“How do you actually make friends in Buenos Aires?” It’s one of the questions expats ask me most — and the honest answer is messier than most guides admit. I spent eight years in Palermo Chico and tried pretty much…
The question I get asked more than almost any other: “Do you need Spanish to live in Buenos Aires?” After eight years in Palermo Chico — navigating banks, government offices, hospitals, and everything in between — I have a real…
Hey, it’s AXA. After eight years living in Buenos Aires, I finally put together the guide I desperately wished I had when I first arrived. Today, I’m launching the 2026 Buenos Aires Expat Guide — a practical 38-page handbook based…
When I first arrived in Buenos Aires, I expected a vibrant cultural city. What I witnessed instead was a decade of austerity that tested the limits of that vibrancy. This is not a theoretical analysis — it’s what I saw,…