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Its possible to just buy a business or a building, in places like Canada or Portugal, and get residency and a path to citizenship. In Argentina, everything takes a year, or 3, and is full of constantly changing requirements, new documents requested, and different results for the same...

No. There are a lot of countries where you just pay, and they give it to you.

seems like a libertarian pipe dream to me. The City claims to have evicted 520 odd properties in the last year or so. Not all were residential, and some of the largest ones have been squatted for up to 30 years, several for 10 years or more. The total number of people squatting who were evicted...

Like carride, I have been grocery shopping in the US in a very similar way to Argentina for 30 years, so not buying everything at one supermarket is entirely normal for me. I really enjoy the personal relationships I have built up with a variety of merchants over the years, and there is no...

this is a global problem of late stage capitalism. but Argentina had, before Milei, progressively better healthcare, housing, education, and social services over the years since WW2. Now, we are backsliding towards the past.

We are in agreement that tax reform is needed, nationally and provincially. We may differ on some of the details. However, in terms of this article, I still maintain that Caputo of full of it when he says Argentine clothes cost. " two, three, four, or even ten times the price of textiles and...

There are definitely more homeless people in Buenos Aires now. I live and work in Retiro, and there are noticeably more than last year. Los Angeles and Buenos Aires are approximately the same size, both in population and in area. LA has around 72,000 homeless this year, BA, 5000. So, it could...

https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/reports/2025/05/revenue-statistics-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean-2025-country-notes_29961c77/argentina_0adbf240/51fcb0ad-en.pdf

Caputo is clearly shown online wearing a puffy. and it costs 230. I priced equivalent puffies. Costco jeans are normally almost 50$ for levis, sometimes as low as $42 on sale. and, in your paragraph number one- you are confusing income taxes, which nobody pays, with the taxes for retirement and...

I have never heard of ansilta, so I looked it up- technical climbing gear. I compared the puffy jacket from ansilta, which is $230 at todays rate, with the equivalent Patagonias, in the US- and they range from $249 to $379. I used to live in Ojai, up the road from Patagonias headquarters, and...

Less than 100,000 people, out of over 40 million, qualify to pay personal income tax. There is no actual property tax. I have been a property owner here for almost 2 decades. In CABA, there is ABL, which is actually a garbage collection and sewage fee, not a property tax per se. Then, there is...

why wouldnt you just fill out the forms? I have had to fill out the form for WU twice now over the years, you get a link from WU, you fill it out online, its done. Banco Galicia also makes me fill out a W9 once a year- they email me the current one, I fill it out and email it back. pretty painless.

this article is full of baloney. Caputo undoubtedly has no idea where all of his clothes come from, as I am sure some woman in his life buys his socks, t shirts, undewear, etc. He is rich, has terrible taste in name brand, but not particularly high quality clothing. I am sure he buys Patagonia...

The 8 Carrefours near me are all express, which means no self checkout. I live in a dense urban part of Retiro, most stores are small. There is a medium sized Disco, which has self checkout, but the user interface sucks. I actually use self checkout a lot in the states, where you just tap your...

I avoid them as much as I can- they have the single slowest and most complicated checkout system in Argentina, and the computer takes 5 minutes to let me pay in cash. And usually, there are 4 people in line in front of me paying by phone, for 3000 pesos of candy, with a bad connection, and they...

we used to do 12 to 24 quarts a year, using real vacuum seal pickling jars, but these days we only do them every couple of years, and just maybe 6 or 8 quarts. This is in the USA, where you can get the single use jar sealing jar lids with the screw on rings. For keeping unrefrigerated, these are...

The bolivian verdularias sometimes have real pickling cukes, 4” long or so. Again, seasonal. The big problem is no real pickling jar lids, the two part style that really seal in boiling water. Instead we use the glass jars with a glass top and the wire clamp mechanism,which you can buy on...

Its seasonal. so not always available. In my neighborhood, the Bolivian or Paraguayan verdulerias often have it, and I saw it on sunday, at the feria de ciudad pop up trailer market in retiro, so its around. In CABA, most Verdulerias go a couple times weekly, many daily, to Mercado Central, and...

Milei has no real power. He doesnt have the votes in Congress. Argentina needs top to bottom tax reform, serious industrial policy involving all parties, a strong support of exports by the government (all exports) and not to sell out to the multinationals, who take everything and leave nothing...

I am woke. proudly, unashamedly. I was raised by a feminist, I am friends with trans, gay, queer, lesbian and non binary people. no regrets.