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    Moving To Ba Soon - And More Currency Questions From A Noob

    Is the OP being taken by his US employer -eg. it already has a surfeit of pesos in Arg and so it can reduce some of that by paying his salary in pesos because along came this US employee who expresses a desire to move to Arg?
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    Moving To Ba Soon - And More Currency Questions From A Noob

    Any chance of the OP arranging a deal with the US company for it to split his salary by paying a portion it to his Arg account via its BA office and the balance to his US account?
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    Argentina Residency And My Frustration With The "system"

    Lost in BA, I thought you moved back to the US in early 2013. You used to post often from 2010 when you joined the forum up until the end of Dec 12 and then not long afterwards you stopped posting except to say, I THINK, that you were returning to the US. Your forum posting history doesn't show...
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    Is This A Taste Of Something New And Needed?

    When did a Thanksgiving dinner come to look like that photo? It shows a plate of mostly mush and goo as though somebody had been scraping into the garbage waste off plates that diners had left on them when he got the idea to re-plate all the muck and call it "Thanksgiving Dinner" to his...
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    Eye glasses prices in BA

    I should be going to a BA optician! I'm being quoted 6.25 times more by opticians in France for replacement multi-focal lenses (bifocal lenses without that visible line across them) than jantango's $AR 2300 quote for bifocal lenses in BA. I have to wear multifocals. There not just an option for...
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    Exchange4Free ..... Gone!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Yeeow-GREAT,' khairy-expat!' Thanks for informing of the Scotiabank/Western Union association. Bitcoin makes me laugh. I googled 'What can you actually buy with Bitcoin?'. An American tried to live on it only for a week. She was unable to buy enough food (just some dregs) and couldn't pay...
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    Exchange4Free ..... Gone!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Could one pay his rent, groceries, electricity, gas bills, entertainment etc with Bitcoin in BA?
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    Exchange4Free ..... Gone!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    nothingspecial, I've been surmising too about what you are re. the possibilities of sending such remittances to a bank account of an acquaintance in my country #2 where I live. Sending one to my own account here could be a problem. The expectation of the facility is that you're sending it to...
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    Exchange4Free ..... Gone!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    TD and Nova Scotia perhaps initiated a similar service in 2013. Google "International Remittance" + restrict*. RBC Canada was the first in North America.
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    Exchange4Free ..... Gone!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    RBC was the only Canadian bank I found in 2012 that participated in the UN/World Bank's development initiative to ensure a cheap and easy way to send money abroad in the form of 'international remittances' to a bank account (in country #3) from my Canadian bank account (country#1) to the bank...
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    Argentine Law On Short-Term Holiday Rentals

    mmoon, thank you kindly for the info.
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    Argentine Law On Short-Term Holiday Rentals

    Has the government of Argentina or BsAs proposed or implemented any regime of legal limtations (eg accompanied by fines for breach upon property owners) who conduct this popular practice (and which I've used there many times)?
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    Seeking Advice For The Move To B.a.

    No lawyer certified anywhere in the world would have to ask this question.
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    Moving To Ba Soon From Lebanon

    ZouhairDaou, Yes, I'm a good traveller and have settled in a few countries. Those are 2 very different things in terms of commitment, their respective costs and learning curves. In your posts, you mix speaking of 'travel' and 'moving there' as though relocating were just a more potent variant...
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    Moving To Ba Soon From Lebanon

    I've moved to several countries without anybody telling me when I ask for information in advance that people of my nationality who were going to move there had decided not to; that I'd find in any of the them people of my own culture, ethnicity, regional cuisine, and religion, or that I'd have...
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    Got Nailed In Eze Customs

    The place in the world where I saw the incidence of bribery needing the most discouragement was the taxi inspection building and offices of the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission out in Queen's. Every single room and inspection area out there had a huge stencilled sign on its wall reminding...
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    Relocation To Ba

    I'm shocked at how things incl meals out, rents on unfurnished long residential leases, utilities, theatre tickets, ice cream, wine and groceries are costing this year almost as much or the same as we pay in Nice, France's second most expensive city. I'm always comparing my bills here with what...
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    How To Receive Alimony From Overseas Spouse

    You need professional Argentine legal advice on the permutations of your situation and their potential impacts before you decide to do or respond to anything.
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    First It Was Easy Taxi, Now Uber Doa?!

    Argentine cabbies aren't more aggressive at protecting their turf than ones in other countries. Here in Nice (and Paris) cabbies went berserk last year against Uber. They blocked all train stations and even pedestrian traffic in front of them so that I could hardly find a way out of my station...
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    And The Winner Is..............

    If as Fred Mertz says tomatoes are selling at Carrefour in BA for $US3.90/kg (?US?), then that equals 3.40 euro. In Nice, France where I live, the most expensive price for tomatoes right now is 2.8 euro/kg. This means that BA's tomatoes are costing 21% more than the priciest tomatoes here...
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