is/NRGY2

Fascinating and very plausible. But tell me more of "the Biden-Harris regime's reckless culling of egg-laying hens last year." of which ZeroHedge speaks in its final pargraph? Weren't these the birds which caught a variety of Avian Flu which the CDC says jumped species twice? First into cattle...

The New York Times seems to think Trump is talking about the mid-terms this month: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/world/americas/argentina-trump-javier-milei.html Paragraph 2: To secure help from the United States, Mr. Trump made clear on Tuesday, Mr. Milei’s embattled political party would...

Some owners bypass the agents by displaying a banner across the balcony facing the street. The banner advertises that the apartment is for rent and gives a contact phone number. My brother in law does it this way though he's got nothing vacant at the moment. It saves a lot of extra expense and...

I've just been listening to the item on the BBC World Service that this article by Ione Wells has been derived from. I'm not quite sure how much World Service radio is actually available in Argentina since the BBC changed access arrangements outside the UK but maybe try one or all of these...

That's a good point. I wonder the same thing about the census in Argentina. As I understand it, Argentina's Census Day is a public holiday when several hundred thousand enumerators all over the country try to find and record everyone else. I'd love to know how accurate that is. In the UK...

No scheduled flights as far as I can tell but I'm seeing charter flights between IGR and AGT for around $300 each way. Make your own negotiations with the companies at the airport. Bear in mind that the region is pretty notorious so expect to get the strip search and rubber glove treatment at...

Oooh! Dogwhistle, dogwhistle, dogwhistle! Only 7% of the population of London are Pakistani/Bangladeshi and just 15% of all and any ethnicities count themselves as Moslem (Census 2021) so if any of that were true, how did the Mayor of London get re-elected in 2024 with 44% of the vote on a...

Phone theft may just be a casual thing now but I'm guessing it won't be for long. In London, it's organised, industrialised crime with more than 100,000 handsets stolen last year and likely more this. They are using Faraday bags to stop kill signals and the gangs,right around the corner from the...

There have been times and circumstances when even I have claimed not to be able to speak English but barring those types of situations, if I start a conversation in the other person's language, when I start to falter, the other person picks up. It's a natural human trait, to respond to a display...

Is the iron from the USA? Unless it is dual voltage it's really not suitable for 240v electrics. Most of the other things that I guess you brought with you (TVs Phone chargers, laptops etc ) will accept any voltage between 100 and 250 but power hungry items like irons, toasters, kettles etc...

Yes, that's right. In fact it's more efficient that way because the ground at so-many metres deep is surprisingly warm and the temperature down there doesn't vary much. But just like all petrol-engine automobiles work the same way yet they all have their own sweet spots for most efficient...

I think we might be talking about different things. In the case of the traditional electric heater in the home, all of the energy consumed decays to heat in the end. How much you lose depends on your insulation and ventilation amongst other things. A heat pump/aircon is different inasmuch as it...

No. It's not creating heat, it's mechanically sucking existing heat out of the surroundings and the process is completely within physical laws.