Recent content by Che1990

On the other hand though, if you visit Mendoza, it's amazing how that place has transformed for the better over the past few years. I lived there in 2009/10 and it was incredibly run down back then. I then came back to live in Argentina in 2017, and the city had improved a bit, but not much...

I think the pandemic changed lots of things. Plus the crazy inflation of the past few months has really taken it's toll on the gastronomy sector, it's amazing how many boarded-up bars and restaurants there are in Palermo right now.

I buy from the US using Grabr, works out cheaper even with the mule cost and you'll get better quality

I'm buying Cafe Martinez Italiano (the red one), it was 16k for 500g and it's not too bad. I used to buy Starbucks and hoarded a lot when Disco has 20% off in November and it octs me 4k per packet :/ I'm now also drinking lots of mate cocido too

I’d recommend against ordering yourself and doing the tramite with the aduana and AFIP - things here are unpredictable, inefficient and non-transparent. You’ll often end up going round circles and wasting lots of time in queues here, there and everywhere. I’ve used Grabr 50+ times in my time...

Depends on your trade. If it’s skilled / professional, Linkedin and regular jobs boards are your best bet. For non-skilled, casual work, you’ll find these through word of mouth when here. Needless to say, with high inflation and a weak currency, your best bet -if you can- is to find remote...

This article explains what experts think is happening, seems logical. They plan to devalue the official dolar by 2% per month, so with such high levels of inflation the competitiveness of the new $800 rate will quickly disappear and drive up appetite for the parallel dollars, pushing their rate...

It's been pretty stagnant since mid-October, so we've seen some serious inflation in dollars since, especially in December. Pretty alarming how pricey things are getting in hard currency, many supermarket and farmacy items costing the same or more than in places like the US and UK etc - we've...

I got here at the end of 2017 when the peso was still stuck at 15:1. I remember a beer at the Temple on Costa Rica and Gurruchaga was $100 pesos, so $6.60 USD. A tin of tun and a block if cheese cost me $8 USD. Weird little things I remember. Then, with the Macrisis onwards its got cheap...

You’ll need a DNI for Arg billeteras virtuales. I connect my foreign cards and pay via MercadoPago that way. Bitso international works for QR payments without DNI, but not available to US citizens

Been using it since they allowed the MEP. Amen to never again having to go and buy something in person in Buenos Aires.

In the end, my poor old mum got confused and sent it via Royal Mail…3 weeks later got a notification from Correo Argentino to pay for it. Will be cancelling those cards

where abouts? This is what I'm looking for.

No, I can still withdraw luckily. But I don’t have a reliable contact for USDT, and they charge higher fees than the p2p

That incurs extra fees, as well as time having to go to a cueva. Using Marketplace, the pesos hit my MercadoPago within 15 minutes without going anywhere