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03-21-09, 14:02
It' s written in Spanish:

http://www.clarin.com/diario/2009/03/21/um/m-01881483.htm

Babelfish translation:

http://66.196.80.202/babelfish/translate_url_content?.intl=ar&lp=es_en&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.clarin.com%2Fdiario%2F2009%2F03%2F21%2Fum%2Fm-01881483.htm


Michele Reeves and Tom Offermann wanted to take a sabbatic year. They did not know when nor where, but that had to go away far from Portland, the city that lived in the United States. To the first they behind schedule gave it step of summer of 2007, when they decided to sell the house, the cars and the furniture. They had a feeling the arrival of an economic crisis hard and thought that it was hour to plan its escape. "The situation was not sustainable and it worried" said Reeves to us. They changed first a a department in the same city until in 2008 they flew towards Buenos Aires. And here they follow.

Like them, the foreigners are many who arrived at Argentina fleeing from the crisis. According to data of the National Direction of Migrations, the number of Americans with permanent radicaciones did not stop to grow years in the last. The 722 cases that occurred in 2008 surpass by a 12 percent to those of 2007, and are more of the double of the registered ones in 2005, when there were 345 radicaciones. "For two years more Americans see themselves. The majority looks for to rent and not to buy", said Adrián Fumo, real estate runner in Palermo.

In Portland, Reeves had one boutique of real estate and his husband, programmer, worked from house while he took care of his two children, Zoe and Zelda, 10 and 7. Two years ago, Reeves he began to notice that the value of real estate was raising drastically, although the wages remained suspended. It and Offermann saw that their friendly spent more and requested loans to pay to their credits and mortgages. "We undid of everything," said Reeves, that now lives in Palermo Soho. "We are using this like a catalyst to think about that we want to do during next the ten years of our lives", it added.

Terrence Henry, 31, and Stakes out Rigler, 30, also resigned to its respective works in the United States. They arrived a pair ago of months and now they rent a department in Pony. Henry worked like producer for the newspaper The Washington Post in the American capital. The panorama in its industry did not paint well and decided that this era a good moment for a "temporary retirement". "Era now or never," said Henry. And it told that all the mornings listen to a American radio station, following close by the financial problems in his country. "That, somehow, reinforces our decision" said.

In the evening it takes a walk by the streets of the capital, it takes classes from Spanish, and it looks for best ice creams and steaks of Buenos Aires, later to write about his experiences in blog cooking of the magazine The Atlantic Monthly. And although neither Henry nor Rigler are working, their savings render to them much more in the Argentine parilladas ice-cream shops and that in the streets of Washington DC. "I would say that since we arrived at Argentina our expenses have lowered a 60 or 70 percent," Henry said.

For Kendra Carpenter, another American who migrated to Buenos Aires from September of the last year, to handle the Lotus Heart Institute, his business of consultancy and intracultural training by Internet, it is easier here to him than in his country. It did not arrive at Argentina by her will - its pair decided mudar by businesses. However, Carpenter is happy with the change. "The economic situation in the United States is not good for my profession", said. And it added: "Instead of to look for clients in EE. UU I can train people by Internet, organize "webinars," ask for a customer of emigrating or, possibly, Argentineans, when my Spanish improves ". And the examples follow.

"In Internet, it is possible to be gained in dollars or Euros to spend in Argentine pesos and thus to benefit with the change", says Brian Armstrong, an industralist who works by his account and plans mudar to Buenos Aires in May. "Some call 'geo-arbitrage'why is very attractive now to reduce the expenses during a recession". They say all to it, the economic crisis becomes an excuse to take "break" and to dedicate themselves to the pair, the family, or to themselves, while it passes the storm.

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