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I'm not offended, friend, but I don't understand, wtf are you doing in the congourbano? Are you ok? Are they forcing you to stay there? Press the r button 3 times if you're in any kind of trouble. This ancient advice has passed down through the gringo generations ever since our great...

Bruh the congourbano is a genuine 3rd world sh!thole, this is a very well known fact. I mean, no offense but wtf are you doing there? A lot of the stuff you're saying isn't really true about driving, food availability & security but good luck in your endeavors.

Everyone talks about Argentine potential, Alexander von Humbolt started talking about Argentine potential around 1800 iirc when the king of spain sent him to assess the economics of the new world to extract more value. He was optimistic about potential in this area. Centuries later, it never...

Post government lockdown, a lot of these hot portenas are realizing they're just as poor as the rest of the latinas & if they ever want to get out of a cramped recoleta apartment they'll need a guy to make that happen. The women are more aggressive is the biggest change I noticed. I have no...

IMO, there's probably going to be widespread civil unrest in Argentina in the foreseeable future & some type of change will come from it. Aside from that, it's the status quo of insanity.

Agro Argentine regions are police states, the police state exists to enforce government capital controls to keep food prices artificially low & dominate control of supply. The police state forces the locals to live off humiliating government welfare schemes. They'd rather be working the fields...

Most Argentine oligarchs (Roemmers, Rocca, Bulgeroni, etc) are EU passport holding EU citizens that don't even live in Argentina. Why are Chaco, Santiago del Estero, Rio Negro, etc some of the most productive regions on earth, yet impovershed hellholes, while similar areas like Matto Grosso &...

Uruguay is like the eastern Europe of South America, IIRC average age there is high 30's, very high for Latin America & they've got a shrinking population problem. You see lots of old, decrepit looking people limping around dim, grey commie block looking housing. Whatever is going on in...

Argentina isn't a sovereign country though. The liberal BA agro oligarchy maintains firm allegiance to their European overlords. Having Argentine agro products trade for their free market rate, which is what full dollarization would do, would threaten exports to their #1 agro export destination...

If you're looking for programming, then the answer is the same as it has been since the 90's - whatever your niche is, go show off your skills on those forums & work will come you where you set your own terms. I've been "digital nomading" since the '00 bust, the majority of remote workers are...

OP needs to worry less about phone numbers & work permits & more about raw technical skills. If you can actually solve tech problems no one will care what your phone number is or if you have a J873 visa. Unfortunately a strong tech bull market led to an entire generation of 25 or 30 yr old...

Certain sectors of the Argentine economy are already dollarized (real estate, tourism, etc) but the sectors that matter - commodities (agro, energy, minerals) - are 100% pesos & unlikely to change. Argentina has plenty enough raw commodities for the dollar to be worth however many pesos they...

I also consistently get 5x rewards point on any restaurant too, which isn't included in the list.

Get a Sapphire Reserve, you get 5x rewards points on travel purchases & 0% commissions (which most purchases in Argentina qualify as). The annual fee of 450 us pays for itself fairly quickly with all the travel perks. That means with current visa rate, after you pay it off the real rate is...

There's 1 resort in the actual national park that just opened a few years ago - the Gran Melia. Not to be confused with the resort area, If you look on a map where the Hilton is - that's the resort area, it's a circular road & there's probably 10 or 15, 4 & 5 star hotels on the road and various...

You're going to see a lot of upscale, luxury stuff sitting empty when you go to the resort area of Iguazu. It's '08 South Florida there. This is happening in most of Argentina. Soon, these places will fall into disrepair, abandon, etc & it's going to look like post colonial Zaire. They're...

I will also add, what you see on ambito/cronista/etc - this is the cash rate ***in Buenos Aires***. Outside of BA that rate normally gets lower. In much of the tourist towns in Patagonia, Salta, Misiones, etc it's common for 50, 60, 70%, etc of the population to live off of government welfare...

My apologies for the length, but I think you're confused.. You're dealing with street corners arbolitos & Calle Florida which is notoriously known for being shady. These people have 0 police protection & you're taking a large risk by buying USD from them as they don't stamp. A legit cueva in...

Ambito is the "central cueva" rate. You can find people who pay that rate in cash, but it's probably shady people & you'll eventually have to worry about fake bills, robberies, etc. If they're giving you that rate then they're making their money in other ways, not by foreign exchange. A real...

Yes, probably. The problem is Brazilians come by the thousand everyday to buy food & fuel in Argentina (which costs 2-5x as much as it does in BR & PY). Argentine border authorities do everything possible to make sure they cross as slow as possible to discourage it. Driving in Misiones is...