Comments on GoodAirs: More than a bad translation of "Buenos Aires": The Evolution of the Expat Mind

I think at some point too you develop no longer ne...

2005-07-31T00:41:00.000-03:00

I think at some point too you develop no longer new eyes but you feel at home and see similarities in every place that you go. No matter how far out, how crazy, how bizarre... At least that's what I've come too after a few massive immersions in the lands of the wierd in Asia. There's tea everywhere. It's like learning new languages, the more that you learn the easier each subsequent one becomes.

Nicely writ and observed sir. Your wisdom comes th...

2005-07-28T17:48:00.000-03:00

Nicely writ and observed sir. Your wisdom comes through.

Have you pitched the article about expats? Imagine it would have many takers.

Would love to see: side by side weekly expenses - NYC v. BA (just dropped $20 at Duane Reade, want to feel even worse about it).

Keep writing and takin' it all in.

C

Your reflections remind me of historical analysis ...

2005-07-28T06:22:00.000-03:00

Your reflections remind me of historical analysis of otherness in traveler's narratives. They give us information about the traveller's background as well as the lands and people they encounter.
I must ask you to rethink the miopic view of commence in argentina. I, as an argie, hate it, but I think it is part of a wider ecology of survival of the fittest, not pure "cabeza dura"

excellent insight docta, what really gets you is w...

2005-07-28T03:31:00.000-03:00

excellent insight docta, what really gets you is when you realize what you felt as strange and awkward even moralistically wrong or confusing, start to make sense and things slowy become the other way around. hard to put in words but the terms would be acclimatization or even localization. daily example- language, some things just are expressed better in the other tongue. also, feeling you are still merely scratching the surface after you had proudly felt that you had it all down! ni hablar... and with that i too will stop talking...

g-love

I like that observation, and it's one that I found...

2005-07-27T17:23:00.000-03:00

I like that observation, and it's one that I found mirrored in my first few months in a city - except in my case, it was Brooklyn, not BA, and the differences between it and Chicago weren't, after all, THAT crazy. But it's true, after awhile, your eyes stop snagging on things. I kind of miss that sense of the city and I kind of regarding one another...but I am awfully proud now when I can give directions. My husband and I are coming to BA in the fall to visit, so I have been stalking all BA blogs I can find. I can't tell if that's creepy, or just doing good research. Maybe both.