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    Buquebus Etiquette

    If I'd got up to take a piss and left my stuff on my seat and came back to some gringo in my seat I'd be a bit put out too.
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    Miracle in Microcenter

    I like the place to be honest but in my experience honesty is not very highly valued in Argentine society. Most Argentines are therefore not very trusting either, especially not with strangers.
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    Miracle in Microcenter

    No it’s a shite hole.
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    Miracle in Microcenter

    I’ve left sunglasses in a changing room and went back 2 mins later gone. Daughter left her little purse somewhere when she was 3 or 4 years old with few pesos in a it got the purse back, pesos gone. Taxi driver picked friends up from recoleta mall to cañitas and charged them triple. Day of my...
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    Miracle in Microcenter

    I was channelling my inner porteño
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    Miracle in Microcenter

    Now he knows where the foreigner lives… 😀
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    Milei says Argentina has no right to the Islas Malvinas

    Another reason is it’s a part of the school curriculum from kindergarten age.
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    Milei says Argentina has no right to the Islas Malvinas

    Mostly because they say they have the original rights to the islands and it was Britain who kicked them off back in 18 whenever. Britain are still the colonial power exerting their influence on the free people of Argentina etc etc etc. So regardless of the Falklands war - Las Malvinas son...
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    Milei says Argentina has no right to the Islas Malvinas

    If the silly fuckers had never invaded in the first place there‘s a very good chance they’d be in Argentine hands.
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    Milei says Argentina has no right to the Islas Malvinas

    First ever Argentine president to talk any sense on the matter.
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    Sourdough

    Maybe the natural yeasts here aren’t the same as the ones you’re used to which give the bread a different flavour profile.
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    Sourdough

    Masa madre is the Spanish word for Sourdough….. However a lot of places will say pan “con masa madre” rather than pan de masa madre. Nómada on Jorge Newberry in Cañitas does Pan de masa madre.
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    What is the food you miss most from "home?"

    Surely they are two of the easiest things that you can recreate in Argentina?
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    Best way to pay now?

    AMEX eventually refund you the difference so you should get same as Mastercard.
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    Owning vehicle BA

    Kinto only exists on paper monthly deals don’t exist,
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    Disappointed with Food in Argentina

    2400 pesos el kilo bananas in Jumbo?
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    Coffee and cake prices

    I like my mate amargo, but drinking too much of it gives me bad acid. Coffee isn’t worth the expense these days but I do make a French press’s worth most mornings in the house, Super Cabrales is passable.
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    New Expat - Medical Insurance

    I signed up for Hospital Alemán about 2 years ago and only completed a questionnaire did not have any lab tests or examination by any doctor. I am below 40 though. Maybe things have changed since then?
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    Aerolineas Argentinas hot sale 40% discounts to Europe

    Big difference between business and anything else still. But there is no way I’d pay full business fare prices. Rather suffer in the back and upgrade occasionally.
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    Irish Guy in BA - Anyone play golf?

    I think AAG fee is the same whichever club you are at. Someone I know had his at la orquídea and paid the same, As far as I know it has to be done via a club can’t be done direct with e AAG
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