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The Colombian men have serious, serious game. They are surprisingly good looking actually and very well dressed. They can dance, they can talk. They say cash is king, well in Colombia cash is god. The gringo represents a means of jumping up a few class levels. San Javier to dining in...

My now recovered aching back recommends OSDE 210. It was recommended to me on here and I was surprised.....no shocked is a better word for their service. Specifically the office at Billinghurst and Santa Fe. Absolutely top notch.

Couldn't agree more. Keep the peace and deliver the mail. Everything else......stay away from me. Just laughed reading how the house in the US may vote to extend tax "breaks". Like it was their money and they are giving you a break and letting you keep it. Hilarious how left wing the US...

It's a very good argument against democracy. Once populists have sufficient voters to keep them in office there is no reason to make people self sufficient. And when it get's tough "it would be worse without us!"

A hot Paisa given the choice will 95% choose a Colombian guy over a gringo any day of the week. If she chooses a gringo you can be sure it's really for only one reason. They would much rather be drinking aguardiente and dancing salsa in their little Colombian table cliques in Parque Lleras or...

I've lived in Medellin for a year and BA a total of 9 months. I personally prefer Medellin but mostly for the warm weather, the food and the friendly people. Medellin is however being discovered by the wealthy older man looking for sex or a hot young girlfriend. The women are certainly hot but...

I think our original poster wants to know should he not pay the final month of rent using his deposit instead, will he be tossed before months end.

He doesn't tell them he has a flight. He bluffs that he will remain indefintitely.

After you leave? No, when deposit is received you will give the keys. You will leave when you have the deposit in your hand in cash. Don't tell them you have a flight and act as though you could stay for months until they give the deposit.

Ok thanks Steve. I guess I'll get the extension before the 90 days in case I hold up the bus leaving Argentina. After 1 month in Paraguay I will return to Argentina but just for a few days until I fly back to Europe. From your post I understand that during the extension you are free to come in...

I'm curious how many days leeway they give you over the 90 days before you pay a fine. I plan on crossing the Paraguayan border on a bus after 94 days in Argentina. I reckon it's fine but any doubts and I'll either go early or get an extension.

I just changed with a taxi driver at the airport for enough to get into the city. He gave me 12 which was worse than blue but better than in the airport. Once into the city you are set and can change on Florida St. at the blue rate. Many apartments have wall safes (mine does) and you can stash...

Exactly. It's not just an itinerary it is a confirmed reservation that is often stamped by the agent. In the moment that the reservation was printed off it is indeed real. It's just that the agent cancels it soon after and you do not pay anything. In Portugal the immigration officials looked...

In Portugal you could go to any travel agent before you leave and get them to reserve you a ticket and print it off as confirmed. You don't pay. You just tell them to cancel the reservation the next day. They do it all the time over there to process visas etc when you need to prove you have an...

I apologize you are correct I should have said paramilitaries.

It is horrible but to be fair in that article over 90% of that is caused by FARC and it's hard to blame the government for their actions. Bogota I'm not a fan of but Medellin has tried very hard to integrate the comunas into the city with a lot of money spent on infrastructure and healthcare...

Ok I get that this is much more important to you than it is to me. http://www.bnamericas.com/news/banking/colombia-overtakes-argentina-as-latams-third-largest-economy And according to this report Chile can soon overtake Argentina as well! It's good to have passion and loyalty. But wow...

I knew you were going to put up something like that. But the problem you make is that number one, the stats are from 2013. What happened to the Argentine peso since then? Plus that is using the "official" rate which we all know is a joke. As I said even using the offical rate today vs Colombia...

Argentina used to claim that it's economy was larger than Colombia's because Colombia was comparing it's economy to Argentina's in terms of the blue dollar rate. But even now if you use the official rate which is what 8 something? Colombia's economy is larger. Perhaps you have heard of the Wall...

Exactly. Huh?? I'd say it would be more Argentinians flooding into Colombia at this stage. Colombia has overtaken Argentina in terms of GDP to be South Americas second largest economy. The Colombians that I see here are mostly university students because the fees are much cheaper here than in...