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    Newcomer Argentine was sooo mean to me! Is this normal?

    Thank you so much Scottylon! I am relieved to hear that in your experience, Argentines have not met the height of rudeness that this woman exhibited on the phone today. Yes, I am from the USA. It seems that the diplomats are not so diplomatic after all...
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    Newcomer Argentine was sooo mean to me! Is this normal?

    I am supposed to come to Argentina for work in about 1 month. I called the work visa woman at the Argentine embassy to ask her some questions and she was SO mean, impatient, and downright hostile and rude on the phone! She kept cutting me off on my questions and yelling "Next!" She also did...
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    Trip Reports Argentina Versus Colombia to Retire

    I agree. It's hard to know one way or the other. That's my point. People around here (this board) regularly express supreme confidence on the matter, when at best it can only be a hunch or educated guess based on whatever criteria each one uses to think about the matter.
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    Politics 99% loss of value in peso in my time, momentous day

    First time I traded dollars for pesos was in 2013 at ~ 8:1, saw today CCL/Blue both hit $410 for a bit, made me think of my father who was born in the 40s tell my brother and I about how coke was 10¢ when he was a kid and we'd laugh. I used to get a bottle of iced tea (when it was available...
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    Taxes Expat AFIP taxes

    You wouldn't pay US income taxes on the first US$120,000 in 2023.
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    Travel Traveling to Buenos Aires

    As said before safety should be your biggest concern as it is not unheard of for those working for Aduanas to have contacts "outside" who could get a tip off as to your whereabouts etc. If you need to declare it, then you declare it so you cannot leave with an amount over the permitted $10.000...
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