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Email from the US Embassy this morning:

Hmmm. Very deja vu for me hearing your story. It seems you've made up your mind already from the previous post. I hope all the best.

Well, it sounds like you've decided. Not sure what's the issue now?

There are multiple groups working on a vaccine - Gates Foundation, BionTech, Moderna to name a few. Hopefully, one will be successful. That's the new gold rush. But they will likely take 12 months to properly validate, get government approval, mass produce, and then mass inoculation. Pretty...

I think Argentina did some things well, such as the early strict quarantine and social distancing. However, I don't think the BCG vaccination has much to do with it. For example, France and South Korea both have mandatory BCG vaccination and they both have high infection rate. For South...

Yeah, I'm leaning with Ceviche here. She knows you can't get into ARG, but she and son can. If she's really emphasizing the safety of your child first, then that's very understandable. But you can negotiate on a TEMP location that is just as safe as Argentina that BOTH of you can be with your...

Boring sh*t. Wake me up when the Corona virus reaches even 50% of the death counts of the flu. (That's about 250,000 per year.)

It's not a flu virus.

Yes, for a cash pick up. From my US bank to a local bank is free, but I don't have a local bank account. See both attachments.

Sorry if this is redundant, but was there a solution to bypass the WU 5% fee if you don't have a local bank account here?

Do you mean to buy something (like a candy bar) in US dollar, and then ask for change back in URU pesos "a la media"? Or do you mean to just go to any store and ask them to change for you without buying anything?

Thx, Neil.

So we're doing a short vacay trip to Montevideo and Punta del Este. The ferry will land in Puerta de Montevideo. Does anyone have a recommendation on where to exchange either USD or ARS into Uruguayan pesos? I'm assuming using a cambio in Montevideo is the best deal? If so, where exactly...

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Do you still have the contact of that notary person that did it via video?

I don't know much about the history of Argentina, but isn't it rather difficult to believe in someone who starts with a lie by impersonating another?

There it is again - service sucks here. Nothing wrong with providing services to grow your economy. Some of the richest countries are service oriented.

So even less real competition. Should be a cake walk for someone with a decent success track record if they want to do it.

There was a filter, so I used it to pull up the "great" restaurants. I'll need to take it out to cast a wider net and try my luck. Now, this one got me intrigued. Requested dinner reservation this weekend:) If the experience turns out to be enjoyable, then I owe you a drink!

I recalled saying to my wife when we first came here that there seems to be a whole lot of Italian restaurants here and not many others. She said that she can eat Italian food every day. After 2 months, she's regretting it. LOL.