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    Caputo creating a tax haven for dollars "from wherever"

    Only for property or depositing USD for daily spending, as Quilomba points out everything is so expensive here and will only get more so in USD if it goes to $1000, that it makes no sense to buy a single thing with dollars here. I only buy the bare essentials to survive in Argentina, like food...
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    Looking For an affordable Spanish language school for a year visa in buenos aires

    The prices of everything are cheaper in Spain to be honest, it’s rough right now.
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    Reuters article: In Milei’s Argentina, not everyone’s a winner

    https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mileis-argentina-economic-miracle-not-everyones-winner-2025-05-05/
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    Western Union money transfer

    👎 nope it was a mistake 😭
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    Western Union money transfer

    Dólar Hoy is showing it even higher. Don’t want to get my hopes up though!
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    How many of us are still here?

    I take my comment back about rents and living costs :/ Yesterday, my landlady sort of back tracked. She agreed to renew from July 1st at $600 USD, but said yesterday she wanted to charge in pesos taking a reference rate of the peso at approx 1300 on July 1st, so 800,000 with 3 monthly...
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    Disappointed with Food in Argentina

    Every night 🤣
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    Disappointed with Food in Argentina

    A friend of mine was here visiting for a week last year and by day 4 said “I’m a bit fed up of eating empanadas” 😅
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    How many of us are still here?

    As a Londoner native and now “porteño by law”, I agree. In 2015, when I left London for BA, I was paying £750 (US$1000) per month for a room in a house on the outskirts of town, say Vicente López equivalent. On top of that, I paid £250 (US$300) per month for public transport to get to the...
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    How do you guys find things here?

    You can use Mercado Libre to look for a product. Then, when you have the brand name or the sellers name, you can search for that on Google. You’ll often find the sellers website or contact details, or other places that sell the product. Sellers’ own e-commerce websites often let you pay without...
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    How do you guys find things here?

    This unfortunately is a reality of living in Argentina. I’ve been here for 10 years and still don’t know where to buy socks or underwear 😅 … …I’m not prepared to loose half a day going to buy them as I’d rather use that time to be productive but oh well that’s me. MercadoLibre has been my...
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    How many of us are still here?

    X/Twitter keeps showing me lots of stuff about Paraguay. Very cheap, decent infrastructure, low taxes and capitalist economy, just maybe not so much to do and the cities look a dump. Asuncion, from what I can tell, isn’t a walkable city. I want to visit to see what all the fuss is about and...
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    How many of us are still here?

    Yeah completely, my other half is getting this amount per month working at a big company, $1500 USD approx. This would've been amazing back in 2023 - in October that year their salary hit $400 USD. But the reality is, it's still a tight living so much that earning $600 USD in 2023 or $1500 USD...
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    How many of us are still here?

    For me, it’s the worry of the future. Prices are not actually that bad high here now. I pay $600 USD per month for a big triplex in Palermo Soho, the equivalent in my native London would be in the thousands £££. Food prices in supermarkets are comparable to Europe, as are those in Chile and...
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    How many of us are still here?

    yeah I was also thinking about this. If inflation does go up, with a free floating exchange rate (“free”), in theory, the dollar would go up with inflation as it may spook people into buying dollars. If INDEC releases a high figure for May, surely people would flock to buy dollars and that...
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    How many of us are still here?

    Well, it took 11 years for convertability to crash, so it could well last that long this time. Who knows. One thing that era does teach is that there was inflation for 2 years after the peso was fixed to the dollar, so we could hope that 2025 will be the last of it. Who knows. Lots of coverage...
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    How many of us are still here?

    This is exactly why I am considering Colombia, I can get a lot of what you get in the US in terms of cheap goods and travel for way less than here. Plus, I'm married to Colombian Argentine, so either here of there works. Who knows how long high prices here will last, if they continue to go up...
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    How many of us are still here?

    The seasons are possibly an issue. The temperature is actually great in the Medellin, thanks to the altitude. They call it the city of the eternal spring, it’s neither hot nor cold - though down in the bottom of the valley (centre of town) on sunny days it can get up to 30º in the sun. But at...
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    How many of us are still here?

    I’m a long term expat, married a Colombian Argentine here. My other half earns in pesos, and while their salary has substantially improved in USD, it still buys the same as before in the days of Fernandez. I earn self-employed in USD, EUR, GBP and earn a good wage by UK standard (where I am...
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    CEPO is lifted

    And all the while prices in pesos are going up, the dollar has dropped about 6% today. Ridiculous.
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