I'm not sure why you would ignore me
i hit "Ignore" on you, because your entire existence here is:
1. no experience traveling outside of your tiny USA town.
2. posting 'i heard BsAs was cheap!'
3. then, 'oh no, there is dog poop on the ground in a city of 13 million people! this would be a deal-breaker!'
4. asking the same questions, over and over, despite me
filming videos, addressing it in paragraphs of text, calling you out, telling you that you're a moron and just
need to spend a week in your nearest city where you live (over 100k population or more) to see that all of these things aren't significant.
5. you ignore everything we say, and repeat steps 1-4.
thus, like i said in other threads, you're a dumbass and have no business in an Expats forum. you should post less, read more, and stop being such a psycho. you've insulated yourself from the real world this long, that you're quite creepy, and add no value here. try something else; go live life, away from this forum. or, keep posting on the old one, because maybe they won't mind your stupid sh*t as much. but your cringe posts were getting old 2 weeks ago, and here we are doing it again, and i'm sure you'll ignore everything i say...once again. any questions? people who have lived in 50 countries as Expats for 2 decades are telling you that the dog poop in BsAs isn't a big deal. WTF is your problem?
average spending for a week and/or month here?
i have a 90#/40kg dog, and i live with my girlfriend, but i'm frugal and like a good deal! so, experiences may vary. i don't drink hard alcohol (wine 1 bottle a week, and 1-liter of beer most nights from the grocery store, after the gym), and i'm around 40 so i don't waste hundreds of dollars at clubs/etc. - although i do enjoy the craft beer scene, and eating at new restaurants (not touristy ones)
not sure if you saw my grocery list (2 posts) earlier,
@FuturoBA but here it is if not:
but, rough math in USD with a credit card monthly: rent $800 airbnb, $300 grocery store/butcher (my dog eats a kilo of raw meat daily), $450 restaurants/breweries, $0 cost to run/walk around Belgrano if you aren't fat, $40 Megatlon gym pass for all locations (Nunez has a lap pool), $5 SIM card and Movistar 6GB data plan, $50 each month in a new Airbnb buying a kettle or something missing...maybe something like
$1,650/month living normally like a tourist/expat and eating out daily and feeding my dog and lady. if i was solo and being frugal and cooking more than twice a week, i'm sure $1,000/month would be doable. but i make great money on crypto, and i'm scouting-out Argentina and want to see as much as i can. that being said, i find the wasteful and decadent lifestyle of the wealthy people here to be very unappealing, so i don't participate in that. nor do i have the expenses of a single guy trying to get laid all the time, which surely would cost a lot of money every month (at least when i was single in the USA on Tinder, it did).
I think BA is a city you can ask 10 expats and get totally different answers and the 2 things that determine the budget for the most part is mostly how much you spend on Rent and on food
and if you insist on a King mattress and a huge penthouse that costs $2,500/month instead of less than $800
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I am in Ubers 4 or 5 times a day. I spend about $10 USD to sometimes $15 USD a day on Uber.
oh, sh*t! i leave the house (walking 20 mins?) once per day to go to the gym and get groceries/fill my 1-liter beer bottle at Jumbo/Disco. then if i'm eating out, i walk nearby (Chinatown is only 16 mins away) and eat, then walk back. i don't count my steps on my phone, to give full data. but for those planning to come to Buenos Aires, if you can walk a little, you can save $300/month right away on Uber! obviously if you have knee issues work on those and don't hurt yourself, but i commented on another thread how i find it so strange people so they want to immerse themselves in a culture, they spend an hour a day in Ubers
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This is a lot to spend on food
some people are foodies and don't mind. when the USA is $20 per meal per person, 2 meals a day, that's already $1,200 for regular-people meals, and
@Spend Thrift is likely going to fancy places and buying meals for his dates, so that's obviously not going to be the same as a Digital Nomad type of Expat in their 20s-30s who is cooking and living "the grind" lifestyle.
prices are going up on everything.
larry, i hate you as much as i despise jenn. wtf is your problem with the Fear Porn about prices? prices in USD aren't really changing. this has been debunked a ton already on this new forum. why are you such a piece of sh*t liar that keeps spreading this? what's the ulterior motive? don't want more UK/USA/Canada folks coming here to live a better life?
i really really dislike liars and people who intentionally mislead others, if you haven't noticed. again,
@Larry - prove prices are going up relative to USD, differently than the situation all of 2023. i'll wait here. if you can't...shut the f*ck up and stop wasting everyone's time here. it's detrimental to the Expat community.
Usually spend between $3,500 USD and $4,000 USD per month here.
living like a king no doubt! i remember when i lived in Thailand 3 months i was only spending like 1,000 USD/month and was loving life (regular existence, training martial arts and staying in one town). i met Brits/USA folks partying there for a month at a time on summer break/etc. and they were spending a similar amount as you, and these were prices around ten years ago! i was baffled at first by the 3-4k spends, but then i saw their housing, lifestyle, etc.
for them, it was like a resort stay. of course in Sandals Jamaica you're not getting a 'good deal' but you're getting to live a life you want. in Thailand i had a tiny studio on top of a restaurant, and i was very happy and living within my means long-term, but those Brits had huge penthouses, had a new Thai girl (or girls) over every night, ate at the fanciest restaurants, took expensive tours, etc.
it was a lifestyle that would require making $500,000 USD salary, but they did it as dudes only making $80,000 USD or so, because it was temporary and was their break from the real world.
