Recent content by BobbyHank

I’m in agreement on the altitudes ability to kick your butt!! Growing up ski racing was my sport, I was on Mt Hood three days a week as a teenager. So I thought that I was impervious to altitude sickness! But driving up Mejicana messed me up!! I guess it’s the extra 2-3000 feet of elevation...

Hey Frank! Lay off the personal attacks!! Can't you debate without attacking people! You should be ashamed!

Hi Steve, My apologies, didn't mean to be calling you or anyone names!! That is some alarming news!! Not sure that I trust ai for accurate reporting, but then again and I'm clearly no expert on the topic, I'm not sure that I trust anyone other than the one bureaucrat who has the authority to...

Great question! I really want to know for me. My wife and son are Argentina, and I applied for a residency visa about four months ago. My case has been stagnant for about three months now as pending. Does this new piece of news mean that I may get expedited??? Although I've applied, I know...

I read that 36% of Argentines live in the BA metro area, so it doesn’t seem too big of a delta that half of the US expats live there. Especially since, in my unscientific poll of Norte Americanos, they know but one city in Argentina (two if they’re Malbec lovers). I live back in the woods you...

Hi Hector, I assume from Lanicks post above that you, as do I, have an Argentine spouse. In reading the chicken little posts on this forum, I previously imagined getting refused entry at EZE, which motivated me to action on securing a more permanent visa. Although I’ve never has an issue...

This is a new topic for me, as I approach retirement, I will either have to convert to a cobra through my us health insurance, which I doubt will have very good benefits here in Argentina, or spool up on this topic. Please excuse my ignorance on the topic, but reading through this and other...

Not sure about the lead times here in Argentina, however I commute back and forth to the US for work, and during the US Gov. shutdown I assumed that it'd take a long time as it had during the Biden admin. I got printed at a USPS office the day before returning to Argentina hoping that it'd be...

Interesting take... I've been using Starlink in Argentina for well over a year, and unlike the Argentine infrastructure, read electricity and water, here, my starlink internet has yet to fail me, (here in Argentina, or my Starlink in the US).

I imagine that if one renounced their US citizenship that they’d no longer be eligible for social security benefits…?

Never happen! That’d mean that they’d have to do away with fatca, can’t have taxation without representation, and I can’t believe that any politician would vote for doing away with a tax!

Thanks for the info on Monument Visa. FYI, I just returned from the USA, re: shutdown, I visited a post office for prints a few days before leaving thinking that with the shut down etc.. that I’d have the background waiting in my mail box when I return in January. Ironically I received the BC...

In my travel through Argentina meeting with several manufacturers, I’ve been told that the main reason that many factory owners go out of business here is because the damn Gov. taxes/steals ALL of the profit, and empowers the labor force to work very little and demand full pay, and makes it very...

I agree with Luke, well said brother!, but it I’ll throw one out there for you nonetheless. The Calamuchita valley in Cordoba state is beautiful, within your altitude range and although some areas are touristy during parts of the year (Villa General Belgrano y La Cumbrecita) there’s plenty of...

I too spend 50%+ of my time in the US, I can't speak to BA prices since I live out in the country in Cordoba state, but I can speak to US prices. I travel almost non-stop coast to coast when I'm in the US, living out of a suitcase. Prices in the US have gone crazy in the last few years! When...