It's not so much why go to Buenos Aires as why go home! Buenos Aires is filled with people who planned on staying for a couple of months, and just never got on that return flight (myself included). It's a rare city that manages to make well-traveled people fall in love with it quickly. It might have touches of Paris in the buildings or Barcelona in the never-ending nightlife, but Buenos Aires is really a world of its own.
Famous for its steak, tango, and leather goods, the city is currently experiencing somewhat of a renaissance in art and music, with famous local club nights touring CNN and galleries popping up just about everywhere. While it's worth visiting historical sights around town, one of the city's big draws is that something new and exciting is always happening.
Come to Buenos Aires for its incredible diversity. Have cocktails in a Parisian mansion and eat a steak bigger than your head, or visit Hollywood and SoHo--Palermo, that is, and see how well a country can bounce back from an economic collapse. Just don't expect to be at a dinner table before ten, or in a club or bar before two. And everything you heard about how beautiful and stylish the locals are? All true. Here are my tips for enjoying Buenos Aires as a local. --Whitney Weiss
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Today Oct/18/10 I got an email from a member of the family who lives 250 Kilometers from Buenos Aires. In a town call Rosario.
She was telling me that they have to have 24 hours security-guards in the building where she lives, They have to take their children to school (elementary) because some from "Shanti-towns" will steal their "Back-packs"
However she mention...At least here in Rosario the situation is not so extreme like in Buenos Aires, where the unemployment is very-high and the drug-addiction is getting worse, and out of hand.
So why should I be exagerating to you...which is my interest in doing so?? Today Argentina is not the Country that used to be. Today is a banana-country. And all this because the overwhelming uncheck diversity who got into the country illegally from neighbouring countries since the 80's and 90's.
Yes the argentine society is a good one thanks to its european roots and so forth, But is totally frustrated because it doesn't received protection-guaranteed from their government officials [totally-corrupted]
Now if you remain into the turist-traps, you might have some of the police security privilege to cover up the dark-side.
I recommend Not wear jewelry/dress low-key/ don't be loud {english]/ and keep together.
and good luck.
I'll repeat for the casual readers: After a anti-monopoly law for the press, the media has replied with a campaign to exaggerate the feeling that crime is rampant. Numbers doesn't show that but... here you can see the result.. =)
When visitors come to BA, Argentina, most are smart enough to know where they are going, they don’t expect a Norway or a Belgium… if they do, at least their trip served them to learn something of the world.
There are several points in your comment that make me very unconfortable... to begin with the “very scary tale of crime in big bad Argentina†which is really a tale from a friend's email who says that something happened... to someone else... in another city... other than BA. no first hand accounts, wrong city and back-pack theft as an example? really?.
Private Neiborhoods with 24 hrs security, believe me, here in Florida we got plenty... (as well as in other states)
Unenployment.... you are speaking to the choir...
but the part that bothers me the most is the one where you say that only the white European immigrants were responsible for the long lost (as you state) goodness in Argentina. But let me tell you that I have seen all kinds of people there working very hard and giving a lot to Argentine society… I still see it today, not only on every day Argentines, but also in those you so easily dismiss as “illegals from neighbouring countriesâ€â€¦ who come to Argentina to work very hard as did the Europeans decades ago…
Salute, Gabriel
Today a well know celebrity was complaining about the deficit of security in the streets. In a city where people used to be around up to 3am in the morning. Now the streets are empty because the fears.
Hey read the local news.
Now. regarding illegals and so forth, and pointing me out as a racist...Well i believe in diversity, but NOT when is measureless. Simple because brings down societies.
But you must be feeling cozy and confi in Florida right? Tell us what's keeping you there, Your love for BA..?
Make that PEOPLE - I haven't come across any perople in BA!!
Can't wait to go back!
In regards to security, sure it has crime, but so does every single city in the world, but not as violent nor rampant as in other places.
I've been to many other cities in the world so I have basis for comparison.
Salute, Gabriel
I moved to Buenos Aires four years ago to learn Spanish, and live outside the USA for a while. I love living here. It is not an easy city and yes there is crime, but there is also crime in San Francisco where I lived before I left the states. Life moves at a slower pace here, but there is the constant activity of life. People are friendly and generous. There are always things to see, places to go and friends to drink mate in the park with on a slow afternoon.
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The food is cheap, if want to risk getting killed walking down the streets late at night. As is the habit here to eat at 10p.m. or much later. The police will do nothing!
Nothing else is cheap, the leather is cheaper and just as good as in many other countries. Electronics forget it!
Once you speak with any other accent than the local, the price of products go up.
Any charm this city may off had it lost many, many years ago.
Due to business I have been forced to go to B.A. many times. I dread it every time.
When asked about Buenos Aires, my immediate response is, "I want to go back as soon as possible." My boyfriend has been 5 times now, and it's one of his favorite cities in the world. I agree.
The city of Buenos Aires is totally rundown, The people dress poorly and women wear cheap perfumes. If by any chance you see woman/man well dress...take a good look, Because the chances of seeing another one, might be 3-4 hours in between.
Yes they are serious when it's about food, but be aware of your wallets because they still are mentally attach to the 1 to 1 dollar value in many or perhaps the majority of the cases. Specially when you don't speak the language.
Another reason[and important one, is SECURITY,] Don't wear jewels, don't be obvious an out of town, and dress dull. and if you speak english. my best advise is..shut-up.
As a native i'm shock. The rest is all a myth of the past
Sincerely,
Bernardo Carbonara
cordially
Now I can see your "Kind" you are an unscrupulous liar. to the point of believing it yourself.
You dislike the critics simple because you fear the truth