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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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Last night I went to a birthday party Piriápolis. I arrived fairly early, getting there a bit after midnight. (Parties only really get going here at midnight and run until dawn the next day, or even later.) Being old and feeble, I left around 2:15 a.m.. Riding home on the main highway along the coast, […]
The Copperhead was the first one of our group to file for his residency and get his “in tramite” visa. I was second, and Borko, who showed up a year later, was last.
On Monday I collected my new permanent Cedula at the DNIC. On Friday, exactly 1 year after arriving in Uruguay, or […]
If anyone is planning to come to Montevideo in the next month or so and would be willing to bring a couple of pounds of personal items for me, I would be most grateful.
Although I can get 99% of the things I need here, there is always that little bit that I need brought in, […]
Yesterday, the intrepid crew of the newly arrived land yacht, the Blue Bullet, set off on a shakedown cruise into undiscovered country. Borko was at the helm, I was navigating, and Harry was our security officer (when he wasn’t barking at the livestock, he was testing which of the three seats in the back […]
I am constantly asked about Uruguay’s cost of living–and being a terrible shopper, I have a hard time answering. I am so absorbed with running my business that I rarely know the real cost of anything that doesn’t come across my desk.
I know real estate is cheap compared to the US and ridiculously cheap […]
No, that is NOT a summary of the weather, my attitude and my language. It is actually a phrase denoting approbation for Gran China at San José 1077 in Centro. Yes, there is actually a Chinese restaurant that offers something other than Cantonese bland and Urguayo Cantonese double bland…
You may recall that a […]
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