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After being in Australia for 5 months due to a serious health issue I cannot wait to come back to Argentina in spite of all its problems These are my top reasons .
1 Buenos Aires is a vastly more beautiful city physically than Sydney and has better architecture and cleaner indoor spaces without constant pests and insects .
2. Culturally Buenos Aires outperforms Sydney in all aspects in nightlife and general civility .I find Sydney people to be uncouth and very entitled .
3. Suprisingly in good areas of Buenos Aires its cleaner than good areas of Sydney with better footpaths and less public urination which is very common in all the inner city neighbourhoods of Sydney .
4. Sydney wins on food and its prices with excellent street food especially supermarkets like coles and woolworths which are up to half the price of buenos aires prices . You can easily eat a chinese take away meal for us 13 dollars in Sydney and buy a good take out meal from a supermarket for us 5 dollars . Its very difficult to find these prices in Argentina . Saying that latin american food is hor some reason outrageously expensive in Sydney and expect to pay 6 dollars for a small empanada .
5. Public transport in Sydney while efficient is suprisingly unclean with hordes of people eating on trains buses and light rail . I find this disagreeable and prefer Buenos Aires with its codigos .
6 . I much prefer the argentinian people to australian people even though australians on the surface seem more polite . There is a thin verneer of friendliness in Sydney and I have seem by far much more agressive behaviour on the streets here than in any middle class neighbourhood of Buenos Aires.
7. Renting Buenos Aires wins hands down as its propery stock is vastly superior to Sydney where gloomy small rooms outrageous prices are the norm . think 300 usa dollars a week for a depressing room in a share house or 2000 for a run down terrace in surry hills newtown or marrickville . The housing here is very below par and to have anything like Puerto Madero think Us $ 4000 a month with maybe a view .
8. Language Buenos Aires wins hands down as the australian accent can grate on one very quickly .
9.Corruption suprisingly Australia and Argentina are tied but Australians believe otherwise. Taxes the highest on the planet. rent amongst the highest anywhere. a overzealous system of fining people for the most smallest of things and banks that pay no interest at all.
10. Safety I will suprise everyone and say Buenos Aires . In a good neighbourhood of Capital Federal its vastly superior in all levels to any so called good areas of Sydney . There seems to be much more drug use in Sydney and crazed people on the streets and not to mention the lack of public toilets even in cafes and restaurants .. Buenos Aires seems 1st world compared to.most of Sydney except the North Shore Hills district and North Shore . Buenos Aires has vast swathes of the capital and Zona Norte that are superb areas to live in clean and without the urban decay present here in Sydney
1 Buenos Aires is a vastly more beautiful city physically than Sydney and has better architecture and cleaner indoor spaces without constant pests and insects .
2. Culturally Buenos Aires outperforms Sydney in all aspects in nightlife and general civility .I find Sydney people to be uncouth and very entitled .
3. Suprisingly in good areas of Buenos Aires its cleaner than good areas of Sydney with better footpaths and less public urination which is very common in all the inner city neighbourhoods of Sydney .
4. Sydney wins on food and its prices with excellent street food especially supermarkets like coles and woolworths which are up to half the price of buenos aires prices . You can easily eat a chinese take away meal for us 13 dollars in Sydney and buy a good take out meal from a supermarket for us 5 dollars . Its very difficult to find these prices in Argentina . Saying that latin american food is hor some reason outrageously expensive in Sydney and expect to pay 6 dollars for a small empanada .
5. Public transport in Sydney while efficient is suprisingly unclean with hordes of people eating on trains buses and light rail . I find this disagreeable and prefer Buenos Aires with its codigos .
6 . I much prefer the argentinian people to australian people even though australians on the surface seem more polite . There is a thin verneer of friendliness in Sydney and I have seem by far much more agressive behaviour on the streets here than in any middle class neighbourhood of Buenos Aires.
7. Renting Buenos Aires wins hands down as its propery stock is vastly superior to Sydney where gloomy small rooms outrageous prices are the norm . think 300 usa dollars a week for a depressing room in a share house or 2000 for a run down terrace in surry hills newtown or marrickville . The housing here is very below par and to have anything like Puerto Madero think Us $ 4000 a month with maybe a view .
8. Language Buenos Aires wins hands down as the australian accent can grate on one very quickly .
9.Corruption suprisingly Australia and Argentina are tied but Australians believe otherwise. Taxes the highest on the planet. rent amongst the highest anywhere. a overzealous system of fining people for the most smallest of things and banks that pay no interest at all.
10. Safety I will suprise everyone and say Buenos Aires . In a good neighbourhood of Capital Federal its vastly superior in all levels to any so called good areas of Sydney . There seems to be much more drug use in Sydney and crazed people on the streets and not to mention the lack of public toilets even in cafes and restaurants .. Buenos Aires seems 1st world compared to.most of Sydney except the North Shore Hills district and North Shore . Buenos Aires has vast swathes of the capital and Zona Norte that are superb areas to live in clean and without the urban decay present here in Sydney
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