PROS & CONS of Living in Argentina 🇦🇷 (as a Foreigner)
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Argentina is flat?? Men, you need to travel a lot through all the region, Córdoba has a beautiful nature for example
En esa parte, el flaco estaba hablando de Bs. As...
Mira un mapa de relieve de Argentina... en %la superficie de Argentina es bastante plana comparado a otros países
maestro, argentina se compone en su mayoria de llanuras ej: llanura pampeana
I love the way you're so straightforward with certain things, unlike other youtubers who are always very careful with what they say to avoid offending anyone. Fuck political correctness! 🤣🤣
Actually I didn't like the use of the "f" word, which possibly denoted his social class. Whilst the young man did make some good points in the video he's still a bit wet behind the ears.
As an argentinian I can see that this guy doesn't know anything about Argentina.It just another tourist who see Argentina as tourist
Sorry I spent most of my time in the Falklands
@@JakeRunnels Sobre lo de la seguridad es exagarada la vision.Aunque estuviste bastante acertado y revelaste algo de lo que no se habla mucho publicamente sobre como se dan las relaciones hombre mujer con idas y vueltas...Aunque minimizaste el ego y la vanidad de las mujeres a pesar de que te lo dijeron.Argentina puede ser mas peligroso muchas veces que cualquier pais de latinoamerica...Pero eso porque te falto Buenos Aires,y toda la provincia.
@@JakeRunnels Después de escuchar que no estuviste por Buenos Aires puedo entender mucho más tu mirada,porque me pasaría lo mismo.Pero no se puede hablar de Argentina sin ver la influencia de un centro cultural como Buenos Aires.Es uno de los mayores centros culturales de latinoamerica sino es el más importante
We have a very European lifestyle more than a Latin-American one, thanks to our European ancestors who built this country. About 80% of the population here is Italian and Spanish (mainly), then German, French, Polish descendant because of the massive immigration that happened in the 1800s and 1900s. In America, Argentina welcomed the most European immigrants after the USA. It´s common for people here to have dual citizenship even if you weren't born in Europe, because of the Italian and Spanish laws of inheritance. We also have the biggest Jewish community in America, besides the USA -You don't see Kosher Mc Donald's outside of Israel but we're the home of one in our historic Abasto neighborhood in Buenos Aires. We're very italian culturally (Pasta Sundays with la nonna and the whole family are sacred) with French bits and pieces. Add a bit of Latin-American flavor and you've got Argentina. The city of Buenos Aires is like a melting pot of different kinds of people. You'll see more of this European heritage in more of the conservative areas of the country, like rural areas in the province of Buenos Aires and the upper-mid, mid to southern part of the county, other cities like Cordoba a or Rosario for example, Patagonia, etc. We once were the most developed country in America after the USA and Canada. Sadly communism took our future away and after the 60´s things started to slowly change. For some reason, though, we're still going strong as a community, we're still very patriotic and defend our nation despite all the negative. Weatherwise and geographically, Argentina is like the USA but upside down, because of obvious geographical reasons, with the exception of Brazil that has the tropical weather and the best beaches. Economically, we're a muddled mess but we're the great grandsons, great grand daughters, grand sons and grand daughters of those who came from the old world, meaning we have the ethic and the work culture that was passed along. And that my friend, is what's keeping us somehow alive.
The African population used to be more than 50 percent of the Argentine population, and there used to be more black people in Argentina than in Brazil, Argentina committed mass genocide against its African population, and I personally would never set foot in Argentina.
Argentina from 1868 to 1874, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, undertook a genocide' that wiped out the Afro-Argentinean population to the point that by 1875, there were so few Black people left in Argentina that the government didn't even bother registering African descendants in the national census.
Tellingly, Sarmiento wrote in his diary in 1848: What is [to be] done with such blacks, hated by the white race? Slavery is a parasite that the vegetation of English colonization has left attached to the leafy tree of freedom,” - International Business Times.
imagine they killed half their population. the land of Argentina was fertilized with the blood and bones of Argentina's former African enslaved population.
the food that grows in Argentina, and the grass that grows, for which the cattle graze on, was fertilized by the blood and bones of, its former African enslaved population,
that unique taste that you taste, when you eat food grown and grazed in Argentina, is the blood and bones of your former enslaved people.
