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What's the use of comparing food prices in Argentina with prices in Australia or the US? Can anyone get home delivery from grocery stores in those countries? We are here so, let's either stop being here, or stop qvetching about food prices. As the Uruguayans say: "Es lo que hay".

Great line...... Where is it from?

We have gone Through The Looking Glass....

Still, minimum monthly wage is US$1,218 in the US, versus US$234 in Argentina.

From personal experience, in my neighborhood food prices seem to be stabilizing, or even going down a bit. Shops and restaurants are mostly empty, but cafes are full as always. A couple of weeks ago I was in Once, and it was crowded with shoppers.

Reading from the list, Argentina is in 77th. place, from most expensive to least expensive Rice - price, April 2024 In US dollars, one kilo of rice: Argentina: .91 Bolivia: 1.39 Brazil: 1.56 Chile: 1.61

Just the usual contribution oozing gloom and doom. Must be painful to live with such a dismal view of the world. Please, move to Bolivia or wherever......!

I don't need speed, just need to be able to use the computer in the living room. Right now, I only get good signal in the bedroom, the gloomiest room with the ugliest view.

There's no signal in half my apartment, and the Personal technician told me to get a repeater - "MESH, not the cheap ones but a good one". All that sounds like Chinese to me - went to MercadoLibre and saw lots of them, ranging in price from thirty to four hundred thousand pesos. So I'm...

Where do you get your misinformation? I've owned a small ranch in Uruguay for the past eighteen years, pay wages and utilities, car insurance and gas bills, and know what it's like over there. Wages are perhaps 30% higher in dollar terms, and prices are three times higher. As an example, my...

No - I have four doses of the vaccine, but also have relatives in the medical field. They told me that CABA hospitals are seeing a sharp increase in COVID cases.

I don't know about Chile and Brasil, but Uruguay is definitely not doing better. I know first hand, as I have a country place in Colonia and know how my friends and neighbors are struggling.

Does anyone know where to get it in CABA?

If at all possible, nothing is better than one's home country. No matter how many years we spend elsewhere, we'll always be square pegs in round-hole country.

Palermo is bland and boring - no character whatsoever. Many of its old houses have been replaced by generic apartment buildings occupied by generic middle-class people. Chacarita is authentic and vibrant but, sadly, it's been recently "discovered" by developers.