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What a great forum, so much great feedback and helpful suggestions. Thank you all!! Tonight we had our first really big meal we ordered so much wine and beer and food, holy bananas. I have never left so much on the table and the bill with tip was about $300. I know that sounds like an...

That's awesome Mike, glad your kids like tennis. Wish I had kept it up when I was their age. I sincerely appreciate all the advice from you and everyone on this forum, it has already made a big difference in the trip. I'm meeting several more of your contacts next week and looking forward to it!

No doubt about the bikes, they're not the best but I'm just trying to get around and so far every bike has been adequate. Not having to worry about it is the main thing.

I very much like your country! Really wish I spoke Spanish because the people are so friendly and so keen to help but language is a major barrier.

Thanks Vince! Recoleta is really wonderful. If I spent a lot of time here that's for sure where I would live. We had a great steak the other night in Palermo, can't remember the name but it was very inexpensive. Tonight we are headed to La Carniceria. I also had a quick lunch at Sotto Voce...

Thanks Betsy! Lessons are $20-30/hr including court which is very cheap. There's a Whatsapp group for tennis in BA (mostly English) where you can find coaches and people to play. This is the massage place https://www.instagram.com/estetica.jyn/, it's right on Santa Fe near Plaza Italia. I...

Great first couple of days in BA. A friend of mine now lives here and took me to some good spots for coffee and food. Took a couple of tennis lessons which was great (I don't play much tennis but figured it was something different I'd do here especially with all the red clay courts). That...

Perhaps but all that land and a pool. It costs $80-100k to build a pool in Austin these days.

Good lord that is cheap, hard to believe

They do and they've all had garbage strikes. It always looks terrible but the smell wasn't that much worse than normal. I've lived all over the place, early morning runs in big cities before the garbage gets picked up are always a peach.

Gosh I wouldn't let that deter you. Big cities smell no matter where in the world. I'm headed to Buenos Aires next week and can't wait.

Indeed, economic forecasts are always grain-of-salt but predicting inflation in Argentina a year from now is kind of comical.

If it's anything like NYC they're decent enough to go on hour long rides around the city. If you get a bad one just swap it at the next station, they're pretty much everywhere which also makes theft a non-issue because you park them at stations where they're locked up and no longer your...

That is unfortunate but also fairly common in large cities everywhere. I'm leaning heavily towards city bikes, so convenient and you never have to worry about them.

So true, we all have that type of friend!

Someone told me about Ibera but they're the type that loves to recommend things no one else does (usually for a reason). I looked it up and the whole place basically burned a few years ago, tons of animals died. Also looks like you need a guide to experience the best parts otherwise it's just...

Wonderful, thank you Betsy! This is shaping up to be fantastic first visit to Argentina.

That's good perspective, even if half of the 24 owners were late it would just mean your HOA goes to $200 a month for awhile and you'd get it all back eventually. Not ideal but not the end of the world.

So how does this non payment problem get resolved? In the US unpaid HOAs eventually lead to liens and foreclosures and en masse it can create a lot of distressed sellers. But that is also when the government steps in, at least it has over the last 20 or 30 years because no administration has...

Thanks. We have good passports in our family already but I wondered if there might be other benefits.