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South America rivals or even surpasses the popularity of Europe and Asia and is now one of the trendiest digital nomad hotspots in the world.
It is highly sought after for its warm culture, warmer climate and receptiveness to foreigners. The country is witnessing a sharp increase in remote work trends as more nomads move south of the tropics, temporarily or permanently.
Although it is no shortage of incredible options to choose from, from the tropical Caribbean coast of Colombia to the lesser-known northeast of Brazil, it’s one that’s been making headlines lately for both its accessibility and low cost of living.
The nomadic capital of South America
Argentina is the unofficial digital nomad capital of South America, with the city of Buenos Aires currently the top destination in the region for this category, as verified via the CV builder website CV.io.
As the company states, no other South American destination has registered as many impressions in the ‘digital nomad’ hashtag as Argentina, or more specifically Buenos Aires, bots excluded.
Digital nomads who live abroad are known as one close-knit communityand they often share their experiences as foreigners working remotely from another country in their social media profiles, allowing researchers to assess how many of them are based in a specific area.
While certainly more open to digital nomadism, many national governments are not yet fully following digital nomad trends, leaving us to rely on rough estimates based on geotags in social networks such as Instagram and TikTok.
Be that as it may, Buenos Aires and its motherland have risen to the top number one spot this year, an increase over last year’s report.
Buenos Aires for the win
Buenos Aires attracts millions of regular visitors due to its established co-working culture. It has an abundance of work-friendly cafes and restaurants, as well as co-working spaces where fast, reliable WiFi is readily available.
This is partly fueled by the city’s growing expat community and their rising demands – to take on the challenge of becoming a nomadic hotspot, Argentina has had to modernize itself and open up migration routes for interested parties – but also for the country’s thriving startup scene.
Buenos Aires is not only called the ‘Paris of the South’ for its beautiful, European-inspired architecture, but is also one of the economic capitals of South America, home to countless startup projects and an incredibly exciting environment for young nomads and entrepreneurs.
Argentina is incredibly safe
Americans moving abroad in particular tend to choose destinations carefully, based not only on the infrastructure available and the size of the expat community, which often facilitates integration and helps create a sense of belonging, but mainly on the basis of safety.
Argentina is currently one of the few countries in the South to have achieved this goal a level 1 certification from American authorities.
This means the country is on the same list as Iceland, Finland, Croatia and other hugely popular, traditionally safe European destinations when it comes to safety levels.
Buenos Aires, for example, is a huge city with more than 15 million inhabitants, but its crime rates are drastically lower than those of most of its counterparts in the wider Mercosur and Mercosur-associated region, including Rio in Brazil and Medellin in Colombia. , both places where violence is skyrocketing.
Traveling to or moving to Argentina, Americans are not even urged to exercise ‘greater caution’ when visiting. That doesn’t mean crime doesn’t exist:
Argentina is a developing country with developing world problems, and you still need to avoid neglected areas in the suburbs and beware of pickpockets, but you don’t need to maintain an extremely high level of situational awareness as you stroll through downtown Buenos Aires as you would do in, say, central Medellin.
The second cheapest destination for digital nomads
Furthermore, nomads are flocking to Argentina to take advantage of the shockingly low cost of living and further increase the value of their hard-earned dollars.
You see, the peso is going through a particularly rough patch right now, trading at record lows against the dollar, and a few thousand dollars would probably get you by – or even allow you to live relatively comfortably – in many Argentine cities, including Cordoba, La Plata and Mendoza.
Buenos Aires is definitely more expensive, but even in the capital, prices are much lower than the US average NomadsList it takes an average of $1,776 per month to live and work remotely there.
In general that is true the second cheapest destination for digital nomads in the world, only behind Sri Lanka.
Visa for digital nomads that is easy to apply for
And then of course there’s the fact that Argentina has launched its own Digital Nomad Visa, allowing nomads to set up a base in the country without having to resort to complicated visa runs or breaking immigration law.
To qualify, nomads only need to be able to demonstrate an income of at least $2,500 per month and that they come from a foreign company not based in Argentina, or from other entrepreneurial projects that meet the same criteria.
Since the average nomad would earn between $2,000 and $3,000 per month, this means that Argentina one of the easiest and most accessible countries to work remotely.
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