Potential Expat

I spent 5 weeks living in Mendoza attending Spanish classes long time ago. I really like Argentina for many reasons. I almost moved there, but the situation in the US is getting crazy enough, I may actually do it now.

I'm a retired engineer with a couple of dogs. The dogs are a main reason I would stay. Life as a dog in Argentina is really different.

Can anyone share experience with dog relocation? Apartments?

Two Pit Bulls.

I'm not sure where I want to live. My immediate plan (subject to change) is to stay a while in BA, then travel to different places, leaving the dogs in the US. I think I'd prefer coastal communities. I want to attend Spanish language school.

Yes, I well remember the dogs in Argentina. They are very much loved and respected. I can recall sitting in a Mendoza restaurant and a dog walking in off the street and wandering from table to table, not begging particularly, just being sociable. The key is to avoid eye contact, and the few times I forgot that, I really regretted it.

I appreciate the candor.

My reasons for moving are various, and include the desire for novelty. I want to understand my attraction to Argentina, and I do have the means to support myself.

I spent a couple of weeks living in Cuernavaca, near Mexico City, with a family. This was also a good experience. However, the Human Development Index (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index) for Argentina is very high, and I think that explains some of the attraction. Illegal drug problems are everywhere, but it seems like Argentina is not in a favorable location to compete with other countries in S America and is not in the path of the products to satisfy the US appetite for drugs.

Corruption is no small problem in Argentina. I like to say that corruption is wholesale and more explicit in Central and S America, compared to retail and implicit in the US. I would prefer to be able to see it.

I don't know how the political situation is currently in Argentina and it concerns me that I would not have the awareness to see what the locals can see. I like to believe that an old white retired man like me would be seen like a tourist, contributing USD and taking no job from a local. The last time I was in BA (long time ago) I and Mendoza felt welcomed everywhere, but not in Chile, where CIA left some very sour feelings.

A number of people in the US see people like me as the source of most everything wrong. Identity politics is a regression to tribal thinking that results in a lot of crazy behavior. I suppose critical theorists have invaded S America as well, but it seems that they lag in such cultural trends.

Oops. That I wasn't supposed to be there. Mendoza would be a good dog name.

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Oops. That I wasn't supposed to be there. Mendoza would be a good dog name.

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The last tine I was in BA and Mendoza, I felt welcome ...