I'm from Buenos Aires, and I never use cash, like, at all. Sure, maybe outside Buenos Aires, you might find places that don’t accept cards, but that’s getting increasingly rare. You can even use your phone to pay (there are several digital payment platforms; one of the biggest is Mercado Pago). Yes, sometimes you might get a discount for using cash, but don’t assume that’s always the case. Lately, you can even leave a tip at a restaurant with your card, so there’s no need for cash there either. The issue with air conditioners is that buildings constructed before the 1970s were generally built without drainage grates on balconies. When air conditioners became cheap and widely accessible, most buildings didn’t have a practical way to deal with the water runoff. Installing a drainage system is expensive, so only a few have done it. It’s up to individuals to manage it, but logically, many don’t. Instead, they let the water fall freely onto the sidewalks.
Hey, we're having a gorgeous summer right now! ;) But you're right. It's best to escape during January and February. The city and the country is quickly getting more and more expensive. If you think we eat late, you're forgetting where we got it from: those (non western?) Spaniards.
I do not know. I tried another card at two or three different ATMs and no cash was dispensed. Everywhere I have been, shops and restaurants, accept my Wise card. You are not going to get a better rate with an ATM compared to WU or exchanging USD at Florida calle.
Nope. There are two bank card networks that cover all the banks, one is called link and the other is called Banelco. If your card doesn't belong to one of those you won't be able to get money out of an ATM, even with virtual wallet cards like Mercadopago you can't take cash out, you have to transfer it to a bank account and use that bank's debit card to get cash from the ATM. You can use them to pay for stuff tho.
I don't know if I have missed some of my geography classes but my impression is that Panama is a good connecting point to Buenos Aires if you are coming only from the US East Coast, Alaska and Canada East Coast. If you are coming from anywhere else in the world Miami and Sao Paulo seem to be better.
Why do you say "Western customs"? Dude, we are literally all in the West. We are Western cultures too. Why do you think the West is just Europe and the USA? We are on the same freaking continent on the WESTERN HEMISPHERE!
Come now, are all the problems stemming from AR's crazy economy over with -- notably inflation? As soon as Milei became a news item I spotted him for a faker. More power to the adventurers who find happiness in AR, but if it's like other alluring countries most American expats don't last there. Thanks for this info. I studied up on how to escape ameriKa for many years and AR does exert a special fascination. Friends who emigrated to CL, EC and PA have mostly moved back to tend aging parents etc.
@@diamondandcristal7661 Actually that's down to a different issue. In English, there is no continent called "America" but rather two: North and South A... Spanish América = English The Americas. False friend words.
@@erichamilton3373 And so is Eastern Europe, and so is Mexico, but those places aren't considered The West either. The West is a concept that consists of the following places: USA + Canada, Western Europe, Australia + NZ.
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OK mate. Why use that map? That map’s has got (in a casually subtly different lighter Green) The Falklands, South Georgia and British Antarctic Territory on it..that land is NOT Argentinian AT ALL. It is British. That land is absolutely 100% British; no if's and no buts.
Colonialist take 😕 Why should a country on the other side of the world have ownership on the Malvinas and this part of the Antártida? Oh right, a prime minister decided that it was the only way to get her ratings up.
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@@diamondandcristal7661 Because it's one of those 'untidy' realities of life that European history has left us all with. Such as; Puerto Rico, Hawaii, French Guiana; Guadeloupe, Martinique; Réunion; French Polynesia; New Caledonia; St Pierre and Miquelon; French Southern and Antarctic Lands; and Wallis and Futuna Islands, Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Canary Islands, the Balearic Islands, Ceuta, Melilla, Anguilla; Bermuda; British Antarctic Territory; British Indian Ocean Territory; British Virgin Islands; Cayman Islands; Gibraltar; Montserrat; Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands; Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha; South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands; Turks and Caicos Islands; UK Sovereign Base Areas ...and Falkland Islands.
I've heard that Scotland is trying to secede and Northern Island is pondering unifying with Ireland; that will make for an interesting British map update lol. Who knows, may be Londonistan will follow.
I'm from Buenos Aires, and I never use cash, like, at all. Sure, maybe outside Buenos Aires, you might find places that don’t accept cards, but that’s getting increasingly rare. You can even use your phone to pay (there are several digital payment platforms; one of the biggest is Mercado Pago). Yes, sometimes you might get a discount for using cash, but don’t assume that’s always the case. Lately, you can even leave a tip at a restaurant with your card, so there’s no need for cash there either.
