Recent content by steveinbsas

You don't/won't have to say anything about "coming back" to migraciones when you leave, even if someone scolds.you for the overstay (possible but not highly likely). If there is an issue with migraciones when you try to reenter, don't say you are a tourist. Instead, say, as BC_2 indicated, that...

These are all excellent observations, but I think it would be fair (as well as more accurate) to substitute the word "people" in the first sentence of your post with "some expats" and also substitute the word "they" with "some" at the start of each of the sentences that follow.

Is the pensionada visa (which grants temporary residency) still granted for one year at a time and has to be renewed annually, at least the first three times? Previously, the pensionada visa could (with the approval of migraciones) be converted to permanent residency on the thrid renewal. I...

Just to be clear, you are asking about physically bringing USD into the country, not about the monthly amount that you must transfer or "send" to your Argentine bank account to compy with the conditions of your temporary residency?

PS: I contine to refill the glass frascos with coffee from 150 gr bags I bought at the same time. Today's lowest 1 kg ML price of $31,999: https://articulo.mercadolibre.com.ar/MLA-1376761253-cafe-soluble-tradicion-100-cafe-nescafe-x-1-kg-_JM

Last week I saw the same coffee in the local supermarket for $5,800 per 150 gr bag. Today's lowest price for one kilo of this coffee on Mercado Libre is $31.999 with free shipping. That equals a price of $4,800 per 150 gr. I stocked up when a 170 gr frasco (glass jar) was about $1.200. At the...

I haf.no.problem sending myself $700 USD today using the US website (as always). The funds were credited to my Santander Rio accout at about 5:30 pm.

The UK vs.Thailand:

Thailand was mentioned as an alternative expat destination early in this thread, but I don't think anyone mentioned recent changes in tax laws that will affect expats. Here's just one YouTube video of several that appeared in a search:

Yes!

i realize that most of those following this thread are interested in knowing most about private health care in Capital Federal, but, at least in my experience, public health care out here in Buenos Aires has been superior, even to the prepagas I had in Capital from 2006-2010. Here's one...

There is no other country I I would rather live in than Argentina and no other place in Argentina than the one I chose in 2010. PS: For those who aren't aware the move entailed "full immersion" and I only speak Spanish with my friends and neighbors here. PS2: This is the first time in my...

The expression I remember most (that's probably still common in the USA) and that my mom (born in a farmhouses in Iowa in 1915) often told me when I was young was: "The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence." And I'll always remember the similar expression from the song from...

The question about expats leaving has been the focus of several threads n the past. As I stated in one of them, the vast majority of expats who "moved to Argentina to live" have already left at the varous times when it got too expensive for them to mainatin their happiness here at a cost they...

Based on my own experience of living in Mexico for four and a half years followed by living in Argentina for 14 years, I'll take the Argentine culture, cuisine, and climate over the culture, cuisine and climate of Mexico, all day, every day, seven days a week three hundred, sixty-five days of...