The little things I will and won´t miss about Buenos Aires, Argentina

Things I´ll miss about Buenos Aires, in no particular order, and without reference to the typical tourist sights..............

Things I´ll miss

• Smart taxi drivers who can engage about music, politics or anything else.
  
• Empanadas
• Bullshit conversations about Maradonna
• Malbec
• Meeting up in apartments around 11pm before going out and drinking wine mixed with coke. This is often the most fun part of the night and is revered by Porteños
  
• Simpsons, Family Guy and American Dad dubbed in Spanish
• Old people sitting outside cafes watching the world go by
• T-shirt slogans in English with broken grammar
• Cheap beer
• Small children walking about in Lab Coats
• The Soldera family
• Steak - Bife de Lomo
• The modern art
  
• Acerbic political satire
• Spanish terms of endearment for your girlfriend
• The sense of drama that fills the city
  
• Fileteado- the distinctive porteño artwork
• Friendly people - it´s such a misconception that Porteños are aloof
  
• The graphic artists
• Almagro Boxing Club
• Being in a context where I can use Spanish
• The lack of obvious class distinction
• The horse and cart men (and their family) that collect recycling at 2 in the morning
  
• Second rate jugglers operating in the road at traffic lights.
  
• Views of the city from the 12th floor
• The cyan blue of the Argentinian flag
  
• The mashup of architecture styles - like Paris/Italy crossed with a noir Batman movie
  
• Great second hand clothes shops
• Mastery of ice-cream
  
• A common dislike of Maggie Thatcher
• The blend of South American and European culture - it´s just right.
  
• Kissing on the cheek when you meet
  
• Waking up late and going to bed late
• Clapped out American saloon cars from the 70´s
  
• Coffee obsessions
• Pharmacies that will give you almost anything without prescription
  
• Choripàn (sausage in bread)
  
• How the streets look in the rain
• Hearing tango on the Radio
• Dulce de Leche (milky caramel syrup for all kinds of cake, ice cream)
  
• The musicians
• Not seeing the 2010 World cup here...I leave just before it starts
  
• Morcilla (black pudding)
• The Argentine version of Spanish (Castillian) - I like how it doesn´t have all the ´htth´sounds
• Cheap massages and service industry (legit I mean!)
  
• San Telmo bars and markets
• Getting a bag of laundry done for 1.50UK
  
• Palermo
  
• Black market stalls
• British theme bars that play the Stone Roses all night.
  

Things I won´t miss

• Dog mess on the streets
• The never-ending noise of the streets through the whole night and the public service vehicle sirens that sound like Commodore 64 SID chips through a distortion pedal
  
• Lack of really spicy food
• Obsession with Grunge music from the 90´s among men aged 25 and over
  
• Natty 2 peso notes and shopkeepers that are unhappy that you don´t have the correct change
• Cash machines with a low limit for withdrawals per day
• Seat belts in cabs that don´t work
  

Please do comment and leave your own slant on what you will or won´t miss about this city!

Gracias
A-D