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Buenos Aires most liveable city in Latam, but region scores in the bottom half
Buenos Aires is the most liveable city of Latinamerica followed closely by Santiago de Chile and Montevideo, according to the 2012 report form the Economist Intelligence Unit which ranks the degree of satisfaction and comfort of residents in 140 cities from all over the world based on several factors. Read full article
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Aug 17th, 2012 - 09:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0“lack of adequate infrastructure, high levels of delinquency and crime and deficiencies in the areas of health and education”.
Need we say more :)
In the voice of Neil from the Young Ones:
Aug 17th, 2012 - 12:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“I came top out of usssss!!!”
Chuckle chuckle.
#1
Aug 17th, 2012 - 01:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I couldn't agree more. Who te hell wants to live in that cesspool?
Aside from Puerto Madero, everything else is damn horrible in BA.
I'm so glad i live in Provincia de Bs As, far from all the delinquency and economical problems.
I so wish our province could become independant from the rest of the country.
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Aug 17th, 2012 - 02:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Buenos Aires is a fantastic city to live in, despite the obvious economic difficulties, its got the most fantastic climate, architecture, a vibrant culture and a never ending stream of amazing things to photograph. Participants on our buenos aires photography excursions never fail to be amazed by what's on offer...Foto Ruta www.foto-ruta.com
Aug 17th, 2012 - 03:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0BA is beautiful if you over look the children begging in restaurants, running up to cars, juggling in the streets, slums, filthy buildings, broken sidewalks, overpowering diesel fumes from the buses, pickpockets, muggings, express kidnappings, vehicular manslaughter, garbage piled on the streets, cartaneros, filthy dangerous trains, corruption and the general decay, rotting of the city's core...
Aug 17th, 2012 - 04:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Overlook all of that and it is GREAT!
Shhhh yankeeboy, you know the Argtards don't like the truth, Ba is beautiful just like their president. ;)
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Aug 17th, 2012 - 05:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@6 You forgot the dog shit EVERYWHERE. and the beautiful parks full of hobos. The combination makes them stink something awful on hot days.
Aug 17th, 2012 - 05:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That said I lived there for months at a time and enjoyed it but I would never choose to live there permanently. Tis great for a week or two. I can think of three Latam cities I would rather live in.
@5
Aug 17th, 2012 - 07:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Another naive and ignorant porteño who thinks BA ends at General Paz.
I don't see a single possitive thing about that clusterfuck of city, that being said, thank god i go there every 2 months for business only for 3 hours and then i get out of that piece of sh~t of a hobo city.
people wanting to find negatives about a city will always do so... more so in this site where people like yankeeboy will just flame anything that is argentinean. personally i find BA a great city to live in, despite its downsides. i could also list numerous downsides to London where I lived for two years: horrid dark wet whether, chaotic public transportation (packed tube trains at 50C in summer with no air con, packed buses, endless “engineering works” on the tracks making trains unreliable), dirty people puking and throwing tons of garbage on the street all throughout central london in the weekends, few cafes but loads of dark gloomy pubs, expensive to live in, people in the street are reserved and seem generally unfriendly... the list could go on and on...
Aug 17th, 2012 - 07:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@10. the only ignorant here is you, because BA city DOES end at General Paz.
Aug 17th, 2012 - 07:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Si es verdad!
Aug 17th, 2012 - 07:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Is the most beautiful city in southamerica!
Romance, kisses and love....
Oh! yes, yes, yes
I hardly can wait to reside in Buenos Aires again!
@12
Aug 17th, 2012 - 08:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Another deluded retarded porteñito. Go back to high school and then we'll talk. :-)
@14. Wha?! where do you think it ends? have you even seen a map of the city of buenos aires? the saying goes “Argentina doesn't end in Gral Paz.” alluding to the porteños who think Buenos Aires is Argentina.
Aug 17th, 2012 - 08:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 010 Sir Rodderick Bodkin
Aug 17th, 2012 - 09:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Another naive and ignorant porteño who thinks BA ends at General Paz”
I know the geographical knowledge of the British public(and Yanks) is very close to zero.
Malvinas is in South America, Argentina.
Buenos Aires ends at Gral Paz.
And you live in Nueve De Julio, PROVINCIA de Buenos Aires.
@15
Aug 17th, 2012 - 10:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You're right. I totally got it wrong there, i admit.
However, BA still is a horrible place to live.
@16
Yes i live in Provincia de Buenos Aires, and i'm proud of it.
What do you know about me?. What a creep, i bet you've been stalking me on FB.
17 Sir Rodderick Bodkin
Aug 17th, 2012 - 10:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hahahahahaha....I was born in Provincia de Buenos Aires and proud of it too.
What do I know about you?
You love are bonaerenses women, right?
5 Sir Rodderick Bodkin (#)
Jul 27th, 2012 - 11:30 am
Buenos Aires?
