I’ve been staying in a hostel right in down-town Buenos Aires. The entrance to the hostel is directly off a busy shopping mall. There are several streets here closed off to traffic. The hostel is fair but the location is fairly handy to shops of all sorts and to the subways.
There isn’t much English spoken here and I suspect there is a lot less spoken than can be spoken. They don’t want to speak it suggesting a level of arrogance that is so often afforded the French. Maybe they are still smarting from the Falklands War. Well my advice to you Buenos Aires is ‘Suck it up Amigos’.
I sense an indifference from the people here to English speaking people’s but I found that a South American living in Buenos Aires finds the same thing. He speaks their language but still finds them rude and aggressive compared to home in Ecuador. He finds them very difficult to get on with. Buenos Aires has easily been the most difficult and uncomfortable place I have visited on my travels. At least I know where not to come back to.
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