Hi, I'm Rosie.

I moved to Buenos Aires in April 2019 with my husband and our two children, then three and five. My husband does something with code that lets him work from anywhere; I was freelancing; we had run the numbers; the numbers said Buenos Aires. We thought we'd stay a year. We are still here.

The site started as a WhatsApp group. There were about eight of us — British mums who had either just arrived or were thinking of arriving, and we used to fire questions at each other at eleven at night. Which paediatrician speaks English. Whether St Andrew's or Northlands is the right school for a child who can't read yet. Where the bloody apostille stamp goes. How do you actually pay the arrival rent when the landlord wants dollars in cash and your UK bank account is throwing a fit. Eventually I started writing the long answers down in a newsletter. The newsletter turned into this.

One thing that surprised me about arriving is how much British-adjacent life already exists here — and how little of it shows up when you Google. The Argentine British Community Council has been running since 1939. The Hurlingham Club is older than my grandmother. St Andrew's Scots School was founded in 1838 and has full British curriculum. The Buenos Aires Cricket & Rugby Club is one of the oldest outside the UK. The Anglican Cathedral of St John the Baptist has been on 25 de Mayo since 1831. None of this is on the first page of anyone's Google results for "moving to Argentina". A lot of what I do on this site is just writing down what that older, quieter British Buenos Aires is actually like, because it saves newcomers the six months of wandering around trying to find it.

I'm not a visa expert. I'm not an accountant. I'm someone who has spent six years living in Palermo with a British passport, an Argentine rental contract, an OSDE medical plan, a small dog, and two children who are now bilingual and pretend they don't remember London. If that's the kind of question you're trying to answer — what daily life is actually like, which barrio works for a family, which bodegón is still worth it, where the British community meets — I've probably bumped into it already and written it down.

For the paperwork end — visas, HMRC, pensions, tax residency — I send people to my brother Tom at ukargentina.com. That's his beat, not mine.