Has Argentina Become Worse Or Better for Foreign Retirees recently?

[Johngwyn]

Depending how on much you got, CABA and the south are pretty expensive, CABA cost almost the same as where I'm originally from Phoenix Arizona. It cost me $1100 for a signle bedroom plus utilities in Palermo Hollywood, around $600 for food, and e.t.c... Not too bad yet in 2026, but we will see in 2027 and times to come.

Besides of the living cost, nobody on this forum would openly to admit one big problem, the government efficiency and unfairness.
Literally you could get stuck on precaria for 2 years with countless none ending loops trips to migracion building and Renaper building without getting your DNI, without reason or anyone to talk the responsibility. Even in between two precarias, I was left 8 months blank on an expired precaria until someone decided to randomly give me another 90 days.

Some member previously DM me about their similar issues but nobody talks about it openly. One member DM me, about she got her citizenship more than a decade ago, as to proof the efficiency exist, but well, that's more than 10 years ago.

With the recent news on the federal court ruling Milei's decree power grab, federal court is officially kicking people's citizenship claim out the door if one applied after the decree take into account. What's left for good are probably bife parilla and dulce de leche ice cream.

Lots of people here just doing the generic big talks to make them feel more superior, classic attitude. I could go on for another page, but here are some of my first hand experience, hope this can help you somehow.

 

[on the brink]

$1100 for a single bedroom plus utilities in posh Palermo Hollywood sounds like a bargain, compared to an $2,600 efficiency apartment in a nice area of Washington, DC.

 

[Lanick]

Argentina used to be wonderful now it is nonsense in terms of prices. More expensive than the UK or Spain for groceries and services. Rent a bit cheaper, maybe. But affordability became impossible. Not a great place to retire.

 

[Rich One]

Argentina used to be wonderful now it is nonsense in terms of prices. More expensive than the UK or Spain for groceries and services. Rent a bit cheaper, maybe. But affordability became impossible. Not a great place to retire.

Rent a bit cheaper NOW. Rentals will keep going up lets talk in 2027/2028 if Milei is re-elected , It will be like Menem's 1:1 prices in US$ will skyrocket.

 

[Dim Witty]

CABA continues to be a wonderful place to retire. Ireland is also a marvelous place to live, work and invest because it's capital is always Dublin.

 

[Lanick]

CABA continues to be a wonderful place to retire. Ireland is also a marvelous place to live, work and invest because it's capital is always Dublin.

How is that so? It was great because of the prices but now who would want to put up with all this stuff with a humongous price tag! Before you could go to best restaurants at very reasonable prices, great sports activities at very reasonable prices. I’m traumatised with the “no quality for astronomical prices”. Bought a small box of chocolates at a shop on Federico Lacro for $15. Same thing in Lidl in London for $2! I’m Argentinean. My wife born and bred Argie. We live in Europe and none of our friends who are here going to Argentina every year for a month any more. Because it’s crazy expensive.

 

[Utopos]

My 2.5 cents (due to inflation):
My site name means "no place", in the sense that no perfect place exists. Each of our worlds are unique to us individually, and even that can vary over time. Is Buenos Aires my "perfect place"? Hell no. But perhaps it is the best mix of the totality of what brings me happiness. Some days I'm frustrated at the lack of this, the difficulty of that... other days I smile at how sweetly some things can be here. It is as much the person as the place that is happiness.

I'm old, I'm grumpy, so please excuse this. All I need to savor life is my wife, and fortunately she tolerates me.

YMMV

 

[LivingAbroadwithEric]

For what it's worth, I'm 71 and currently pay Swiss Medical $1.150.000/mo. for my wife and I --- this is with a 10% discount and the lowest tier. My grandsons, 3 & 8 years old, cost me $200k/mo. each. I was able to get SM because our daughter had it 4 years ago, so I was able to be... um, grandfathered in (pun intended). Otherwise we would not have been accepted due to my age.

Also, with Swiss Medical's 40% discount I still pay about $350k/mo for necessary meds. In the past 4 years, our dollar cost of health care has much more than doubled.

Food also, but at least I enjoy that... <Sigh>

Wow that is quite high. Where are you from Utopos? How long have you been in Argentina for?

 

[Utopos]

U.S.
2011-2016 & 2022- present

I do have a few health issues, heart and lungs. Nothing not controllable with medications however, though that may exclude me from prepay acceptance.

 

[Ries]

I am in the USA now, got here last week.
Where I live, in the pacific northwest, pretty much everything except cheap chinese imports is MUCH more expensive than Buenos Aires.
I just took my Honda in for service- $189.00 per hour shop time.
$16 burritos. All restaurant prices here do NOT include 10% tax or 20% tip, which means even when they are double BA prices, you then add 30%.
and most are double BA.
McDonalds here is about 20% higher than BA.
decent food is more.
$8 per dozen eggs, I get a whole maple of huevos de campo in BA for 12000 pesos,
all grocery store prices are insane. $12 to $15 six packs of beer.
Utilities here all have minimums, usually 5 to 10 times my equivalent bills in BA.
Car Insurance? dont ask.
Gas is averaging over 5 dollars a gallon.
There is no house or apartment in my rural county for sale for less than a half a million dollars.
1 bedroom apartments start at $1500, most are closer to $2000.
Certainly wages are higher, but nobody who makes under $150k a year is not hurting really badly.
Trump has managed to pretty completely crash the economy, he is better at it than Milei.
I am not sorry at all I live more and more in Argentina.