I'm in Buenos Aires right now and that's pretty spot on. Beef is of incredibly high quality and it's incredibly cheap. I've been here for a couple weeks and will be staying until December (I've taken a year off with my girlfriend to travel the world). So far, I love it. The Spanish is spoken with an almost Italian accent, so I find it much easier to understand than, for instance, Chile's Spanish, which is impenetrable. One idiosyncrasy is that the double ll is not pronounced like a /y/ as in most other dialects, but like a /j/.

The wine is wonderful as well, provided you like the sort of big acidic wine that goes well with a nice hunk of meat. Luckily, that's my thing.

To be honest, if the economy and politics weren't so unstable down here, I'd consider buying a place. Unfortunately all weirdness with the blue dollar and the petty crime make it somewhere that I'll just keep on the radar.

Also, the thing he didn't mention when it came to booze was that this is the only other place in the world that Fernet Branca is distilled. Argentines drink the most Fernet per capita, as well as the most Coca-Cola (the second is related to the first).