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[AdiBoo]

Hi all! I'm moving to Buenos Aires in late September and I have a few questions about Buenos Aires that seem - as of yet - unanswered. I understand that for some of the regular users of this site it may be annoying to see questions resurface, but I have given the site (and other sites) a thorough perusal and I have yet to find the info I was hoping for. If you know the answers to the following questions (or know where I can find them), your help would be very much appreciated.

1. Transportation:
A. What - exactly - are the hours that the subways run? New York is all night, but most places don't have it so lucky. When the subways stop running, is there adequate all-night bus service to pick up the slack?
B. Taxi service: how cheap are we talking? In AR$, how much would a 10-minute ride through medium traffic set one back? Are rides done via meter (infinitely more fair for the foreigner), or does one need to negotiate prices beforehand? Can cabs be hailed from the street, or does one save money by calling a taxi service via phone?

2. Private lessons in December/January:
A. I've heard a lot about the lull in teaching via the winter season... does anyone know - via personal or friend-of-a-friend experience - whether or not it is feasible to actually eek out a living via private lessons during this time?
B. If not, any idea if the nearby countries (Chile, Uruguay) have that same lull in school? Basically... what are the methods of finding money in southern South America during these slow months?

3. Schools for Spanish lessons:
A. Okay, I admit... I could probably find this myself... but if anyone wants to throw out the name of a reputable school that can teach me Spanish... thanks a ton. I'm sorry, I should probably look, I'm just giving it a shot.

That's all. Thanks so much to whoever responds and offers help. Forums like this are wonderful in that they allow us to form a community, and any help I recieve will be much appreciated.

Y'all Are Wonderful,
Adi

[guillebaires]

1.A. Each subway line has diferent hours... check http://www.subte.com.ar/horarios/horarios.asp
No problem with buses, they run all night.

1.B. Hailing radio taxis from the street is OK... the fares are 2.16 pesos flag drop and 0.24 every 200 metres.

[guillebaires]

by the way... taxi fares will raise �10% on late September...

[AdiBoo]

thanks for the help. wow, looks like the trains stop pretty early. isn't buenos aires one of those cities that never sleeps? what do people do who live out of downtown? bus? taxi? walk?

thanks for the help, it's wonderful of you to direct me to where i need to go. see y'all there.

[sheena maclean]

As far as I know all bus lines run 24hours and I personally have never had to wait more than 1/2 an hour for a bus. Taxi are of course prevelant and depending on where you live I tihink it's a reasonably safe city to walk in at night.
I think you will be hard pushed to make ends meet Summertime here. All the institute work dies off and to have enough private students (especially when every other teacher in town is looking for them) to make the minimum AR41200 to live on will be difficult, tho not immpossible. Bear in mind that you will be lucky if you can charge more than AR$25 per hour for classes which is about AR$10 more an hour than institutes pay.
ok thats all I can say on the subject
chau

[ElNota]

Surviving as a teacher here, without significant savings or some other kind of income to fall back on, is very difficult. I would say plan to come with 3-5,000 in the bank, and leave at the end of a year broke. Or, find a job here that pays more money. I heard that there is a job recruiter that finds people jobs in the US that pays around 3000 pesos a month (you could never make that teaching english lessons).

[Stephanklingen]

I came back to buenos Aires last month and after not being here for about a year I�m like amazed! the prices went up very much as the other person said the taxis are much expensive and will be more by late september, so better if I walk.You have to think that buenos Aires is a very easy city, is just square, so you with a map can walk to many places if you have the time and energy,also people will guide you if ou are lost.
Also if you need to go outside of the city you just go to the train station called Retiro and from there you take a train to the outskirts if not many buses take you to the main neighborhoods in the city.

When I had spanish lessons in Buenos Aires, I tried many different places like big shools, small ones, private teachers, so I saw quite a lot, schools are pretty useless in terms of productivity because at the very beginning are helpful, you share the lessons in a group and meet new people, this is good for the first time, but what you can work in the group like conversation, correction ad stuff is not pretty much.

Then I did some private lessons and decided to continue with the teacher I got, I can pass you the email of the teacher I consider was the best and did a very proper plan for my needs, her name is Gisela, she is featured in the lonely planet argentina and her email is [email protected]

Also, if you are looking for apartments for you, friends, family, anyone, the prices for what I know starts from 400 US dollars, in palermo, recoleta, barrio norte, and many other areas, is like the average.

hope this helps,

stephan back in BA!

[Fely]

We are looking for an english teacher at the moment.
Not in BA, but in Rosario city.
I have sent you a Private Message.

Bye, Fely.