It's a hyper-polluted city in a basket-case country - but I love it.

[Blueish]

I had the opportunity of living in many cities, and BA has a lot of particularities in terms of air, temp, but air pollution is not one of them. I feel like journalists these days fail to do the proper research and by doing so involuntarily (or not) mislead their audience and lower the quality of the journal/publication.

 

[carride]

Strange that there is no mention of pollution in the article. The reporter seems to have lots of knowledge from 20 years of annual visits and many years as a resident before the tourist trips. Lots of comments about history and neighborhoods. Then more than half way through there is one quick sentence that repeats the headline without any further description, almost as though it was injected by some busy editor.

 

[FrankPintor]

Strange that there is no mention of pollution in the article. The reporter seems to have lots of knowledge from 20 years of annual visits and many years as a resident before the tourist trips. Lots of comments about history and neighborhoods. Then more than half way through there is one quick sentence that repeats the headline without any further description, almost as though it was injected by some busy editor.

You might be right, but the "hyper-polluted" observation more or less disqualifies the author, and the whole article (as well as casting doubt on his supposed history here). Maybe the editor was expecting something more like Gotham City? We don't really do that down here Or some people try to, but they have really bad hair-do's.

As you move away from the River Plate, yes, atmospheric (and water) contamination become issues (speaking from second-hand experience, really, though I've been to Lobos, and the water is really smelly there), but the conurbation got the name "Buenos Aires" for a reason

 

[on the brink]

Hyper-polluted, indeed...! Just look at that deep blue sky in the exterior photos.