Just back from a MR to EZE on Delta, was in town for just a few days. Here are my general impressions with two quick warnings.

1) I walked quite a bit, but never past midnight, and never felt unsafe. Twice, during the day, I thought I was being followed &/or sized up, but shook them by once by crossing the street and stopping a number of times until it was obvious to my tails they had been discovered. The other time I took their photo - they didn't like that, but moved on.

2) The steaks and empanados were excellent. I don't think I ever had an empanado made so well. The house wines I tried were very fruity reds. Not much to my liking, but i don't drink much.

3) I saw some street sleeping, but nothing compared to what I see in NYC, much less SFO or Santa Monica.

WARNINGS

1) A thief sprayed me with foul-smelling gunk in a stain-n-distract attack while I was taking photos in the park between the train station and the Park Towers. I wasn't even sure what was going on at first as the thief did not approach me right away. Instead, he waited for me to rub my head like an idiot and look around for a minute or two before coming up to "help." He got handsy very quick and I had to wrestle my camera from him as he tried to take it off my back to "clean it." Undeterred he started wiping my trousers forcing me to jog backwards and raise my fist. Only then did the smiling ....... stop touching me, but he continued pretending to be my friend, telling me how bad it smelled and how I needed cleaning. I simply retreated further, did a quick pocket and bag check, and left knowing nothing was lost -- but I consider myself lucky. The confusion and anger from the being hit with this stench took me awhile to shake off. If he was a better thief or had been working with a confederate, I could have lost quite a bit more. Bottom line - be wary of help, especially if hit with a stink bomb.

2) Like every city, the taxi scams stories are real. Leaving the Park Tower for my return trip I told the driver to turn on the meter. He said "No, flat rate, by law, 19 USD." What do I know? $19 is consistent with what I paid to get in from the airport, so I let it slide. Half way to the airport the meter starts to beep, much like an alarm, and the driver simply unplugs the back of it. I assume this was the meter's programming sending a message to either the driver or the passenger that it was not running on what seemed a long trip for a taxi. We get to the airport and he says no, not 19 USD, 90 PESOS ($30) PLUS 10 PESOS for tolls. !@##!@ I ended up paying him 65 pesos, but what a pain in the ..., as we both kept threatening to call the police (it was a little funny at that point). Bottom line: always use the meter, never trust a taxi-driver.