African slaves built Argentina, and then the former slave owners paid back the slaves for the great works, toil, and effort, with mass genocide,
the most complete and comprehensive genocide in human history.
most of the present black and African population in Argentina are recent elite African and black immigrants, who did not arrive in Argentina until after 1980 and are not descendants of Argentina's African enslaved population. Argentina has gone a long way in whitewashing the genocide of its former African enslaved population, by allowing marginal mostly elite African immigrants, who themselves are somewhat anti-African, and tend to be very invested in absolving the European Argentine population of its genocide past, one of histories most comprehensive genocides committed against Argentinas descendants of Argentinas African population descendant of the trans-Atlantic slave system
@rascott2935 BASED
@rascott2935 like none of that is true btw, it is almost comical
@@JakeRunnels just look it up please, the information is there, please let me know if any of my research, or information is incorrect and I will change it.
@@rascott2935 That information is wrong: 1) this part of the virreinato wasn´t involved in huge plantation business like there were in USA, so there were few slaves. Argentina declared womb freedom in 1813 and THERE WERE LEGAL MIXED MARRIAGES SINCE XVI th century. 2) Spain wasn´t an enlaverist Empire, as England was (English Empire and then USA got wealthy from slavery).
Neither member of Messi' family has been kidnapped in Rosario. That is a false and misleading statement, You should take back your words and apologize.
You’re right they only shot his family’s store up and tried to murder them
Chill out…
Forgive us saint messi !
@@sibaroochiyou are forgiven!
Ehh? Awanta gilastrum
With the issue of the schedule it is a custom, an Argentinian who goes to another country is bothered that everything closes at 6 pm and cannot go to a restaurant at 10 pm, in terms of landscape, the geography is similar to the United States Most of it is flat but the mountain parts are few in relation to the size of Argentina, but it must also be said that the part of the mountains in Argentina have a surface area larger than an entire European country.
There is NOT siesta en Buenos Aires you are so wrong
I wasn’t talking about Buenos Aires
He did say “everything closes here at 3:00 or 4:00 pm”. The title of the video is “Pros and Cons of Living in Argentina” so when he said “here” I assumed it includes Buenos Aires since it is in Argentina. If he meant to exclude Buenos Aires, perhaps not say “everything closes here” and define where “here” is, no?
Correlating safety with the European ethnic make-up of the country was a spot on 💯
Someone gotta say it
@@JakeRunnels hola, soy de Argentina y creo que no tiene nada que ver. La inseguridad crece en las grandes ciudades, como en otras grandes ciudades del mundo. En Rosario, por el narcotráfico, es muy inseguro y son bastante blanquitos. Te vas a jujuy y casi no hay crímenes, sin embargo la población es mayormente aborigen. Entonces, me parece que tú mentalidad racista no encaja bien en Argentina.
@JakeRunnels ew, bolivia and peru is way safer than argentina
Bolivia and peru is safer than argentina
@flowershower6857 it’s dirty
Argentina is the BEST because is unique and incomparable with the others capitals of the región. Greetings friend.and enjoy it B
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Argentina is quite safe, in my opinion.
I agree
How much does Ground Beef cost per lb in Argentina? Tried googling it but all I could find was steak prices.
Idk, I just eat steak
About $8-$9 for a KG of Bife de Chorizo (NY Strip)
Great info, thanks for posting!
Thanks man
What I spend in a day / weekly / monthly budget vid, how to get residency, etc are what I'm looking for. Investor visa only 2k usd but they still have to approve it
How long does it take to be approved?
@@justbdsd4569 Idk, but you could go on your american 90 day visa and apply while there and they would probably approve by the end if its really possible
Agree about Colombia, my favourite place for nature and prices. Have you traveled to Cordoba and if so what was your overall view of the area as nature or outdoor activities go. Thanks for the video.
Jake Runnels, nice video keep up the good content
Argentina safety has nothing to do with “demographics” - it’s because it’s not directly in the major drug routes.
Interesting
the whiter the people the safer he feels it seems
@neptunemike it seems
@@JakeRunnels Don't be ashamed. Many Europeans are abandoning their people, be proud you have that internal bias.
@@neptunemikethat is generally the case.
Is it widely Spanish spoken like Colombia, or do they speak English or can you get by with English?
Not a lot of English
You may struggle and feel discouraged if you don't know Spanish. English is uncommon, even in BA.
En todas las escuelas primarias y secundarias se enseña inglés .
Argentina has its own version of Spanish. They have many different words and they use the "vos" form for you.
