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If you have a partner, be sure he likes to divide his time between Argentina and the US as well. I had a long time relationship with an Argentine (more than 4 years), but we ended splitting up, because she had to be at least 11 out of 12 months per year in Argentina with her parents (no...

For good value for money, you could consider taking Spanish classes at UBA: http://idiomas.filo.uba.ar/es/espanol-como-lengua-segunda-y-extranjera These classes are also a great way to meet young people, most of the language students are foreign students at UBA.

When I used to shop in Coto already a long time ago, they would ask me for my passport anytime the bill was higher than a given amount (10000 pesos at the time). I only paid in cash, so I do not know if this is different from paying with a credit card. I always said I didn't have my passport...

You can wait for a long time, international companies have come and gone, because (in many cases) paying a greater than 100% effective tax rate is not a sustainable business model if you are not following Argentine tax avoidance techniques. International companies and competition will only come...

Politics is like a pendulum. Argentina's pendulum has big amplitudes...

I would just stick with tear gas, water cannons and pepper spray. No bullets or lifes to be taken.

The formula is (1.01^365 - 1)*100, which is about 3700%, which could imply that this time around next year 1 USD could be worth 40000 ARS. Imagine that the highest denomination note stays 2000 pesos, then you could pay with the equivalent of 5 pennies. Cash counting machines may be a booming...

Argentines are very tolerant to foreigners. The social divide in Argentina is not on where you are from, but on whether you are poor or rich.

Forget spicy food in regular Argentine restaurants. You may have some luck in Chinese restaurants. I have eaten very spicy food (beyond cayenne pepper heat, which I have no troubles with) in a Chinese restaurant years ago near the subway station Malabia, it may have been this one...

Espero que le vaya bien a la Argentina

When I brought up the topic with a lawyer, he suggested the easiest way to avoid the wealth tax was to avoid becoming a resident, which would imply not living permanently in Argentina.

It is either this or someone gets involved and then suddenly everyone gets involved and the thug has to watch out not to get lynched. Don't bystanders anywhere else also prefer to ignore a theft that takes place in front of their eyes? I think this is not just Argentine behaviour. On the...

This anti-Milei campaign is horrible. People who made that document don't care about free elections, they want the same people to stay in power no matter what. Cristina has always been a big fan of Chávez/Maduro and wanted a similar model for Argentina. If people worry about dictatorships, I...

If I were to choose, I think Juan Schiaretti was the most "normal" looking politician, but somehow this does not resonate with Argentines. It seems that part of the problem is that many Argentines prefer someone who says he will fix everything quickly with drastic measures above someone more...

Farmers in other countries don't bribe customs officers at the Paraguayan border to smuggle agricultural products as contraband into Paraguay.

Not without: 1. drastically reducing taxes, so businesses are willing to declare their income and the government collects more taxes 2. reducing the level of government spending to the level of tax collection No the economy won't improve in the coming 4 years, whoever is elected.

Alberto Fernández apparently was good at it when he was head of INDEC

Saying Macri had options and Massa doesn't seems to be a bit unfair to Macri. Here is some background story to the IMF loan Macri took: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2016/03/29/how-one-hedge-fund-made-2-billion-from-argentinas-economic-collapse/ Before Macri took office...

He is an Uruguayan now, he couldn't take it anymore in Argentina...

I am not going to quote your whole post. Yes, Europe has exploited in the past most of Latin America, the Spanish and Portuguese were not interested in making a colony wealthy, they were interested in exploitation. Yet, Argentina did not have much to offer for exploitation and Argentina became...