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    Digital Nomad Visa

    I read a few experiences on people obtaining it, including a very detailed one lately. It's just too much paperwork as usual but it works, apparently. You get a CUIL and a precaria and can open a bank account, apparently. You get 6 months which can be extended for an extra 6. I agree it's...
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    Looking for an apartment in Palermo (Dec-Jan-Feb)

    Just my 2 cents based on my own experience. I think it will be difficult with that budget, especially if you’re looking in the Hollywood area (which I was). For starters most apartments in that area are 1-bedrooms, I was looking for a 2-bedroom too and they are a lot more expensive because the...
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    How do you (expats) make friends with Portenos other than dating them and being invited into their social circle?

    That depends... What are your interests? El Rojas is generally a great place to start for everything cultural, if you want to try multiple things before going to a more specialized school or academy (for some reason their website isn't showing any courses but oh well, Argentina... You might just...
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    How do you (expats) make friends with Portenos other than dating them and being invited into their social circle?

    Take a class. Argies take A LOT of courses and classes.
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    Security Deposit Return

    This usually does the trick. Unless he gave you an actual official (government-backed) invoice, just tell him you're reporting him to AFIP.
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    Itau Bank account in Uruguay

    Not sure what it's like right now, but it was very easy (for non-US citizens as explained above) a few years ago. It was a running joke amongst Argentines that you could go to Uruguay to open a bank account with 1 million dollars in cash and the only question you'd be asked is "would you like...
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    Caja fuerte in a bank

    Not true at all. They have never raided security boxes in Argentine history, not even in 2001. That's why they're so popular.
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    Is it common for middle class families to have a daily housekeeper?

    Well that but also certain appliances like microwaves weren’t really common until the mid 90s. Dishwashers still aren’t.
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    Is it common for middle class families to have a daily housekeeper?

    You will notice that virtually every middle-class apartment that was built up until the 1990s has a bedroom and separate toilet for the live-in housekeeper. This is true even for apartments in mid middle-class neighbourhoods such as Caballito (if the apartment was devised for a larger family)...
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    Argentina passport renewal

    You can even renew it at the airport with the “trámite exprés” and get it in 2 to 6 hours. At an extra cost, of course.
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    Ballet length at Teatro Colon?

    Yup, but that’s not a classical repertoire ballet, it’s a contemporary dance version by Jiri Kylian. Contemporary dance programs are shorter.
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    Ballet length at Teatro Colon?

    Depends on which ballet, and which version, but almost all classical repertoire ballets are between 2 and 3 hours. Giselle is one of the shortest ones at two acts and around 2 hours and 15 minutes (including intermissions), whereas The Sleepikg Beauty or Raymonda are amongst the longest and most...
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    Summary of how to use Western Union in 2022

    This is an excellent summary, thank you. I'd like to add some specific notes for European users: Please note there's no EU-wide Western Union website. You'll need to create your account on the local Western Union website of your country of origin or where your bank account is (or not... more on...
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    City Hall bans use of inclusive language in BA schools

    Unfortunately this won't change :p Lenguaje Inclusivo applies to adjectives and nouns that refer to people only. You can say "le amigue" but you'll never say "le mese"... :) So you're basically adding a third, neutral gender to the masculine and feminine when the subject is an individual. So...
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    City Hall bans use of inclusive language in BA schools

    It is used in Uruguay, Buenos Aires, La Pampa, Santa Fe, Entre Ríos, and all Patagonian provinces. The other Argie dialects are Central (Córdoba and San Luis, but each province has a sub-dialect), Guaranítico (Corrientes, Misiones, Formosa, Chaco), Norteño (Jujuy, Salta, Tucumán, Santiago del...
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    City Hall bans use of inclusive language in BA schools

    I agree with what you wrote and very much dislike this new ruling too (I think language is a living entity and evolves with use first - just like what we now call Spanish evolved from the way a certain group of people spoke Vulgar Latin, and English evolved from basically a pidgin of Saxon and...
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    Argentina 2022 - 2032

    Exactly, you make an invoice for the exact peso amount you got / will get. That’s the monotributo invoice; if the company asks for an invoice in EUR/USD, just make another (non-monotributo) invoice which is basically just a document with your information and the EUR/USD amount you got. AFIP...
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    Argentina 2022 - 2032

    As usual in Argentina, there's no transparent sources to point at, unfortunately. You need to ask local contadores until you find the answer that you're looking for, because most of them don't know and (also very common in Argentina) instead of saying "I don't know, I've never worked with such a...
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    Argentina 2022 - 2032

    Long story short, the easiest way is to just pay them via Azimo/Western Union/etc. and have them invoice your foreign company as monotributistas. They get ARS, not USD (at a near-blue exchange rate), so they are not required to exchange them at official rates at the "mercado común de cambios"...
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    Argentina 2022 - 2032

    I couldn't agree more, and this is not just for tech positions. At my company, we've been consistently replacing every single person who leaves any position with someone based in Argentina. And in many cases, they are even doing a much better job than the person they replaced, who was based in a...
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