Recent content by Darksider415

I found mine on MercadoLibre, but I also have a DNI and income en blanco in Argentina. If you don't have local income declared and a DNI, forget about it and find a property owner who is willing to let you pay, or get a cheap Airbnb.

Only scam I've dealt with is a couple of fast taxi meters over the ~3 years I've been here, for what it's worth. Use your head, do your research and be cautious and you'll be fine.

His OSDE is a lot cheaper than mine, his property taxes are somewhere around 80% lower (renters pay those in most contracts here) and he doesn't have building expenses. Also, his grocery bill is lower, though I think part of that is that we get some things that are imported (read: more...

The way I read it was that they'll only let you purchase $100 using cash, but if you buy it with funds in your bank account, the restriction doesn't apply.

I think it probably helps that I only put a few hundred in once a month and I pull that few hundred out within a few days. I don't think anyone is going to give me a hard time about wanting cara grande bills for only $600ish. That said, I keep my actual money abroad.

I haven't gone yet this month, but I've only gotten cara grande with the occasional blue bill. The oldest I've gotten were the series 1996, but those are "cara grande" and my landlord still accepts them.

If it's the ramen place I'm thinking of, they absolutely do charge that. Remember, there are four types of economies in the world. Capitalist, Communist, Argentina and Japan.

It's literally just like any other job en blanco where the taxes are taken out of the paycheck along with the obra social and retirement. The only difference is, after that stuff has been taken out at official rate, it's converted back at the same rate and sent to Uruguay instead of deposited in...

Yeah, I wouldn't spend 34k on a ramen lol... As for the bit about not getting 1300 yet... I got 1320 yesterday when I transferred some funds in from Uruguay using CCL

There's no real reason to move the funds to Argentina when they're perfectly safe in Uruguay, and it's all en blanco and declared anyway so there aren't any complications with ARCA. ARCA gets their cut right off the top, the banks here are pretty much hot garbage for service compared to Uruguay...

So, my case is slightly unusual because I have a good-paying startup gig that pays me en blanco, depositing the dollars in an account across the river in Uruguay... I only transfer enough into Argentina to cover expenses and I only put enough dollars in the local account to pay any USD expenses...

Not yet, but part of it is that it's not a necessity, so I'm taking my time and looking for the perfect one.

I won't say my costs are the same as last year, but they aren't far off. About this time last year, a week's worth of groceries was setting us back around 80k pesos and now I'm looking roughly 100-110k for a similar trip. In a couple of cases, prices are lower now than they were last year. For...

I just got my local license about a month ago, after being here two and a half years. I've driven maybe 4 times (locally) since I've been in Argentina, including the driving exam. You really don't need a car in CABA

I saw something a day or two ago with Pato complaining about the barrabravas and wanting to crack down on them, and my first thought was "First the retirees and now the barrabravas... They really want to see if Milei can do a de la Rúa impression, don't they?" It's a midterm election year in...