We are an Spanish-native speaker country, not English a lot (we have english in the school, but is very basic level...). Outside Patagonia turistic destination, a few places of North Argentine and CABA, is very uncommon english so I recommend you learn Spanish and also if you're not sure, carry on your favourite translation apps around 😅
Still planning on visiting BA in Sept. Conflicted if I'll live there, Colombia, or Lima. So spending time in each to see
All good options. I wouldn’t do Lima though. But you can dm me if you have questions
I've lived in Lima for over 6 years now and I wouldn't recommend it. It's getting worse all the time. There's a lot of crime, the traffic is awful, it's not as cheap as you might think and it's overpopulated. Looking out my window, there are about 6 apartment blocks being built withing 2 blocks of me and it's constant noise 8am - 5pm Mon - Fri and 8am - 1pm on a Saturday. It's the same all over Lima. Sundays in Lima are nice, when there's no traffic and noise. Apart from that it's noisy, dirty, disorganised - overall chaos. The food is great and the people in general are nice but can't say I recommend it. I'm used to it now and it's home for me. Also, you need to speak Spanish here to get things done. If you don't, I can imagine life here would be very difficult.
Why are you still there then?
@@JakeRunnels Like I said, I'm used to it now and it's home for me. I also have responisibilities here.
I'm Peruvian. Lima sucks. If you're even going to consider Peru, choose Arequipa or Cusco. Honestly the only cities in Peru worth living long term
Jake, I read that the people of Argentina are less friendly to Gringos than other Latin American countries. What is your experience? Also do you have any knowledge of costs for personal services like personal trainer, Spanish lessons, and salsa lessons? Thanks
They aren’t “less friendly”. If anything, the overt friendliness you see in other countries is something to be weary of in many cases. For the other stuff you can DM me.
El argentino no se deja pisotear con nadie. No tenemos el complejo de inferioridad de otros países de Latinoamérica. A la vez somos los más amigueros, nos encanta pasarla bien y si venís con buena onda te vas a hacer de muchos amigos como Dustin Luke, el es un genio.
@@fernando367ful Inferiority complex like other Latin American countries? You have obviously never met a Paisa.
They don't speak Spanish do they? I thought it was Portuguese
@@sibaroochi The only country that speaks Portuguese here in Latin America is Brazil. The rest, we all speak Spanish.
Thanks!!!!! damn good assessment!!
Thanks man
I wonder why Colombia denied your visa. This is what makes me nervous about selling everything in the usa and retiring to Colombia because they might not extend my visa in yhe future. Its hard to live with that uncertainty. Are you ever heading back to Colombia
@@user-rw718 they are tired of foreigners especially white sub-5 americans
@@flowershower6857 when you write something and you read it do you understand it because to me your words make no sense
Great videos man. Lots of useful info. Hope to see some videos with the beautiful women down there soon!
Haha idk it’s prob better to keep that side private but we’ll see
Yeah, Colombia is all freakin barrios. Brazil is even worse. I wouldn't even try to go out after dark there. Except may be touristy areas of Rio.
💯
Bro thinks Brazil is only Rio de Janeiro 😂
Agreed. Do not come here
This was a really good video. I thought from your description that Columbia sounded very depressing. Very interesting observation that despite the crazy fluctuation of the economy there you are not seeing the unrest that you think you would see in other countries under the same circumstances. I wonder why?? I heard Doug Casey say exactly the same thing in a video he did a year ago talking about Argentina today.
I think race might play a part in some things in the world
Hola, eso es porque la mitad del país votó al presidente que está ahora, y él avisó que ésta crisis iba a venir. Lo votaron igual y ahora se aguantan, esperanzados a que las cosas cambien. En cuanto pase el tiempo y ésto no mejore, la paciencia de la gente se va a acabar y va a terminar como en 2001.
@@JakeRunnelsno es un poco racista tu comentario? Los grandes ladrones usan trajes buenos y son bien blanquitos!
@@lalimasson What happened in 2001?
@@lalimassonyou just asked me if I was racist (which I don’t deny) and then said that whites are the biggest thieves. Who sounds more racist?
Outstanding communicator! You are on target and informative. You will die well. I just subscribed. I will check out your other videos. I am 71 and considering Paraguay residency as I live now with my wife in Oklahoma City. I am needing a couple flags other than USA.
Paraguay has some real nice benefits to it
Interesting detail about milk. Would you say Argentina has bad milk? Is it better in the US?
I’ve only found highly processed milk here. Maybe in some areas you can get fresh but it’s not easy.
