Discovering Buenos Aires might be right about marking our calendars ...today does, indeed, seem like make fun of yanquis day. Next March should be a different story, however.
The strange combination of a failing financial sector and a strong US dollar has led gawker.com to report that Buenos Aires has been ruined by an influx of young out of work bankers.
BlackBook Magazine's web site reports that the influx is actually part of a broader trend of "douchebags" and "wack dipshits" of all nationalities.
Along with those two stories, exposebuenosaires.com came over my transom today and they paint a realistic (albeit still a bit rosy) picture of what it's like for expats to find work here.
Welcome to all new expats, travellers, and immigrants, from the Yanq!
If some of these recent arrivals can be truly described as above, however, not to worry tampoco. The present strength of the greenback will be temporary.
Spend 'em if you got 'em!
Note: I don't believe that I've ever met Fernando Cwilich Gil of BlackBook but his links and his numbers are really accurate. I love that he notes that pre-2001 Buenos Aires had no experience with tourism. I wonder if he gets the same looks of disbelief that I do when I tell people that. Not sure if he's a New Yorker or a porteño ...but it looks like he knows his way around Capital.
...currently discussing the US presidential election campaign until Inauguration Day.
2 comments:
Very good your blog, congratulations. Well for showing bs seize thus. I invite you to see the same city, but across my eyes in www.margafabbri.com.ar but, on Saturdays and Sundays, from 11 to 18hs in the walk of the arts of peaceful.
Regards, and that you continue enjoying bs as!
muy bueno tu blog, felicitaciones. bien por mostrar bs as de este modo. te invito a ver la misma ciudad, pero a través de mis ojos en
www.margafabbri.com.ar
sino, sábados y domingos, de 11 a 18hs en el paseo de las artes de recoleta.
saludos, y que sigas disfrutando bs as!
Thank you, Marga!
trato hecho,
Mike
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