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My Argentine husband told me last night that the reason behind the govt card is to tax supermarket purchases in order to boost govt income and continue with the present economic model. Apparently, supermarkets pay a 3% charge on purchases to the credit card companies and with the govt card, this...

That has always been the case for every apartment I've rented here on local (2 year) terms...4

You can't avoid the 20% tax as it applies to cash purchases too. In your case, your gf will have to pay the peso price + 20% and you will have to pay the dollar price + 20%...which is really to stop you from buying pesos on the blue market rate and then buying your ticket in cash at the official...

If they worked, that might make sense. I have no problem with the security deposit or the garantia issues here (given that the law seems to protect the occupant rather than the owner, it makes sense). However, in my experience, the agent/agency does NOTHING (certainly in the case of rentals)...

Like I said, I know of several people in the banking/finance sectors with similar qualifications and around10 years of experience earning 12-15k. Obviously, if the OP has 20 years of experience, it would be a different matter but still, I know a director of a fairly large organisation (not a...

I think that one of the issues is that there are a lot of people here with great qualifications (including degrees from top international universities) wanting the same jobs and able to accept lower salaries (because they already have a family home, etc). You don't mention how many years of...

Argenprop is probably the best place to look for short-term rentals in pesos. Don't forget to check whether a landlord would be willing to accept you without a garantia (some may require a certain amount of rent up-front). I agree that in the current climate, it would be silly to sign a lease in...

I've never seen car hire places here that offer those sorts of rates. We were getting quoted almost a thousand pesos for 48 hours plus the company holds between 7,000 and 20,000 pesos on your credit card (depending on the company) which you are liable to pay in case you have an accident or...

That might actually be your best/cheapest bet. I'm in touch with quite a few "rescatistas" and have heard about mascotas express too...so that can't be a bad option. Do let us know how this turns out. I'm always hearing such horrible things about the poor street dogs here and it would be great...

He will need to have a valid tourist stamp when he starts this process. You have to go to your local registro civil and book it a month in advance.

I might have one you can have...Its an old motorola..a bit battered but works ok. Drop me a PM. You can pick it up from my apart in Colegiales/Chacarita. No charge.

Hi everyone My husband left the power adapter to his macbook pro at a client's yesterday and won't be able to get it back for 2 weeks! (best case scenario...the worst case scenario is that it's already been swiped!). He's now completely out of charge and is in the middle of an online course that...

Was it actual lea and perrins? If so, which Coto? We've been using that stuff to "recreate" baked beans at home...

It really depends what field you're hoping to work in. It could be anything from 5,000 per month to 15,000 per month - I'd say that the salaries that were suggested above are more realistic for IT-type careers which pay comparatively well here but there are plenty of other fields that pay...

I just posted about this problem in another thread. We have two separate fibertel connections and since beginning of January we've been having major problems with both of them cutting out at the same time (so its not a modem issue). Sometimes we have no internet for hours, othertimes its a case...

I think initially, a lot of the social programs looked promising. However, there are some serious social issues and poverty in this country that I feel is getting covered up by this government by their laptops for students and other popular,stop-gap-type programs. I work in the social sector...

Its not a hotel but theres a pretty big pool in el club de chacarita (teodoro Garcia and Alvarez tomas)...not too far from v crespo depending where you live. I stopped going because the water tasted like Axe deodorant. They've refurbished the pool since then so maybe it no longer tastes like...

We live right on the border of Chacarita/Colegiales. We've been ok this past week. However, we've been getting on average 1 powercut per week since January. Just over a week ago, we had three powercuts in three days lasting from 8 to 16 hours give or take. Prior to January, we rarely had a...

Bring absolutely everything beauty-wise you can't do without. Finding replacement products here is often impossible and usually expensive. Bring all makeup (the variety here is limited across all pharmacy-type brands...which are also x3 the price of anywhere else. Top brands are also hard to...

Vaselina. You can get it in tubs or liquid form in all farmacies. If you go into a Farmacity, its around where they have the first aid type stuff at the back.