The problem being where to stash your cash. Certainly not the local banks!
It doesn't help that former local banking center Uruguay radically changed its laws.
My understanding is that rich Argentinos tend to have offshore accounts.
La Salta--the guy is trying to create a South American version of Sun City. But I want to grow crops. There are some good croplands in the irrigable river-valleys, but they're a bit pricey. Not as bad as here, but high enough. And the whole country is drought-prone except for bits of land far enough south and west to catch some of the rain before the Andes block the rest of it.
That's the problem with the Andes--too much rain on one side and not enough on the other. Southern Chile is largely temperate rainforest--like Juneau Alaska or the Hoh River rainforest here. Patagonia is high dry and cold. Not severely cold though--I see Cordyline australis growing in the background of pictures of the Welsh colonies in Patagonia. Probably fairly decent wheat country.
I've seen some really stunning pix of some parts of the country. Chile is probably even more beautiful, with its mountains and seascapes.
Pix from the vicinity of Bariloche:
Cheaper version of Italian Alpine Lakes district? It gets cold enough to snow every winter, but it's not severely cold. I think we decided it was the same latitude as Lake Tahoe, but not as high elevation. Winters slightly colder than mine but not by much.
