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Just quickly, yes, you will be able to purchase private medical insurance. My provider (Medicus) sells it to foreigners as soon as they reach the precaria stage of their residency application. Other providers probably do as well. You do not have to be employed. Others can comment on how these...

Nice country. Lovely people. Asunción is a pleasant city on the river. But unbearably hot in November.

Lately they have. The point is we forget that before that they dropped considerably. The rate rises were controlled during almost all of 2023 while the blue skyrocketed. In my particular case, the basic was costing me almost half in dollars in September 2023 compared to November 2022. Some...

Have the costs really tripled though? I'm paying 4 times in pesos what I was paying in November 2022 for the basic, but the blue has more than tripled over the period (and, for a time, had quadrupled). It's more expensive, but not 3 times more expensive.

I agree. It been seven months since these new rules were introduced, and these questions have been there since the start. The process makes no sense: you open an account (even though a bank won't do that until you at least have reached precaria stage), you start depositing money into it, and...

I'm certainly struck by how often I come into contact with people in normal daily business interactions (shops, real estate agents) who seem well into their 80s and are still working away at whatever their bit is. And most of my friends and acquaintances are professionales (teachers, lawyers...

https://www.infobae.com/economia/2024/02/20/el-gobierno-fijo-el-salario-minimo-vital-y-movil-en-180000-para-febrero/

Also, any update on how the monthly amounts are calculated would be appreciated. Since the minimum monthly salary hasn't been updated since December, the process for negotiating the next increases broke down last week, and Milei has said under no circumstances will he intervene in such an issue...

It is fascinating this phenomenon: the one where the slowly impoverishing middle class Portenos who nonetheless always instinctively vote for the candidate representing Peronismo talk about "we" and apparently consider that they are speaking on (and are entitled to be speaking on) behalf not...

I hope after all this work and detailed explanation about the phone thing, JaneD has a DNI and can actually join Mercado Libre...

Look around this website. You will find relevant threads. I'm pretty sure where we got to was the following: To qualify for a temporary residency in the category of student, the provider (Universidad de Palermo in this case) must be registered with Migraciones (or, perhaps, more technically...

It certainly is nerve-wracking waiting to see whether he is a political genius who will somehow find a way through or a madman who will quickly go down in a blazing heap. I think it's going to be one or the other. But we probably won't know for quite some time yet.

According to my Peronista friends, none of them are true. And I (and you, and most other people) only think they are true because the media I consume tells me they are. (They may or may not have a point. Unfortunately, there is nobody in the middle to help me make up my mind either way. One day...

If any of those things were true. But haven't you been told? The problem is we only believe what we hear and read on the hegemonic media.

Immensly enjoyable reading about Canada and its 49 southern states.

https://www.mendozapost.com/estilodevida/papel-higienico-forma-correcta-segun-la-inteligencia-artificial/

Alby's feeling pretty smug and self-satisfied right now.

Speaking of correcting estupideces from people who have no real knowledge, not much evidence of these of these significant Indian, Chinese and Sub-saharan African populations here: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/boisecitycityidaho/PST045222 (Where's SinPulgas when you need him to...

Because we have a recent example of a new poster with a sensitive nose and from a small town finding herself subject to a pack mentality from the very start and seemingly being bullied off the site. I met some people from Idaho 30 years ago, before the first (and often only) thing people could...