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    Ordering stuff from abroad

    Folks are confusing things once again: there are two import regimes, one, the puerta a puerta system via Correo Argentina, the other, the private courier system. The only change has been the private courier system, which is active now. You can import up to 3 of the same item, up to 50KG total...
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    Argentina’s poor hit hard by Milei’s ‘chainsaw’ measures

    Ask not for whom the chainsaw revs, it revs for thee
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    Is it possible to find a truly remote US job from Buenos Aires?

    Obligatory I'm not a lawyer/accountant: Legal Answers Note: What the law says, and what the reality is are two different things. What does the law say about these types of jobs? They're technically illegal (for the employers) in Argentina, because they are a dependency relationship masked as...
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    Western Union money transfer

    1,143.25 now
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    Furniture, Electronics, and Small Appliances for Sale

    Hi Everyone! I'm moving to a new apartment and have several items available for sale such as furniture, electronics, small appliances, that don't suit the new apartment, or that I'm looking to sell to help cover the cost of moving/paying some bills. If any of these items are of interest to...
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    Mileis constant need for attention

    He's Santiago de Estero sexual, he only has eyes for Karina.
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    Argentina’s Javier Milei has made a horrible mistake

    It's hard to say, I think the BCRA is running on fumes and something has to give to result in another influx of dollars to keep the pyramid scheme going. As you said, it could be lower retentions (further hurting tax revenue), or, IMO, more likely in the immediate future, another one of these...
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    Milei given Italian citizenship, sparking outrage

    Nope. He's a part time president. In his defense who wants to be responsible for a country where the minimum wage is $245.76/month, poverty is 60%, there's a recession, GDP has shrunk, and grocery store prices make Spain and the US look cheap? Might as well go abroad where a bunch of...
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    Time's Person of the Year interview

    What does this have to do with the price of tea in Barrio Chino?
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    Economic Albatross Is Tamed but Life Is Much Harder

    As sure as the sun rises in the east, Argentina will be on it's knees for the IMF. We were also supposed to be dollarized, no more BCRA, no more peso since it's worth less than shit, etc. yet here we are. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
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    Argentina’s Javier Milei has made a horrible mistake

    I'll believe the economy is good when Marcos Galperin changes his fiscal residency back to Argentina instead of posting Milei loving cringe from Uruguay. People need to put there money where their mouth is.
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    Argentina’s Javier Milei has made a horrible mistake

    Because it's not sustainable. Economists of different stripes all tend to agree that the peso is overvalued, and this starts producing all sorts of different macroeconomic distortions as we're beginning to see. Look at the above referenced Big Mac Index for one small example. Since June, the...
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    Help with landlord dispute over expenses

    Agree with what Nikad has said, you've tried to be amicable, but he's not interested, so now it's time to be respectful but serious. I'd start with the approach she suggested, keeping in mind that you can escalate from there, but hopefully there won't be any need. As I've said previously...
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    Experience share as an expat - family life

    I don't have kids (yet) but I'd argue Argentina is one of the better countries to raise them provided you have money. Regarding speaking Spanish, I will say that being able to just makes life 100% easier here because so few people speak English. I know Argentines love to share maps which show...
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    Argentina's purchasing power plunges to its lowest since the 2001 crisis

    I saw the following chart online this week (not my own): Has anyone's salary here risen this much in dollars? I'm certain except for maybe CEOs it generally hasn't. I saw the Mileistas online celebrating that Argentina (allegedly) has the highest asking wage for new hires now, but this...
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    A year into Milei’s presidency, poverty hits a new high

    I know they were planning to change INDEC's methodology a la Cristina (cooking the books, but this time it's cool because they're not peronists I guess?), but wasn't sure if they've implemented it yet. This will be great because it will literally make apples to apples comparisons impossible...
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    How's everyone hanging in there with the cost of living these days?

    Except for owning a vehicle and property, I feel like this is my husband and I too. My field is dollarized, and his is pesified, and I'm just hoping in the next 2 years to leverage the "stability" of Milei's governance to save for a downpayment and to get a mortgage on a humble apartment in CABA...
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    How's everyone hanging in there with the cost of living these days?

    Something very similar happened here. No security, no SUM, no pool, no quincho, nothing. I'm not paying $300 in expenses for literally nothing, it's more than renting an entire additional apartment. I gave my landlord notice, and her response was to be intentionally obtuse. I told her, nothing...
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    Manager personally responsible for a clerical error?

    This is like when restaurant owners in the US and Canada try and make servers pay when someone dines and dashes, 100% illegal
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    22% of the UBA medical students are foreigners

    Thank you for sharing your prospective. I have a friend who is a surgeon from Venezuela, went to school there, moved here, and now he works in a guardia as a walk in physician because while he loved being a surgeon, he makes more money this way via overtime, and now he and his boyfriend are...
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