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    Bloomberg Article on Argentina today.......

    This link appears to have a paywall, but at least it links to the headline of the previously mentioned article...
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    Citizenship by marriage questions

    You may find the answer to this question and others that may come up by using the search feature. I found the following link about one second after I wrote the words "married" and "citizenship" and checked the box to search only in titles...
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    Owning vehicle BA

    If I remember correctly, when I bought the sixteen year old 405 I was told that I would not have to pay the annual gee for patentes. Nonetheless, I recieved a bill for the patentes for several years. The amount was not significant, so I just paid the fee. I haven't recieved a bill for the...
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    Owning vehicle BA

    Fifteen years ago, I bought a 16 year old Peugeot 405gl 1.6 and I am still driving it. It's the "modelo nacional" (made in Argentina) and replacement parts are readily available. As far as I know, vehicles that have more than ten years are only eligible for what I remember as what was and still...
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    What is the food you miss most from "home?"

    Rich One, John. St, D B. Cooper, Redpossum, mc kenna, nikad, and yours truly. PS: At least two of the posters to this thread, a married couple, have died.
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    What is the food you miss most from "home?"

    Should have been: I now consume TWO meals each day...
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    What is the food you miss most from "home?"

    Cerca 1929:
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    What is the food you miss most from "home?"

    I now consume meals each day and I use beef tallow to prepare one of them. At about noon I scramble four extra large farm fresh eggs (with brillanly orange yolks) in about one tablespoon of beef tallow (aka: lard) in a round plancha de hierro. After cooking, I melt about a teaspoon of butter on...
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    What is the food you miss most from "home?"

    My mom always made pie crusts with Crisco. I remember telling her on more than one occasion that the pie crusts that she made were better than the ones that any my friends moms made, she always replied with the comment that the pie crusts her grandmother made when she was a teenager (100 years...
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    Potentially last item on bucket list

    In my case, "potentially" (the most appropriate word that appears in the title), the "last" item on my bucket list is to live at least two months longer than my dad, who died on October 29th. 1999, exactly 60 days before his 85th birthday. My 75th birthday will be on May 29, 2025, exactly 60...
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    Does anyone else feel there might be a peso collapse this year?

    Buying only the essentials and eating at home is great advice. It will undoubtedly reduce "your" expenses, but, unless a huge amount (if not the vast majority) of the populace start doing this, I don't think that prices will stop increasing or "go down" by a significant (if any) amount. Most...
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    Free LED bulbs from the City

    I just began replacing the LED bulbs that I have been using for years: https://articulo.mercadolibre.com.ar/MLA-1695025790-lampara-led-sica-5w-calido-frio-pack-x-10u-_JM?attributes=LIGHT_COLOR%3AQmxhbmNvIGPDoWxpZG8%3D With these...
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    Does anyone else feel there might be a peso collapse this year?

    This means that if I took a "date" for dinner at a top parrilla, I would have to pay more than I am currently paying for everything that I eat and drink in a month...and that is even with Friday's 23% increase in the price of pollo. PS: I prepare and consume all of my meals (two per day in a...
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    Bringing several bags of electronics

    Perhaps the legacy of Lockerbie linges 8n the minds of those responsable for airl8ne safety. Remerbering Pan Am flight 103:
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    US bars Cristina from entering the country

    Perhaps it's payback time for Argentina preventing Iron Mike Tyson from entering the country in 2017. Well, probably not, but it was the first thing I thought of...🤜🏿🤛🏿
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    Does anyone else feel there might be a peso collapse this year?

    I buy chicken in the local barrio. On Wednesday of this week, the price for 3kg of patamuslo (drumstick and thigh) was $9.100. Today the price for 3kg was $11.200, an increase of about 23% in two days.
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    Western Union money transfer

    I made a bank to bank transfer this morning at 9:26 using the debit card. The funds were credited to my Santander Rio account almost exactly eight hours later.
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    Rentista passive income through irrevocable trust?

    This is my low cost, no lawyer to pay stratagy to use when applying for the visa rentista: Create the trust document which details how the funds will be invested and distrbuted. There are sample forms available online for creating an irrevocable trust. I have downloaded one of them, but I will...
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    Rentista visa and some other questions

    I'm giving this thread a bump because I think that the history of the income requirements for the visa rentista is interesting and it explans why the $2000 per month figure was often cited in the past (since 2010), even though the actual amount has always been specified in pesos, not dollars...
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    Chaos in the city: a blackout left more than 600,000 users without power

    I was without power for about 30 minutes this afternoon following almost 12 hours of steady rain, fortunately without strong winds. The power was most likely shut off while a repair crew was doing some work in the area. As far as I know, there wasn't any serious flooding in Villa Arias. The...
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