Rising Prices And Other Things: Time To Leave Bsars

[mmoon]

Prague had its moment in the early to mid 90s as the cool and cheap place for expats, and BA had its time in the early to mid 00s. That time has passed, so of course you should move if you are looking for an afforable and hip place to live outside of your home country. The bus has moved on, and there are varying opinions here about where it will stop next.

 

[nikad]

it's not only the craziness of prices for crap products in Argentina. It's the combination of a filthy city, feeling screwed all the time by sellers/shopsowners/etc, the "patoterismo/mala onda porteña", bureaucratic stupidity in many things, the fact that traveling from BsArs is much more expensive than in Europe gives a feeling u r indeed far away from everything.

Hehehhee it irks me to read this comments as I look at your " Che " profile picture... time for a change maybe? Oh wait! Wasn't Ernesto Guevara that guy that went to fight somebody else's revolution?

This being said, best of luck with your move!

 

[andesmandes]

Congratulations! Sometimes it is not easy to realize that it is time to move on -- and look for a new place that better suits preferences and needs.

 

[ARbound]

This is the way of the left isn't it though? No sense of a sustainable future, no acceptance of sacrifice and effort to achieve goals beyond the immediate 'money in my pocket today' no matter how useless those bills are.

Painting with a bit of a broad brush aren't we? I'm a democratic socialist but I hate the FpV/Cristina for a plethora of reasons, and I've been labeled a Menemist for it.

Populism right, left, or "third way" is scary stuff, even populist movements I am sympathetic too, I worry about because of the tyranny of the majority and movements being hijacked an all that.

I've lamented it dozens of times already, but Argentina's problem has been, since the 40's, Peronismo and its various branches.

As Menem and Xtina have showed, ineptitude in macroeconomics (and Harper in Canada, Bush in America) cuts across the political spectrum.

 

[mariano-BCN]

Hehehhee it irks me to read this comments as I look at your " Che " profile picture... time for a change maybe? Oh wait! Wasn't Ernesto Guevara that guy that went to fight somebody else's revolution? This being said, best of luck with your move!

Che rocks! For sure he was more consequent than many of the politicians nowadays. And, by the way, I don't see any antagonism between what I said and what Che stood for.

 

[camberiu]

Che rocks! For sure he was more consequent than many of the politicians nowadays. And, by the way, I don't see any antagonism between what I said and what Che stood for.

As the head of the Cuban central bank and the minister of industry of that country between 1959-61, Che's policies were very much in line with what Argentina is doing today. He was just a lot more extreme at it. Capital controls, money printing, government deficits, nationalizations of means of productions, price controls, central planning, banning the sale and buying of foreign currency, it was all there, done more extensively than in Argentina, and with results proportionally more catastrophic.

I have to agree with nikad that it is ironic for someone to be defending Che and at the same time, complaining about Argentina's current economic condition. Under your hero, the situation would be even worse, and not by just a little.

 

[johnw100]

Che rocks! For sure he was more consequent than many of the politicians nowadays. And, by the way, I don't see any antagonism between what I said and what Che stood for.

From what I read the only thing Che rocked was the dining table according to his friends or El Gallo Rápido as they called him.

Seriously though, I find it difficult to listen to someone who is half-Argentine putting down the country, packing their bags and leaving. So much for staying put and helping out when things get tough. Nah, I`ll just go back to Holland or wherever because things are a bit more expensive than a couple of years ago.
My god, shouldve come here 10-15 years ago and you would never have come here in the first place.

 

[camberiu]

Seriously though, I find it difficult to listen to someone who is half-Argentine putting down the country, packing their bags and leaving. So much for staying put and helping out when things get tough.

Millions of English, Irish, Germans, Spaniard, Swedes, Dutch, Italians, Polish and Japanese packed their bags and left their then dysfunctional countries to seek a better life in the new world. Should they have stayed put and helped instead?

 

[johnw100]

Millions of English, Irish, Germans, Spaniard, Swedes, Dutch, Italians, Polish and Japanese packed their bags and left their then dysfunctional countries to seek a better life in the new world. Should they have stayed put and helped instead?

Yes bunch of splitters ;-)

 

[TWB103]

I was considering buying a Vitamix blender ie the queen of blenders here in Argentina.

I dont know whether to laugh or cry when I look at amazon US reviews for the blender. MOST of the reviews show some sort of hesitation and it seems many spend weeks or months weighing it up 'ooh $500 thats so much to pay!!! (for a pro blender that will last 20+ years and save thousands on coffee shop smoothie costs etc and encourage a healthier lifestyle). These people on average earn $40 - 50 000 a year. The average arg wage is at least a third of that and those living in Argentina would have to pay 3 TIMES MORE for the same blender. The price/value difference is the same with digital cameras and so many other consumer goods. It really does give weight to the phrase - '1st world problems'