I think it’s one of those weird areas where Argentinian gov again got bloated and over regulated something needlessly.
Other parts of Latam have better milk.
@@JakeRunnels In Argentina, milk is highly processed. I say this. I grew up in the countryside of Argentina drinking natural milk. Now I live in a town of 6,000 inhabitants, but I haven't seen them selling natural milk in more than 20 years. It surprises me that they do. Natural milk is sold in the United States, which has most highly processed foods.
Bunch of people so offended lmao. Offended? Probably true. Otherwise you wouldn’t feel the need to express it. Even the Argentine people will often tell you they’re safer than Columbia, Peru and Brazil. My wife is Brazilian. We go twice a year to Brazil. Her town is cool but there’s a hell of a lot more places there that I’d prefer not to be in. Unlike Argentina.
Very true
When one of the Pros is "relative stability", we may have a problem.
Relative to the USA, most major US cities are less stable
you are exactly correct, the only difference is that bother Canada and the US teach and inform their populations about the mass genocide of their native population. in Canada children learn the truth from primary school, in the United States, you have to wait until university. also in Canada, during any government gathering you have to acknowledge the former inhabitant's land you are on and briefly what happened to the people. this is usually done in Canada before the national anthem is performed. throughout the Caribbean, a similar acknowledgment is made as well.
You got the wrong title for your vid...You should've called it "Comparisons between Colombia, Ecuador and Argentina"... I was expecting to hear solely about Argentina, I'm not interested in other countires, so I'm dissapointed.
How do you know a place without understanding it in relation to other places, in this case America and other parts of LATAM?
I heard it's super expensive and dangerous.. 2 things everyone is saying.. They showed a store selling thermos mugs for $149 in another vid
Im new here but have you gone and visited MX mx yet?
Or like what about Spain?
Not yet but I’ve heard a lot about it
@JakeRunnels I appreciate the travel logs. I so wish I could travel, but not yet for me. If I had to make a choice to visit, I would definitely go see Spain. They say around 30% of people speak English there too.
@DorthyMoo im glad I learned Spanish
@JakeRunnels Me too. I'm sure it helps in certain countries. I haven't heard your Spanish, but ill check out your vlogs. I speak fluent Spanish too!
my family is from there always wanted to go and learn spanish lol
good video bro
o7
Don't miss learning the tango there. It will change your life and you can dance it all over the world.
A MESSI nunca lo secuestraron fue una nota 🙄
Ok
It is good you drink mate❤
;)
You don't eat until 4pm? Da phucc
sometimes
mate do they have science related jobs
Like what
@@JakeRunnels chemist,chemistry related and biomedical science
You really need to learn more about our food lol also there’s nothing weird with the culture, is just different. To us having dinner at 6 or 7 is insane lol
Like what
@@JakeRunnels from guisos, tartas, pascualinas, tortillas, pastas, pucheros and so on.
Why foreigns keep talking about siesta in Buenos Aires? That doesn't exist...
Who’s talking about Buenos Aires ?
@@JakeRunnels you talk in general in some specific parts but most of the video you talk about Buenos Aires or describe the Buenos Aires lifestyle. If regarding siesta, you weren't talking about Buenos Aires; you didn't specify it as you did in the parts of the video where you talked about other parts of the country.
That background music is a distraction, I quit watching after few minutes
Thanks for feedback
I’ll be there next month 🎉
Enjoy!
Dude, you’re all over the place. A third of the way through the video and I still don’t hear you lifting pros and cons, just a lot of meandering and digressions. Get your pros and cons on a list and educate us.
If you did it later in the video I’m sorry. I couldn’t continue watching and waiting for the pros and cons.
Are you wearing a helmet?
@@JakeRunnelsonly when I plough your mom
Lol
Pros: Beautiful women. Cons: Everything else
No
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏U R a ⭐!
Sos un crack ! ( in Argentinian slang )😉
Te felicito !
Mariano Scotti
Olivos, Buenos Aires
Thanks
We didnt build a wall ...for Mexicans...y la inflación te beneficia.Algunas leyes de politica inmigratoria deberian cambiar.🇦🇷
argenzuela
La inflación va a bajar (pero aún sigue siendo alta) Saludos !
Sure about that?
No estoy de acuerdo, la inflación continuará
@@DJSt3rling yo no dije que no continuara de hecho hasta USA tiene inflación la maquilla la FED con bonos del tesoro sino tendría mas. Yo dije que va a bajar no desaparecer.
