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An argentine friend just told me that the "law" is that rental contracts should increase 25% per 6 months, but that the going rate is 12 to 15% per month....true? seems incredible to me....

i want to piggyback on this thread ....in a month i am going to renegotiate a new lease on my house. The owner is agreeable to a 2 year lease. what is the current "normal and customary" inflation rate with 2 year leases? As background, i have rented this house for the last year and half...

my husband and I made wills in the USA several years ago. Does anyone know if these wills would be valid down here if one of us dies? For example, if I die, would my husband have access to my bank account? Also, I have assumed that medical decisions, if say, I was in a coma, could be made...

The first year we rented our house, the rent was 3,600 pesos per month. Second year, 4,000 pesos. Now the landlord wants 5,600 pesos per month for the coming year, a 40 percent raise. I plan to negotiate for a reduction, and wondered if anyone know what is "usual and customary" for rentals...

if you want to be near argentina, how about Valparaiso Chile area? cheaper than uruguay i think, great food, more going on.

P.S. The first time you use xoom, you have to fill out a form , send bank statements, but after you have established an account, it is more easy.

I agree that the easiest is bringing down dollars with you. If you run out before you are going back to US, you can always use xoom with direct deposit into your wife's account. Their rate is less than the blue rate, but less of a hassle than going to uruguay and using atm's there. you can...

Frenchie: The second place we lived in in the La Falda area had 5 dogs...and we ended up adopting one and took it with us to our current place. La Falda is very dog friendly...everyone seems to have a dog or two, and you see dogs roaming free all the time, even downtown. So, I dont think...

We have now lived in La Falda, Cordoba prov. for three years, after living in BA for 3 years. We come from a town of 1,000 in Oregon, so after retiring and moving to Argentina, BA was a great change from Oregon rural life. We rented apartments in BA for 6 months at a time, in different...

Is Xoom considered a cueva?

please all excuse my ignorance, but I want to get a VPN so i can view my netflix and other sources like the one above as if I was back in USA but dont know how to do it. I signed up for netflix when i was back in USA, but after about a year, it reverted to argentina based viewing although i am...

After years of being a social worker, where my job was to "listen," i now think i have been so slow to really embrace being fluent in spanish is cause i can still get on a bus, and let all the talking/complaining/ sound like great musical tones....

La Falda and surrounding towns in the chica sierras have some amazing older places built in the heydays (haydays?)...as second summer homes for BA and Cordoba folks to get away out of the heat/humidity in summer ..although 40,000 seems kinda low to get something ...This last year has been the...

After three years in BA, my husband and I moved to La Falda in the Sierras Chicas in Cordoba Provience.(pop 5,000/20,000 in summer)....We love it here.....There is a string of towns along the Sierras Chicas mountains..all mostly geared to tourism.....an hour from the big city of Cordoba and its...

I have Medicus insurance, and I pay 1,000 a month, but i am 67 years old, and i have the top medicus plan. He may indeed only pay 450 p if he is young enough and picks the lowest plan.

P.S> I found it on my nook via barnes and noble

just finished reading a book by a scientist about antartica....an engaging write by a scientist about the place right below us that (in my thinking) is going to greatly effect weather for us and the rest of the world in the NEAR future.... Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of a Mysterious...

I vote for somewhere in the punillas of cordoba providence....but then i am prejudiced in that this is where i have settled.....its a mini mountain chain with a string of small towns....Now, there is good wifi and other infastructure, (due to it being a meca for argentine tourism ) still lots of...

Just found out that the 2 xoom offices in Cordoba are now closed "indefinitely"....yipes....so far, I have not found a cuerva here who can accept a wire transfer from my bank in US....I have read on forums that a paypal account can be used to get my money down here...how does that work? thanks...

I have been using mapline to make my own pancake syrup......mapline is highly concentrated maple flavoring....you can buy it in USA in small bottles next to vanilla in supermarkets...a few drops to sugar and water cooked , then stored in a bottle,,,,tastes just like log cabin syrup and easier...