How many of us are still here?

[antipodean]

No need to guess how many Argentines are travelling abroad...

En este verano, más de 3,7 millones de argentinos viajaron al exterior, 73% más que el año pasado

Fueron casi 1,6 millones de turistas locales más los que viajaron en los primeros dos meses de 2025 en comparación con el mismo período del año pasado

www.infobae.com

This summer alone (e.g. a period of 3 months) more than 3.700.000 Argentines travelled abroad, mostly to Brazil. That is 73% more than last year.

ANAC Estadisticas

Estadisticas de la Administración Nacional de Aviacion Civil de la República Argentina.

datos.anac.gob.ar

In terms of domestic air traffic/ tourism, more than a 200.000 more (mostly) Argentines took to the air this January than last January - more than 3 million in total in one month alone.

In the last 12 months with international and domestic traffic combined more than 50 million passenger journeys within, to and from Argentina were performed.

So indeed one can be certain than millions of Argentines are indeed mobile and have money to travel.

 

[nikad]

No need to guess how many Argentines are travelling abroad...

En este verano, más de 3,7 millones de argentinos viajaron al exterior, 73% más que el año pasado

Fueron casi 1,6 millones de turistas locales más los que viajaron en los primeros dos meses de 2025 en comparación con el mismo período del año pasado

www.infobae.com

This summer alone (e.g. a period of 3 months) more than 3.700.000 Argentines travelled abroad, mostly to Brazil. That is 73% more than last year.

ANAC Estadisticas

Estadisticas de la Administración Nacional de Aviacion Civil de la República Argentina.

datos.anac.gob.ar

In terms of domestic air traffic/ tourism, more than a 200.000 more (mostly) Argentines took to the air this January than last January - more than 3 million in total in one month alone.

In the last 12 months with international and domestic traffic combined more than 50 million passenger journeys within, to and from Argentina were performed.

So indeed one can be certain than millions of Argentines are indeed mobile and have money to travel.

People travel not just for tourism but also for business, health and family matters. The number of people that went on vacation to domestic and international destinations is less than 8% of the overall population. There was an increase of 9-12% in the number of people that traveled to international destinations because less people traveled domestically. What I mean is that the number of Argentine tourists did not increase, but actually decreased.

 

[antipodean]

People travel not just for tourism but also for business, health and family matters. The number of people that went on vacation to domestic and international destinations is less than 8% of the overall population. There was an increase of 9-12% in the number of people that traveled to international destinations because less people traveled domestically. What I mean is that the number of Argentine tourists did not increase.

Totally, and airfares and travel expenses still cost money (if not the same, more than before!)
The total amount of air journeys has increased however for both domestic and international.

Have not read it yet, but the latest international tourism report from INDEC is published here:

https://www.indec.gob.ar/uploads/informesdeprensa/eti_03_25229FFD5D4D.pdf

Also anecdotally worth mentioning, Aerolineas Argentinas even made its first profit since 2008 on the back of this combined with cost cutting... US$20m in the black after loosing almost half a billion dollars each year for over a decade. And yet it is still flying and connecting the provinces with record numbers...

 

[FrankPintor]

X/Twitter keeps showing me lots of stuff about Paraguay.

Very cheap, decent infrastructure, low taxes and capitalist economy, just maybe not so much to do and the cities look a dump.

Asuncion, from what I can tell, isn’t a walkable city.

I want to visit to see what all the fuss is about and why the algorithms keep showing it to me.

We've been to Asunción many times, for clothes / electronics / Ozempic shopping. All cheaper than here in BA (our last visit was in November, if I recall correctly). Easy to get to by bus or plane.

It's nice from an expat point of view, easy residency I believe, low taxes as you say, and capitalist / high poverty economy. Not too much to do, and remember it gets very hot, 40 degrees Celsius is not uncommon over the summer months.

For all that there's been an effort to restore the riverfront, it is a bit of a dump, the centre is very sketchy, and only the area around Villamorra / Recoleta could be considered walkable, at least by day. We'll be going back sometime soon.

One of the problems with Paraguay is that it's so undeveloped, there are really nice places to see and visit, but very difficult to get to.

 

[SergeGGG]

The cost of living is NOT greater than the US. It has gone up for food of course but transportation is incredibly cheap...is there a subway in the USA that charges 75 cents? My one bedroom furnished apartment has gone up a lot...now I am paying $500 a month, lol...tell me, is there even a room available in someone's house for that in most US cities??? Clothes prices are stupidly high but have been for many years.

As simple as that, I'm actually from this fair country, but as of now a Londoner by law and let me tell you that a nice apartment in Las Cañitas will cost you the same or even less than a single room in London town. Same for transportation and the likes, the one thing here that is crazy expensive is food, but actually something that would cost you an eye like a steak in London is quite cheap over here.

I guess many expats got used to eating out every single day and such, but is not the end of the world, not yet that is...

Now if you have a family to feed, then that's whole other story.