Hmph, no sorry. Best looking womans are on Nueve De Julio, Provincia de Buenos Aires. ;)
http://en.mercopress.com/2012/07/27/best-looking-women-cities-kiev-stockholm-and-in-the-neighborhood-buenos-aires
Errrrmmm
Aug 17th, 2012 - 11:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0BTW where is Stanley?
Bloody 'ell sure another plot from nasty Argies I guess...
Buenos Aires is the best place to feel sexy all the time!
Aug 17th, 2012 - 11:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 020 Stupid
Aug 18th, 2012 - 12:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0You came in 62nd! I like it better here in 4th place.
Sir rodderick bodkin = CIPAYO ( a lo mejor provinciano boludo)
Aug 18th, 2012 - 01:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0This report was written by the turkey necked vulture and published in the Gazetta. so it is official. So all you ignorant people out there, Shut up. Buenos Aires is the Dogshit hole of South AmericaIt beat even Tegucigalpa in Central America.
Aug 18th, 2012 - 02:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0I have never been in Buenos Aires but all I´ve heard are wonderful things about the city. Everyone who visits the city seems to fall in love with the local culture.
Aug 18th, 2012 - 03:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0@18 Marcos Alejandro
Aug 18th, 2012 - 11:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0Lmao, you're right. What was i thinking?
Oh god, all these rainy days are really clouding my judgment.
I'm gonna need a vacation, lol.
@22 JUGO
Says who?. Pelotudito?
Cipayo, Gorila, facho. All the typical namecalling coming from brainwashed kirchnerite.
Ignore this guy and lets move on.
PS: Do you think calling me a ''provinciano'' is an insult? I feel honoured and i'm glad to be born where i was born. Away from all the scum.
Instead of Buenos Aires, I prefer something quieter. One option could be Rosario, Argentina. It is a city of 1 million people that still retains the tranquility which lost Buenos Aires.
Aug 18th, 2012 - 04:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But would not trade it for the world, peace and beauty of “my” Victoria, Entre Ríos (Ar), a small town of 200 years of tradition and with just 30,000 inhabitants, founded by immigrants from Italy and the Basque Country on 7 hills that provide a beautiful landscape on the shore of the Parana River.
However, each person has their own tastes.
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En lugar de Buenos Aires, yo prefiero algo más tranquilo. Una opción podría ser Rosario, Argentina. Es una ciudad de 1 millón de habitantes que aún conserva la tranquilidad que perdió Buenos Aires.
Pero no cambiaría por nada del mundo, la paz y la belleza de Victoria, Entre Ríos (Ar), una pequeña ciudad de 200 años de tradición y con apenas 30000 habitantes, fundada por inmigrantes de Italia y del País Vasco sobre 7 colinas que brindan un hermoso paisaje en la costa del Río Paraná.
No obstante, cada persona tiene sus propios gustos.
@21
Aug 18th, 2012 - 06:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No big penis in that city, no good sex...did you order your extension ?
Can you make 7 inches long? ....Oh, you said you cannot!
Well, screw Conor Louden-Brown rossy arse! Heheheheeeeeeeeeeeee
#6 wow broken side walks, diesel fumes?? Lol maybe being shoot at a school at work in a court house or a mall is a lot better then a broken side walks and diesel fumes ony in USA, for those reasons BS as is to me a better place.
Aug 18th, 2012 - 07:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#7 we love to talk to people Who are not bias and can take as much criteria as they dish out it's all a matter of tolerance for the lesser beings.
#9 you should travel more often the bronxs in new York isn't any better if Argentine process immigrants as US does and deport them, Argentina would be 100% better then many US and Europeans cities.
#10 move to the Bronx and STFU, you know what makes me sick??? People who pay for internet to complain about their city but are too cheap to move somewhere safe, tipycal american pea mentality.
#11 there is only one bariable that makes a city hot and fun or cold and boring, English or spanish??
#14 there is only one retard here and you win the tittle by a mile head lead in any case being a porteho is not as bad as being a Brit.
The dlim#21 homosexuals hate the truth spoken by women.
#23 Argentina has one city that people here complain about but all of USA and UK is a sh!t hole.
#24 I lived in BS AS for many years and from the people to climate everything is great compared to many English states, Argentina rocks.
28 butt-pirat
Aug 18th, 2012 - 07:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Poor beaten up little boy, you are in so much pain, such a tragedy.
27 scuzzie
Your lies have been found out, do be a good loser and disappear!
@29 Zhivago
Aug 18th, 2012 - 09:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Come on....can you tell me how long is your penis?....Oh! is so short you cannot find it.....poor babe!
I never will disappear...
Viva Argentina!..........
30 Sussie
Aug 18th, 2012 - 10:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Do you even know what an ISP is?
Congratulations BA, the city of Cristina seems to reflect some of the beauty of its leading citizen =)
Aug 19th, 2012 - 07:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@31
Aug 19th, 2012 - 11:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh! you don't have one...OK. Case closed!
Heheheheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
It's such an amazing and fantastic city, it's full of interesting and beautifull places, and there are also huge spaces of green areas. I love walking along cordoba street, on saturday night when i go to see my friends at the disco, it's a placer. But the main avenues are always very colapsed from monday to friday, like many big metropolis, and there are populations, located in different sectors of the city who live in very bad conditions, especially near retiro, and in the south of the city, which has always been the poorest sector from buenos aires city. The social unequality is still the biggest challenge that c. f. k's government has, she made a lot to improve the situation of millions of our compatriots, but we are still a very unequal society. This great challenge depends mostly on her, because the incompetent intendant from the city, won't never do enough inverstments in order to improve the situation of the poorest inhabitants from the city, due to he thinks that the city, is one of his enterprises, thats' why his administration doesn't do enough inverstments in the statal education and in the health sistem, therefore the state of some hospitals is deplorable. The result of this investigation, don't sorprise anyone, despite of the terrible crisis that we had along our history, buenos aires has aways been a fantastic city, where many people around the world would like to live, i invite you all to come to argentina, and enjoy not only our city, but all the rest of the country also, which is pretty and unforgetable.
Aug 19th, 2012 - 11:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#34 Brilliant summary, putting the poverty issue in correct perspective as a challenge for the left but an indictment of the right, and not in contradiction to the city's beauty
Aug 20th, 2012 - 12:15 am - Link - Report abuse 035
Aug 20th, 2012 - 12:56 am - Link - Report abuse 062nd place is pretty good I guess!
#6,#7, #9, I couldnt agree more. I was born in Argentina and lived always here. I love to hear from somebody telling us that we're wrong in soo many things. But
Aug 20th, 2012 - 03:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0the truth is that we don't like being said we are wrong at smthg, we believe and like to make others believe that we rule! But the dogshit, the hobos, the president, the robbery, the vehicle manslaugther are real real REAL troubles in my society, that most of the peolple are used to live with every day, without a pinch of shame.
We love to visit civilized and tidy cities but when we came back we don't even care to drop trash on the street!
Egocentricity and hipocresy are our speciality.
The whorehouses in B.A are definitely the best in LatAm, even better than Brazil, but they have suffered from austerity in the last five years. The women are great but the food isn't like it used to be and some of them could use some new paint and wallpaper. I've noticed quite an influx of Paraguayas and you have to pay a little extra for a “portena” lady. They also happily accept US$ and you get that little extra attention when you pay ahead!
Aug 20th, 2012 - 12:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ah so we finally all agree, The Economist has been FULL OF SHIT about everything they wrote about Argentina for the last 10 years, as this article clearly demonstrates, whatever they say you must assume the opposite.
Aug 20th, 2012 - 04:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Right?
@1, 2, , 6 and any other microcephalic scatologists.
haahahaha, you pathetic losers, all this time quoting the Economist to blast Argentina and now you what do you say here? Hahaha, it's rigged, they are lying, etc... you people need to be castrated.
@ 38 Zhivago
Aug 20th, 2012 - 05:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Come on....are you saying you have send Isolde to work her concha seca in Buenos Aires?
By the way, your penis is the size of a dead sardine so nothing a “portena” can do for you.
But, Conor Louden-Brown rossy arse fits your sardine penis well, so go head, bang on Conor english arse!.........heeeeeeeeeeeeheeeeeeeeeeheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
#38 And you know this how???
Aug 20th, 2012 - 08:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 041 BK
Aug 20th, 2012 - 10:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0How do you think? World's oldest profession. They actually have a very sophisticated set up, you can view the girls online, see when they are available and most importantly the one you order actually matches the picture! Without going into any details, if you have to find something for Japanese businessmen to do and there's a lack of Karaoke bars, what are you going to do?
Sussie US If you are going to trade insults try and be more adult about it, your kindergarden-like power of debate is getting a little tedious, i.e. my dad is bigger than your dad, if you want to compare penises then you will have the upper hand if yours is bigger than mine.
@28
Aug 21st, 2012 - 12:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0You typed ''porteho''.
Type properly so i can take you seriously...
Next.
@42
Aug 21st, 2012 - 04:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What a wimp!
He closed my case long time ago so why you keep picking on me?
I don't care who you are, where you live or eat.
44 Slushy
Aug 21st, 2012 - 09:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Stop responding then!
@45
Aug 22nd, 2012 - 02:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0You have the option to ignore my comments!
46
Aug 22nd, 2012 - 07:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0Or I can respond,
now stop, listen,
you are a cunt
that's a fact
bloody rubbish Argentine
with your “rossy” whatever
its a fact.
@47
Aug 22nd, 2012 - 07:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ps.
Oh! Come on! .... you sound like a generic gay briton.
Hey, Conor Louden-Brown still is around touching his toes....so cute, tender and so easy for you to bang, bang, bang, puuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrf and drip...jajaja.
Feeling better? OK.
Get the next one....generic gay briton, his mommy and his dad!
jajaja
Susana is happy.
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