Currently Milei, and his upstart Freedom Advances party, is polling just over 30 per cent, three or four points above government candidate Sergio Massa, ahead of the first round on Oct 22.
If he wins it’ll be chaos, of course. But it’ll also come right.
At which point:
This property is a 324 SqM apartment with 4 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms that is available for sale. It is part of the PACHECO DE MELO JOSE A. al 2400 project in Federal Capital, Buenos Aires. You can buy this apartment for a base price of €76,600
Err, yes……
Assuming he isn’t fucked over by the deep state and those parts of civil society that have arranged things how they want them.
When I idly discussed moving to Argentina with my boss they said “but there’s always economic chaos there”. To which my response was “sure, but they are used to it. We are not so when it comes, as it will, it will be much, much worse here than in Argentina”.
BiG in Hong Kong.
BUENOS AIRES….
That’s why the wise write “BA”, Alex.
Pedant alert:-
Ciudad de la Santissima Trinidad y Puerto de Nuestra Senora la Virgen Maria de los Buenos Aires.
That’s why the wise write “BA”, Hugh.
BiG in Hong Kong.,
I presume you’ve been there? If not BA is a lovely place and least when I was there those I worked with reckoned if you had a good job the quality of life was quite high. As capital cities go its definitely one of the nicest I’ve worked in or visited.
The added bonus is that Spanish is easier to pick up than in Spain, its more like Hochdeutsch to Spain’s Bayerisch.
I reckon if I can buy a 240 m apartment out of the cash reserves then the quality of life would be quite high. And if I can continue to get paid at US and UK rates (which aren’t high for journalism in general, true) not local Argentina ones then the standard of life would be very high indeed.
Am meeting some consumer resistance from the other half…..
The added bonus is that Spanish is easier to pick up than in Spain,
Almost all S. American spanish is. I still have problems with paraguayan but colombian’s intelligible. And at least colombians can spell their own language. It’s from where I picked up my spanish. Never had a formal lesson. I have far more problems with andalus.
But it’s the same with english. American english is far easier to understand than the 57 varieties of english english. Their spelling makes more sense as well. I suppose it’s the same with all diasporas. People with various dialects gravitate towards a common one for mutual intelligibility & that’s going to be closer to the standard & simpler.
Not sure as I don’t speak either, but someone once said to me that Spanish is “basically French spoken with a smile”.
@Shiney
Not sure as I don’t speak either, but someone once said to me that Spanish is “basically French spoken with a smile”.
Not really, all Spanish speakers I know who’ve studied Froggish say it’s a difficult tongue to master.Surprising perhaps as the grammar is similar in many ways.
@BiS i made the initial error of trying to learn Spanish in Andalucía…. which given the andaluces’ habit of pronouncing only half of the word and also omitting half the phrase was… shall we say, challenging… “la que?” still makes me smile though, it’s hard not to love ‘em…. Mind you, given a recent encounter with a portuguesa speaking Spanish*, andalus is comparatively easy.
Agree wholeheartedly the S.American Spanish speakers are generally much easier to understand. Is that true also of Portuguese as spoken in Brazil vs Portugal?
@Shiney re French/Spanish… not really, though the point may have rather more truth in the attitude of the speaker 😉
*i eventually derived it was Spanish. Might as well been Polish. We settled on English.
The added bonus is that Spanish is easier to pick up than in Spain, its more like Hochdeutsch to Spain’s Bayerisch.
As someone with Bavarian cousins, I’m not sure I’d agree.
Schwyzerdutsch is the one you don’t want to try to learn. Even the Germans and Austrians have trouble with that.
Canadian (Québécois) French is much easier for English speakers to understand than French French (but almost impossible for the French themselves). It sounds to me like French spoken by an Englishman who has seen it written down, but never heard it spoken.
I tell French speakers I converse with that my French is “comme une vache Espagnole”, which usually gets a grin.