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This is the journal of The Southron, an 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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Archive for November, 2008

A Good time to leave the US?

Posted by The Southron on November 21st, 2008

For those of you debating whether or not it is a good time to leave the US, I suggest you read the article and download the report you can find online at:  BBC NEWS
Not interested?  Here are the first three paragraphs, they may change your mind:

US economic, military and political dominance is likely to decline [...]

All good things must come to an end.

Posted by The Southron on November 15th, 2008

As many of you know, I am moving my house and offices away from our home for the last two years.  The Customer Service operation for my “real” business will move to Centro while I will move to the suburbs.
Because of the distance, it will be impractical to continue the Open Houses at my home [...]

Buying Anteojos (glasses for those who know less Spanish than I do)

Posted by The Southron on November 15th, 2008

I love small businesses! While some can be very bad, many are extremely good, and almost all are distinctive.
In the last few weeks I had the opportunity to visit a small business that was so friendly and helpful that I decided to give them a plug here.  The business is Meerhoff Optica at the corner [...]

I’m not sure the old Thanksgiving some really “works” as amended, and I sure as heck haven’t figured out how to work in the part about the sleigh–somehow a carrito just conjures up the wrong image.
Nevertheless, Thanksgiving is coming again and we will be celebrating it in our new tradtional fashion just like last year [...]


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