Advice for living in Microcentro

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The examples could go on and on. It's just very different culturally than what I'm used to, when someone who bumped into you might say "excuse me" or be legitimately sorry (or notice) if they knock something out of your hand, or burn your jacket with a cigarette. Maybe I'm just being uptight and need to work on my mellow "no pasa nada" attitude, but it's definitey something that frustrates me in BA (and I have talked at length with various foreigners about this, so I know I'm not making this phenomenon up! ).

Thanks for posting this.
I started a thread yesterday about the popular elbows-out stance and no one seems to know what I'm taking about. I was recently in Uruguay and it was possible to spot who was an Argie by it. Is it really just a stance they take without thinking, or is there there some 'king of the dung heap' mentality?
It's pretty predictable when having to go single-file through a passageway someone will come to a stop at a narrow point and fill the space with their elbows. Gives them a sense of power I guess.

I won't go on about this because so many people who've been here say they never notice it. Maybe it's just an insanity the two of us share, Mizz.

 

[mini]

Where did I say anything about you and eating?

You didn't say it directly. You said we, specifically Bajo_Cero & Mini, didn't give the right information. According to you the only correct info would be

The OP asked for advice about two areas. She didn't ask if they were close to places to dance tango. Nice places for lunch and diner as well as good locales to buy groceries and fresh fruit were specified. So was security in the we small hours.

 

[Bajo_cero2]

Steve, nobody need a KGB agent to censure us, thanks.

 

[steveinbsas]

You didn't say it directly. You said we, specifically Bajo_Cero & Mini, didn't give the right information. According to you the only correct info would be

I didn't say that, either. I said that the info you and BC2 provided about tango manners would have been more helpful to more individuals if it was in a more "relevant" thread. I didn't even imply that it was wrong.

I thought English was your first language...

 

[mini]

I didn't say that, either. I said that the info you and BC2 provided about tango manners would have been more helpful to more individuals if it was in a more "relevant" thread. I didn't even imply that it was wrong.

I thought English was your first language...

Oh, Ok. I guess you were just pointing it out. My point is maybe you should stop doing that. I don't tell you what to post when where why or how. "It's a shame" you feel the need to call people out.

 

[steveinbsas]

Steve, nobody need a KGB agent to censure us, thanks.

How appropriate coming form someone who equates the present day USA with Nazi Germany.

I haven't censured (or censored) anyone...and I don't have the power to do so.

 

[steveinbsas]

Oh, Ok. I guess you were just pointing it out. My point is maybe you should stop doing that. I don't tell you what to post when where why or how. "It's a shame" you feel the need to call people out.

I was indeed critical of the fact that the OP asked for advice about an apartment location when it was too late to take it. I feel no shame in doing so and I was complimentary about the posts regarding tango manners and shoes. The problem is that they won't be read in this thread by as many who would find the info useful if they had been made in a thread that actually attracted people interested in the subject.

If disagreeing with someone is "calling them out" you can be sure I will continue to do so shamelessly. What else would you call this post of yours?

 

[perry]

This is interesting to me, as one of the stand-out annoying things I've had to adjust to in life down here is the lack of regard for the personal space of others (in any setting: the street, grocery store, gym, etc.). I wonder if anybody can shed some light on why it's ok to barrel towards some stranger on the street and run right into them without even looking or acknowledging, but in a milonga someone would afford the other respect of personal space? It is sheer reverence for the dance and respect for TANGO alone, rather than individuals? Not to take this thread off-topic but this lack of respect for personal space is a recurrent source of frustration for me and many other expats that I know. The Argentines, well, they just don't seem to notice or apparently care (I guess unless you're in a high class milonga).

ETA: so I can contribute somewhat to this main thread: I wouldn't live in Microcentro if you paid me. If you can, get out of your arrangement and move somewhere else!

I have to agree with this poster for the lack of respect of personal space afforded to the stranger. I walk the streets often here and I find the etiquette on most avenues appalling and egotistical to say the least . Woman speaking loudly on cell phones while zig zagging through the footpath . Groups of people all at once just stopping on a footpath oblivious to all sundry behind who have to detour on the street to avoid the melee.

I am finding the egotism of the inhabitants to have become much worse the last years and there seems to be no consciousness of the other.

This is truly a Porteno thing and is not apparent in other cities or towns of Argentina

 

[steveinbsas]

Hey, Perry. haven't you noticed the topic of this thread is ADVICE FOR LIVING IN MICROCENTRO???

(just kidding)

Perry's right. People are much more considerate out here in the Province.

 

[mini]

I was indeed critical of the fact that the OP asked for advice about an apartment location when it was too late to take it. I feel no shame in doing so and I was complimentary about the posts regarding tango manners and shoes. The problem is that they won't be read in this thread by as many who would find the info useful if they had been made in a thread that actually attracted people interested in the subject.

The OP is not obliged to change her rental location because you or I don't like it. What is "too late" mean? I'm sure there is some advice that can be given to the OP, besides "live somewhere else", considering the fact that she IS going to stay at this location.

If disagreeing with someone is "calling them out" you can be sure I will continue to do so shamelessly. What else would you call this post of yours?

You're not disagreeing with me per se, you are trying to tell me (us) what is an appropriate answer to someone's question. The OP asked about tango & tango shoes as well as what's the location like. So here is a perfectly fine place to discuss it.

I don't go around telling you what to post where & I don't appreciate you doing it to me. That's all.