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alibaba is pretty seamless everywhere else. I know people buying machines and materials from Alibaba recently in the USA, and the foreign companies are shipping with all duties prepaid, so no, proper brokerage services are NOT required, even in the incredibly screwed up tariff confusion of the...

You misread me. My experience importing TO Argentina was december 2025. And, like many small businesses here, I was importing a particular industrial product, not a pair of generic jeans from Amazon. I was importing this machine directly from the factory in New Dehli. I know various...

I have been importing, and occasionally, exporting, small amounts of weird stuff for quite a while, and, no, its not in line with any experiences I have had in other places, particularly in the USA, and sending things to canada or europe. I used to manufacture a small line of housewares- and...

yet another case of who ya gonna believe- the internet, or your own lying eyes? I actually imported a $750 sewing machine last year. It required a customs broker fee of $200, a DHL "handling fee" on a prepaid freight shipment of 300,000 pesos, an IVA of the entire 750, and a 2% tariff. I was...

I have been taking the ebus a lot lately, as its very convenient for me, from retiro to san telmo and back. I like it a lot. Its about the same price as other buses, although you have to use a credit or debit card, it wont take SUBE cards. Its quiet, airconditioned, comfortable, and very...

Globally, there are two general approaches to foreign investment in resource extraction, which seems to be what Milei focuses on. On the one hand we have the "let capitalism do its thing" approach, where foreign companies are given tax cuts, special deals, and exceptions to rules to encourage...

Also, per “ dirty war” let us nt forget US troops in Ecudor, Venezuela, and perhaps soon, Cuba. Plus our new neighbors president whose father was a genuine nazi…

I have not noticed any decline in inflation due to currency stability. So its not helping most argentines I know, who are still paying more in pesos for most things on a regular basis. And if they have dollar savings, those dollar savings, and that currency stability, means that the meal that...

What, exactly has gotten better for you since Milei? In my case, I cant think of anything. But I know some people have seen some postives.

Virtual Paradise? OKAAY. I am not offering advice- I am discussing my reality, and the actual experience of friends of mine. I have repeatedly said- you should not move to Argentina because its cheap. You should move here if you like it here. Which means spending enough time to see the pluses...

I have had several US friends move to portugal in the last few years. Up front costs to get legal residency varies from $10,000 usd plus proof of 11000 euros per year income for a visa, to 500,000 euros for investment residency. Most of my friends sold US homes, and wanted the security of home...

depends on where you are from, what your other options are, how much money you have, and what you want. There are absolutely people still retiring here- and their particular circumstances make the decision. for me, its still much cheaper than the USA, but everybody has different situations.

Six hundred dollars a month? 70% of argentines make $500 a month or less. The people I know who lost apartments when Milei first got in were paying $200 or $300, sometimes split among 2 or 3 roommates. All the homeless people you see are pretty much guaranteed not to have been doctors or...

Not my experience. I live near a very tony strip of Arroyo. Yesterday I saw 2 police bantering jovially with three pretty scruffy guys who were digging thru a dumpster, and they evidently knew each other pretty well. There are beat cops all over my neighborhood, and in the last few years I saw...

Real industrial policy, as practiced by nordic countries, or places like Germany, uses a whole basket of tools to protect high wage export industries. you need targeted tariffs, support for exports and sales, coordination with industry groups to find out what they really need, targeted...

Its possible to just buy a business or a building, in places like Canada or Portugal, and get residency and a path to citizenship. In Argentina, everything takes a year, or 3, and is full of constantly changing requirements, new documents requested, and different results for the same...

No. There are a lot of countries where you just pay, and they give it to you.

seems like a libertarian pipe dream to me. The City claims to have evicted 520 odd properties in the last year or so. Not all were residential, and some of the largest ones have been squatted for up to 30 years, several for 10 years or more. The total number of people squatting who were evicted...

Like carride, I have been grocery shopping in the US in a very similar way to Argentina for 30 years, so not buying everything at one supermarket is entirely normal for me. I really enjoy the personal relationships I have built up with a variety of merchants over the years, and there is no...

this is a global problem of late stage capitalism. but Argentina had, before Milei, progressively better healthcare, housing, education, and social services over the years since WW2. Now, we are backsliding towards the past.