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    Employment in Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Depends on your trade. If it’s skilled / professional, Linkedin and regular jobs boards are your best bet. For non-skilled, casual work, you’ll find these through word of mouth when here. Needless to say, with high inflation and a weak currency, your best bet -if you can- is to find remote...
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    What do we think will happen with the exchange rate?

    This article explains what experts think is happening, seems logical. They plan to devalue the official dolar by 2% per month, so with such high levels of inflation the competitiveness of the new $800 rate will quickly disappear and drive up appetite for the parallel dollars, pushing their rate...
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    What do we think will happen with the exchange rate?

    It's been pretty stagnant since mid-October, so we've seen some serious inflation in dollars since, especially in December. Pretty alarming how pricey things are getting in hard currency, many supermarket and farmacy items costing the same or more than in places like the US and UK etc - we've...
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    Is the expat party coming to an end?

    I got here at the end of 2017 when the peso was still stuck at 15:1. I remember a beer at the Temple on Costa Rica and Gurruchaga was $100 pesos, so $6.60 USD. A tin of tun and a block if cheese cost me $8 USD. Weird little things I remember. Then, with the Macrisis onwards its got cheap...
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    Payment apps / billetera virtual without local bank account

    You’ll need a DNI for Arg billeteras virtuales. I connect my foreign cards and pay via MercadoPago that way. Bitso international works for QR payments without DNI, but not available to US citizens
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    US Mastercard mercado libre

    Been using it since they allowed the MEP. Amen to never again having to go and buy something in person in Buenos Aires.
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    How reliable is DHL for receiving paperwork and bank cards?

    In the end, my poor old mum got confused and sent it via Royal Mail…3 weeks later got a notification from Correo Argentino to pay for it. Will be cancelling those cards
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    Alternative to Binance for USDT to ARS? For UK users

    where abouts? This is what I'm looking for.
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    Alternative to Binance for USDT to ARS? For UK users

    No, I can still withdraw luckily. But I don’t have a reliable contact for USDT, and they charge higher fees than the p2p
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    Alternative to Binance for USDT to ARS? For UK users

    That incurs extra fees, as well as time having to go to a cueva. Using Marketplace, the pesos hit my MercadoPago within 15 minutes without going anywhere
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    Alternative to Binance for USDT to ARS? For UK users

    Is there another platform I can use for exchanging USDT for ARS? For UK-registered users of Binance, new UK regulations meant an update was made to the app and we can no longer access P2P for foreign currency, only GBP. Frustrating as it was a means of getting pesos quickly when needed. Any...
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    What Would Dollarization Mean for Expats?

    This is exactly how I see it. He wins the popular vote, but how the hell could he govern? Kirchnerists would cause enough chaos, like they did with the 2017 pension reform. Trade unions, Congress etc. Argentina would be paralised.
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    What Would Dollarization Mean for Expats?

    This is due to unofficial dollarisation of the market. No one wants to rent their place out with 130% inflation, so everywhere is in dollars and upped. In part due to influx of digital nomads and Russians too. This will happen to everything if the whole economy is dollarised, except salaries.
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    World’s cheapest iPhone in Iguazu?

    Yeah, although getting 500k pesos in cash is a saga in itself. We had money in local accounts and they let us split it over two cards. Forget using WU in Iguazu. Big queues full of tourists. They impose a limit of 70k for withdrawal but often don’t have enough cash. Not to mention freezing...
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    Foreign credit cards purchases at MEP rate

    Yes, exactly. I just posted another thread about it too.
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    Tracking the foreign card rate vs. the blue rate

    The worst! I do a mix of cash through a cueva, WU, card and crypto - but yeah cash is getting even more ridiculous. You often don’t know how much to carry with you as prices are rising so quickly. Bulging pockets with a wedge of notes is a nightmare
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    Tracking the foreign card rate vs. the blue rate

    Totally agree. The rate is not as good on card but its sooo much easier and more practical than carrying cash, going to Western Union or depositing in a bank account here. Great for buying things on MercadoLibre or through Rappi too, instead wasting time going to a store to buy - and we all...
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    World’s cheapest iPhone in Iguazu?

    Oh and forgot to add, there was no issue at the aduana crossing back in to Arg. We crossed several times, and there was never anyone there. The conveyor belt they use to scan luggage was switched off and unmanned each time. The only snag is the queue for migraciones, at least half an hour -...
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    World’s cheapest iPhone in Iguazu?

    Hello… just thought I’d share a handy tip with you all, which is buying cheaper goods at the duty free store in Iguazu. As you pass through Migraciones, before crossing the bridge to Brazil, there’s a duty free shopping centre. And here’s the great thing… The prices are fixed in USD, BUT...
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    Foreign credit cards purchases at MEP rate

    I bought stuff at the duty free shop in Iguazu, and can confirm they charge you in pesos at the official rate. The prices are expressed in dollars, but when you go to pay they charge you in pesos. Then if you oay with you foreign card, you’ll get the normal rate your bank gets.
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