Question - Balvanera "rincón"

[Yogur griego]

Right now, I feel a certain social pressure to repeat the same point, but in another four messages.

 

[leweiss105]

Haha, thanks everyone.
I'ma wait and see.

 

[Chicaargentina]

We get it.

Im insisting so much cause im a fan of this neighbourhood. Ive never been a fan of anywhere i live before, and when something functions in so many levels, specially in a city that seems to have many cons in its neighbourhoods, i feel obligated to share this wonderful expeirence.

To the op: go to the area next to Bulnes and Lavalle. I think there is a hostel right there, nice streets, bars, close to Palermo, Recoleta and everywhere, and a millon etcéteras.

 

[Iznogud]

Born and raised in Recoleta, I speny many years at Almagro, both my kids were born while living there. Caballito, my current place of residence is far better in any aspect.

No urge to repeat that, though.

 

[Yogur griego]

Born and raised in Recoleta, I speny many years at Almagro, both my kids were born while living there. Caballito, my current place of residence is far better in any aspect.

No urge to repeat that, though.

What do you like about Caballito?

You better write it down five times.

 

[Dublin2BuenosAires]

Have always been an advocate of living close to where you work or will travel to most often.

We are Belgrano..pretty much on the border of Colegiales.. We really like it, but then we are closer to 40 than 30 and like having the nightlife a short hop. Colegiales has a lot of potential, if I thought we get could get a fixer upper with a terrace in the right area we might consider it.

 

[Rich One]

A general consideration for all Barrios, if you plan on using public transportation late at NIGHT you will probably have to walk many blocks before reaching your apt. .... unless you are so lucky to have a public transport that stops at your doorsteps...!! (Tense moments to walk near Abasto!!).
I never venture away from Av. Santa Fe, at night, unless in a cab.
24 hour security building is a must... Wherever you are!!

Believe me $200 bucks extra per month in rental, is an insurance, that can save you a Lots of Aggravation.

 

[PhilipDT]

General rule of thumb, life gets nicer based on which side of the avenues you're on. With the notable exception of caballito and to a lesser extent santelmi , wrong side of rivadavia youre in the ghetto. South of corrientes not as bad but still, eek. On the right side of corrientes much better, kind of dark and grimey though.Right side of cordoba and you're moving we'll into trendy argentine yuppielandia. Passing Santa Feand were getting a little nicer, moving up the social ladder a bit but it doesn't get really good till were past las heras/campos/cabildo-postcampos, now were talking, pretty nice, noticeable decreases in dog poop. Of course once we're on the river side of liberatador, it starts getting much quieter, and greener, this is petitebourgeville speckled with the remnants of the argentine aristocracy, and ignoring for a second villa 31, if you're past alcorta...wow!

 

[Chicaargentina]

Born and raised in Recoleta, I speny many years at Almagro, both my kids were born while living there. Caballito, my current place of residence is far better in any aspect.

No urge to repeat that, though.

Caballito is crap. What could you possibly like about that neighbourhood?

Your kids must have lived in the wrong part of Almagro. The part im talking about is the best part of the city.

 

[syngirl]

A general consideration for all Barrios, if you plan on using public transportation late at NIGHT you will probably have to walk many blocks before reaching your apt. .... unless you are so lucky to have a public transport that stops at your doorsteps...!! (Tense moments to walk near Abasto!!).
I never venture away from Av. Santa Fe, at night, unless in a cab.
24 hour security building is a must... Wherever you are!!

Believe me $200 bucks extra per month in rental, is an insurance, that can save you a Lots of Aggravation.

24 hr security is not a must, and they don`t DO anything frankly. Believe me, when I lived in Almagro my boyfriend`s car was parked outside of the building about 3m from the front door, 24 hrs security guy on duty just stood there and watched while a guy broke into it, didn`t even bother to buzz me to tell us, when we went down and saw the whole windshield broken, the entire dash dismantled and the stereo gone, the security just said, yeah well I saw the guy but what was I going to do.

24hr security is just as likely to let someone come in to rob your place as they are to keep them out if you ask me.

I do agree Absto at night is not at all a nice place to walk around, but to not venture off of Sta Fe unless in a cab is a little bit paranoid.(If you were talking about wandering around Corrientes or Rivadavia in certain areas, I`d agree. Sta Fe and the areas surrounding are generally ok)

I lived Almagro for 1.5 yrs, it`s ok, it`s not the `best best BEST`of Buenos Aires, it`s a little strange the amount of screaming going on about that. It`s fine, it`s nothing special if you ask me. I also moved from there to Las Canitas and didn`t expect to like Canitas so much, thought it would be stuck up, it`s not -- it`s more the people that come to eat dinner at CampoBravo that are the snobs, but the actual people that live in Canitas for the large part are pretty normal professionals, people think it`s super snobby but actually most of the apartments in there are teensy and a large portion are rentals -- ie in our building out of the 18 or 20 units only 2 were owners -- the real people with money live in Palermo Chico parts of Belgrano, places like Barrio Ingles in Caballito (Caballito does not suck by the way, you`re obviously just looking for something else, but it`s a very nice place to live, nice parks, nice schools).

ChicaArgentina is obviously a big advocate for Almagro, but you`re going to have to decide for yourself. Also a barrio that you think is perfect for you at one point in life is not what you want later on etc -- look at Iznogud that`s moved around the city, and myself that started in San Cristobal, then near Alto Palermo, then Soho, then Almagro, then Canitas, and now Villa Urquiza. By the way I could go on about how our area of Urquiza rocks too but I don`t need to.

Also, Belgrano doesn`t all flood. That is a huge generalization -- if you`re from here I can understand saying Blanco Encalada floods, but Belgrano is a huge neighbourhood, to sum it up as an area that floods is a bit of an exaggeration.