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This is not a new requirement - I've had my residency for some 7 years and I had to have a bank account. It's possible that they only recently started pushing/enforcing it, although I was told when I applied for my residency that I had to have a bank account. I got residency through being...

I've never lived in the most expensive places in the US, places like New York, San Francisco - or even D.C. Because of that, it costs me more to live here than it does for my folks, for example, to live in St Louis (which is the only measuring stick I have left because I go to visit them at...

It's not "serious business", it's all a dog-and-pony show. Like the debates are actual debates and really get much out of the candidates beyond their well-paid-for ads (except possiby how well they can handle a slow curve ball, which doesn't come all that often during the debates anyway). 15%...

You can't be a monotributista and claim over 400K (actually, my accountant told me it was 450K, I thought, but I might have gotten it confused) a year. It's not that you just get taxed as a monotributista at a higher rate, but you can't file under that status at all (and if yous start as a...

First, anyone who thought Macri and his magic team were going to be able to come in and within a year, say, (and it's been what, 9 months?) and have low inflation and high employment in place, including wiping out all the things that the Ks did to impede such performance levels in the first...

"Old bitter men". Haha (I really did chuckle, I swear). The "old bitter men" I know here are mostly happier than those I know in the US, I'll tell you that, particularly with their sex lives. They also don't go onto expat forums and describe, in painfully graphic detail, their near-sexual...

We've had a couple of chips cut down to size. So far no one has had the tool to do it properly where we've gone to have it done, though they've managed to do it without ruining the card. But you sure think they'd just buy the cutter...

I don't know about the $25 a year part - the article says $999 USD per item ordered, 5 items a year. I'd read something a couple of weeks ago that was talking about this and posted something - I was sure it said 5 shipments a year, with each shipment being limited to 3 items. I thought the...

I'm not a big expert in cellphones myself, but I believe the big thing is that it be GSM and not the other type that I can't remember (CDMA? There are two big carriers in the US that still use that, I believe). There may be some frequency issues (I've seen people mention this before), but I've...

The bigger the government's purpose in the life of the people, the more authoritarian, at least to those who don't agree. The more governments want to do things that are against human nature (or the majority of humans' natures), the bigger the government has to be. Until each individual him- or...

Or choose your clients well hehe. I have a friend who recently sold his apartment, which he was using as a temporary rental. The big problem were the people who rented it. Seems foreigners (of all nationalities) like to come here to party, and they can be very disruptive. Stories of guests...

I don't mind them asking - what drives me nuts is that look of contempt, or that you've destroyed their day completely, that they give you when you try to make change on something like what the OP mentioned.

Yeah, my wife brought one home the other day to show it to me as well haha. I don't even remember where she said got it.

I don't know - I left two hard-cover books and an electrical cable for a laptop (just the electrical part, not the whole transformer) with aduana, two different shipments, a year or two apart, because I found out it was going to cost me around $100 USD to get them out of aduana (each shipment)...

According to La Nacion, there will be an auction for things never picked up from aduana: http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1921954-dientes-de-dracula-joysticks-y-barriles-de-roble-los-productos-mas-insolitos-del-proximo-remate-de-aduana

Well, easier (maybe), but not everything goes to the door: (Emphasis from the article). But at least one is no longer limited to $25 USD in value twice a year, though it is $1000 USD in value 5 times a year (and limited to no more than three of the same thing per shipment as well!). In...

I've posted about this before, but it's been a while. The law in this country, according to two police officers who attended an accident with a motorcycle in which I was involved, is that if a smaller vehicle is involved in an accident with a larger vehicle and an occupant of the smaller...

A president is not a king. Use of Executive Orders is ostensibly meant for dealing with things that come up quickly and need dealing with outside the congress on special occasions due to time constraints. A president who is thwarted by congress should remain thwarted until the people's...

I've never actually seen more than one or two cars pull over when the sirens start, myself - and I'm one of them. I was driving out near Abasto a couple of days ago in rush hour and an ambulance was trying to get through. It had turned the corner and was about three cars behind me. I pulled...

i know the foreign license, as a non-resident, is by law only valid for the 90 day entry visa granted. But the reality was, at least, quite different for me. Maybe it's changed now, I don't know. But I've crossed borders many times, been stopped at provincial and city check points and had...