How many of us are still here?

[Redpossum]

Man, oh man, but this thread is depressing, and really discouraging.

But hey, at least the Blue went back up a little bit today, from 1150 to 1185. I have no idea why, but it did. Maybe it's just dead cat bounce.

 

[Quilombo]

Its utterly horrible, really unsettling and a constant stress feeling poorer every day, and not knowing if I will be able to afford my current lifestyle over the coming years, especially with how hard I’ve worked to achieve it.

Makes me even more angry that it’s all because of Milei’s lies. They’ve achieved nothing, the average Argentine is no better off, and all this “super peso” is nothing more than black magic and debt from the FMI.
But oh well, what did I expect living in Argentina

I sympathize, this has been our experience as well.

We walked away from a 0KM car, a lot, and now it increasingly looks like we'll be walking away from the country. We have lowered all our expectations, and our latest hope was to buy a meh house outside of GBA for 50K, but since mortgages are very difficult to get as monotributistas we'd have to buy it in cash, and we don't have that kind of money.

Sure, now we can buy dollars for saving easier/from home banking, but there are less pesos to buy said dollars because everything has gotten so expensive so it's basically a wash.

 

[chris]

I live on a farm, a half hour from town. No public transportation to speak of.
MY Sube card is useless.

But one son lives in NYC with no car, he takes subways and citibikes, but his daily expenses are high. studio apartments are 2 grand in NYC. and thats rare and hard to find.
The other lives in Seattle, and, no, you cant really live there without a car. He works 2 jobs, one he can take light rail to, the other you must drive.

If you lived on a farm in Argentina you would need a car. There are quite a few urban areas in the USA with good transport where you can live without a car -- and if you're a senior public transport is either free or half price. From what you say, Seattle's public transport is not as extensive as in big East Coast cities.