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When you say expats I think you mean gringo temporary/permanent residents? I'm not sure I know who's an expat vs tourist in Palermo. There are venezuelans and Bolivians who I suspect might go home if the economic situation reversed. No one knows if they're here for good; even in the USA I knew...

It seems the Argentines love any musician or celebrity who manages to make their way down here. Was there ever a famous Yankee who was met with a big yawn from the media, or criticism?

So before you clarified, I sent a screenshot of the application to renew the precaria along with the expired precaria (which had been rejected before)... and wouldn't you know it, the bank approved the liquidation. So, thanks! Even if I misunderstood, it did the trick.

This is my situation; I could just WU money to myself, but migraciones wants the money deposited for the visa rentista to originate from the account where my rental income is deposited. I think I have more than 5 days 'in limbo', from what I recall it's 30 days or something at Santander. What do...

YOW. Any idea why it took that long? Was that during the pandemic? It's annoying for me at the moment because I have money sitting en route from a wire transfer, and the bank won't liquidate it until i get my unexpired precaria.

Marriage is usually the easiest path, though probably not for the original poster... Though getting divorced and each getting married to argentines then re-divorced and remarried may still be the fastest route to permanent residency

Yes I'm waiting for my renewal of my first precaria, even that's taking longer than they said. Lawyer says it looks like Migraciones hasn't even looked into my actual case file. Sigh. I can't believe the person who got PR in 6 months; but that's not rentista? Not sure how they did that.

That reminds me of Trump's 2024 win; people generally expected Kamala to win, so Ds who weren't particularly excited about her stayed home. Not sure if Trump actually picked up more votes than in 2020, or if he just had a more motivated base on election day. Will there be that sort of analysis...

Is the theory the exchange rate is higher than it will be on Monday, because of election panic; LLA is going to win big and the rate will drop to 1200 or something? Or the opposite, and it goes to 2000 so we should buy dollars today? I'm not doing anything, but I'm curious about the 'buy pesos'...

I'll swing by! Such nice weather for a walk.

Definitely the reason for the chicken culling, but I don't think they did the same with infected cattle. Seems the high prices of beef are due to drought, tariffs, meat processing costs (deportations?). I don't imagine we'll see culling in the future, with the CDC layoffs and RFK in charge. I...

I can't believe media can't agree if the pesos have been purchased yet or not... The NYTimes and WSJ seem unready to commit; is this bad journalism, or good journalism? TN says (via google translate): The transaction was finalized through Banco Santander, which confirmed this in response to a...

So I know this may seem weird, but has any money actually moved anywhere? Papers signed, deposit slips filled out, whatnot whatnot, actual concrete things? Or is this still a 'concept of a plan', contingent on what happens in two weeks? (The famous two week time frame) Before anyone says it's...

Bessent's answer made it sound like they want the next Congress passing reformative 'non peronist' legislation. Or the funds drive up. It's an interesting play; Argentine Congress passes something they don't like, the USA yoinks the money deal, people blame the 'communists' and LLA gains in...

"Ironically, Juan Bautista Parrilla Gaucha had billed the vegetarian couple for all the meat delivered to the restaurant that week. A Chase representative told Terry that the notation on the transaction showed it was for "freezer and locker meat provisions." Ah, I see, missed that the first time...

I mean, it seems more likely the waiter entered 30000 (pesos) and somehow the credit card company didn't do the conversion? Is the CC company looking for that "." Argentines often put instead of a comma? If anything, I suspect the CC company (and the lawyer) are the actual 'scammers', not the...

Haha I should have said 22:30 for clarity.

I actually saw a 'phone snatching' on the corner last night in Caballito! I hardly ever see them, so I thought I'd mention it. It was around 10:30, the woman (and the crowd) gave chase, but I don't think they caught him. I had gone to Flores with some of my well-read gal pals to a weird event...

Sounds like things were about to crash, I wish I could link to the Bloomberg article but it's behind a paywall now. It had a nice graph of how the dollars in the Argentine treasury were just flying out... This will have to do. The deal came in a nick of time: "According to a report from...

I will try to come, depends on when my lawyer might want to meet.