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    World Corruption Index for 2018 is out .....

    Makes sense, since this report is from the World Economic Forum, which is essentially a neoliberal thinktank with close ties to the IMF. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Economic_Forum#Criticism This list is more a list of countries that are inconvenient to neoliberalism than anything else...
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    Is Airbnb the best place search a couple of months rental?

    Prices on airbnb have gotten a lot better recently. When you consider the lack of bills and internet, you are usually barely paying more than you would otherwise. There's some properties on there right now for example, 2 bedroom apartments well located in caba for 600 to 800 usd a month, that's...
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    Most expensive properties of Buenos Aires

    I'm sure some of the mansions in San Isidro are worth way more than these, these just seem like the most famous and publically known ones.
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    Know Your BA Expats

    It's missing the most common one: has not one single good thing to say about the country, yet mysteriously stays anyway
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    Best Carne Restaurants

    Not sure how to even address a post that's so wrong. So I'm just going to address this quote, which is the most wrong part. Practically every second restaurant in Buenos Aires has Italian food. The idea that there's only '332 Italian restaurants' in Buenos Aires is patently ridiculous when you...
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    Best Carne Restaurants

    That's just not true at all, immigrant communities are the ones who couldn't afford maids. I know dozens of 3rd generation Italians in Argentina who have secret recipes passed down from their Italian abuelas that are amazing. Argentina is absolutely chock full of Italian restaurants that make...
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    Ordering Online and Getting Mail in BA

    It does work, I have done it plenty of times.
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    In the midst of a Crisis Macri picks up daughter from school in a helicopter

    Lol this is Argentina, not Mexico or the USA. The President himself doesn't even have a serious security detail and walks through the street past normal people all the time. It would be highly suspect if his kids were picked up in an armoured car when he himself is not subject to such high security.
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    Ordering Online and Getting Mail in BA

    For 2. just put passport number.
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    Is Romance dead in Buenos Aires?

    OP, could you please post a picture of yourself and show us that you conform to the standards of beauty you're trying to impose on others? Thanks.
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    How realistic is the following dream?

    No, you can arrange the student visa after arriving on a tourist visa. If you take Spanish classes at a reputable university, they will help you with the visa.
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    How realistic is the following dream?

    It is very realistic. 1600 CAD is enough to live a very good quality upper-middle class lifestyle, presuming you are single. The hardest part would be the visa - I don't think you can qualify as a rentista on work income. You could always get a visa for studying something easy, like Spanish...
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    My Argentinian wife really dislikes the US. Typical of Argentinians?

    It's pretty shameful that people rush to defend even US healthcare, which turns the most basic of human needs into the pure pursuit of profit. You really couldn't display the reason you're so disliked the world over any better than your denial of even the most basic and well known facts about...
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    My Argentinian wife really dislikes the US. Typical of Argentinians?

    Visiting the US and seeing people dying of pain in the streets without access to basic healthcare while the rich partied a block away certainly didn't do it any favours for me.
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    My Argentinian wife really dislikes the US. Typical of Argentinians?

    I'd love to hear your other explanations, because it's not like anyone is really "jealous" of the US. There's dozens of countries that are better off than the US in practically every area relevant to standard of living, but it's not like Argentines hate Australians, or Japanese, or Koreans, or...
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    My Argentinian wife really dislikes the US. Typical of Argentinians?

    Orrrr maybe it has much more to do with the fairly recent US-backed dictatorship? It's not like living Argentines remember when Argentina had a strong economy back in the 1930s, but they do remember when their friends were being disappeared in the name of opening up the economy to US capital...
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    ATM Maximum Withdrawal Limit with Foreign ATM card

    Yep, has to be the highest ATM fees worldwide?
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    My wife (Argentinian) claims you can live "well" on $1500 a month in Argentina. True?

    This just isn't true at all, all the middle class professionals I know earn about $1100-1500 a month and they get along just fine. I personally spend about $1300 a month total, renting my own one bedroom apartment for $750 a month (but this is expensive - you can get much cheaper if you sign 2...
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    Looking to find a job to sponsor my visa - how hard is it?

    I've had 3 interviews, there are a lot of places here that do outsourced content and technical writing, it seems. I'm waiting to hear back from 2 of them, the 1st one tried to underpay me very badly (only 20k pesos per month for a skilled bilingual position). All of them offered visa sponsorship...
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    First impressions

    It's not normal or healthy to try and flirt with every woman you pass by.
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