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[dierdre black]

ps    probably, the "best" ones, as described by you, are in El Centro, Almagro/Abasto and a couple in Palermo/Villa Crespo.*  But the city is easy to navigate and unless you have an aversion to using taxis, buses and subways to get there, you can get anywhere you'd like, relatively easily, from anywhere else.  If you want to stay strictly on foot, you should probably be ensconced either in San Telmo or Palermo/Palermo Viejo.  San Telmo/El Centro/San Cristobal/Boedo tends to have more milonguero style milongas, per block, probably, with a very nice, antique, scenic, architectural environment.  Palermo has fewer such style milongas, with more green spaces and newer buildings.  There are many lovely tango houses in both areas, with studios on site.  Almagro milongas are easily accessed from both barrios as it is about halfway between the other two. Palermo and San Telmo have plenty of police on every corner and San Telmo has greatly modernized, recently,
 with anti-crime lights and quaint cobblestoned, pedestrian malls. Palermo has many, many parks, the horseracing track, polo fields and wider paved streets, to give the visitor a sense of more space and green, although San Telmo is only blocks from Puerto Madero, down by the river, which is a lovely modern area to stroll, as well as the Costanera Sur preserve, with bike trails, etc.  Both barrios have plenty of trendy restos/bars to enjoy.  Almagro tends to be sketchy, for the more modern conveniences and lacks a certain charm for living, but has some really interesting/unusual venues for very nice milongas....Konex for La Garufa; La Catedral for milongas all week and Juvenil for La Maria Practica, etc. just to name a few.  Hopefully, this gives you some helpful guidelines.  Cheers,  dnb

*Ideal, El Beso, P. Bailarin, Peru 571, Independencia 752(572?), Gricel, Plaza Dorrego, to name a few.