The people, food, city life, weather, taxes/expensiveness/cost of living, walk-ability, public transport, personal safety, night life, things to do, and the shopping?
I am Argentinian and I live in Buenos Aries.
What the person above wrote is not wrong but some things are.
It’s true that there are slums but not everywhere, come on…it’s like in every single country. Buenos Aires is a huge city there are a lot of ‘normal’ house and neighborhoods too with beautiful big houses and huge parks too. We don’t have much green space..almost nothing. It’s like a typical city.
The people are not that kind with foreigners and tourists, except in downtown but in other cities we kinda dont like people from abroad being here. People aren’t aggressive but just curt and don’t like talking. More over, just a few people speak English here and other languages. The ones who are able to speak another language is coz they got money to pay for a private institute, which hardly ever happens as it’s a 3rd world country. Yeah, we are pretty much poor.
There are many unemployed people around, taxes and clothes are expensive to buy. Not talking about gadgets and computers. They are really expensive. I don’t think you will do much shopping here coz you will be amazed when comparing the prices with yours.
Buenos Aires is a busy city, full of combustion in the air, traffic jam constantly. Public transports are fine and fare is quite reasonable, excepts subway which are pretty much expensive now. You will hardly ever see skating on the main streets. Some people use bicycles tho.
Too much insecurity, yeah be careful and watch your pockets all the time. Specially kids, kids these days are worse than adults stealing. Don’t trust anyone and stay away from beggars! Don’t be amazed if you find kids doing drugs and sleeping on the streets at night.
The weather, oh my I love our weather. No catastrophes, but when it rains too much we get bad floods and I’m telling you they are horrible. Winter are not that cold, lowest degree can be -1 ºC, in summer highest reaches 38ºC, just in Baires..it’s different in other parts of the country.
Food, food is just fantastic. Meat is yummy. Argentinian people are the kind that cook a lot for a meeting, parties, etc. You will love it. Oh, and at restaurants, it’s prohibited to smoke. There used to be sectors for smoking and non smoking people but now it’s banned. Free smoke in all places.
Night life, well we are latino people so we party a lot. Clubs here open around 11 pm and close by 6 am, some at 7. Drinks aren’t expensive so you will have a good time and see pretty women around. 
I hope I helped, so many bad things about Baires, but It’s a wonderful place.
February 13th, 2013 at 12:27 pm
Okay if your planning a visit and your not a seasoned traveler, and by that i mean out of the country at least 5 different times don’t even bother. Its a straight culture shock!!!!
I went around 1st grade which was about 11 years ago and i still remember a lot , unfortunately a lot of its not good. But still my second favorite trip ever.
The people are friendly but unclean and not trust worth, the capital is mostly one giant slum, slums are everywhere in buenos aires the waters brown its just not good.
Something i especially was the armed guards would patrol the corners of the streets where the trash was dumped, these police were here because riots and fights would be started by those going through the trash just to find food for there family
The food was fantastic a local dish beef a doloma or something like that (look it up) was one of the greatest things I’ve ever eaten!!!
Safety should be a huge concern if you go their never drink un bottled water, dont dress to stand put try to blend in, all restaurants are smoking and trust me everyone smokes the air is hazy its quite disgusting, some of the food is sketchy you may not know what kind of meat your eating!!!
Shopping isnt great but its there!
If you plan a trip its a great place to go i loved it but its such a shock, its really dirty, and theres all kinds of disgusting things you will most likely see (saw a dead dog missing the side of its head) The drugs of the slums etc but I loved it i rank it just behind New Zealand as my favorite trip but be warned its not a vacation where you kick back and relax its a grimy yet fantastical trash heap
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February 13th, 2013 at 1:13 pm
Eleven years ago, Argentina was suffering its worst financial crisis, so that’s why "Hunt" just remember bad things.
It seems like he’s talking about Uganda, or somewhere in Africa. I don’t get why this was his 2nd. favorite trip. Maybe he just traveled twice.
People, I don’t know how to say, there are polite and impolite people. In Buenos Aires, almost 60% of people are not Argentinians. It’s a very cosmopolitan city.
