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When I left London in 2015, my lunches/dinner were pad thai, chicken chow mein, chicken tikka masala, chicken korma, green thai curry, red thai curry, chilli con carne, burritos, paella, gyros. Literally, picked up quickly in supermarket or “hole in the wall” during my lunch break or on way...

As a Brit, while I agree that traditional British cuisine (from old times) isn’t great, the modern reality is very different. We eat international cuisine, living there I barely ate traditional British food. Here’s why I struggle with food in Argentina as a Brit: 1. Variety of international...

You can get great food here, the difference is they are - presumably - on vacation, so have the time to go out and eat in nice places. The challenge, at least for me personally, is when you have busy daily schedule of work, sports, hobbies, eating a healthy and varied diet and good quality food...

Welcome to Argentina, where this kind of processed shit is a national staple and quality cuisine. Says it all. I’m tetchy as I just got back from a week in Uruguay where eating is SO MUCH EASIER. You can get decent French baguette bread in any express/convenience store, and there’s a massive...

The flip side to this is the inflation - as prove the figures by rubro in today’s reports by Indec for November inflation The sectors that least increased, by far. in November are clothing and equipment...

You can only change up to $100 at the bank in cash at the official rate. The rest has to be via home banking. Very libertarian

It’s a debit card and Wise is like a bank, so you add money by bank transfer/depsoitnwith you relevant account / wire / sort numbers etc. It lets you receive local payments with local bank account details for major currencies like USD, EUR, GBP etc.

It’s like a normal card. Most of the time works with Rappi, Mercado Libre etc, “most” being the keyword. Rate is the normal card rate OR you can convert to pesos at the official rate through the app, which probably works out the same.

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This last point is horrendous. And under what logic? My other half and I been has been legal residents since 2016, with permanent residency since 2019, now can’t apply to be citizens as we’ve been on holiday abroad in the last 2 years… …because we’re honest, hardworking people and earn enough...

I’m from the UK so would have to convert from GBP to USD. But thanks for your input!

Hi! I wanted to see if anyone knows most up-to-date fees one could expect to pay on the purchase of a property in CABA. I guess it’s all based on a % of the sale price. I’ve looked on Google and the forum etc, but as everything changes so often in Argentina that it would be good to get...

And meanwhile Britain outside the open market with 25% corporation tax and the government wondering why the economy won’t grow 🙄

I thought the whole idea of maintaining the exchange rate low was to get through the mid-term elections. Which they now have. Surely; they need to take advantage of this time now to do the painful deed of competely liberating the exchange rate - and allowing for a true flotation for all sectors...

Yep...it's now back at 1500, I am regretting transferring myself £500 (US$666 ) yesterday via WU. Witht the fees, it worked out to be a rate of $1534. Will use it to pay my rent quick. Who knows, they make take advantage of the election to do a quick devaluatory correction of the exchange rate.

Hello, yesterday I used WU for the first time in over a year to take advantage of the out-of-date rate (still 1550 while everywhere else was 1450). I sent it to my pagofacil wallet, so it should arrive instantly, but it still hasn't - has this happened to anyone before?

It’ll go back up before long. Already has rebounded today, the dollar crypto that I use has recouped 5% from the 10% loss yesterday.

Yeah they definitely can’t sell. The peso would sink. That said, they had been telling Milei to let the peso float and maybe now is the time to do it.

I just did a WU transfer as still had 1550. I did 2 transfers. The first one went through no problem, the second one is “in process”, I hope they don’t cancel it.

It just opened, at 10am, the official is at 1380, so I feel that’s the new piso. Reasonable.