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Originally Posted by minusonebit
Yeah, thats what I have gathered. Hotels I would have to pay $300 a night to book here go for $100 a night there, and I hear everything is just about 1/3rd of the prices here. What have you done for living quarters since you moved, just rented or something?
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Yes, for now just renting. But the apartment we have, in the neighborhood where it is, would easily be $2k-$3k per month in a place like NY or Miami. Here it's about $600US.
Moneywise, you're right. It's about 1/3 the price. The dollar converts to about 3 Argentine pesos and some change, right now. It fluctuates between like 2.80 and 3.20. When you're in the stores, the numbers on the pricetags are about the same you'd see in the US, but of course it's pesos. So what you get for $100US there, you get for about $100Arg here, then you still have $60 us left.
The only thing that costs about the same is electronics, since like the US, a lot of it is imported from Japan and China. But food and living expenses and stuff is insanely cheap when you're used to US prices.