Food is pretty delicious, specially if you like meat.
Now there are just four slums in the city, nothing important. But I never had brown water in my house or something, no.
The weather is pretty bad, all the time. It rains a lot and summer is totally awful here, in winter the average temperature is 27ºF, everyday.
Taxes, expensiveness, cost of living for a foreigner, everything is very, very, very expensive. We have one price for us and foreigners have another.
Public transport, Buenos Aires have a lot of buses, they’re perfect, clean, there is also a subway, very useful and cheap.
Buenos Aires is nowadays the 3rd. safer capital in the Americas, after Ottawa, Canada and Santiago, Chile.
Night life is good but just on weekends.
Shopping is very expensive and it’s worthless.
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February 13th, 2013 at 1:50 pm
I am Argentinian and I live in Buenos Aries.
What the person above wrote is not wrong but some things are.
It’s true that there are slums but not everywhere, come on…it’s like in every single country. Buenos Aires is a huge city there are a lot of ‘normal’ house and neighborhoods too with beautiful big houses and huge parks too. We don’t have much green space..almost nothing. It’s like a typical city.
The people are not that kind with foreigners and tourists, except in downtown but in other cities we kinda dont like people from abroad being here. People aren’t aggressive but just curt and don’t like talking. More over, just a few people speak English here and other languages. The ones who are able to speak another language is coz they got money to pay for a private institute, which hardly ever happens as it’s a 3rd world country. Yeah, we are pretty much poor.
There are many unemployed people around, taxes and clothes are expensive to buy. Not talking about gadgets and computers. They are really expensive. I don’t think you will do much shopping here coz you will be amazed when comparing the prices with yours.
Buenos Aires is a busy city, full of combustion in the air, traffic jam constantly. Public transports are fine and fare is quite reasonable, excepts subway which are pretty much expensive now. You will hardly ever see skating on the main streets. Some people use bicycles tho.
Too much insecurity, yeah be careful and watch your pockets all the time. Specially kids, kids these days are worse than adults stealing. Don’t trust anyone and stay away from beggars! Don’t be amazed if you find kids doing drugs and sleeping on the streets at night.
The weather, oh my I love our weather. No catastrophes, but when it rains too much we get bad floods and I’m telling you they are horrible. Winter are not that cold, lowest degree can be -1 ºC, in summer highest reaches 38ºC, just in Baires..it’s different in other parts of the country.
Food, food is just fantastic. Meat is yummy. Argentinian people are the kind that cook a lot for a meeting, parties, etc. You will love it. Oh, and at restaurants, it’s prohibited to smoke. There used to be sectors for smoking and non smoking people but now it’s banned. Free smoke in all places.
Night life, well we are latino people so we party a lot. Clubs here open around 11 pm and close by 6 am, some at 7. Drinks aren’t expensive so you will have a good time and see pretty women around.
I hope I helped, so many bad things about Baires, but It’s a wonderful place.
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February 13th, 2013 at 1:58 pm
Of course what hunt wrote is totally wrong!
Maybe he visited Buenos Aires in Pernambuco, Northern Brazil. Buenos Aires is just like another big city in the world.
It has a lot of problems of course but it is not as terrible as that.
Buenos Aires is actually very safe but people really think Argentina is an unsafe country because of the media.
Argentinians are too much paranoid and I can’t stand that. Buenos Aires is unsafe as Paris a bit more unsafe than Madrid and Lisbon.
Of course in Latin America is one of the safest cities. It’s totally safer than Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans and New York.
Argentina is suffering a big inflation right now, so everything is expensive. My parents are from Portugal and foreigners pay more than Argentinians, in taxes and a lot of more things. I think that’s unfair.
Public transport is totally ok and it’s very cheap. In Colombia, for example, public transport is worse and 3 times more expensive than in Argentina.
Night life is pretty cool but not as cool as in Brazil or Spain.
Things to do, there are a lot of parks and cultural activities to do, if you like theaters, In Corrientes Avenue there are more theaters than Broadway.
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