I'm a rails developer, working on setting up an office in Montevideo for entp.com, i was the architect on yahoo fire eagle, and worked with the yahoo folks on pipes, before that i built odeo.com. Needless to say, i do startup stuff.<p>There are lots of good developers here, both Montevideo and Buenos Aires. The overhead of running / logistics of a company here are much harder than the US, but the cost of doing business is lower, with a few exceptions. You need 10 months deposit to rent an office! Crazy expensive. Also paperwork on incorporation is a pain in the ass.<p>There's a MontevideoValley and PalermoValley, which are more biz focused groups in both cities trying to cultivate startup culture. I recommend you go to their meetings, hang out / work from the coworking spaces... (we're starting one in montevideo, there are currently two in buenos aires).<p>Hope that helps.
Hi there,<p>I'm the CTO of United Virtualities with our main production office (and myself) based in Buenos Aires.<p>There are some pretty neat tech companies in BA in the lookout for talent and you'll have a blast here as well.<p>Do contact me at llopatin@unitedvirtualities.com.
I lived in BsAs and Montevideo for over a year (all of 2007).<p>I seriously doubt you'll find a company based in Argentina that will pay you enough to live the lifestyle you want (I'm making a pretty big assumption about your lifestyle based on my lifestyle coming from the US). That having been said, there are tons of smart developers there and the community is pretty great. A lot developers seem to focus on outsourced work for other countries, notably the US.<p>I guess the biggest question is what do you want to do? Are you a web developer? What do you do now?<p>Congrats on the move... I bet you'll love it there. I did.
You'll have lots of fun, regardless. :)<p>Send me an email (in my profile) and I'll check around. I know a few people in Brasil and Venezuela.<p>Maciej Ceglowski of Yahoo Pipes fame spent a year in Argentina, maybe you can ask him?
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Bar Camp Buenos Aires last year was lots of fun; you can check out my post about it. I missed it this year. It's true that Chile is more capitalist; that could be an advantage or disadvantage depending on your point of view. My wife and I just got our work visas last week after working on it for a year and a half. (It's much easier if you aren't trying to set up a new Argentine company, without Argentine employees or partners, at the same time.)
Move from where? Consider getting income from "the first world" (US, Europe etc.). Income levels are not the same in Argentina. But many things are cheaper, such as food. The beef is great :P<p>Computers or other things imported from "the first world" are hit with high import taxes. For instance if you want a laptop take it with you from "the first world" where it's cheaper.
Hey there,<p>I'm a freelance rails developer, done a bunch of startups and working on several new ones based in Europe and the US and I've been here for 3 months already. This city is amazing, and I've met a lot of programmers (even American ones doing the Tim Ferriss thing). When do you arrive? Feel free to email me, msethi@stanford.edu.
Why Argentina?<p>I'm considering spending a couple of months there next year to improve my Spanish while I hack away on a web app. A few years ago I lived in Guatemala for awhile and really enjoyed it. The people I met there were really warm and inviting.
If you want to go grab a beer and talk about the local scene, drop me a line. I'm an American web developer who's lived down here for about 6 years. My email is norman@randomba.org.
Hey J.P. here! I work in keegy.com, and help with the organization of PalermoValley.com<p>Glad to see that some of the folks (Llopatin, Diego) already gave you a nice welcome :-)<p>In just one HN thread you managed to meet some of the top Argentinean IT players :-P<p>I'll love to share a glass of wine with you and the rest of the guys that just commented, so drop me a line: JuanPablo(at)Keegy.com
Direi dal tuo nome che sei italiano... o sbaglio? In any case, good luck, but IMO there are better places to go if you want to avoid some of what's wrong with Italy. Just guessing, though:-)
Hi!. I'm from Buenos Aires too.<p>We have BarCamp, WordCamp, PallermoValley, TweetBaires, Starbucks, and a few Apple resellers. What else do you need to live here?