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Well, Steve, nothing there surprising. We live in different worlds.

Yes, you can, but you do sometimes have to work at it. If you find a good carniceria or granja, you should be good for meat, eggs and chicken. Vegetables are trickier, in my experience. Even good verdulerias many times don't have good stuff. I walk a lot and I always bring my mochila, and...

You can do it all online. They've changed their user interface a few times since I signed up so I don't know what it looks like when you're trying to get started, but I know someone who was able to sign up online a few weeks ago.

Yes.

MoneyGram also delivers to your Arg bank in a couple hours, or to Mercado Pago in 15 or 20 minutes, and usually the rate is better than the others after factoring in fees. Transfers to Arg bank have US$2 flat fee; transfers to Mercado Pago have zero fee and better rate than transfer to bank.

Como on, banker. Think of all those extra bottles of Nampe you can buy.

WU is paying up to 1114, without leaving the house. And anyone with the foresight to have a reserve of hard currency USD can get 1160 strolling down calle Florida (as I did an hour ago). Or going to Reby.

You got a terrible price.

I was just out for a two hour walk and I saw a hundred working taxis.

You should have planned ahead. You know better.

You got a discount compared to home, but it looks like you lived the tourist life to the fullest. I'd call that a good deal.

70% of workers are living on 550,000 pesos or less, or much less, per month. Are you suggesting that they're all monks? (I know lots of them, and I promise you, they're not monks.)

You're obviously on a low carb diet.

Mistakes are the most valuable part of immersion learning. And it really doesn't work (well, it surely didn't for me), until you accept that mistakes are 50% of the whole process; making them, learning from them, and accepting that you will always make them (unless you're one of those rare...

There is no normal here. But I think you can live reasonably well on US$1500/month. It's hard to really know without knowing your lifestyle. While it's much more expensive than it was in December, it's still a lot cheaper than in my home state. I think if you come here with a plan to live...

If everyone received increases in their income at the rate of inflation, that would be true. Unfortunately, that is far from the case up to now. That's not to say that I disagree with what Milei is doing. I think it is all very painful but absolutely necessary if this country has any chance...

They're charging 5.4% to transfer from US banks to MP for transfers of $500, and an even higher percentage to transfer smaller amounts. Obscene.

I did, and it worked fine for me.

Bear in mind that those places are big chains. They make a good cup of coffee, and I'm sure they're not diluting it, but if you're looking for something really special, those may not be for you either. But you can try them.

I got 1144.97 today from MoneyGram for a $300 transfer, sent to Mercado Pago. I would have gotten 1107.80 from WU for the same amount, after fees. I could have gotten 1195 selling billetes at my usual cueva, but I needed the pesos to be in the bank today to pay something. A lot of quite...