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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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I have come to the conclusion that the three monkeys, “hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil” are in charge of Uruguay’s strategic plan for providing for its handicapped citizens, residents and visitors. They way this works is that
you see no handicapped people out and about
you hear nothing about handicapped people, and
no […]
Guest entry by Adrian, a British gentleman living in Slick Willy land (Arkansas to those who don’t recognize the reference):
We both thank you for your kind hospitality shown to us, it was really great to meet the team.
It seems that interest in the area is gathering momentum, during our stay at the Plaza Fuerte we […]
Today is Uruguay’s Día del Patrimonio. Every year during this weekend, Uruguayos celebrate their prized old buildings, plazas, historic sites, statuary, light houses, gardens, homes of famous people, antigue cars. churches, national monument–all of the things that endow this small country with its very rich history.
Indeed, as I ponder it, Uruguay’s rich sense of […]
What do you do when you want a left-handed doorknob? Or a Magic Marker? Or fried eggs sunny-side-up? Or a harness for a handicapped service dog?
Many of these things will NOT be in your phrase book, nor will they be in your PDA. And if you use the online translation from Babelfish, […]
It only took me 7½ months to figure out that a tiny bedroom desk was not big enough for me to work from.
I really hate buying new things when I am transition (remember I am still in a temporary 10 month housing arrangement) for fear they will not work in the next place. I […]
Well actually no, Gerry Rivers aka Geraldo Rivera was born in New York, not in Rivera, Uruguay.
For those of us who, six months ago did not even know it existed, Rivera is a city with a population of 70,000 people on the border (frontera) with Santana Do Livramento (pop. 40,000), Brazil. I recently took a […]
Tomorrow, Saturday October 7th, my business partner, the Copperhead turns 30. To celebrate we are having a Uruguayan-American picnic and any readers that are in town are invited.
Jimbo, our Uruguayo office manager will do the asado, The Southron will make some fried chicken. In addition there will be a few green things for […]
This blog has condemned International Living and others for engendering foreign carpet baggers and I stand by that denunciation. But it is also time to nip in the bud the few local Scalawags* who are preying on the expats who are trying to make a life here.
* Scalawag was a term of opprobrium reserved […]
Thanks to Enzo, www.UruguayLiving.com has been moved to its new website and format. If you don’t see all the comments here yet that is because they are in the process of being moved one at a time and there are something like 330+.
This new format will allow a lot more customization than the one […]
And the correct answer is….
E) All of the Above. It really depends on what kind of account, at which bank and from which country you have a passport.
The entire process is counter intuitive.
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