As the aspiring Derek Zoolander astutely pointed out in yesterday's rather bizarre Observer profile, there's been an influx of American i-banker, white-hat types in Buenos Aires in recent years. This is nothing new. After the 2001 Argentine economic collapse, Buenos Aires went from being one of the most expensive cities in the world to one of the cheapest almost overnight. By 2003, loads of disaffected foreigners started flocking here. There were approximately 5,287 articles written about this trend between 2003 and the 2008.

They mostly read like this: "Clark is a 29-year-old Brit who worked as a municipal clerk in Clerkenwell, then relocated to Buenos Aires, bought a loft in Palermo Soho, and refashioned himself as a fashion photographer." Or "Susan is a 34-year-old marketing exec from New York who now bides her time shopping for antique soda bottles for the renovated San Telmo apartment she shares with her (unemployed) 23-year-old Argentine boyfriend." This same "Buenos Aires is the new Prague" story was published ad nauseum in countless US and European publications.

And thus a city with negligible tourism pre-2001 came to have one of the most hyped expatriate populations on the planet. Some of these people were and are quite legit -- wanderlust-driven nomads with interesting lives. But a lot are predictably wack dipshits who couldn't quite hack it financiallly or socially in their native lands, and thus sought solace in cheap, fun, carnivorous Buenos Aires. And some are just trust fund kids who went to Brown. Anyhow, what better way to illustrate the Buenos Aires expatriate phenomenon than with a little video told in their very own voices, using only clips created by foreigners in Argentina, jacked from Youtube, and then edited together by an Argentine friend of mine last year. Ladies and gentlemen, "Meet the Foreigns."