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[QUOTE=Dickhead;427109]9 pesos is "about three dollars presently." OK. That tells us all we need to know.[/QUOTE]Yeah Luke you're info is just a little dated is all. Those places still provide value in relationship to surrounding areas but you would be surprised by the increase (when measured in dollars) if you returned. I was gone from 2007-2011 going to school back in the states and I was pretty fucking shocked when I came back. Especially by how much Taxi's had gone up.
I did a quick conversion of 12. 9 pesos just to show how cheap meals were in Bs As. Don't nit pick:
12. 9 pesos at 4. 5/$ official rate would be $2. 86.
12. 9 pesos at 6. 2/$ black market rate would be $2. 08.
[QUOTE=Dickhead;427109]9 pesos is "about three dollars presently." OK. That tells us all we need to know.[/QUOTE]
In the early 2000's, when banks were having a huge liquidity crisis, a Spanish-speaking bro was living in an apartment around the corner of University of Buenos Aires. Lots of Argentinians were having money problems.
He had a dozen or so young, hungry female students who would drop in regularly for food. He would cook them hamburgers then fuck the daylight out of them in bed. The girls were literally hungry and knew they were screwing an old man for food. It happened. The old fart for sure would never cook for the equally-hungry male students.
If I were fortunate enough to be in the same situation, I would probably not feel good enough to take advantage of these young students. I am a soft touch. I would more likely feed these hungry students without making any demands on them, until I run out of money, then we can all starve to death together.
I have good reasons to always guard my feelings very carefully.
The official rate is bullshit and not worthy of discussion except to ensure you avoid getting it.
Peso inflation has averaged 20-25% per year for a number of years and the recent emergence of the blue rate only partially compensates for it. Restaurant inflation has been particularly bad and any time I get out of a decent place for under $AR75 for three courses and a beverage I figure I'm doing well. The days of $AR12. 9 are as long gone as dollar gas in the US.
[QUOTE=LukeSkywalker; 427115]I did a quick conversion of 12. 9 pesos just to show how cheap meals were in Bs As. Don't nit pick:
12. 9 pesos at 4. 5/$ official rate would be $2. 86.
12. 9 pesos at 6. 2/$ black market rate would be $2. 08.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=LukeSkywalker; 427115]I did a quick conversion of 12. 9 pesos just to show how cheap meals were in Bs As. Don't nit pick:
12. 9 pesos at 4. 5/$ official rate would be $2. 86.
12. 9 pesos at 6. 2/$ black market rate would be $2. 08.[/QUOTE]Not sure what 12. 9 pesos is supposed to mean. A cup of drip coffee at Starbucks is 15 pesos, and before you tell me that Starbucks doesn't count because it's Yankee and therefore more expensive, a cafe con leche at the Argentino place on the corner is 18 pesos. The only meal you are going to get for below 30P (U$S5. 00x6) is going to be a BigMac combo or a choripan or poncho and a coke. Please stop insisting it's otherwise, I'm writing these words from the AP House in microcentro. I wouldn't presume to tell you how things are currently in Tijuana because I'm not there. I am however here in BsAs and buying food everyday.
I see that Jackson's suck ass autocorrecting software, which needlessly adds spaces after periods and commas when they should not be there, caused me to read Luke's twelve point nine as merely nine. Have I mentioned lately how butt ignorant this fucking software is? Capitalizing after everything you bold or italicize? What the fuck? Fix it or junk it, jefe.
You may get your ass banned for insulting the Webmaster.
[QUOTE=Dickhead;427130]I see that Jackson's suck ass autocorrecting software, which needlessly adds spaces after periods and commas when they should not be there, caused me to read Luke's twelve point nine as merely nine. Have I mentioned lately how butt ignorant this fucking software is? Capitalizing after everything you bold or italicize? What the fuck? Fix it or junk it, jefe.[/QUOTE]
Simple and quick as we needed to do a quicky.
Fee 24 (12 each)
Malbec Latitud wine 68
Chorizo (sausage) 12
French Fries 25
Lomo 70
Chicken 45
Total 244
Discount -48
Total 196
USD 33
What [B]was[/B] The [I]discount[/I] For?
[QUOTE=Dickhead; 427087]Yeah, right. You know anybody who's done that? As far as daytime sober Méxican bordellos, I like the 'esteticas' or barber shops in Guadalajara. Squeaky clean. Also if you have ever been to the central Méxican highlands, places like Morelia and San Luís Potosí have some decent bars for like happy hour, say starting at 5 PM. But all the wandering I did in México would get you killed right now. For all its flaws, Argentina is a lot safer.
Partly because they're such pussies.[/QUOTE]This is true. In Argentina, corruption involves scams, rip-offs, and con-games, preferably of the sort where you don't realize you've been taken until the person who took you is out of your physical space. In Mexico, if you do something that interferes with the controlling desires of a drug cartel, they take you into a car and you are never seen again as a fully intact human, as they leave your body from the torso on down somewhere other than where they leave your head. Which they often prop up on a stake near the office of whatever police department or local politician is not fully on the cartel's payroll.
[QUOTE=Dickhead;427147]What [B]was[/B] The [I]discount[/I] For?[/QUOTE]20% discount when paying amex, they also offered champagne because another promotion.
[QUOTE=SimpleWrangler;427149]20% discount when paying amex, they also offered champagne because another promotion.[/QUOTE]Do you mean there was a discount for using an American Express credit card? Since AX charges the merchant a fee a disount surprises me. Or does amex mean something else?
Thanks, Bob
Yes. The Credit Card.
Not only restaurants, but shops, gas stations, etc they offer discounts (while not everyday) when paying with credit cards instead of cash, but what I like the most, the VIP room at the airport, since some times you can flirt outstanding girls and offer them to drink for free.
[QUOTE=SimpleWrangler; 427160]Yes. The Credit Card.
Not only restaurants, but shops, gas stations, etc they offer discounts (while not everyday) when paying with credit cards instead of cash, but what I like the most, the VIP room at the airport, since some times you can flirt outstanding girls and offer them to drink for free.[/QUOTE]Why not use Cambio cash and get a 30+% discount?
The casa de cambio rate isn't a discount. Cristina's imaginary rate is a surcharge.