Shoot me a DM on IG if you'll be traveling to LATAM 🌎 in 2024: instagram.com/jake.runnels/ (@jake.runnels) I will be organizing some adventures with some subscribers 😉

Correlating safety with the European ethnic make-up of the country was a spot on 💯

@JakeRunnels

17 күн бұрын

Someone gotta say it

@lalimasson

14 күн бұрын

​@@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.

@flowershower6857

5 күн бұрын

​@JakeRunnels ew, bolivia and peru is way safer than argentina

@flowershower6857

5 күн бұрын

Bolivia and peru is safer than argentina

@JakeRunnels

5 күн бұрын

@flowershower6857 it’s dirty

Great info, thanks for posting!

@JakeRunnels

15 күн бұрын

Thanks man

Thanks!!!!! damn good assessment!!

@JakeRunnels

Ай бұрын

Thanks man

Great videos man. Lots of useful info. Hope to see some videos with the beautiful women down there soon!

@JakeRunnels

Ай бұрын

Haha idk it’s prob better to keep that side private but we’ll see

Thanks for the info! Care to comment on why you plan on moving to the next country if you are enjoying it there?

@JakeRunnels

Ай бұрын

I like to mix it up

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.

@JakeRunnels

11 күн бұрын

Paraguay has some real nice benefits to it

Argentina is the BEST because is unique and incomparable with the others capitals of the región. Greetings friend.and enjoy it B A

good video bro

@JakeRunnels

Ай бұрын

o7

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! 🤣🤣

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

@justbdsd4569

23 сағат бұрын

How long does it take to be approved?

@jeoboden

23 сағат бұрын

@@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

I recently came across a statistic that Argentina is only 1/4 countries in the world who’s population of children 0-10 is older than 10-14. Does it seem like there’s a lot of families there?

@lalimasson

14 күн бұрын

Si, aquí la gente todavía no perdió la costumbre de tener hijos! 😂

I’ll be there next month 🎉

@JakeRunnels

23 күн бұрын

Enjoy!

Interesting detail about milk. Would you say Argentina has bad milk? Is it better in the US?

@JakeRunnels

16 күн бұрын

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.

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.

@JakeRunnels

Ай бұрын

I think race might play a part in some things in the world

@lalimasson

14 күн бұрын

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.

@lalimasson

14 күн бұрын

​@@JakeRunnelsno es un poco racista tu comentario? Los grandes ladrones usan trajes buenos y son bien blanquitos!

@WeDidntExpectthis

14 күн бұрын

@@lalimasson What happened in 2001?

@JakeRunnels

13 күн бұрын

@@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?

Still planning on visiting BA in Sept. Conflicted if I'll live there, Colombia, or Lima. So spending time in each to see

@JakeRunnels

Ай бұрын

All good options. I wouldn’t do Lima though. But you can dm me if you have questions

@inglesconmatt

Ай бұрын

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.

@JakeRunnels

Ай бұрын

Why are you still there then?

@inglesconmatt

Ай бұрын

@@JakeRunnels Like I said, I'm used to it now and it's home for me. I also have responisibilities here.

@DesignedInNola

Ай бұрын

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

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

@flowershower6857

5 күн бұрын

@@user-rw311 they are tired of foreigners especially white sub-5 americans

@user-rw311

5 күн бұрын

@@flowershower6857 when you write something and you read it do you understand it because to me your words make no sense

Is it widely Spanish spoken like Colombia, or do they speak English or can you get by with English?

@JakeRunnels

Ай бұрын

Not a lot of English

@DJSt3rling

Ай бұрын

You may struggle and feel discouraged if you don't know Spanish. English is uncommon, even in BA.

@liliangarcia7364

6 күн бұрын

En todas las escuelas primarias y secundarias se enseña inglés .

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

@JakeRunnels

Ай бұрын

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.

@fernando367ful

Ай бұрын

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.

@robertheintz8017

Ай бұрын

@@fernando367ful Inferiority complex like other Latin American countries? You have obviously never met a Paisa.

@sibaroochi

18 күн бұрын

They don't speak Spanish do they? I thought it was Portuguese

@zerdnelemo

Күн бұрын

@@sibaroochi The only country that speaks Portuguese here in Latin America is Brazil. The rest, we all speak Spanish.

It is good you drink mate❤

@JakeRunnels

12 күн бұрын

;)

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?

You don't eat until 4pm? Da phucc

@JakeRunnels

15 күн бұрын

sometimes

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.

@rascott2935

11 күн бұрын

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

@JakeRunnels

11 күн бұрын

@rascott2935 BASED

@JakeRunnels

11 күн бұрын

@rascott2935 like none of that is true btw, it is almost comical

@rascott2935

11 күн бұрын

@@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.

@alavalle69

10 күн бұрын

@@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).

