So, today seems to be the day to make fun of Americans escaping the economic crisis and heading to Buenos Aires to take advantage of the strong dollar. I actually am quite proud of myself for having predicted this trend back in September 2008. No, I didn’t predict the influx of expats (that started after the [...]
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Poking Fun at Expats (Americans) In Buenos Aires
March 4th, 2009 · 4 Comments
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Looking for an apartment in Buenos Aires? Have $5.9 million to spare?
January 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment
The Travelling Buenos Aires blog has an great story about one of the city’s most famous buildings, the Kavanagh Building in front of San Martin Square. The building was unique for its time (featuring central air and cold storage) and was also the tallest building in Buenos Aires. They also relate an interesting rumor about exactly why it [...]
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2008: The Year in Review
January 5th, 2009 · 6 Comments
Since everyone seems to do a year-end review, we figured why not us too? Ok, so we’ve only been living in Buenos Aires since August 2008, and can’t really provide a full year summary, but it was about a year ago that we started to consider the idea of moving here after visiting for a [...]
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A Brief Hiatus…
December 29th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Sorry for the lack of posts, but we’ve be traveling in the US for the past couple of weeks and away from the blog. We’ll be back next week, hopefully with some new and insightful commentary. We had planned to write about our experiences with the new U$S 134 tourist tax that Argentina will be charging to [...]
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