Being considered a digital nomad seems like a very distant dream for some of us, but nothing prevents this from becoming real for the people who work in the regime. home office or work remotely for a portfolio of clients. This has become quite common in the areas of technology and digital marketing.
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This is a case similar to that of Washington Ávila. The 27-year-old made the unusual decision to leave to live in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The plan is to stay in the country for just a little while. Thanks to the devaluation of the peso, Ávila says he is experiencing moments of ostentation. “It's a superpower that Brazilians have here,” he pointed out.
monthly expense
Adding up all the basic costs, such as rent, food and leisure, the figures are around R$4,000 and R$5,000 per month in the city. Today our currency is equivalent to 26.78 Argentine pesos at the official exchange rate. However, the quotation is already close to double that in parallel, as the exchange system of the country next door adds up to a total of 13 quotations, which ends up being very different from Brazil.
Because of this, even though Ávila works for a Brazilian tech startup, he also manages to live in a big city somewhere else, perfect another language and still sees his money being valued more than in São Paulo, where he lived before he packed his bags and left for outside.
“I manage to have a comfortable lifestyle with a lower salary than in Brazil, despite the economic situation in Argentina”, he says. In the country where he has been living in recent months, inflation could reach 90% this year.
Ávila uses a Western Union account to be able to use the salary he has received in real in Argentina. This value is converted into the blue dollar, which has a parallel quotation to the US dollar. Following this information, R$4,000 ends up turning into $208,838 Argentine pesos today.
According to a report by Estadão in July, this Western Union company has gained some strength among Brazilians who make their trips to Argentina by offering a more advantageous quotation to travelers.
The young man has plans to return to Brazil to be able to fulfill some commitments at the end of the year, however he considers the idea of being able to to change permanently to Argentina.
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