you should get a side job, online if possible, if you're so close to financial collapse. this is a bad model for anyone, anywhere to live in. you should always live below your means and save wealth in more forms than just a USD bank account (eggs in multiple baskets)
also, taking care of your body is much cheaper than paying for crazy medical costs, prescriptions, doctors, etc. -
@sophos is a great resource for this. there truly is a financial consequence for living a lazy/sedentary/fast-food lifestyle. are you cooking with Seed Oils like sunflower/canola/margarine/etc.? (even Olive Oil shouldn't be heated-up a lot - there are free-radicals and other cancer-causing links). are you exercising to fatigue and sweat every day for 20+ minutes? are you getting sunlight daily? are you supplementing with D3/K2? are you eating whole, raw vegetables, and avoiding foods from a box/bag? if you've lived like a 6-year-old at a canival, diet-wise, you're going to have medical issues that will cause you great expense (and the Expat lifestyle isn't for 300-pound diabetics with hypertension, needing to go to a doctor every 2 weeks).
as HannibalLector said, people here sometimes conflate the cost in Argentina of these few things like Medical Insurance, as being unique to Argentina. please don't give advice here unless you know
the rise in prices are unique in BsAs; most of the world is getting more expensive. this is the cost of over-regulation and crony capitalism, and the over-extension of Empire.
thanks for your useless political drivel, as always. "things are never stable" - "this time it feels different" - yes, because your 'good guy' politician lost. stop watching the news on TV; it's making you dumber, and we're all suffering from your stupidity.
add Flamingo to the list of Peronists.
@Surfer - you won't get anything other than zealotry and ideological whining.
so it was a good place to retire when the Peronists were
causing the 60% levels, but now that the new president is stopping the bleeding, it's a bad place? again, Larry, you leaving this forum would make it a better place. you should write less, and read more.
@Surfer Wally is a great reference. and earlyretirement. and BetsyRoss, and Vince
but this puts the current situation in a vacuum, just like Climate Change predictions that are always wrong. what about the increased manufacturing, decreased import taxes, overall liberties, more availability of housing, etc.? all of these changes from
removing oppressive laws will bring more talented people like @BowTiedMara here. all the federal government needs to do is remove all import costs for electronics/textiles/etc. and life would become cheaper for the average person. this is easy, and i think it will happen! analyzing the economy through a single lens, in a vacuum, doesn't paint a helpful picture.
and with Spain, it may not be politically correct, but the cheap prices comes at a cost of being at the forefront of North-African-Islamist immigration, as well as the Spanish obsession perpetually with Fascism/Communism/Socialism/Collectivism. if Basque and Catalan areas seceded, i would for sure be interested in moving there to see the changes. but the EuroZone is a big risk, just like the USA and UK/Commoweath are risks.
come back, live here while it's cheap, and if it gets expensive fly to a close place that is cheaper. NomadCapitalist says "go where you're treated best" - this may be an ever-changing thing, whichis at the heart of the Expat lifestyle (there is no one perfect choice)
wtf? things are fine. what's with this trend that you and a few others like ScottishGaucho are spreading? are you reading commie InfoBae articles and watching Peronist TV? i've been in Argentina since before the new cabinet took over, and i keep asking you guys: what are you talking about?? other than medical insurance, which again, you
are choosing to pay for that luxury service, what is so unstable?
how is the inflation any different than the past 3 years?