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Argentina strikes me as a strong combination of "desirable" and "open". Virtually anyone can become a citizen, and it's a prosperous enough country, currency de
by rconti 7y ago
Argentina strikes me as a strong combination of "desirable" and "open". Virtually anyone can become a citizen, and it's a prosperous enough country, currency decline notwithstanding.
- TremendousJudge 7y agoFor people in the US and Europe, South America is more remote than Svalbard
- prawn 7y agoFor those in the US, it might be 1-2 affordable flights and in the same timezone? Someone elsewhere in these comments suggested Svalbard would be 40 hours and $1200+.
- kmlx 7y ago“it's a prosperous enough country” define prosperous please. from my knowledge argentina is a financial basket case since a century ago.
- longlivedeath 7y agoA century ago it was the world's 10th wealthiest state per capita. Right now it tops the list of the upper middle-income group, so is almost a high-income country, and per capita is richer than, for example, Russia.
- kmlx 7y agoExactly. It went from a rich nation to a poor nation, to default, back to poor and free markets, then to progress then again back to the IMF. It’s a classical basket case country.