What Americans Need to Know Before Moving to Argentina 2024

Hi! In this video, I talk about what I’ve learned after living here for three years. If you’re thinking about moving to a new country, I share some of the most important things you should know before coming to Argentina.

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[derekallen]

This content is so sick. I really appreciate getting honest information from people who put the boots on the ground. Muchas gracias amigo.

[bgemchk]

I’m a green-eyed blond from the US who was was surprised and delighted to be asked by an older Argentinian gentleman if I was Mexican 😂 I’ve spent a Lot of time in Mexico and never ever has anyone mistaken me for a local. But it does tell you that I speak Mexican Spanish!

[bautiabaro]

I just recognized the background of my neighborhood, my building is on the back!! Punta mogotes !!! Big love from Austria !

[Juanparomaruk]

Bro
"Bro, I'm from Argentina, and when you pronounced the names of the places, you sounded like an actual Argentine. That blew me away!

[LucioFletcher]

That's my city brother !! Mar del Plata city... Welcome! Hope you having an awesome experience here, much love and blessings !

[leandroluna]

Dude thank you for this video, I’m an Argentine living in the US and I want to move back but I’m skeptical… This video helps a lot! Thank you

[evafreshesco]

Yeah, appreciate this video. I was there in the beginning of the year. Went to San Rafael Mendoza. Fell in love with the culture. I found that it is expensive but depends on your lifestyle. I will be moving to malargue very soon from Brooklyn. I’m most likely going to have to import a vehicle and just pay the premium because you are right with the imports, just to buy something off the internet might take 3 weeks to a month to receive it. Argentina is a beautiful place food, culture, sports, wine and still get all seasons; just a spectacular country.

[alavalle]

Castellano is the same that Spanish: it´s called castellano because the language was originated in Spain´s region called Castilla. In Buenos Aires, Argentina, we speak rioplatense dialect. Nevertheless, among Spanish speakers, we understand each other.

[guillesrl]

Dude 'Castellano' and Spanish are the same thing. Buenos Aires and most of Argentina's dialect is actually called Rioplatense, as in from the Rio de la Plata basin

[ebayguy]

this is great info for those considering moving to Argentina. 😎👍

[rr]

I watched your apartment tour a year ago. Glad to see your uploading consistently, subscribed!

[Patrick.Edgar.Regini]

Hola Poemita, Good to see you again. I don't know if I simply missed passed episodes, but it's good to see you're still around. AND EN LA CIUDAD DE MI CORAZÓN! (Castellano es not a dialect. It's proper Spanish in fact the name says where it originated, Castilla) ;-) But Argentinean Spanish is yes, influenced by Italian (many people commonly say that, but I do believe other influences seeped in early on as well ) What IS a "dialect" or was in the process of becoming a dialect is Lunfardo, which does have a lot of Italian influence. It had its heyday back in the early 20th century and was used a lot in Tango lyrics as you know. Unfortunately it has been diluting very quickly and hardly any of it remains. Some people use words today like "laburo" to say work, and they don't even know it comes from Lunfardo. But Castellano refers to Spanish. That's why in High School the subject is called or at least when I was a kid, was called Castellano.
You know... the history of that area you're filming from is geographically very interesting. Where you are standing was ocean shore and or sand beach. When the French built the harbor in the late 1920's and early 30's all that sand started accumulating and formed in very little time what is now "La Reserva Ecologica", where before there was ocean. At the same time sand stopped depositing in Playa Chica until it disappeared completely in the 1970s. Right behind you, you can actually visibly see the drop along the highway that used to be where the land came down onto the rocks and sand. It's a huge heartbreak actually because those rocky granite shores only occur in Argentina between El Faro de Punta Mogotes and Punta Iglesias and La Perla. So when they built the harbor smack in the middle of that 12 or 14 km stretch they obliterated three natural sandy bays or about one/third of it. What's worse is that where they chose to put the harbor was probably the nicest or most picturesque area with tons of brooks and spring water "manantiales" that poured into the ocean. Unfortunately there is no photographic record of that particular area, or maybe there is in some archive construccion company office in France. To build those two huge breakwaters or "arms" that contain the harbor they literally ate up a couple of low granite hills that used to face right up against the coast where the Escollera Sur starts, flattening them out completely. You can still see remnants of that behind "La Central 9 de Julio" power plant. Plus they scraped away a bunch of rocky coast line, and entombed a couple of lovely babbling brooks that used to spill out onto those beaches. Like in Punta Iglesias. Did you know that La Diagonal Alberdi is on an angle like that because underneath is the original stream Las Chacras, around which the first settlement was built. Tragic!
If you're interested in this subject I have some material and pictures I've been publishing about this in our Facebook group "Mar del Plata Piensa su Futuro".
Un fuerte abrazo desde Italia amigo!

[federicofernandez]

We’re sorry for all the nightmare you had to go through trying to buy basic things like you do in the US, but Peronism just destroyed almost all posibilites to achieve cheaper goods from outside. Hopefully Milei will begin to change all that shitty model for us to become a normal country once again.

[dl]

my friends paid a 60% down payment on a brand new Toy-ota in Buenos Aires and 1.5yrs later they still don't have a car. After taking their money AND some quotas (monthly payments) the dealer simply nullified the contract. My friends are suing now. As they should. Crazy and crazy different compared to the US.

[warrentrout]

Ive lived in Japan, the Emerits, and travel the world. Argentina sounds insane.

[FranciscoMartinez-pgku]

Wish you would have talked out the seasons and how cold weather affects the everyday living during those times!

[willpeterson]

Dude, awesome video. Idk if it's your tone or what but i really enjoyed this video a lot more than most "living abroad" content. Very refreshing : )

[marielabrasca]

ESPERAMOS MILEY AGILIZE LA ECONOMIA Automotriz y de electronicos baje impuestos y importar sea mas facil es una de sus metas espero sea pronto 🙏🙏🙏

[Gladiola]

As an Argentinian living in the USA, I know that Mexican Spanish is taught, instead of a neutral Spanish, both in schools and in companies that offer classes to their employees. I know this is a fact, because I participated in classes at my company to show the “students” the difference between Mexican Spanish and our Castellano Rioplatense.

[lovesongsmebombom]

With the great president Milei in just a couple of years all the problems will end and just the good stuff will remain in Argentina