Dating In Argentina. Are You This Expat?

[garryl]

First-world solutions in the Third-world? My wife says there is no dog sh*t on the sidewalk in Brazil because of the $100 Real fine. Hmmm?

I am sorry, there is dog sh*t in Brazil, on the street.

 

[Napoleon]

I've avoided dating Argentines as my Spanish is terrible. I've been on dates with them, but we never seem to have
anything in common, plus the language barrier, plus the fact I don't plan to stay here much longer makes the whole
thing a real pain.

On the flip side, there's a lot of arguments that could be made on why shouldn't date Argentines. I think the things
listed are way too sweeping and sound more like the traits or a bad partner than an expat.

l wish people would stop asking me if I like Argentina. I'm so sick of it that I've started responding honestly and the
looks I get often are a nice change. I might be one of the few people not afraid of saying no to the questions that
often follows: "Do you like the people (or some variant).

QUESTION: "Do you know mate?"

 

[ajoknoblauch]

I am very comfortable and fluent in Spanish, but my wife speaks even better English, only lightly accented. She has the problem that, when she returns to Argentina, her Spanish vocabulary (especially slang) is outdated, so she sounds like a movie or TV program from the early 1980s. In that sense, I'm more fluent than she is, because I spend more time here.

 

[GS_Dirtboy]

I am sorry, there is dog sh*t in Brazil, on the street.

I'm sure there is. The point is that there is a fine and, where it is enforced, dog owners clean up after their pets. Unlike in Buenos Aires where you are obligated to carry it home on your shoes.

 

[ajoknoblauch]

I'm sure there is. The point is that there is a fine and, where it is enforced, dog owners clean up after their pets. Unlike in Buenos Aires where you are obligated to carry it home on your shoes.

I always carry a couple plastic bags in my daypack and, when I see someone whose dog is dumping, I hand one over while saying "Se te cayó algo."

 

[ajoknoblauch]

I'm sure there is. The point is that there is a fine and, where it is enforced, dog owners clean up after their pets. Unlike in Buenos Aires where you are obligated to carry it home on your shoes.

That, however, would require efficient professionalism on the part of a police force that can't be bothered to cite motorists scattering pedestrians at a crosswalk.

 

[dennisr]

Dating In Argentina: need to use "Christian-Mingles.com." These matches are made in Heaven for christ sake. How could there ever be a problem if the match is made by god?

How did we ever get out of the caves without the Internet?

 

[sleslie23]

Dating In Argentina: need to use "Christian-Mingles.com." These matches are made in Heaven for christ sake. How could there ever be a problem if the match is made by god?

How did we ever get out of the caves without the Internet?

When did we leave the caves?

 

[pauper]

When did we leave the caves?

Expats here seem to be returning to the cuevas in greater numbers.

 

[Redpossum]

That was amusing. I have been guilty of many of those for decades, and I just arrived in BA today

The business of littering English speech with Spanish words,and vice versa, is something I picked up in Europe. My stoner hippy friends did that all the time, but yeah, I was doing that just a couple hours ago, "Metes el laptop en el docking station y entonces puedes connectar keyboard, mouse, y monitor grande..." Ludicrous, yes, but from his reply it was obvious the man understood exactly what I meant, perhaps because we both spoke fluent geek.