Geez, give the OP a break. As someone who has recently also moved here and is finding my way day by day, I love having this forum as a resource, but have noticed a horrible pattern that anytime anybody even hints at the possibility of moving here, they are talked about how horrible and expensive things are, when that is NOT the case, atleast in my experience. I am talking about right here and now. I don't have a crystal ball to predict how bad the inflation will be 5 years from now.
This is also coming from someone in my late 20s, who has dual citizenship (US and Spain), and who could also be living and working anywhere in the States OR Europe, but by choice I am here, and so far, it has been quite positive. I am spending around $2400 USD a month and living far better than I would on this type of money in the US (I am referencing life in downtown Chicago, which is where I lived there, a small town in Iowa might be a different story) OR Madrid, Spain, and even have some money for little luxuries. In my particular case, I would even venture to say that I am living better than I was when I had a salary that was substantially higher when I lived in the States, because the bulk of things that I personally would spend the most money on such as eating out, are less here.
Having met many expats in Spain, I have come to the conclusion that ex pats can be very spoiled and always feel an exasperated need to ¨match things up¨ to how life was ¨back home¨. Newsflash: It probably never will be. You are in another country, another culture, another way of thinking.
Bottom line, I think if anybody were to ask ANY Argentinian if 10.000 pesos is good money, good enough to live nicely off of, we all know what the answer would be!
