Ask TheMetetron about living in or visiting Buenos Aires, Argentina

[ArturiusX]

Has everyone been going wild for the argentinian rugby team?

[Audi]

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Has everyone been going wild for the argentinian rugby team?

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Sort of. Argy TV showed their games live, and the News gave them a fair bit of coverage.

Still, footy is WAY, WAY more popular. Messi's performances for Barcelona get as much coverage as The Pumas did. Rugby is still the rich mans game here.

[JereLock]

Rugby's done... 4th in the world, lost to south africa [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

However, Seleccion Argentina is looking verrry promising, destroying both Chile and Venezuela so far... Messi's friggin 18!!

[ArturiusX]

Actually, you guys play off for 3rd place against France this weekend, to get technical [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[TheMetetron]

Las Canitas is the devil of Buenos Aires. It's probably the single area I despise most because it is just so manufactured and American. Gah, never had a good time going out there. Find some bars you like in Palermo and live near them. Also, being walking distance to where you go out at night is over-rated given how cheap cabs are.

[imakefrush]

Does anyone know of a good place to play tennis. I've lived here for about 10 months a year for the last 3 years and have yet to play tennis. I went to that one place off of Figueroa Alcorta (you see a lot of their courts when you take the train to Tigre), but they said they were a country club and you needed membership.

I also tried Club de Amigos, but I found it annoying that you had to pay a fee each time to get into the club, then court rental, then pay the pro to hit with me.

Basically I am looking for someplace where they have tennis leagues. I don't even know if they exist here.

Anybody got any experience with this?

[TheMetetron]

Ask Chairman Wood, he recently started playing tennis here though I have no idea where.

[allforepar]

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Las Canitas is the devil of Buenos Aires. It's probably the single area I despise most because it is just so manufactured and American. Gah, never had a good time going out there. Find some bars you like in Palermo and live near them. Also, being walking distance to where you go out at night is over-rated given how cheap cabs are.

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Interesting to get the perspective of someone there rather than real estate descriptions....Thanks. Any specific area in Palermo that you like? Hollywood vs. Viejo vs. Chica, etc.?

[imakefrush]

I mostly agree with Meteron about Canitas. It does have some good restaurants (maybe overpriced) and on a Fri/Sat you can't beat the girls, it is ridiculous. But the bars suck hard and most the restaurants are generic.

As far as the Palermos go... Chico shouldn't be included in the subset. It is pretty much all residential. It's the nicest area in the entire city, with blocks of 7 figure houses full of diplomats and old money. I am not sure how to really distinguish Viejo and Soho. Soho (where I live) prolly has better restaurants. Viejo has more resto/bar types with tapas and picadas. Soho (on the North side of Juan B Justo) is developing really fast, so I think the yuppy factor is bigger here, while viejo still has a little of middle class/family with kids feel to it. Bar wise, I am not sure which is better. Viejo has more boutiques and shopping in general. I am def partial to Soho, but that is probably biased.

[sdplayerb]

sorry, a bit confused. the girls are hot but the bars suck.
what sucks about them then? that is the #1 thing i look for in a bar.