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  1. bwyonsea

    Newcomer Who buys up all these expensive properties?

    Of course, there was cepo with a strong economy while now the economy is in freefall.
  2. bwyonsea

    Newcomer Who buys up all these expensive properties?

    Real estate is the best way to wash money. So, there you have your answer: illegal money: drugs, tax evasion, brives, etc.
  3. bwyonsea

    Visas Looking to find a job to sponsor my visa - how hard is it?

    To sponsor you the employer has to apply for a permit at immigration and this means immigration agents inspecting his busisness and fining him in 10.000 usd for every irregular worker he might have the first time, and 20.000 the second. So, nobody wants that as soon as 50 % of his employed are...
  4. bwyonsea

    Newcomer Escaping Buenos Aires for the summer months - where to go?

    Rio de Janeiro is great in January.
  5. bwyonsea

    Taxes "There are few profitable investments left in Argentina...." - New York Times

    Sure, but those Argentines who are buying there doesn´t live there or make the money there, they just enjoy Miami. Regards
  6. bwyonsea

    Visas Brazil visa for US citizen - Duration

    becoming an AR you can get BR permanent residency easily. Regards
  7. bwyonsea

    Newcomer Where can I avail self-defense training in BA

    I think anyone who attacks someone pointing a loaded gun at them for a Macbook Pro or an iPhone or money or any other material thing is pretty idiotic. Compliance always works with people who are "stable". Sure, a professional robber points a gun at you and all he or she wants is for you to...
  8. bwyonsea

    Banking Can Tourists Take Out US Dollars in Uruguay?

    Why don t you just open a bank account in Uruguay, you make a wire transfer bank/bank and then you have no limit????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? That´s how argentines use Uruguay for sending money to Switzerland. The dollar controls are for taking away dollars...
  9. bwyonsea

    Economy Officially Done with BA

    I suggest yo do the denuncia at the federal criminal chamber at Comodoro Py, there you bypass the police men who don t want to work. It sounds like an inside job done by the landlady. Normal. Regards
  10. bwyonsea

    Newcomer Argentine Citizenship for foreigners: Can it really be this easy?

    To get a citizenship is not regarding nationalism, with all my respect, it is all about to be protected "under the flag" while you are in Argentina. That`s all, you have more rights in reality because they are aeasier to enforce. Regards
  11. bwyonsea

    Newcomer Argentine Citizenship for foreigners: Can it really be this easy?

    I'm pleased to hear about your positive experience, especially considering your initial skepticism when I first discussed the citizenship process. I'll avoid steering your thread in a different direction, but I wanted to provide some additional insights. Captain Cheetah, the selection of your...
  12. bwyonsea

    Politics Ignorance or bliss?

    Very interesting. In this country you can assert that we are in crisis when the constuction industry stops and the dollar rise. If prices are rising but the dollars stays at 4 pesos and constuction works there is no crisis. Argentina is a place where people learnt to be very flexible in order...
  13. bwyonsea

    Politics Ignorance or bliss?

    Argentina isn´t a normal country. In fact, at the economy university they teach economy and study separated japan and Argentina. If you try to use standar economy rules in this country you will fail. Regards
  14. bwyonsea

    Politics Ignorance or bliss?

    This is Argentina, not sweden. This is normal.
  15. bwyonsea

    Politics Ignorance or bliss?

    Well, you are missundertanding me. The bad choises are done for the US goverment relation to their own citizens and their own economy. This is a fact that the "well educated" economist failed, so, why to follow their advices? Regards
  16. bwyonsea

    Politics Ignorance or bliss?

    Well, I think that people who live in a country with a huge crisis but with economist and politicians who have the magic idea of...printing money to give them to banks, constinue expending money in very expensive wars and who insist in the same recipe that created the crisis as a way to solve it...
  17. bwyonsea

    Politics Ignorance or bliss?

    Indeed, the dynamics of economic crises can be complex and multifaceted. The 2001 crisis in Argentina, often associated with following economic advice, involved the decisions of well-educated economists. Similarly, historical instances of economic challenges linked to IMF recommendations...
  18. bwyonsea

    Guarantee?

    I suggest you look for a room at a pension. There is a cheap one called la Toja at Tucuman and Junin. Just a few meters from there, on Junin, there is another very nice. It is the building where the hair dresser is. Regards
  19. bwyonsea

    Newcomer "Insecurity is just a perception"

    As a criminal lawyer I can tell you that there was never such a lack of work as nowadays, so it is rotten fish. I agree that in this contry the "security issue" is a way to make politics that the right uses too much. As a milonguero I go out every single night, I have just scared of the rain...
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