Living in Argentina

A paycheck in Argentina lands around the middle of the global range, and the tax on it is not severe, yet the cost of daily life runs high enough that most of what you earn goes straight back out, with little left to put away. For a newcomer the steeper problem is simply getting hired, since the market leans on existing connections and arriving without a local footing makes for a slow search. IT is the clearest opening, a field where outside experience carries weight and where English alone takes you further than it would in most other work.

Argentina has long been Latin America's great receiver of people, and it still is. Around 1.8M residents were born abroad, the 3rd-largest immigrant population in the region, drawn overwhelmingly from neighboring countries — 517.4K from Paraguay, 337,000 from Bolivia, and a fast-arriving group from Venezuela. Growth has been flat, just 3% over the decade, but the country remains a net destination, taking in well more than the 1.2 million Argentines who live overseas.