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I'm in Buenos Aires right now and that's pretty spot on. Beef is of incredibly high quality and it's incredibly cheap. I've been here for a couple weeks and wil

by weeksie 11y ago

I'm in Buenos Aires right now and that's pretty spot on. Beef is of incredibly high quality and it's incredibly cheap. I've been here for a couple weeks and will be staying until December (I've taken a year off with my girlfriend to travel the world). So far, I love it. The Spanish is spoken with an almost Italian accent, so I find it much easier to understand than, for instance, Chile's Spanish, which is impenetrable. One idiosyncrasy is that the double ll is not pronounced like a /y/ as in most other dialects, but like a /j/. The wine is wonderful as well, provided you like the sort of big acidic wine that goes well with a nice hunk of meat. Luckily, that's my thing. To be honest, if the economy and politics weren't so unstable down here, I'd consider buying a place. Unfortunately all weirdness with the blue dollar and the petty crime make it somewhere that I'll just keep on the radar. Also, the thing he didn't mention when it came to booze was that this is the only other place in the world that Fernet Branca is distilled. Argentines drink the most Fernet per capita, as well as the most Coca-Cola (the second is related to the first).

clamprecht 11y ago
Come say hi - every week we meet on Thursday afternoon to BS and meet new expats/travellers. It will be posted here: http://baexpats.org/forum/4-expat-events/ http://baexpats.org/forum/4-expat-events/
- weeksie 11y ago
  Awesome! Will do, for sure :)
jacquesm 11y ago
> The Spanish is spoken with an almost Italian accent It is an Italian accent! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Argentine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Argentine
- rpgmaker 11y ago
  It's not italian accent. It might have been born out of the italian accent but it's not the same.
werdnapk 11y ago
I've known Argentinians who didn't know Fernet was actually Italian and not from Argentina. Fernet and Coke is definitely Argentina's national drink.
- Shamanmuni 11y ago
  That's probably right, Fernet with Coke is a kind of national drink, especially in the province of Córdoba, where everything suggests it was invented. If you order a Fernet in Argentina, it is assumed that it includes Coke. Nobody that I know of drinks it alone, and it sounds weird to us to do that. In the movie "The Dark Knight Rises" there's a scene in which Alfred goes to Florence and drinks Fernet Branca alone. The comment from many Argentinians was "What? No Coke? That's gross!".
xj9 11y ago
You should try a visit to Uruguay! Its a smaller, safer version of Argentina.
- ggambetta 11y ago
  And you get asado de tira (beef short ribs), which for some reason are less popular in Argentina.
  - Shamanmuni 11y ago
    Maybe I'm missing something, but asado de tira is one of the two most common cuts in Argentina's parrillas, the other one is vacío (flank steak). It's so common that you can just order "asado" and you will get that.
- weeksie 11y ago
  Definitely planning a trip. We were going to make a run last week to get out some Yankee bucks but it turns out that Xoom seems to work fine for the purpose (when you factor in the price of the ferry ticket and so forth). But yeah, I think we're going to catch the ferry over at some point.
- Fargren 11y ago
  Uruguay has a higher murder rate than Argentina [0]. This is also true if you compare the city of Buenos Aires with Montevideo[1], though exact numbers are harder to find and I don't have a reference handy. If Buenos Aires has more crime(I have never been able to find numbers on amounts of roberies), it is not as dangerous. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention... [1]: http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/156754/un-argentina-has-%E2%80%98europelike%E2%80%99-murder-rate- http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/156754/un-argentina...
  - cobralibre 11y ago
    Having spent a short amount of time as a pedestrian in both cities, I'll just say that way people drive the cars and buses in Buenos Aires could easily be described as murderous, though that's certainly not reflected by the murder rate.

by weeksie 11y ago

clamprecht 11y ago

Come say hi - every week we meet on Thursday afternoon to BS and meet new expats/travellers. It will be posted here: http://baexpats.org/forum/4-expat-events/ http://baexpats.org/forum/4-expat-events/

weeksie 11y ago
Awesome! Will do, for sure :)

jacquesm 11y ago

> The Spanish is spoken with an almost Italian accent It is an Italian accent! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Argentine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Argentine

rpgmaker 11y ago
It's not italian accent. It might have been born out of the italian accent but it's not the same.

werdnapk 11y ago

I've known Argentinians who didn't know Fernet was actually Italian and not from Argentina. Fernet and Coke is definitely Argentina's national drink.

Shamanmuni 11y ago
That's probably right, Fernet with Coke is a kind of national drink, especially in the province of Córdoba, where everything suggests it was invented. If you order a Fernet in Argentina, it is assumed that it includes Coke. Nobody that I know of drinks it alone, and it sounds weird to us to do that. In the movie "The Dark Knight Rises" there's a scene in which Alfred goes to Florence and drinks Fernet Branca alone. The comment from many Argentinians was "What? No Coke? That's gross!".

xj9 11y ago

You should try a visit to Uruguay! Its a smaller, safer version of Argentina.

ggambetta 11y ago
And you get asado de tira (beef short ribs), which for some reason are less popular in Argentina.
- Shamanmuni 11y ago
  Maybe I'm missing something, but asado de tira is one of the two most common cuts in Argentina's parrillas, the other one is vacío (flank steak). It's so common that you can just order "asado" and you will get that.
weeksie 11y ago
Definitely planning a trip. We were going to make a run last week to get out some Yankee bucks but it turns out that Xoom seems to work fine for the purpose (when you factor in the price of the ferry ticket and so forth). But yeah, I think we're going to catch the ferry over at some point.
Fargren 11y ago
Uruguay has a higher murder rate than Argentina [0]. This is also true if you compare the city of Buenos Aires with Montevideo[1], though exact numbers are harder to find and I don't have a reference handy. If Buenos Aires has more crime(I have never been able to find numbers on amounts of roberies), it is not as dangerous. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention... [1]: http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/156754/un-argentina-has-%E2%80%98europelike%E2%80%99-murder-rate- http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/156754/un-argentina...
- cobralibre 11y ago
  Having spent a short amount of time as a pedestrian in both cities, I'll just say that way people drive the cars and buses in Buenos Aires could easily be described as murderous, though that's certainly not reflected by the murder rate.