Top Things I Learned at the Buenos Aires Forum....
Buenos Aires, Argentina's capital, is South America's most-visited city.
The city itself has almost 3-million residents with a total of 13-million in metro Buenos Aires.
Here are the top things I learned while visiting Expat.com's Buenos Aires forum....
10. Poster Wynn Woods said it's hard to get a residency visa due to an archaic system and incompetency.
9. E.J. Donovan and Lisa Bess, in separate posts, said you need a minimum of 5-6,000 Argentine pesos (ARS) per month for living expenses. 6,000 pesos currently is about $635 US.
8. Scottish Nomad posted in 2013 that she and most Expats she knew were getting out of Argentina due to inflation and crime. She hasn't posted on Expat.com since 2013.
7. Bearded poster Jerry is a photojournalist living with his Argentine wife Ale since 2012. He sells his work overseas 100 percent as the Argentine agencies give total preference to ARG nationals. Except for government corruption -- they've made an "art" of it -- he likes just about everything in Buenos Aires, including the people and the food.
6. A thread called "Playmate" had nothing to do with Playboy Magazine, and everything to do with an Expat mother looking for friends for her 12-year-old daughter.
5. Poster Ayman Zaid said anything offered in dollars is a trap.
4. Wynn Woods said language institutes frequently hire foreigners to teach English, but the pay is low and often delivered late.
3. Christmas can be a tough time to visit Buenos Aires due to high prices and lack of sufficient transportation.
2. Eamonn McMahon posted that B.A. is a "city of dogs." So many pet dogs, he says.
1. And the #1 thing I learned at the Buenos Aires forum...
Multiple posters suggested that a great getaway area is the Tigre Delta (pronounced TEE-gray), a 40-minute train ride away -- an area filled with nature and peacefulness.
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