Why foreigns keep talking about siesta in Buenos Aires? That doesn't exist...

@JakeRunnels

6 күн бұрын

Who’s talking about Buenos Aires ?

@marianaperalta2409

6 күн бұрын

@@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.

Argentina safety has nothing to do with “demographics” - it’s because it’s not directly in the major drug routes.

@JakeRunnels

Ай бұрын

Interesting

@neptunemike

Ай бұрын

the whiter the people the safer he feels it seems

@JakeRunnels

Ай бұрын

@neptunemike it seems

@DesignedInNola

Ай бұрын

@@JakeRunnels Don't be ashamed. Many Europeans are abandoning their people, be proud you have that internal bias.

@smorgan125

27 күн бұрын

⁠@@neptunemikethat is generally the case.

Can you get by without knowing Spanish? Or u gotta know a lot of Spanish?

@JakeRunnels

19 күн бұрын

Depends on the city, Argentina is not great at English

@wk9dog

19 күн бұрын

@@JakeRunnels thanks 🙏 I was looking at Buenos Aires. I was trying to learn it.. I’ll get busy again! Thanks for the great content 💪💕

@sibaroochi

18 күн бұрын

I thought they speak Portuguese over there

@wk9dog

18 күн бұрын

@@sibaroochi that’s Brazil

@liliangarcia7364

6 күн бұрын

Please ,all of argentines that go to school LEARN English .Or you must learn a bit of Spanish .

Im new here but have you gone and visited MX mx yet?

@DorthyMoo

25 күн бұрын

Or like what about Spain?

@JakeRunnels

25 күн бұрын

Not yet but I’ve heard a lot about it

@DorthyMoo

25 күн бұрын

@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.

@JakeRunnels

25 күн бұрын

@DorthyMoo im glad I learned Spanish

@DorthyMoo

25 күн бұрын

@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!

Random but do you see other red head people there

@JakeRunnels

Ай бұрын

It’s rare but possible

@nerynoir8747

17 күн бұрын

In Santa Fe province there are a lot of them

@zerdnelemo

Күн бұрын

I'm red head, and I'm Argentinean. You will also find Irish descendants here.

Neither member of Messi's family has been kidnapped in Rosario, that is a false and misleading statement and you should take back your words and apologize.

@darrylp6938

Ай бұрын

You’re right they only shot his family’s store up and tried to murder them

@mlbonfox8199

23 күн бұрын

Chill out…

@sibaroochi

18 күн бұрын

Forgive us saint messi !

@civetricamoto

17 күн бұрын

⁠@@sibaroochiyou are forgiven!

@ignaciokairuz

5 күн бұрын

Ehh? Awanta gilastrum

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.

@mlbonfox8199

23 күн бұрын

💯

@Portuguese_boy86

16 күн бұрын

Bro thinks Brazil is only Rio de Janeiro 😂

@flowershower6857

5 күн бұрын

Agreed. Do not come here

A MESSI nunca lo secuestraron fue una nota 🙄

@JakeRunnels

18 күн бұрын

Ok

That background music is a distraction, I quit watching after few minutes

La inflación va a bajar (pero aún sigue siendo alta) Saludos !

@JakeRunnels

Ай бұрын

Sure about that?

@DJSt3rling

Ай бұрын

No estoy de acuerdo, la inflación continuará

@Sinergy42

Ай бұрын

@@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.

@ignaciokairuz

5 күн бұрын

​@@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

@ignaciokairuz

5 күн бұрын

​@@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

Don't miss learning the tango there. It will change your life and you can dance it all over the world.

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.

@JakeRunnels

Ай бұрын

Are you wearing a helmet?

@jimlechuga3193

Ай бұрын

@@JakeRunnelsonly when I plough your mom

@sibaroochi

18 күн бұрын

Lol

don't ruin your life by eating murder fiat food son, quit being a NPC

@JakeRunnels

Ай бұрын

Please explain this “murder fiat food”, I’m interested

@DesignedInNola

Ай бұрын

@@JakeRunnels He just means "Fiat Foods" in other words, artificial foods, Pizza, garbage. Food with little to no nutritional value

@JakeRunnels

Ай бұрын

@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? 🤣🤣

@JakeRunnels

4 күн бұрын

I dont think I said Italians are not white. And yeah its safer than the places that are less white generally, but it depends.

In other words......Still a clusterfuck down there....!!

@JakeRunnels

Ай бұрын

Ya

@mlbonfox8199

23 күн бұрын

It benefits visitors dummy

@alavalle69

10 күн бұрын

Down there at your home

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

@JakeRunnels

Ай бұрын

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… 🤔”

@rothirigoyen

23 күн бұрын

​@@JakeRunnels Populist Governments, Demagogues, Communists, Tyrants, "Socialists", Hypocrites!! Etc.... Sadly, that's what happened!