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Like anything in life perspective depends entirely on ones own personal and unique situation in life. All such perspectives are equally valid. There is objectively no "better" or "worse" when comparing countries like Australia and Argentina even though many people will have a strong favorite...

Woah.. could we fact check this claim please? That is 70% of Argentines earning ARS 692.000 a month or less... Back to reality and according to union mandated minimum wages by sector, the minimum for a domestic cleaner is about ARS450k (USD 324) a month while the minimum for a Portero, Shop...

Social welfare support and subsidies for the poorest have never been stopped. They have just been targeted at the people who actually need it the most rather than anyone who just wanted it or was willing to trade a vote for it. Amazing what ceasing to print money and spend it willy nilly can do...

These US gun violence stories always baffle me. A person with a gun (in this case a protestor) goes to place where there are other people with guns (in this case ICE agents) and said people get into an altercation... then there is shock that someone rightly or wrongly got shot? (E.g. either the...

https://www.infobae.com/economia/2026/01/08/el-gobierno-hizo-cambios-en-la-aduana-de-ezeiza-y-designo-una-nueva-conduccion-del-area/ Seems there has just been a purge of management at Customs in Ezeiza Airport.

You need to make a denuncia to the PSA. Everything will be on camera. https://www.argentina.gob.ar/noticias/777-denuncias-y-emergencias-aeroportuarias

Exactly. Isn't there a mental health crisis in the UK at the moment too with a government/ state who for a long time is is doing anything but austerity, regardless of their colour? Perhaps there is just no escaping modern times. Argentina has long since been home to one of the highest densities...

https://www.infobae.com/politica/2025/10/27/categorico-triunfo-de-la-libertad-avanza-gana-en-la-provincia-de-buenos-aires-y-obtiene-mas-del-40-de-los-votos-en-todo-el-pais/ This appears to mean that: - in the house of deputies LLA+PRO are now projected to control about 121 out of the 257 seats...

Hasn't the Argentine opposition been making similar exaggerations about the domestic situation for the last year and a half?

Why is Argentina constantly in crisis for over a century yet somehow always manages to keep the lights on? Welcome to the great paradox... you just have to live it to understand it.

https://www.britvic.com.ar/productos/tomato-juice-200ml-24-unidades/ Works out about $2.5 per bottle of 200ml (if you are not going to consume 900ml of Bloody Mary in a day and always want some on hand… maybe a good alternative!)

The problem with "I know people..." argument is that there are far more people you don't know, especially for a part-time and presumably retired resident, however I understand how ones own circles and encounters do affect ones own perceptions. The other issue is that these challenges exist in...

Better for who exactly? I don't think discussing prices at a Four Season's hotel restaurant anywhere in the world is a measure of the average local lifestyle. Although in fairness the FS Buenos Aires represents very good value compared to their other properties elsewhere in the world - the likes...

Very sad news. Thanks for posting this memorial. He was an active and unwavering part of this forum for many years whose way with words surely brought a smile to many peoples face.

It is city specific in those countries as you point out but the discontent is primarily driven by expats/ digital nomads with higher cash incomes than locals (often thanks in large to being temporarily tax and social security free) putting an extra strain on a finite housing markets, increasing...

Not just Lisbon, but Spain and Mexico have seen significant protests by locals recently against digital nomads driving up their housing costs and overstepping their welcome. Buenos Aires/ Argentina would do well not to let it get out of control lest the comparatively "cheap" housing costs...

https://www.indec.gob.ar/indec/web/Nivel3-Tema-4-46 So here is the source, straight from the horses mouth. Indec Q3 & Q4-2024 = 38.1% of the population living below the poverty line. I am not seeing the 60% you stated???? Nor the 52-57% you subsequently stated as the "current" figure??? Or...

Source? Links?

60% poverty? Seems not only “right wing news” sources like to use “massaged” statistics to sell their cause.

https://www.infobae.com/economia/2025/07/15/la-pobreza-se-redujo-al-316-en-el-primer-semestre-y-alcanzo-su-nivel-mas-bajo-en-los-ultimos-siete-anos/ July 15, 2025, 5:09 PM AR "Poverty fell to 31.6% in the first half of the year, reaching its lowest level in seven years. The data comes from a...