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Are you doing your internship at an estancia?:confused: They should have someone they recommend out there. You'll need to sign up in person and since Areco is about 90 minutes by car from downtown, I assume you will do it out there. Ask your internship what provider they recommend. I have OSDE...

If you are only going to be here for 3 months, why get health insurance? There is free public health care here. In the event that you need to go to the hospital for anything serious, you could use a public hospital. For anything routine, doctors visits are not expensive to pay out of pocket if...

As far as the suggestion of starting a company to provide maid service - I would be able to answer as soon as pick myself up off the floor. I can think of no worse venture than that. So your business idea is based on having a large amount of employees who would be more than excited to sue you...

Within the US, commissions are generally taxed at 50%. Assuming you meet the physical residency or Argentina is your tax home, you are exempt from the first 96K (maso) USD of earned income. If you are not a resident of Argentina, you can still meet the physical test if you are in Argentina (or...

That may be true but having managed businesses in multiple countries, I will say that Argentina is probably one of the hardest places in the world to make a go of it. Between gov't intervention, high COL, high taxes, restrictive laws, the adversarial relationship between employer and employee...

Rich Argentines don't care. They have their savings in dollars and foreign accounts and credit cards to use when they're shopping overseas. Poor Argentines don't care - they're never going to be traveling overseas anyway. Who gets screwed - the middle class of course. I'm so incredibly baffled...

What does your husband do? Would there be job opportunities for him there? Honestly, we probably won't leave b/c the SO has the house and business here. But if the property sold, I think we both would go to the US happily. I, like you, have many things I love about being here. But honestly...

Well, it's a hell of a lot more expensive than my reference. new york city. So yeah, I have a problem with it. And coffee is imported to the US as well.

So I just got back from the supermarket where I bought a 1KG bag of coffee beans. Ristretto Cabrales - not exactly fancy. And I bought it in Moreno - not exactly fancy. At Carrefour - not exactly a fancy supermarket. 157 pesos!:eek::eek: WTH. If I were in the US, I could buy a 36 oz bag of high...

I've used the site to book hotels and never had any problems.

I believe you have to file paperwork for that though - it's not automatic. IE - a civil union must be registered at the registro civil.

I'm not sure if that discount plan is still available through Medicus? Someone posted earlier it wasn't. Regular insurers are far more expensive. I was paying around 1500 (pesos) a month for OSDE 310 at age 37.

I know several expats who got a 5 year visa for Brasil here in Argentina and are not residents of Argentina, at least back in 2010. So definitely they were issuing visas for longer periods of time back then to non-residents, that may have changed however.

It should say on there the length of time the visa is valid for. Example - my visa states it is valid for 5 years (which I obtained here in Argentina) but I can only stay 90 days at a time in Brasil, no more than 180 days in 1 year.

ufff - sorry to read this. Unfortunately, the father would have to give formal consent for you to take the child out of the country and you have to present that documentation when leaving the country. Perhaps give it some time to see if things improve? I don't know of any good international...

I think nico's point is that your odds of getting randomly shot are probably a lot lower than being a victim of a targeted robbery. Which unfortunately seems not uncommon here. So in the devil's choice, probably better to take your chances of being a victim of random shootings than live in a...

Lecturing and teaching doesn't equal practicing medicine. Giving a talk as an expert in the field is one thing. Having someone just graduated from med school in Argentina be accepted to a residency program in the US is completely different. And it would be *very* difficult if not near...

I would tend to agree, at least from a business perspective. Between the high cost of doing business here, both in hard currency and time spent on staying in compliance, the anti-business climate, the adversarial relationship between employee and employer, the very real and continual threat of...

Given that I pay 5000 year to insure my 3 YO VW Bora with a deductible, I'll skip the non-deductible. I can't even imagine what that would cost. Unfortunately where I live, a car is a necessity. Estimate is between 500 and 1000 to replace it (if they can find the mirrors, apparently there are a...

So yesterday, I was driving on the highway. Due to construction, there was a point where 3 lanes merged into one. I was at a full stop while waiting to merge and a commercial truck drove too close and broke off my right side mirror. The driver knew he did it and just shrugged and kept driving as...