Moving to and living in...Argentina

Where to buy baby carriers / slings / wraps in Buenos Aires

For all my fellow baby wearing mamas out there, I've got the perfect place for you to buy your carriers in Buenos Aires, particularly wraps and asian style carriers. Check out Alejandra Martinez's website Maminia or contact her directly about buying carriers. She also carries nursing wear.

Another great website a bit further out (Ecuador) is Familialibre. It's in both English and Spanish and has great articles as carriers and other great baby/mama items.

Familialibre.com en Espanol...En esta página encontrará artículos y enlaces sobre Crianza con Respeto, instrucciones para el uso porta bebés y su confección, y más recursos alternativos para padres.

También ofrecemos una tienda virtual con productos compatibles con la crianza en brazos, la lactancia materna y la crianza con respeto.

Check out both sites if you're a baby wearer.

Today Show Where in the World is Matt Lauer - in Buenos Aires, Argentina !

Buenos Aires, Argentina continues to be one of the top ranked tourist destinations where the dollar still buys a lot. Today Show host Matt Lauer as part of his "Where in the World is Matt Lauer", visited Buenos Aires, Argentina and did a series of segments about the city and mentions other areas of the country as well.

While it might not be the absolute bargain it was just a couple of years ago, particularly with the rising cost of flights, it is still much more friendly to the dollar than Europe. Here is the link to the MSNBC webpage .

South American Explorers is having a tree planting for Earth Day

If you're environmentally minded and you're in Buenos Aires and looking for something to do for Earth Day check out:
*SAE VOLUNTEER DAY: Tree Planting* Saturday April 26 @ 9.15 for
4hours
approx.                                                               
Ten people are needed to help Mother Earth in celebration of Earth
Day!  We would like to seize the opportunity and actually go out and
DO something useful for climate change. Come and join us for our tree
planting day! Together with Alcira Perlini Montiel, highly regarded
UN Observer for Climate Change from Fundación Argentina de
Etoecología, we will plant trees in the neighbourhood of Barracas.
The Foundation is committed to raising environmental awareness by
educational means.  Please JOIN US on this worthwhile project will
not only be a rewarding experience but also good fun!  RSVP at
baevents@saexplorer s.org 

New resource for schools in the province of Buenos Aires

There is a rather extensive list of schools already posted in my blog but I came across the following resource through a friend of mine that lists more than 4,500 schools or colegios in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

It's called Busco Colegios and can be found here.

Watch Argentine TV Live See Buenos Aires sharpen your accent

Do you want to watch Argentine TV live? See the city and what's going on? Attune your ear to the accent or keep up your listening skills?

Todo Noticias Periodismo Independiente This is a great site to pick up a live streaming signal check it out today!

Expatriate Republican and Democrat voting abroad links

This goes out to all of you expatriates no matter where you might be!!!

If you are interested in voting from abroad then this is the year to do it and it's so easy now but there are only 8 more days to get registered! I keep my political views out of this and just make the information available to all in the hopes that we'll ALL vote no matter what party you support.

Democrats go here http://www.democratsabroad.org/

and

Republicans go here http://www.republicansabroad.org/

 

House Hunters International looking for future Argentina real estate buyers

So are any of my readers planning to buy property in Argentina anytime soon? If you are then House Hunters International wants to hear from you to share your story.

Here's what they're looking for:  "If you are planning on buying a home in Argentina in the near future -- we would love for you to share your story with us on HGTV's #1 show - HOUSE HUNTERS INTERNATIONAL! This is a real estate show on the popular Home and Garden Network watched by millions of viewers in the U.S. for the past 8 years." 

Wanted Americans and Canadians for Argentina documentary

I received the following email today and want to spread the word!

"Hi! I'm a Buenos Aires-based producer and we're looking for US &
Canadians living in Argentina for a Documentary about "Water as unique
resource" to be showed at an International Fair in Spain later this
year.

We're looking for Men and Women aged 18-65 years old, from USA/Canada
living in Buenos Aires area. Don't need to be an actor, since we're
looking for "real" people (people from around the world sit in front of
the camera and give their thoughts about the Water and its future as a
natural resouce based on a brief script and their personal opinions).

