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The best lifestyle in the world for the price… This is the journal of The Southron, an American Emigrant from Florida who has spent the last decade living in the West Indies, former Yugoslavia and Costa Rica. He moved to Montevideo, Uruguay at the end of February 2006... |
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So, in the same spirit that I accepted that the letter Z might be pronounced Zed instead of Zee, I decided to take the metric plunge–so I changed my electronic weather station and every one of my internet weather links to Celsius. I do. however, keep a conversion cheat sheet under the glass on my desktop.
But how the heck do you convert between the two?
Last night I took my longest ride yet in Montevideo. I went all the way from Carrasco in the Easternmost section of the city to Prado, which is somewhat West of the city center.
It seems that in parts of Latin America political correctness flows over into geography and becomes Geographical correctness
The official name of the country is República Oriental del Uruguay / Oriental Republic of Uruguay. Contrary to popular thought, and unlike the West Indies, which Columbus thought were part of India, it is NOT based on a mistaken notion by an explorer that he had found China or Japan.
There are other little things that, I'm sure are perfectly normal here, but a little strange to the gringo eyes of the Southron
Since a number of my readers are actually considering moving to Uruguay, I have been asked for more information on prices.
“If Uruguay is so nice, why aren't more Expats living there?”
Unanswered reader questions on the word Southron, bank accounts, shopping, church and weather.
Metric paper sizes trip up the Southron.
US goes on Daylight Time - number of hours difference with UY changes again.
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