Our good friends spent the summer in Argentina. Couple things I found interesting. Nearly no hard currency was utilized/available, even for cab rides or small items bank trasfers (or some kind of digital currency) was utilized, to the point they had to call an Argentinian friend in the US to pay for a cab when leaving the country. Inflation was a major issue for locals, our Argentinian friend who hosted works out of country to own property and support his mother in country.
You had to show IDs to buy grocerys. The idea of this makes me very uncomfortable.... I could deal with it as a visitor, terrifying to think that could be a thing here...
Got pulled over on the way to the airport for no reason and had an "interesting" interaction with local authorities, no bribes or anything, but very invasive. Purportedly child trafficking is a big issue there and the authorities were making sure all everything was above board with all the kids in the car.
LOTS of MEAT. Our friend struggled with it, wouldn't both me in the least.
Our friends are very well traveled (have lived in Europe/Africa/Scandanavia/Afghanistan/Asia) and said they would go back and spend time, but some of the Gov/Social/currency issues are pretty sketchy.
You had to show IDs to buy grocerys. The idea of this makes me very uncomfortable.... I could deal with it as a visitor, terrifying to think that could be a thing here...
Got pulled over on the way to the airport for no reason and had an "interesting" interaction with local authorities, no bribes or anything, but very invasive. Purportedly child trafficking is a big issue there and the authorities were making sure all everything was above board with all the kids in the car.
LOTS of MEAT. Our friend struggled with it, wouldn't both me in the least.
Our friends are very well traveled (have lived in Europe/Africa/Scandanavia/Afghanistan/Asia) and said they would go back and spend time, but some of the Gov/Social/currency issues are pretty sketchy.
