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Contracts for an empty unfurnished unit run 1-3 years. Unless you plan on staying that long and furnishing it, there's no real need to go that route. Check local AirBnB's on the website and put in the reservation for a month to see if they automatically offer a discount.

Very smart move taking advantage of the arbitrage. Mobility is a tremendous card to have in your back pocket for times like these. This is something which, thanks to the advent of remote work/gig economy, has many in the USA re-questioning the age old rent vs. buy debate.

Exactly...nobody knows how your liver, kidneys, heart, gut, spleen or gallblader is doing to determine your ideal diet. To a diabetic all food is sugar. The only universal answer is blood-work and a dietitian.

Howdy FlowerPot, Probably a better idea to create a new thread than resurrect a 12 year old one. It would help to know what areas you are talking about and what market you are referring to, apartments, houses, commercial?

This is something I've noticed, the inflation of professional services seems to be far exceeding the inflation of consumables. Forget the INDEC of 31.5%, or even carne going up 70% in a year. The real story is in professional costs. Took my kid to get his hair cut and the rate went from $20,000...

You know for a finance guy, you haven't actually said anything financially yet, except for "trust me bro, I'm in finance". Why don't you educate the poor hapless expats here as what what financial mechanism(s) is going to create this "collapse" and how Menem's peg, which required emptying the...

The problem I have with most store chorizo is that it's too salty for my palette. I used to get Paladini or Cagnoli, but only 100% pork. It's sufficient for an asado but it would weird me out when, despite being even overcooked, they were still pink inside. I'm since moved on to trying local...

Per google... "as of February 2026, the average rent for a 1-bedroom apartment in New York City is approximately $4,100 to $5,200+ per month" Per Zonaprop the average rent in CABA seems to be around $750k for a 1 bedroom...or $500.

Time will tell...this is not a peg like Menem. It's a dirty float. You know who else uses a dirty float...Japan, India, China, Chile, South Korea, Brazil...among others. Whether Argentines feel they are better off or not is certainly being debated by many voters. Personally, I think the...

What? Do you have proof they borrowed it to begin with? Do you have proof any of what's reported by the IMF, Bessent or the BCRA is real? This is a pointless line of thought. The FX market clearly knows more than you or I do and will respond accordingly. Per your own words all it took was an...

It's a very complicated question. I think it depends on who you ask. In a world of limited resources allocated by government there will always be winners and losers. I don't expect everyone is pleased regardless of who is governing. But, politics aside, the previous level of inflation was...

There is more here than meets the eye. It was announced not long ago that the $20 billion loan from Bessent was already repaid. There is no currency intervention this very moment in the FX market, in fact the BCRA is actively buying dollars to shore up foreign reserves without running into the...

There's no excuse for the employers...but I've seen Argentines complaining...yes complaining about being en Blanco because the aportes cut into their take home pay. There are also quite a few that prefer being en negro...gambling debts, wage garnishments, avoiding child support, etc. You don't...

Very curious to see how the additional options affect domestic producers. Certainly doesn't bode well. Clearly we are watching a redistribution of costs country wide. What's going down in costs via imports is being sucked up in rising rents, municipal taxes, utilities and professional services...

Color me skeptical about that one. A lot of chatter about Gen-Z being low consumers of alcohol but the generation is 14-29 years old. Half aren't even of drinking age. It's too early IMO to call some generational shift. I would say in 10 more years we'll see if it's true. That being said, drink...

Funny story about beans. I realized the first year in Neuquen that beans were some sort of mysterious ingredient here that only appeared seasonally for Locro, then quietly vanished from shelves. In both the poor and rich circles I have interacted with people show a strange curiosity about what...

Yes, I know Sergio...I was joking myself. Sarcasm is hard to pick up through text, sadly.

I would love to know how that's working out for you. I often hear the IMF complaining that the government needs to be offer "positive" interest rates to squash dollar speculation. I assume by positive, they mean rates that exceed the depreciation of the peso. With the dollar so frozen, I would...

Excellent point...it's difficult the gauge the "real" appreciation when it's in ARS.