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    Food prices are amongst the highest of the planet

    I wonder this same thing every day. Maybe for most fast food is tastier? If I can get a steak for a similar price, no way I am having mcdonalds.
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    Brazil Travel money exchange and dni?

    This is not how credit card transactions work. Only way they can charge you more is if the conversion is not done by your bank because you chose so on the POS machine. It's when it asks you if you want to pay in "local" or "domestic" currency or similar. If it asks you this and you chose the...
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    Brazil Travel money exchange and dni?

    But on your bank statement were you charged 100 reals or more? Because if you were charged 100 reals than it is your bank who was charging you/giving you bad rate and not the restaurant etc. I think this is way more likely since people mentioned using cards in brazil was super common so it...
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    Brazil Travel money exchange and dni?

    How were they charging you this exactly? They would just charge you a higher amount in reals than what your bill was?
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    Tourist visa extension denied

    So if you have no dni or anything and you overstay, who and when should you be telling that you live here and that you are coming back? Just confused because until now I thought you just pay the fine when you leave the country and then come back whenever you want later.
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    iPhone repair shop

    When does it require itunes? In the article that was posted here all the steps can be done on an iphone but you will use the data if you don't have it backed up.
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    Food prices are amongst the highest of the planet

    I think only wine and beef is cheap. If pizza now costs around 12-15$ that is more expensive than like 90% of countries in europe, maybe even more. Bag of Lays chips produced in Argentina costs 3200 pesos for 130 grams, way more than anywhere in europe.
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    Western Union money transfer

    Weren't they talking about using the card to send money to WU and pickup cash?
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    Western Union money transfer

    If this continues soon BA will be the most expensive city in the world in dollar terms.
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    WiFi repeater needed

    Here he said the problem is there is no signal so 2.4g might be better.
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    WiFi repeater needed

    Actually 2.4ghz has lower speed but higher range compared to 5.
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    Western Union money transfer

    Which cell sevice you have doesn't matter. You just need to download the US WU app on your phone. To do this you just have to change the country of your play store/app store.
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    Brazil Travel money exchange and dni?

    Using an atm in brazil today will get you 5.19 reals for usd.
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    Brazil Travel money exchange and dni?

    I mean that sounds terrible, the rate is 5.1 today.
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    Brazil Travel money exchange and dni?

    In general it is always better to buy the currency outside of the country you are going to. Gets you the better rate.
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    Tough Times For Argentine Factories As Consumers Penny-pinch

    One could debate what is actually better for people, working at 4am or going to the pool when it's too hot to work haha
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    Western Union money transfer

    Some WU are open on most holidays.
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    Western Union money transfer

    WU still at 1056 while ccl close to 1100 and was 1075 most day yesterday.
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    Tough Times For Argentine Factories As Consumers Penny-pinch

    Is this not because of very high import taxes which were previously offset by the low official exchange rate? Now the official exchange rate went from 350 to 895 and your machine went from 320 to 800.
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    Can you fly into Buenos Aires from the UK without a return flight?

    This article makes very little sense. She is not a resident of Argentina so they didn't allow her to leave Argentina?
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