Affordable Buenos Aires

[Atash Hagmahani]

Buenos Aires doesn't strike me as being a place to wait out a global depression, but very likely a place to pass through on my way to somewhere else.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/getaways/10/31/budget.buenos.aires/index.html

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (CNN) -- Vegetarians, beware. It's Wednesday night at the Garden House Hostel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the unmistakable scent of juicy slabs of meat on the grill is wafting through the halls, luring guests to its source.

There are vegetarian restaurants too, and they too are cheap. But B.A. isn't as famous for those as for the carne asado.

The buffet cost about $10 U.S. for all the meat, salad and wine I could manage -- a steal when you throw in the hostel's convivial atmosphere and hospitable staff. Anyway, my friend and I were paying only about $30 a night for a private double, and beds in a dorm run about $10 a night.
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On another evening, feeling the need for a brooding, mellow scene, we opted for live music. Twenty pesos, about $6 U.S., got us a table at Club Atletico Fernandez Fierro, home base of the bar's namesake 12-piece act.

[Edward Teach]

Buenos Aries?  You mean this Buenos Aries?

http://ferfal.blogspot.com/2008/10/thoughts-on-urban-survival-2005.html

[Atash Hagmahani]

According to other informants, Ferfal's accounts are selective. There was random sporadic violence, but it was not ubiquitous.