Maybe the four seasons weather in BA is something to consider. I've never been to Medellin, would love to at some point. But long time ago, I used to work in Barbados, Bridge Town, for whole three years, the weather was none stop summer, lots of spicy food on top and dengue fever. Personally I would not move to Carribean again, lots of people from Carribean moved to the north, Canada eh.I’m a long term expat, married a Colombian Argentine here.
My other half earns in pesos, and while their salary has substantially improved in USD, it still buys the same as before in the days of Fernandez.
I earn self-employed in USD, EUR, GBP and earn a good wage by UK standard (where I am from), but it’s so demoralising whats happening here now. My efforts are worth less every day and many things cost more than they do in my native UK, which is an expensive country.
We spend 3 months a year during the winter in Medellin and luckily our visit is fast approaching, we leave mid-May and so can see out the next few months there. My other half will at least enjoy the overvalued Arg peso there!
While I generally prefer BA to Medellin, the economic situation here is making us question things. Cost of living is much cheaper in Colombia than here, even in very touristy Medellin.
It’s also an open economy with cheap technology, clothes and goods. They have international brands like Apple, Ikea, H&M and Decathlon with prices as cheap as in Europe.
Plus, traveling is cheaper there. Low cost airlines are actually low cost, and you’re close to the Caribbean, US.
So leisure purchases are very accessible. Buying clothes, technology or traveling here is ridiculous.
We are about to renew our rental contract here for another year and we have set that deadline—if things are still expensive this time next year, we’ll move to Colombia and come and spend a few months here per year.
My heart is in Buenos Aires, but the situation is unsettling here and the benefits of Medellin are beginning to massively outweigh here.
I know at least 3 expats who have left in the past 6 months due to cost of living.
But I agree BA is getting insanely expensive on a slow pace, but one thing I wonder and spoke shared riddle sign with my Argentine friends is that why restaurants like the one offers Vietnamese pho for 28K pesos are always packed at night with no seat... who is dinning there? I hardly spend any money dinning out unless my gf ask for, simply too expensive.