@@JakeRunnelsyes. When you stop printing money there's no reason for prices to increase. Relative prices stabilize as the monetary base keeps the same... Not that hard to understand btw
@@JakeRunnels Argentina's inflation dropped from 25% to 4.2% even while rising subsidized services ( electricity, water, gas , GLP , etc, etc , etc ) in order to achieve budget superávit. Also while having endogenous emission for the quasi-fiscal deficit and so on and so fourth
Can you get by without knowing Spanish? Or u gotta know a lot of Spanish?
Depends on the city, Argentina is not great at English
@@JakeRunnels thanks 🙏 I was looking at Buenos Aires. I was trying to learn it.. I’ll get busy again! Thanks for the great content 💪💕
I thought they speak Portuguese over there
@@sibaroochi that’s Brazil
Please ,all of argentines that go to school LEARN English .Or you must learn a bit of Spanish .
yehaa well ...... no, you just don't know Argentina brother, perhaps buenos aires
A few years back I read an article* about how Argentina used to be a First World nation with White immigration-in fact the Argentine Constitution explicitly encouraged whitening the population with European immigration-and that's when a lot of the nice architecture was built. But then the Kirchners ruined it, importing hordes of brown illegals from Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Chile-and it's been all downhill since? How accurate would that appear now?
_“In those days, many thought Argentina was called to be the United States of the south. By 1914, it had the sixth highest GDP in the world. Thanks to immigration, it went from a population of 800,000 - mostly mestizos - in 1852, to 8 million in 1914. Eighty-five percent were white, and most of the remaining 15 percent were light-skinned mestizos, completely assimilated to Western culture. The concept of multiculturalism did not exist. Buenos Aires became known as the Paris of South America, with wide avenues, mansions, palaces, theaters, museums, schools, excellent universities, and renowned scholars and researchers.”_
* *_Argentina: A Mirror of Your Future_* , Gustavo Semeria, _American Renaissance_ , April 14, 2017
Immigration from those countries you just mentioned into Argentina is what actually ruined what could’ve been a great civilization and no one talks about it.
They just sit around baffled, “I wonder what happened to Argentina, it was going so well until… 🤔”
@@JakeRunnels
Populist Governments, Demagogues, Communists, Tyrants, "Socialists", Hypocrites!!
Etc....
Sadly, that's what happened!
Solo fíjate que presidente tomo la deuda con el FMI en 1956 y te vas a dar cuenta de como caímos en la trampa de la deuda eso significa que al endeudarte te presionan a tomar medidas que perjudican a la gente y al país y lo hacen cada vez más débil
You’d honestly want raw milk? Are you mad?
Yes, vrilk
Random but do you see other red head people there
It’s rare but possible
In Santa Fe province there are a lot of them
I'm red head, and I'm Argentinean. You will also find Irish descendants here.
Useless video unless you are in your 20s .
Useless comment unless you are a whiner
don't ruin your life by eating murder fiat food son, quit being a NPC
Please explain this “murder fiat food”, I’m interested
@@JakeRunnels He just means "Fiat Foods" in other words, artificial foods, Pizza, garbage. Food with little to no nutritional value
@DesignedInNola he’s calling the Argentinian food I described fiat food? Idk sounds weird, plus didn’t say I was eating that
Muricans "italians are not whiteee"
00:00 buttt argentines who are mixed with indigenous are whit- and if their country is safe is because of demographic 😂
The inflation is also because of their demographics? 🤣🤣
I dont think I said Italians are not white. And yeah its safer than the places that are less white generally, but it depends.
Italia está compuesta por muchas etnias y los argentinos de origen italiano son como los europeos del mediterráneo algunos blancos y otros de piel tostada, los de piel más tostada son descendientes de africanos que se mesclaron con espanoles y los indigenas argentinos viven en el norte del pais y algunos en la Patagonia y también hay en buenos aires pero normalmente son inmigrantes de bolivia y peru de tercera generación
Italians are a white ethnicity.
In other words......Still a clusterfuck down there....!!
Ya
It benefits visitors dummy
Down there at your home
Milei made it stable... for worse.
If you bring usd cash, is there a reliable place to exchange your dollars for REAL Argentine pesos? I heard of a scam where stores or vendors will give you fake money as change. Is it just safer to use western union?
Don't bring cash. Instead, just transfer your money to yourself online to Western Union. WU will give you the Blue Rate.