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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 no preference for either party in the upcoming elections in the US. I have not voted since I left the US in the spirng of 1998. I am, by inclination a libertarian, but those urges are tempered by an inherent utilitarianism–I simply seek things that are the least intrusive, have […]
One of the members of the SociedadSouthron.net forum was shocked when he realized that the new Uruguay personal income tax, due the middle of next year, will create a tax conundrum for US persons:
Uruguay will not levy income tax on any foreign “unearned income” such as dividends, pensions, annuities, and other income from investments, however
the […]
It may not be a tough as giving birth, but it sure was a lot of work. The file was created on 22 July 2006, at 11:25:02. The last modification was made this morning (I hope). In just a few days less than 100, The Southron’s Guide to Living in Uruguay has […]
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 […]
A young man who had just moved here from Novsibirsk in Russian Siberia me told me that he found the Internet in Uruguay to be “inexpensive, reliable and fast”…
PEOPLE ARE BEING SENT TO MONTEVIDEO FROM INTERNATIONAL LIVING’S “URUGUAY EXPERTS” (in BA of course) AND ARE EXPECTING TO FIND APARTMENTS ON THE RAMBLA FOR U$S20,000!
The short answer is damnyankees of course…
But seriously, this is not about my well founded biases against arrogant jerks from North America or Europe–rather, it is about those who probably just shouldn't come here because Uruguay won't work for them. My heaven could well turn out to be your hell!
These are the Seven Deadly Sins of moving to Uruguay…
I went to the Hospital Militar–the Armed Forces Hospital in Monevideo. That was not a typo, the Military Hospital takes private paying patients as well. I went to them because they have a very advanced wounds trreeatment unit which includes a hyperbaric oxygen chamber that I hope will finally do away with a 6 year old wound with a Staph infection.
CAVEAT EMPTOR! Let the buyer beware!
This maxim applies to the privately owned side of internet industry here in spades. The people that run at least two of these companies make the carpetbaggers look like philanthropists.
The experience of a Swiss gentleman regarding cellphones, getting residency and health insurance.
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