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If you want to have a great experience, I would suggest South of Brazil (something like country from Rio Grande do Sul or Santa Catarina), Buenos Aires in Argentina, or my favorite spot Montevideo, Uruguay. In the 3 options, you can live well with 1k USD and have one of the best times of your life, without a super huge cultural shock. Have fun!

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South of Brazil is alright, but as someone who lives in Porto Alegre it is not really 'safe'.

By far the best place to live in Brasil is São paulo (state) countryside. Very safe cities, close to urban centers, not expensive at all. Santos is also pretty nice but 1k might fall short.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_municipalities_in_S%C3...

well, with 1k USD in Sao Paulo, almost 5k BRL, you won't do much. For sure its the best city, but I'm sure in cities like Jaragua do Sul, Blumenau and Floripa in Santa Catarina, is way cheaper and with a great live quality. Regarding Rio Grande do Sul, I wasnt thinking about Porto Alegre, but Sao Leopoldo and Caxias do Sul. BTW Rio Grande do Sul has a great game development scene.

+1 about South of Brazil. USD 1k with BRL as it is, it's more than enough to get an entire middle-class apartment for yourself and pay for all utilities in any neighborhood. (I'd not recommend largest southeast cities because you could feel "back" in L.A. traffic).

As I've experienced trying to rent a place in SF, in Brazil even largest cities are _waaay_ easier. You'd have to talk directly to an owner (since it would be difficult for you to prove income) but it wouldn't be a problem finding them and renting for less than a year.

Language will not be a problem, there's a startup scene if you feel like talking shop, and plenty of places to see and visit. You'd have all the infrastructure to stay for a long time.

I live in Uruguay, it's not an alternative, it is very expensive. Good quality of life, but you don't live well on that budget. You need up to 2k a month (one person) to live well. Brazil and Argentina are very insecure and economically unstable.

I live in the south of Brazil, it's pretty safe, but it depends on the city.

You can go pretty far with 1k USD here. Also pretty well served in terms of free healthcare, but I don't know how it works for foreigners.

You can get a tourism healthcare plan. I have one that I use while I'm outside of Europe, I pay less than 10 euros/year and can spend up to 90 days abroad of EU.

I came to say that Argentina is a very good option. You can live more than fine with that amount (specially if you sell USD in the black market, which at the moment pays like 70% more than banks). You’ll also be able to meet a lot of high quality artists, programmers, etc. There are a lot of coworking spaces, a local game dev scene, nice restaurants, a vibrant cultural scene, etc. There are many things to complain about, but coming as a tourist you might very well love it. Buenos Aires is pretty pretty safe, as long as you avoid certain places and behaviors (e.g. don’t dress like a tourist and flash expensive things).

I currently live in Montevideo and it's surprisingly expensive. Complaining about the prices is very very common. That said, it's very nice and safe with great quality of life overall. It does get a bit boring over time.

Isn't Argentina currently under a strict lockdown?

I fail to find in the question, the time period when the user is planning to do it. I wasn't assuming he is planning to do it literally right now.

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