Has anyone ever lived/visited Buenos Aires? w/ Bonus Europe Question

TheMetetron · #1 10-13-2006, 04:52 PM

So I am thinking of picking up a second residency in Buenos Aires. I am curious of people's experiences with living or visiting there. I hear it is a beautiful, very European city, with low crime for it's size and fairly cheap living expenses (living on $1,000/mo is extremely doable). Any parts of the city I should be looking to rent in? Also, I hear it is the same plugs/voltage as Europe, is this correct? My spanish is passable in conversation (I could ask to get to my hotel, order at a restaurant, get directions, etc. Probably couldn't talk to a doctor or real estate agent, however). Any problems there?

I want to have a second residence that I can go to in the event I don't feel like being in Sweden for whatever reason. I could also theoretically escape winter forever. I'm having a lawyer look into my possible visa routes, but I'm about 70% confident I can get one (I could always do a perputual visitor visa). Thanks for any comments about the city.

Bonus: I am planning to do six 3-5 day trips to a different European city every month for the next 6 months. If you had to choose only six cities you could visit, what would they be and why. I'm thinking London, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, and Rome are all must sees. Perhaps Madrid as number six? Thanks again.

By-Tor · #2 10-13-2006, 04:53 PM

can't find her huh?

TheMetetron · #3 10-13-2006, 04:57 PM

Incorrect. Anyways...

Badger · #4 10-13-2006, 05:00 PM

I'd choose Barcelona over Madrid, but it's close in my opinion.

Golden_Rhino · #5 10-13-2006, 05:05 PM

Hurlingham is a nice place to live in Buenoes Aires. There are a lot of English people there, it is very clean by Argentine standards, it is close to the main city, and the best part is that I was born there [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

mmbt0ne · #6 10-13-2006, 05:09 PM

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can't find her huh?

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lol

I was gonna say, "got dumped?"

RunDownHouse · #7 10-13-2006, 05:25 PM

Look at Recoletta or Palermo. I was there for about a month visiting an (American) friend who has lived there for years and recently outright bought an apartment. I posted a pretty long trip report, so search for that. If you have further questions PM me, or, if they're of general interest, post and I (may) answer them.

2Fast · #8 10-13-2006, 05:45 PM

I was there a couple years ago and really liked it - pretty attractive women, dirt cheap meals and alcohol and lots of late night activity. Not a ton of English spoken, but enough and if you have passable Spanish I think you will do fine.

This article from New York Magazine is pretty good and gives some color on what an expat haven BA has become and how you can basically be a bigtime player down there:

http://nymag.com/guides/changeyourlife/16047/

Jasper109 · #9 10-13-2006, 06:53 PM

Definitely a Eastern European city instead of Berlin.

Prague, Warsaw, and Vilnius are all more interesting than Berlin IMO.

2Fast · #10 10-13-2006, 07:14 PM

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Prague, Warsaw, and Vilnius are all more interesting than Berlin IMO.

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I was just in Prague, Krakow and Bratislava. The women in all three are incredible, but Prague is pretty touristy and expensive these days compared to the other two - while not as nice, Bratislava is interesting and not as developed so more authentic (less touristy) - women look just like Prague so I think you'd have more game there and it would be much cheaper than Prague (and it's like an hour from Vienna and 2 from Prague/Budapest)