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The biggest problem here over the last 12 years (and really the last 4-5 mostly, as things got really bad) was the inflation and nearly complete instability. Hopefully Macri will fix that. The problem with Argentina going forward is Peronism itself. People here believe in "collaboration", even...

Yeah, when you have 30% annual inflation you can't do much of a mortgage market here unless somehow subsidized by the government. I know they've been announcing new mortgages and all, but right now it must be fluff for the most part. Hell, just getting a 30K peso loan, according to Banco...

Bring as many boxes of "sandwich" bags that you can. All the way from the small ones up to gallon sized, or whatever you use. They sell them here in quantities of like 5 or 10 and are horribly expensive. I had brought down a number of boxes last time I was in the States but all but one box...

Yeah, but makes more sense in the World Politics than in Expat Life probably. But you're right - I'm betting HC is going to win. I don't know that it matters, though. They're both very bad choices in their own way.

I chuckled a bit when I read your last post. Not in an evil way, but I was thinking about what most of my friends here say: "I'm socially liberal but fiscally conservative". That also describes a friend of mine who claims to be libertarian, but isn't really - he's Republican...

Foreign drivers licenses are indeed valid - if you're not a resident. If you are a resident you have to have an Argentine driver's license. I don't know what the law is specifically as related to insurance in non-resident cases (I never have had a claim and for awhile I drove with my Texas...

I come from a city (Houston) where things are not easy without a car, but certainly not impossible. There were city buses that came way the hell out to the suburbs. good, clean buses that a lot of people used. We had ride share programs as well. It is not impossible to exist in Houston...

One study after a quick search on the internet shows that since WWII, the US has killed between 20 and 30 million humans. https://www.sott.net/article/273517-Study-US-regime-has-killed-20-30-million-people-since-World-War-Two From 1968 to 2014, approximately 1.5 million Americans have died...

It is a privilege to drive a car. Car insurance is not mandatory if you are not going to drive a car. Are you now saying that life is a privilege granted by the government? Personally, I don't have much of a choice but to live and to think that I have to pay insurance while I'm alive is a bit...

A quick definition of collective responsibility. Are you trying to tell me that someone is responsible for the actions of others, even when they have stated they are wrong and have done all they can to repudiate actions for which they do not agree? "Dissenting Opinion" actually should say...

As I understand what happened with the Corralito, it wasn't just a simple pesofication, but rather fraud committed on the people by the the government under the guise of legal operations. My first introduction to this was my barber, who had a Dollar account, and a mortgage on a house...

One thing I would add about lower income Argentinos owning their own home - I know people who save to buy a piece of property. Then they save to lay the bricks for a foundation. Then they save to raise some walls. Then they save to put a roof on. Then they save to close it all up, then to...

Many people who wish to invoke the power of the State do not understand that doing so is invoking violence. Most people think of themselves as good, law-abiding people and don't think of the worst case scenarios of their "good intentions" toward others, many of whom consider themselves...

Makes me also wonder what StevePalermo understands, at least as regarding the politics, of the Supreme Court of the US when he says "Scalia and his buddies couldn't fault it" in relation to making ACA even more legitimate (although maybe I wasn't understanding the point...). Scalia himself was...

I think you guys who do this stuff are great. My wife has a brother who lives with the family near Concepcion, Paraguay, fraternal twin with one of her sisters (who lives with us here in Buenos Aires), who had a severe cleft palate. Another organization of doctors from the US (I believe it was...

Again, I never said that affirmative action is the worst kind of racism. And a video that shows that racism still exists doesn't support affirmative action. Using one form of racism to combat racism is not the answer. In my opinion, the answer is to let it sort itself out over time. In point...

As far as sweetness goes, that wasn't really a huge part of my point. They can have sweeter cakes and things, that's fine - but even then the cost is outrageous (I could have made a "regular" cake for here, at a fraction of the cost!). To me, the cakes made here (I mean the masa, or bizcochuelo...

Khairy, my resentment at people who continue to blame me for their problems, and continue to demand money from me to fix their problems, continues to grow. I don't consider what I said a degrading argument. I'm not even saying it is 100% their fault, nor taht all of them are in the same boat...

I consider racism to be one of the world's worst problems, I'd say. Personally, Affrimative Action hasn't caused me any real problems, though I have seen its effects first hand and I know in my heart that it is not a solution for racism or fairness. I'm just saying that Affirmative Action...

So you don't think black people are capable of pulling themselves out of their situation on their own, but rather the government will solve their problem, it seems, if they just force enough white people to give them opportunities? And you don't see Affirmative Action as a racist policy? And...