Where do American expats live in Argentina?

[rdcooper]

Okay, so let's get this straight...

Criteria

• Not too far south
• Not too far north
• Within 45 minutes of a dentist, shopping, medical offices
• Small village with local community
• With expats, maybe? Doesn't seem to matter
• No active fault lines
• Mild winters

IMO, just fly into Cordoba capital and call it a day. While you are getting established you can start venturing out on weekend trips to find yourself a cozy town on the outskirts. Listo...

I was told they have earthquakes there. I would prefer an expat community, but it's not a must. Some place historic maybe, with cobblestone streets and European architecture. I want to feel like I'm living in Spain or Italy, or one of those other countries I've been to. Some place without a lot of graffiti, and good roads with adequate drainage.

 

[El_fuego]

I was told they have earthquakes there. I would prefer an expat community, but it's not a must. Some place historic maybe, with cobblestone streets and European architecture. I want to feel like I'm living in Spain or Italy, or one of those other countries I've been to. Some place without a lot of graffiti, and good roads with adequate drainage.

good luck with that. sure, theres a few blocks in the center of cordoba capital where the spanish colonial history is still evident, with cobblstone streets and european architecture. its also where the dirtiest of the city congregate. but a few blocks is about it, and its not considered the good part of town. this is south america.

 

[FrankPintor]

No quakes around Cordoba that I know of, but some of the most violent thunderstorms on the planet are apparently in Cordoba Province.

Your criteria fit Buenos Aires or Uruguay, just saying… there are infrequent very small quakes in the River Plate, but the rock formations around Piriapolis in Uruguay are supported to be some of the oldest and most stable. Brazil is also very stable from the earthquake perspective.

 

[rdcooper]

No quakes around Cordoba that I know of, but some of the most violent thunderstorms on the planet are apparently in Cordoba Province.

Your criteria fit Buenos Aires or Uruguay, just saying… there are infrequent very small quakes in the River Plate, but the rock formations around Piriapolis in Uruguay are supported to be some of the oldest and most stable. Brazil is also very stable from the earthquake perspective.

Alta Gracia looks like an interesting place just from the videos I've watched.

 

[broc]

I want to feel like I'm living in Spain or Italy, or one of those other countries I've been to.

So then go to Spain or Italy

good roads with adequate drainage.

Wrong country mate

 

[LuckyLuke]

I was told they have earthquakes there. I would prefer an expat community, but it's not a must. Some place historic maybe, with cobblestone streets and European architecture. I want to feel like I'm living in Spain or Italy, or one of those other countries I've been to. Some place without a lot of graffiti, and good roads with adequate drainage.

My dear friend...

This is Argentina overlaid on top the US. I've gone ahead and marked a blue circle on the part with the architecture you that you are referring to:

 

[LuckyLuke]

I'm not familiar with the Buenos Aires scene, but I would venture to guess you could probably draw a 5 mile radius around the US Embassy and you will probably hit the majority of them...View attachment 10678

To add to the above...there's a reason why expats and tourists stay in this circle....

Here is a map of Buenos Aires. The area marked green is the historical section with all that wonderful Architecture. See all those areas of the city highlighted in blue? Those are "villas de miserias"...aka shantytowns.

 

[sol_13]

I saw an article that said that 60,000 American expats live in Argentina, and that half of them live in Buenos Aires. Do they concentrate in a specific area of the city? Also, where are they living beyond Buenos Aires?

I’m an American expat living in Santa Fe with my Argentine family. Ive been living here for 3 years. As far as I’ve seen, I’ve only ran into chinese expats running business and one Chinese classmate at school. Foreigners aren’t very common in the rest of argentina

 

[El_fuego]

I’m an American expat living in Santa Fe with my Argentine family. Ive been living here for 3 years. As far as I’ve seen, I’ve only ran into chinese expats running business and one Chinese classmate at school. Foreigners aren’t very common in the rest of argentina

right lol the majority of "expats" are in 2 or 3 neighborhoods of buenos aires. i dont care about how many nomads are hanging out in palerma at any given moment renting a temporary unit. how many migrants is what interests me. people married / with kids. permanent res / citizenship, owners of cars, businesses, houses. or even employed locally. thats a number that would be interesting. real migrants, not nomads. they are NOT the same thing.

 

[LuckyLuke]

right lol the majority of "expats" are in 2 or 3 neighborhoods of buenos aires. i dont care about how many nomads are hanging out in palerma at any given moment renting a temporary unit. how many migrants is what interests me. people married / with kids. permanent res / citizenship, owners of cars, businesses, houses. or even employed locally. thats a number that would be interesting. real migrants, not nomads. they are NOT the same thing.

You touch on a very poignant truth. I recall when I went to renew my daughter's passport last year, I drove up from Neuquen to the US embassy in Palermo. I had never spent much time in Buenos Aires aside from connecting flights. It struck me, as we arrived in Palermo, that the district was unlike any other place I had seen in Argentina. It dawned on me at that moment that the vast majority of the expats dwelling there probably didn't really know or care for most of the country outside that postcard tourist zone.

I mean, imagine moving to the south of France and finding out that most of the expats never made it more than a couple miles from the Eiffel Tower. Rather depressing really...but then again the forum is called "Buenos Aires" expats for a reason.