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Hi Smurf You will get your matricula straight away just start with a 54 handicap

Hi Smurf, To play most places here you need a Matricula which is Argentine Association of Golf membership and they take care of the WHS. To get your Matricula it's handled by each local club but you can walk into the Pro Shop at the Course in Palermo and speak to Marcelo pay him 285,000 pesos...

To be honest it would have been fairly straightforward had I not went down the kafka-esque bureaucratic nightmare of trying to have my UK licence accepted to avoid being principiante.

You don't have to go back and get a new one it's not physically a different licence they just put a date on the back from when you stop being Principiante. Sorry I used the wrong word :) International or other driving licenses aren't recognized once you have a DNI or once you have permanent...

Car parking is the biggest racket going. Routinely have to pay $20000+ pesos to park the "camioneta" infront of the Hospital Aleman. They must be absolutely raking it in.

I pay 300,000 a month for expenses in a barrio privado. Includes the ARBA. Neighbours are up in arms about it. Honestly I worry a bit about the viability of such barrios privados. Lot of people have houses here as weekend homes and 3.6m a year in expenses is a lot of you’re paying similar...

If it sounds too stressful to get your license try driving around CABA 😀

We're doing a very good job of putting her off the move. To be honest I've been expatriated to a few different countries including Argentina and it's one thing doing it when you're single, it's another thing entirely once you have kids. I had a bit of a reverse of this when we all moved to...

I'd say very roughly you can follow the "acomodado" metric at the offical rate which says you needed 5.2m pesos a month back in November. There's been roughly 4% inflation a month since then which puts the value at $6,000,000 pesos = $6000USD a month...

I have wife and 2 kids, 1 goes to private school other is a baby. Live in a house in Northern suburbs that I bought so don't pay rent. Approx summary of my monthly fixed costs in pesos. School - 600,000 Expensas (sort of like homeowner fees) - 300,000 pesos. Electricity bill - 150,000 pesos Car...

If you get Provisatoria license you’re not supposed to go on any autopistas for 6 months. You’re also supposed to drive with sticker saying you have Provisatoria License for those 6 months. That’s about it. I just drove like normal and didn’t my get stopped anywhere.

I would say that the whole system has been developed precisely to benefit the ultra-wealthy land-owning elite. They'd rather have the peones earning a pittance than a developed economy.

Yes it's expensive at the moment. It's also been dirt cheap in the past, one thing about Argentina is it's never stable! I'm here because my family 3/4 of which are Argentine born, are happy here and I can afford to live here with a decent standard of living. Until such time as that changes...

Just don't bother tipping it's what most Argentines do so you will fit in, throw in a bit of spare change if you must.

Yes sorry wasn’t trying to diss your guide, just sharing my experience within the bureaucracy. Also worth noting that ACA membership is not a requirement if you wanted to save yourself the 40000 pesos, you can do everything at a sede of the gobierno de ciudad de buenos aires.

Well done on steps 2, 3, 4 I did all of those and they wouldn’t accept my UK license at 3 different Sedes. So ended up as a principiante despite spending couple of hundred dollars in fees to be get apostilled license. Because the Uk equivalent of an MVR cannot be apostilled only the driving...

You can get your money out but it's through buying and selling bonds so I think you get something like the MEP rate. If your profits aren't great then it may not be worth it so you may decide to keep them in the country until such are time as it's advantageous to take them out.

Might be a silly question but Is the port clean inside? You can clean out all the lint that accumulates in there with a paperclip.

Greeks work some of the longest hours in Europe, although most of that is spent smoking and drinking coffee... I've worked in Greece for a time for a Greek company and culturally the Greeks are quite similar to Argentines.

Far too difficult for me to understand but it does seem like there is a bit of a bubble from blanqueo + carry trade, when traders want to get their money back in USD will result in pressure on the peso. When this happens who knows?