Yes 100%

Yes, healthcare is free here. Utilities is included in my rent.

I’m not upper middle class, medically retired from the military though. My money goes phenomenally farther outside the US. Why I picked South America. But other expats I have spoken too, that are wealthy, retired, very successful and prominent former engineers, real estate investors, etc. there was one thing they all said and that I’ve also come to personally notice.

The quality of life outside the United States is far better and costs very little. I’m renting a one bedroom with a balcony in a new building in Buenos Aires in a affluent quiet part of the city, 25 minutes from down town for 400 USD. Fine wine and steaks every night, clean organic healthy food, very nice fancy gym 20 min walk away, eating out at nice restaurants a few times a week.

I used to work in South Florida a lot for many years. The way I’m living now in Argentina had it been in Fort Lauderdale or Miami I’d need to make a minimum of 5-6k a month to live how I am now.

Counting my rent, going to restaurants a few times a week, grocery hauls with plenty of ribeye steaks nice wine, gym membership, I maybe spend around 600-750 a month.

Milei recently being elected doesn’t affect me and am not worried about it. People here are hardy and is not the first time they dealt with recession and an unstable economy.