If you are interested, or known anyone who might be, please contact me
at: luis.reggiardo@gmail.com

Thx!

Luis Reggiardo
Producer
156-397-8366(m)/4863-4869(w"

Important Change in Argentina - Daylight Saving now being implemented

An important new change has taken effect in Argentina...DAYLIGHT SAVINGS.

Daylight savings went into effect on December 30, 2007. Remember that the southern hemisphere seasons are reversed so the old spring ahead fall back works EXCEPT THE OPPOSITE. Argentine clocks will be turned ahead one hour because it's spring in the southern hemisphere. To make it more confusing, at least for North Americans, the time will return to normal on  March 16, almost one week after the U.S.

job telecommute for Argentina German translator rewriter wanted

               German re-writers/translator needed          

Rockies Media is looking for someone to translate and even re-write
  tourism articles for CanadianRockies. net. This is a telecommute job that pays
$9/hour. If you can do German and Spanish, that's a plus. We are hiring immediately and can start you this week. Send a cover letter to rockiesmedia@ yahoo.com.

Sending Christmas packages to / from Argentina

Sending or receiving packages from Argentina can be a pain at times. One of the best ways to receive a package complete with everything the sender intended for you to receive is to have it sent by FedEx or DHL. We've had instances where packages were not complete or just not received when sent by regular Correo. However, anytime something was sent by FedEx or DHL it got to us just fine. Plus realize if you're mailing a package to Argentina, particularly Buenos Aires, that the person will need to downtown and pick it up in person even if they live outside of the city and it can be a long undertaking to do it and there is a time window they must pick up the package within to avoid having it returned to sender.

For shipping outside of the country, this is useful information from a post from someone in the Buenos Aires Yahoo group who was mailing a package outside of the country through Argentine Correo.

"I just came back from the post office after trying to mail a package
to the US. I used a shoe box and then wrapped a paper bag (inside
out) around it. It turns out that you cannot have tape on the outside
of your pack, ages, you can only use glue!!! I was very surprised. I
would think glue is not very secure. The package also needs to be
less than 2kg. (And mine was unfortunately 2.180kg.) The post office
sent me to a papeleria to get another box and they then told me to
come back after 2pm. The post office does have their own boxes, but
they only had very large boxes. Just thought I'd pass this message
along to anyone else trying to send Christmas packets back home
through the Argentine post.
PS. My wait was only 35 minutes at the post office, but I'd still
recommend bringing a good book because it can be much longer."

Psst Want to know how to move to Argentina? All about life in Argentina? excerpt of Chapter 6 from my ebook

I've been asked several times to post an excerpt from my ebook so here it is:
From Chapter 6: Real Estate and Rentals...

Garantias - Remember how the owner can take years to get someone to pay back rent, or get them out of their property? Well the guarantia is what makes them feel secure.

                A guarantia is essentially a type of lien whereby someone’s property is put up as collateral should the tenant default on the lease or destroy the property. Although never 100% guaranteed to work, it gives the landlord more legal power to try and recoup their losses. It can be difficult to find someone to give a guarantia because they may be uncomfortable risking their property or they may already have given one to another person. Even if you are successful in getting a guarantia, there is no guarantee that the owner will accept it.

Employers can also provide a guarantia. For instance, many of the foreign companies or embassies who send their workers to

Argentina

will provide a guarantia for the property rental. If you don’t have a guarantia, don’t worry, there are other options that are available, such as paying the rent up front or pago adelantado, which is essentially what is happening in the tourist rental market. And you needn’t feel like you’re alone in securing a guarantia because many Argentines also have trouble securing guarantias.

If you choose to use the pago adelantado you need to be aware of one thing, unless you work it out with the owner or agency, you will be paying your entire rent up front and should you have any problems or need to break the contract, you will have little recourse. One way to avoid this is to try to do a contract broken into segments – for instance a two year lease that has four separate contracts, all prepared at the same time, but as each contract ends and the next begins, you pay the next rental period. This protects you in the case that you absolutely need to leave or begin to hate the place…or the owner.