The issue with air conditioners is that buildings constructed before the 1970s were generally built without drainage grates on balconies. When air conditioners became cheap and widely accessible, most buildings didn’t have a practical way to deal with the water runoff. Installing a drainage system is expensive, so only a few have done it. It’s up to individuals to manage it, but logically, many don’t. Instead, they let the water fall freely onto the sidewalks.
Hey, we're having a gorgeous summer right now! ;) But you're right. It's best to escape during January and February.
The city and the country is quickly getting more and more expensive.
If you think we eat late, you're forgetting where we got it from: those (non western?) Spaniards.
Can one use a Wise card and withdraw from cash machines? to avoid Western Union and get better rates.
I do not know. I tried another card at two or three different ATMs and no cash was dispensed. Everywhere I have been, shops and restaurants, accept my Wise card. You are not going to get a better rate with an ATM compared to WU or exchanging USD at Florida calle.
Nope. There are two bank card networks that cover all the banks, one is called link and the other is called Banelco. If your card doesn't belong to one of those you won't be able to get money out of an ATM, even with virtual wallet cards like Mercadopago you can't take cash out, you have to transfer it to a bank account and use that bank's debit card to get cash from the ATM. You can use them to pay for stuff tho.
I don't know if I have missed some of my geography classes but my impression is that Panama is a good connecting point to Buenos Aires if you are coming only from the US East Coast, Alaska and Canada East Coast. If you are coming from anywhere else in the world Miami and Sao Paulo seem to be better.
where are you from mate?
Why do you say "Western customs"? Dude, we are literally all in the West. We are Western cultures too. Why do you think the West is just Europe and the USA? We are on the same freaking continent on the WESTERN HEMISPHERE!
Western Culture is not the same as the Western Hemisphere.
Come now, are all the problems stemming from AR's crazy economy over with -- notably inflation? As soon as Milei became a news item I spotted him for a faker. More power to the adventurers who find happiness in AR, but if it's like other alluring countries most American expats don't last there.
Thanks for this info. I studied up on how to escape ameriKa for many years and AR does exert a special fascination. Friends who emigrated to CL, EC and PA have mostly moved back to tend aging parents etc.
One thing: Argentina is the West. I think you mean tourists coming from the Anglosphere (another part of the West).
Him saying that felt the same as estadounidenses calling themselves and their country American and America 🙄
@@diamondandcristal7661
Actually that's down to a different issue. In English, there is no continent called "America" but rather two: North and South A... Spanish América = English The Americas. False friend words.
Western Culture is not the same as the Western Hemisphere.
@carlalexander2
Although the Western Hemisphere is largely the West being a product of Greco-Roman-Judeo-Cristian culture by and large.
@@erichamilton3373 And so is Eastern Europe, and so is Mexico, but those places aren't considered The West either. The West is a concept that consists of the following places: USA + Canada, Western Europe, Australia + NZ.
OK mate. Why use that map? That map’s has got (in a casually subtly different lighter Green) The Falklands, South Georgia and British Antarctic Territory on it..that land is NOT Argentinian AT ALL. It is British. That land is absolutely 100% British; no if's and no buts.
Colonialist take 😕 Why should a country on the other side of the world have ownership on the Malvinas and this part of the Antártida? Oh right, a prime minister decided that it was the only way to get her ratings up.
@@diamondandcristal7661 Because it's one of those 'untidy' realities of life that European history has left us all with. Such as; Puerto Rico, Hawaii, French Guiana; Guadeloupe, Martinique; Réunion; French Polynesia; New Caledonia; St Pierre and Miquelon; French Southern and Antarctic Lands; and Wallis and Futuna Islands, Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Canary Islands, the Balearic Islands, Ceuta, Melilla, Anguilla; Bermuda; British Antarctic Territory; British Indian Ocean Territory; British Virgin Islands; Cayman Islands; Gibraltar; Montserrat; Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands; Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha; South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands; Turks and Caicos Islands; UK Sovereign Base Areas ...and Falkland Islands.
Looks like someone wants to start shit up lol. Who tf cares about the map, he's talking about life in the country, he didn't even mention the islands.
I've heard that Scotland is trying to secede and Northern Island is pondering unifying with Ireland; that will make for an interesting British map update lol. Who knows, may be Londonistan will follow.
@Lucho741 besides, that map is how Argentinians see the Argentinian territory so it fits more.