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I use DolarPalermo (look them up on Instagram) for USDT to USD cash. They charged me 1.8% last time, but there have been months where the charge is as low as 0.5%. (Recently the fee has been high due to the cash part of the blanqueo). They also charge $5k delivery. But the service is...

On your last point, I’m always amazed at the discounts you get in Coto and other supermarkets with the bank promos, every weekend 20-25% that applies even to existing offers like 3x2s etc. The margin they have must be huge to be able to offer those discounts. And yes it feels like everything is...

I totally think the same re the dollarisation. This year, all those rents that were dollarised rents in 2023 have not increased much, if at all, this year. Massively agree, I see so many people from Europe and the US, like Elon Musk for example, commenting what a great job Milei is doing and...

I spent 3 months in Colombia during winter, got back mid September. Since then, I worked out my living costs have increased 30%. That’s combing the inflation in pesos (now much calmer to be fair), the dollar going down, and the dollar strengthening against the Euro and Pound (which I earn in)...

It’s utterly ridiculous, all the inflation there has been and the dollar goes down? Not even stays the same it goes down. Even the every person on the street is starting to question it and worry, they’ve lived this before here in.

I believe that this is article is right in what it’s saying. There are parallels with now and what caused the 2001 crash. With Brazil devaluing, Argentina can’t compete. If the dollar gets stronger too with Trump, it’ll cost them a lot more to sustain it...

My other half and I are considering it for our winter escape. The only thing that puts me off is the safety issue. I’ve been a few times and its definitely a lot rougher round the edges. Any big city in LatAm is compared to BA.

We take advantage of their weekend discounts on Mercado Pago roo. It’s usually 20/25% acumulable with their wekend 3x2s etc. We regularly get a 300k shop down to 200k that way.

The supporters say they’ve stopped printing money and have absorbed most excess pesos so that should stop inflation. But yeah, they have to keep the peso overvalued to avoid inflation and that makes the country expensive and uncompetitive. Compare to Brazil which has a devalued real and that...

I don’t doubt some prices are absurd here. I went to buy some sun cream yesterday and was shocked. One thing to keep in mind with prices in Argentina compared to the US is the tax burden here. 21% VAT/sales tax built in to everything, then all the taxes and cost along the supply chain (like...

The thing is prices we’re artificially cheap 2 years ago. The dollar blue was worth double the official exchange rate, which regulates lots of prices in the economy. This made things very cheap for those with foreign currency. My electricity bill was less than $2 USD in the last few months of...

I’ve always said that Argentine’s obsession and love of sandwich de miga says it all about the standards of food in this country. Processed bread, processed cheese, processed ham is a national obsession. 10 years living here and I won’t ever get used to the poor quality,and at best mediocre...

Tried it today. The app is pretty crappy but it worked amazing for receiving WU transfers. The fee was VERY low compared to cash pick-up or sending to a bank account. It's a flat fee of GBP1.99 (for me from the UK) and this doesn't go up the higher you send. Best of all, it arrived instantly...

My other half and I recently went through customs at Ezeiza with 5 laptops between us with no issues. All personal use, out of box etc

Get a low cost flight to Iguazu on FlyBondi or JetSmart and then from there you can cross over into Ciudad del Este in Paraguay very easily. There are even dedicated shopping tours. If you talk to a taxi driver they’ll probably even offer to take you there and to where you can buy a laptop...

What are people’s experiences with Remitly recently?

We were fine in the end. 2 of us came in with 3 x suitcases of 23kgs each, plus 2 big packed backpacks and 2 x carry on suitcases of 10kgs each. At customs, as we approached the scanner, they did ask us where we had come from and whether we lived in Argentina. But all fine with the scanner, we...

I contacted them a few months ago about getting my Argentina marriage ceritifcate legalised and they never replied :/ I feel like this regimen de equipaje is one of these weird gris legal things that no one really knows the answer to.

Question re bringing goods in: Looking at the “regimen de equipaje” foreign permanent residents get a “franquicia” of $15,000 USD in goods that they can bring to Argentina, obviously as part of their move to the country. Question is when does that apply? Person I am asking for is: -Colombian...

From when I applied (back in 2020) I seem to recall there being something like as long as you’ve paid the Radex fee and have a receipt that’s good for your right to remain in Argentina. The precaria you’d need for opening a bank account etc