Well, I was not able to send you a message, so I will just answer here.
Before moving here, my husband flew here for a week to get a feel of the city and to find a house. It was 2 months before we moved here. I looked at the map in order to get to know the city and both Pilar and Tigre/Nordelta appealed to me.
We looked at some pictures and asked some family and eventually we picked Pilar.
My husband visited and contacted many private schools, in the city, San Isidro and Pilar.
I am really happymto live out here rather than in the city. The city is great if you are single or have no kids, the suburbs is better for family life.
Of course safety is a big deal here. Pilar is made of about 100 different gated communities that are either a barrio cerrado or a country club.
The difference between them is that in a regular barrio cerrado, you find ammenities such as club house, tennis courts, swimming pool, gym, playground or none, and they are usually smaller. A country club will have either or more:
Golf, polo club, riding club, church, grocery stores, etc.
Many have all of those so you can imagine they are not small at all.
They are all gated and have security 24/7 and you pay expenses that include that which range from $700 pesos to $1500 pesos a month and you can enjoy all the ammenities depending on the commmunity of your choice.
To RENT you can find a nice house with 4 bedrooms for about $4000 pesos and can go up to almost that in dollars, but then it's a bigger house, in a bigger country club, with a private pool, etc.
To buy again depends on the community, but a good size home also typically 4 bedroom or more you can find from 180,000$ USD and up with the average price around $240,000 for a nice house probably with a pool in a well off community.
Typically everyone here has a live in housekeeper from monday to friday, who gets the kids ready in the morning, prepares meals and cleans the house. Usually the girl is from Paraguay, and you can expect to pay about $2000 pesos a month in salary, cash.
All private schools here are bilingual. They have kinder 2, but just about 2-3 hours a day, until kinder 5, which is before first grade, then it's a whole day 8:20am to 4pm.
The prices per month for school range from $800 pesos to $1800 for kinder, and probably $1200-$2200 for elementary school.
It's safe here, everywhere there is security, parking lots, supermarkets, etc. Of course there are robberies and break ins but thats the same all over the world..
Let me know if you have more questions, good luck with the move and would be great to see you out here!
