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As sure as the sun rises in the east, Argentina will be on it's knees for the IMF. We were also supposed to be dollarized, no more BCRA, no more peso since it's worth less than shit, etc. yet here we are. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

I'll believe the economy is good when Marcos Galperin changes his fiscal residency back to Argentina instead of posting Milei loving cringe from Uruguay. People need to put there money where their mouth is.

Because it's not sustainable. Economists of different stripes all tend to agree that the peso is overvalued, and this starts producing all sorts of different macroeconomic distortions as we're beginning to see. Look at the above referenced Big Mac Index for one small example. Since June, the...

Agree with what Nikad has said, you've tried to be amicable, but he's not interested, so now it's time to be respectful but serious. I'd start with the approach she suggested, keeping in mind that you can escalate from there, but hopefully there won't be any need. As I've said previously...

I don't have kids (yet) but I'd argue Argentina is one of the better countries to raise them provided you have money. Regarding speaking Spanish, I will say that being able to just makes life 100% easier here because so few people speak English. I know Argentines love to share maps which show...

I saw the following chart online this week (not my own): Has anyone's salary here risen this much in dollars? I'm certain except for maybe CEOs it generally hasn't. I saw the Mileistas online celebrating that Argentina (allegedly) has the highest asking wage for new hires now, but this...

I know they were planning to change INDEC's methodology a la Cristina (cooking the books, but this time it's cool because they're not peronists I guess?), but wasn't sure if they've implemented it yet. This will be great because it will literally make apples to apples comparisons impossible...

Except for owning a vehicle and property, I feel like this is my husband and I too. My field is dollarized, and his is pesified, and I'm just hoping in the next 2 years to leverage the "stability" of Milei's governance to save for a downpayment and to get a mortgage on a humble apartment in CABA...

Something very similar happened here. No security, no SUM, no pool, no quincho, nothing. I'm not paying $300 in expenses for literally nothing, it's more than renting an entire additional apartment. I gave my landlord notice, and her response was to be intentionally obtuse. I told her, nothing...

This is like when restaurant owners in the US and Canada try and make servers pay when someone dines and dashes, 100% illegal

Thank you for sharing your prospective. I have a friend who is a surgeon from Venezuela, went to school there, moved here, and now he works in a guardia as a walk in physician because while he loved being a surgeon, he makes more money this way via overtime, and now he and his boyfriend are...

I have never understood the complaints about this, have these people ever been to a hospital in CABA? All the doctors and nurses and xray techs are Bolivian, Paraguayans, Brazilians, etc. and I'm not just talking about public hospitals like Rividavia, but also private ones like Favoloro and...

That's the thing, based on the macro economy quilombo we've seen, I'm personally betting on expensive electricity with blackouts v.s. cheaper electricity and blackouts like last year. The government has basically already said as much...

I've used Keego several times, even took a truck to Bariloche and back. They're mainly a carsharing company, but they offer daily/weekly rates that are frequently better than rental car places.

Yes, it has, and it's insanity because sales figures everywhere have plummeted yet prices continue to rise, often outpacing inflation. Yesterday I read beef is increasing 10%, monthly inflation is a single digit, but Argentine businesses don't respect the laws of supply and demand like Milei...

Insanity. Empanadas have historically been around a dollar each since I first visited Argentina in the early 2010s. They want over $2 each? I'll pass

Also 17% of the entire country decided it's better to uproot their life and move abroad as the original post of this thread makes reference to

Sales aren't really sales in Argentina generally, they're often just marketing gimmicks where companies raise the prices, then put items "on sale" during specific periods, yet people can't tell the difference because of inflation and the general overcharging of companies. The best you can...

In other news, water wet; more at 11:00. I was in the US again this month and wanted to take pictures of tons of stuff at Target because it was cheaper, better quality, and of course, in stock. In the end we got the country many of us on the forum assumed we'd get: Dollarized Prices with...

I think why so many people, Argentine or foreign living here are unhappy with the state of affairs in Argentina is because we have the worst of both worlds: developing country salaries/instability/inflation/poverty/etc. yet developed country prices for food, electronics/consumer goods, home...