For those who consider moving to Uruguay

[on the brink]

Out of 3,500,000 Uruguayans, 600.000 live abroad. English version.

 

[FallenAngel]

I lived in Uruguay for a year.... I do not recommend it to anyone!

 

[Quilombo]

I think why so many people, Argentine or foreign living here are unhappy with the state of affairs in Argentina is because we have the worst of both worlds: developing country salaries/instability/inflation/poverty/etc. yet developed country prices for food, electronics/consumer goods, home prices (relative to local salaries), etc.

Uruguay is expensive, but at least it's stable and the macro economy works. We're now expensive like Uruguay and have tons of macro problems and dysfunctionality.

Milei and his fans keep talking about "supply and demand" and "the market" adjusting to reality, but has anyone seen any concrete examples of this? We're literally a country where Argentine produced goods are cheaper to purchase abroad, we're not and have never been a normal country, and in 30 years maybe we will be, but we still won't be Ireland.

I say this as someone who can't leave, so I want Argentina to be successful, but I just don't see this happening with Peronism and then a reactionary right wing government every few years switching back and forth between the two and never trying anything else.

 

[sergio]

I think why so many people, Argentine or foreign living here are unhappy with the state of affairs in Argentina is because we have the worst of both worlds: developing country salaries/instability/inflation/poverty/etc. yet developed country prices for food, electronics/consumer goods, home prices (relative to local salaries), etc.

Uruguay is expensive, but at least it's stable and the macro economy works. We're now expensive like Uruguay and have tons of macro problems and dysfunctionality.

Milei and his fans keep talking about "supply and demand" and "the market" adjusting to reality, but has anyone seen any concrete examples of this? We're literally a country where Argentine produced goods are cheaper to purchase abroad, we're not and have never been a normal country, and in 30 years maybe we will be, but we still won't be Ireland.

I say this as someone who can't leave, so I want Argentina to be successful, but I just don't see this happening with Peronism and then a reactionary right wing government every few years switching back and forth between the two and never trying anything else.

The irony is that the peso is not allowed to find its real value, rather it is deliberately overvalued. Not exactly free market capitalism.

 

[Ronnie Hotdogs]

Expats have had it ridiculously good for the past 15 years time to suck it up.

 

[Redpossum]

Expats have had it ridiculously good for the past 15 years time to suck it up.

Thank you for reminding me how desperately we need a "Dislike" button.

There really needs to be a way to express emphatic disagreement without having to write something that may provoke or insult.

 

[on the brink]

Uruguay has the highest suicide index in Latin America, and ranks 16th world-wide among 183 countries.

 

[Ronnie Hotdogs]

Insult away...

 

[Quilombo]

Uruguay has the highest suicide index in Latin America, and ranks 16th world-wide among 183 countries.

Also 17% of the entire country decided it's better to uproot their life and move abroad as the original post of this thread makes reference to