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Ugh I charge waaaaay too little. I am a qualified English teacher with over a year's experience and my students pay either 70 or 80 pesos. The thing is that I came to Argentina when the academic and work year was winding down, and I am still struggling a bit to get students. I think once things...

Are you a member of Couchsurfing? If you become a member and check out the Buenos Aires group, I've seen a lot of people lately posting about New Year's so I'm pretty sure you could find something there.

Hmmm $650 for an apartment does sound astronomically expensive. I currently pay about 250, and I'm sure you can find good stuff between 200 - 350 (although even 350 is pretty damn high). I found an awesome place on Craigslist, I live with two Argentines. My tip is to come here and book a hostel...

Hey there, I just want to say I know EXACTLY how you feel. Before I moved here and I read the forums, I also thought that people were really whiny, negative, and ungrateful, but now I totally see where everyone is coming from. Admittedly I am in a slump right now so I am more negative than...

I was in Montevideo last weekend and the limit was $300 per transaction, but I believe that you can do three transactions in a day. The main obstacle would probably be whether your bank allows you to take out that much in a day or if they have a weekly limit or something. I doubt they would run...

Hey everyone, I've been in BsAs for two months now and have found some work teaching English as I have a CELTA plus a little over a year's experience. I have one private student that I got through a friend and I work for a company but so far they've only managed to give me about 10 hours of...

I massively lucked out and found a great place within a week of arriving here. I found it through Craigslist: http://buenosaires.es.craigslist.org/ So yeah my recommendation is definitely to book a hostel for a week, start looking for an apartment right away when you get here, and then you can...

Hey everyone! I'm arriving in about a week and I realized that I'll need a cellphone asap once I get there. I'll want a cheap pay-as-you-go phone. Just calls and texts, I don't need anything fancy, and I can't get a contract as I don't know how long I'm staying and would be on a tourist visa...

Those of you who've had private tutors, could you give us an idea of how much they charge for their lessons? I'm also tempted to contact a private tutor but cost is kind of an issue for me so I don't know if it would be better to look for classes.

Yep arriving on September 25 :)

Thank you so much for your excellent replies! I will take your advice and book a ticket to Uruguay. I mean, I do have to leave the country eventually anyway so I may as well do it in good time :)

Hi everyone! My name is Ophelia and I'm moving to Buenos Aires in September this year. In a weird impulsive move (it's a long story) I only bought a one-way ticket. Like many others here, it seems, my plan is to stay for 6+ months-ish. I just read somewhere that they might require me to...