After nearly 24 hours of traveling, I made it to the temporary condo in Buenos Aires yesterday. I left for the 4:30pm flight out of JFK at around noon on Tuesday making sure to give myself enough time to check the extra luggage and make sure I got through security with a carry-on full of [...]
Entries from July 2008
I Made It (Eventually)
July 31st, 2008 · Comments
Tags: Planning
Banking and Credit Card Fees
July 30th, 2008 · Comments
I’m not planning on opening bank accounts in Argentina and I’m going to bring my U.S. issued credit cards with me, so there were a few things I really needed to consider:
Access to cash
ATM and credit card fees
Depositing checks in the U.S.
Access to Cash
While researching how to best get cash and pay bills when there, I found [...]
Tags: Planning
Moving Day
July 29th, 2008 · Comments
The last few days have been pretty crazy. I left Vermont on Sunday after finalizing all the packing up and preparing the house for the ski season. The last couple of days in NYC have been filled with running around - returning my leased car, sending some final pieces of mail and FedEx, returning license [...]
Tags: Planning
Big Mac: More Expensive in Argentina Than in the U.S.
July 27th, 2008 · Comments
The Argentine Post has an interesting story discussing The Economist’s Big Mac Index which compares prices on McDonald’s Big Mac across the world as a way to measure purchasing power.
As they explain:
…The average cost of a Big Mac in Argentina now totals U.S. $3.64, compared with $3.57 in the U.S., according to the index.
In 2003 [...]
Tags: News