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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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Very early this past Thursday morning I returned home to Uruguay after a 12 day trip to Panama. I had not been there in four years and was interested to compare it to Uruguay since it had been the prime alternative to moving here.
Panama was incredible! It was the most dynamic city I […]
It has been more than 17 years since I was last covered by health insurance. Because of the brain tumor I had removed in 1990, I was considered “uninsurable”.
Providentially for me, I enjoyed decent health until the accidents that crippled me in 1998. By that time I was living outside the United States, […]
One of the things about which I am most pleased is the fact the Internet service provided by Antel is getting much better. The bandwidth has increased, while the prices remain the same.
Last year, in a desperate search to get sufficient bandwidth we bought an expensive router that would aggregate Internet bandwidth from two […]
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 […]
There has been a lot of confusion in immigrant circles about exactly how the new personal income tax will impact on their lives here in Uruguay. As a public service, our attorney, Jun Federico Fischer of LVM Abogados & Consultores has written the folowing extremely valuable article and given me permission to publish it. […]
With the cost of medical care spiraling upwards in the US, I thought you might be interested in what my maternity ward stay cost me.
The Doctor charged US$300 for he and his team.
The Hospital charge me US$400 for the private room, the srugical suite and miscellaneous items.
The US made balloon for my stomach cost US$1700 […]
Last week, I took the first small step in what will surely become my biggest adventure in Uruguay to date. As my regular readers know, after seven years of torment, the Staph infection in my leg is finally gone. The two worst results of these long years of infection and rigorous treatment […]
After months of waiting, the printed version of “The Southron’s Guide to Living in Uruguay” is finally available online at: http://www.lulu.com/content/579686.
This is a full-sized, 8½ x 11 inch paper back, with color covers and black-and-white inside. Because of its large size is much easier to read than the pocket-sized edition produced locally. The price for […]
After nearly 2 months of effort, our success in getting the Internet bandwidth that we need is so infinitesimal that I can hardly restrain myself from doing my imitation of a sailor who just hit his finger with a hammer. When compared to the improvements in our Internet, snails race across the garden wall, and […]
A few of my more astute readers may have noticed that I have not published much in the blog over the last nine days. For some this is been a tremendous service, as it has helped them develop their own creative talents; the result of which has been rumors of my death, dismemberment, deportation, hospitalization, […]
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