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    Apartment Rental NYC Airbnb New Regulations, Will BA follow?

    It was a very interesting drunken vent. It's too early to worry, though. You still have your most productive years in front of you, you can make many more mistakes, with relationships (they tend to be more expensive), and without. You can get on the property ladder in your 40s and 50s, if you...
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    Apartment Rental NYC Airbnb New Regulations, Will BA follow?

    Our experiences with Airbnb seem to be very different, I would say 90% of my dealings with Airbnb hosts over the past 5 years have been with property managers. And where they're not property managers they're investment properties (e.g. the very nice apartment we stayed in in Encarnacion in...
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    Taxes Earning dollars, spending pesos

    Hahahaha I mean driving. It’s an awful roundabout, and to get across it you’re trying to force your way across 3 lanes on each side of nose to tail trucks thundering up and down the Panamerican highway. 5 mins if you’re suicidal
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    Taxes Earning dollars, spending pesos

    LATAM are good in the air, the Chilean part of the operation seems to have mostly ex-airforce pilots who know what they're doing. They have a good safety record, in spite of there being some really big rocks in the clouds where they fly. They do seem to be getting less careful, though, they had...
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    Taxes Earning dollars, spending pesos

    Do please post your LATAM experience to the Facebook group "LATAM Airlines Suck". The more, the better
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    For Sale Where can I buy an external hard drive in Buenos Aires?

    Did you try to contact any of the ML sellers directly? Or look up their information? Ar least some of them will have physical shops, and some will also deliver against COD. Just checking briefly, I found one of them with a shop right in the centre of BA: https://www.grapesmarket.com.ar/ No idea...
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    Apartment Rental 2 Months in BA

    when are you planning to come? The recommendations for summer and winter holiday time, and low season, would be very different. Aer you planning to have a car here?
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    Economy What Would Dollarization Mean for Expats?

    Thanks for your lengthy response, I'm very interested in understanding this topic. I don't actually remember the Macri tax amnesty, since I arrived in Argentina in late 2017, so I did what any engineer would do, and I started searching. I came up with this, I don't know if you'd consider it a...
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    Economy What Would Dollarization Mean for Expats?

    Seems like a sensible prioritization of concerns.. I've been curious about something, it doesn't have anything directly to do with the discussion here, but since you have friends in Spain maybe you have some insight: as you say, many Argentinians have migrated to Spain, and I've heard that...
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    Economy What Would Dollarization Mean for Expats?

    You're confident that they're leaving Canada because it's becoming more socialist? And Mexico is what, exactly? Its president is described as "center-left, progressive, populist, and economic nationalist", In parallel with this, it seems US Americans are leaving the US, and they're going to...
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    Economy What Would Dollarization Mean for Expats?

    How much of the economy operates, and is affected by using the official Dollar exchange rate? Given that we have the free-market Blue Dollar rate, and (I read) up to 17 managed rates like the CCL, MEP, Qatar, Soya, Wine Dollars and so on, which are in varying degrees closer to the Blue Dollar...
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    Economy What Would Dollarization Mean for Expats?

    Maybe you could explain what you mean by "far left"? I'd understand it to mean state ownership of production, collectivization, restrictions on individual liberty, restrictions on the expression of political views... Compared with that vision, "Fernandez/CFK" would seem to be much closer to a...
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    Banking How to bring in USD Legally to buy property?

    Hi, I'm in a bit of a pickle. I need to bring in USD cash Legally (for paper trail for escribano) but I don't know how. I called up https://www.puentenet.com/ and one other capital markets company and they both said they only do transfers to bank account only. Of course , seller only wants...
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    Medical "The EG.5 subvariant is already in Argentina, could COVID cases increase?"

    I'm not American (maybe the sentence I wrote about my prime minister being a doctor was a giveaway), I don't listen to this "talk radio" stuff and I'm really not that familiar with the characters involved. Even when I was in the US I preferred to listen to Puerto Rican music on the car radio...
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    Medical "The EG.5 subvariant is already in Argentina, could COVID cases increase?"

    Your lack of honesty becomes apparent rather quickly, doesn't it? I never claimed to know more than the leading cardiologist, so kindly point out where I made such a claim. Your tendency to create strawman arguments and resort to ad-hominem attacks rather than engaging with the factual arguments...
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    Medical "The EG.5 subvariant is already in Argentina, could COVID cases increase?"

    Argentina continues to advise vaccinations, particularly for individuals aged over 50 or those who are immuno-compromised. According to a recent update on the official @msalnacion Instagram account, individuals falling into these categories should receive a new vaccination at least every 4...
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    Newcomer Using a driver's license as ID in lieu of a passport

    I've used my passport card in the past, much more convenient than carrying my passport around. Occasionally cashiers would try to argue, but it actually says "passport" on the card in 3 languages, so I always won in the end (it's only valid as ID in the EU but who cares).
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    Economy Dolar turista - does it work for ATM withdrawals?

    Link is used by Banco de la Nacion (which I've always found to be terrible), and Banco de la Ciudad, HSBC, ICBC,Itau, and most other banks use Banelco, maybe that's the reason for the difference in exchange rates? Banelco also charge double the fixed fee per transaction, and are notorious for...
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    Newcomer eSIM option in Buenos Aires?

    Sir Chandler has some info on eSIMs in Argentina: https://www.sirchandler.com.ar/2022...-obligatorios-como-conseguirlos-en-argentina/ Personal have an office at the airport in Ezeiza, and it was intended to offer eSIMs to tourists there, since 2019. Florence's information above is new to me,
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