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The Communist Party of Argentina pays me to post online in English to make gringos mad. But hey, at least their checks clear unlike Sociatel's.

When I first moved to Argentina in the early 2010s I remembered reading about Hotel BAUEN on Callao. Something similar happened and the workers said fine, we'll run it, and did from 2003 to 2020 (COVID was the final death blow). As Frank said, these LLCs/REITs/shell corp schemes let companies...

I feel like there's some sort of mass psychosis going on between the IMF, Milei, Caputo, and their supporters. As Red points out, the IMF loan didn't change the fundamentals: the BCRA still spends/owes more than it collects in taxes as it's balance sheet is a net negative. I got in an argument...

Some of these make sense, they're literally failed states or countries engaged in wars, yet if the State Department were being honest they'd include several US allies on such a list, but well, that's not how these things work, despite risks to US citizens.

I wish I had the means to do the same, but seeing the state of the US, UK, Canada, EU, etc. I think many foreigners who moved to Argentina for social reasons made the right choice.

Wait, he works remotely for a us employer and is telling people to eat cake? That's pretty rich. Reminds me of all the derechista influencers on Twitter/IG/etc. saying how great Milei is while never putting their own money where their mouthes are. The owner of ML is a great example of this...

My process is generally translating in my head whatever I need/want, looking on Mercadolibre, if I can't find it, checking in Google Translate if it might have a different or localized name, and then double checking again. Once I find something on ML, I then find the vendor's store on Google to...

No offense taken; I don't think it's accurate either as it's likely worse given the percentage of people working en negro as was stated by other members, the only problem is we don't have any alternative, accurate metrics so it's as close to reality as we can get out hands on for now, and Milei...

According to the Income Pyramid, it would be about 22% of the population earn over $2,711.86/month The important thing to also remember is what Nikad said, peso salaries look better now, sure, but put them in to context: if someone was earning $750/month in 2023 but earns $1,250 now that's a...

So, I'm sorry this happened, and it's one of the reasons I naturalized - as much as things are bad now, I have my life here, and, if I ever lived abroad again (like we're looking at now) I didn't want to be in a quagmire should migratory laws change and I needed to return. I gotta ask OP, why...

I sympathize, this has been our experience as well. We walked away from a 0KM car, a lot, and now it increasingly looks like we'll be walking away from the country. We have lowered all our expectations, and our latest hope was to buy a meh house outside of GBA for 50K, but since mortgages are...

Yup, and medications, and OTC stuff even like shampoo or antiperspirant. Obviously things like eggs are cheaper here, but I think the quality of things is what's important too. There are 3rd/4th tier brands that are more affordable, sure, but the quality begins to decline greatly at least this...

The number of Mileistas I get in fights with who refuse to believe this is crazy. People don't appreciate just how expensive Argentina is, pesos or dollars. I had to travel for work and coworkers asked me if I minded and I said no, I saved money because things were cheaper in the US, Brazil, and...

Got you covered: the non-paywalled version: https://archive.ph/c7LdS

While I loathe the Catholic Church for basically being the antichrist as an institution (what else would you call a supposed church that encouraged, blessed, enabled, financed, profited from, and covered up xenophobia, genocide, rape, pedophilia, slavery, all of the seven deadly sins, etc. while...

I'm on my way out, but not as an "expat" but as an Argentine pushed out due to the cost of living crisis. I don't want to leave, hell, I naturalized as an Argentine citizen after all, but I don't see a future here anymore, and my husband has finally come to his senses and is willing to move...

I sent myself some today when the markets opened before the WU rate dropped by 110 pesos. As always, they're slow to update when there's an increase, but super fast when there's a decrease, now at $1,219

It depends, with companies like UPS/FedEx it comes as an invoice like in most countries and you pay it when you pick up or online before hand, but I've only done it once with DHL and paid via credit card when picking it up. With Aerobox, I pay online via transferencia or when picking up (cash)...

Gonna be honest, you're probably going to spend thousands to see little if anything. If they got 30K out of you, odds are they got something much larger from someone else. As you've probably already come to realize, justice doesn't really exist in Argentina, at least not for the plebs, so the...

No, but it's important to keep in mind that Alibaba/AliExpress/Shein/Temu/etc. all enter Argentina via the Puerta a Puerta regime. You have a franchise of 12 deliveries a year, and each one is tax exempt for the first $50 USD. It's important to remember they take about a month to get here...