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    Traveller in Buenos Aires and shipping problem, customs

    Well, I breath IT for living, so any time I can turn off my devices - including my WiFi home router, what I do every night - is a win for me. I could go with your theory of living without a smartphone if I was in holidays and in my own town, sure thing, but not in some random place +5Kkm away...
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    Traveller in Buenos Aires and shipping problem, customs

    Yeah, stupid regulations. As a workaround, you could buy a cheap, unlocked smartphone on www.mercadolibre.com (maybe something in the order of $100 dollars) and ask your parents to send you over the sim card. Being unable to communicate with your loved ones, access the interwebs for useful...
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    Traveller in Buenos Aires and shipping problem, customs

    Bad news: same thing as here in .ar. In the best scenario the customs will retain it for some time (a month, with any luck) and you will have to pay a tax in order to retrieve it. I'm sorry about that :confused:
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    Traveller in Buenos Aires and shipping problem, customs

    I asked a coworker from .uy if he knows, I will have the answer once he get online and replies my back :)
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    Looking for a neighborhood

    As others stated it all depends on your age and how much you want to spend; said that, Villa Crespo / Palermo is a nice area, relatively quiet and safe. Villa Crespo is more family-oriented while Palermo is nowadays the definition of smoke and mirrors, often frequented by Elfs pretending to have...
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    Traveller in Buenos Aires and shipping problem, customs

    Hi @owerdose, sorry to hear about that. What about Uruguay's customs? It could be easier to ask your parents to ship it to Montevideo and pick it up there.
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