What do you think about Buenos Aires, Argentina?

Question

I ask because I am from

Argentina and I totally adore English people. Great answers, thank you. See you some time...

Answer 1

Skint!

Answer 2

Spent Christmas 2004 in BA and had a wonderful time.  We were living outside of Rio de Janeiro and wanted to travel for Christmas.  Very modern compared to Rio--great steak, great wine, great culture, great football and fantastic tango!  I loved spending time in Recoleta.  Looking forward to returning...

Answer 3

A once beautiful city which still has it's charm but very much damaged (as is the whole country) by corrupt leaders and economic speculators. The rich live well, the poor live in misery bu there are numerous social programs to help them out. The ones suffering the most are the middle class and they are hanging on for dear life.

I lived there from 1975 to 1982 (pretty much the worst years of the dictatorship) and politics aside it was a nice place. I lived less than a mile from the government house in the most central part of the city.

Visitors often came with a different image in mind because it is located in South America. But the streets are paved and well lit, there are traffic lights on most intersections, the people are well dressed, there are many theaters and movie houses, book and record stores used to be open all night.

There were also as many if not more restaurants and stores as in any major American city. Governments after the dictatorship's repression were reluctant to treat crime as it should have been, as a result crime sky rocketed, a lot of it is due to rampart poverty and unemployment, which in turn is due to corrupt governments selling the national infrastructure to "international investors".

I am told crime is "out of control", I take this with a grain of salt even though I haven't been there in over 25 years. I've walked New York City's and Miami's streets at night I can't imagine it being much worse. If it is the Argentine media certainly is not reporting it. Not that I wouldn't be on the lookout for muggers and purse snatchers, that's just common sense.

For a visitor it is certainly an experience, the food is fantastic, there are many places to see and things to do and if you were to be blindfolded and dropped in Buenos Aires you'd think you were in a European city.

Answer 4

Dont know anything about it.......... Apart from they probably all hate us Brits......

Answer 5

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argentina gave the world the tango and maradona.

for those 2 things alone we should be grateful.

a fellow englishman told me that the tastiest steak he ever ate was in buenos aires.

usted es una chica hermosa.

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youll have to compliment my s**y eyes in spanish first before im changing anything lol.

una canción para su primer amor de Inglaterra...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dvr8DGuw0...

http://www.myspace.com/themaccabees

Answer 6

hi caroline, i am from buenos aires!!!!

Answer 7

No soy de Buenos Aires, y nunca he estado allí, pero es una ciudad que me gustaría visitar algún día!

Nice Place!! XD