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    Has Buenos Aires declined since 2019?

    Where do you get your misinformation? I've owned a small ranch in Uruguay for the past eighteen years, pay wages and utilities, car insurance and gas bills, and know what it's like over there. Wages are perhaps 30% higher in dollar terms, and prices are three times higher. As an example, my...
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    COVID vaccine - where to get it

    No - I have four doses of the vaccine, but also have relatives in the medical field. They told me that CABA hospitals are seeing a sharp increase in COVID cases.
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    Has Buenos Aires declined since 2019?

    I don't know about Chile and Brasil, but Uruguay is definitely not doing better. I know first hand, as I have a country place in Colonia and know how my friends and neighbors are struggling.
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    COVID vaccine - where to get it

    Does anyone know where to get it in CABA?
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    Who has left or is planning to leave?

    If at all possible, nothing is better than one's home country. No matter how many years we spend elsewhere, we'll always be square pegs in round-hole country.
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    Chacarita Is Buenos Aires’s Quirkiest Neighborhood

    Palermo is bland and boring - no character whatsoever. Many of its old houses have been replaced by generic apartment buildings occupied by generic middle-class people. Chacarita is authentic and vibrant but, sadly, it's been recently "discovered" by developers.
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    How much did your meal cost?

    Not more irrelevant than the innumerable posts comparing Argentina and Thailand. Sick of them.....!
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    Tech Giant With 30,000 Employees Has No Return-to-Office Policy

    Owners of rental office buildings are in a panic. Many large offices are being chopped into multiple small offices, or even rental apartments. My lawyer nephew closed his downtown "estudio" and now works from home - when necessary, he meets clients at a rent-by-the hour office or in...
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    Tough Times For Argentine Factories As Consumers Penny-pinch

    As for property taxes in USA, here's what I got in Virginia for my money: A superb public library system Good public schools, complete with bus transportation Adult education classes, including English for foreigners An effective, well paid, educated police force Free-access to multiple public...
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    Tough Times For Argentine Factories As Consumers Penny-pinch

    My cousin runs a small family ranch in BA province. Out of four trucks' that he sends to market, he keeps only one - the rest goes in taxes.
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    Who has left or is planning to leave?

    If it wasn't for the waves, caramba Santa Marta moriria, caramba.....
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    Transporting a dog from Argentina to California

    I used to fly from DC to BA with my two dogs, shipped as extra bags in the plane with me. Never had trouble with AA or United. A few pointers: --Make sure to change planes in the US when and where temperature is not too cold or too hot. In the past, sometimes planes waited on the runway for...
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    Who has left or is planning to leave?

    Worthy of the Guinness Book of Records? How Argentina Had Five Presidents in 12 Days ... HistoryVille https://www.thehistoryville.com › ... › America Dec 22, 2022 — De La Rua, Puerta, Rodriguez Saá, Camaño and Duhalde. That makes five presidents between December 21, 2001, and January 2, 2002.
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    Tough Times For Argentine Factories As Consumers Penny-pinch

    In MercadoLibre, a dozen glasses for $12,300...
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    Split Air Conditioning Maintenance/Repairman?

    In my experience, independent technicians feel free to charge whatever they want, while official services' fees are far more reasonable. Just my two cents.....
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    Split Air Conditioning Maintenance/Repairman?

    Look up the brand's authorized repair shops.
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    Foreign credit cards purchases at MEP rate

    That 37,200 peso charge was for a breakfast for three people at an "artisan" pastry shop/cafe in Colegiales. Great food but, still.....!
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    Foreign credit cards purchases at MEP rate

    How do you run it up? I don't know how to do that
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    Foreign credit cards purchases at MEP rate

    My bank told me it was 39.09. Also, I made a mistake: the cueva rate was 990 pesos per dollar - just corrected my post.
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    Foreign credit cards purchases at MEP rate

    Used my USA Visa today: 37,200 pesos show as US$39.09 Local cueva rate: 990 pesos per dollar So, it came to 1.51 dollars for the convenience of using the card. Well worth it, and roughly what it costs to wire money to Uruguay and carry it here.
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