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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 week I was sitting at my desk, pretending to work (I have to keep the staff fooled) when I heard the alarm on our Land Rover go off. It was parked at the curb right in front of the house.
I looked up and saw two kids running away as fast as they could–a […]
During the 27 months I was in Costa Rica I was cheated, scammed and lied to by so many people that it is hard to keep track. However, the misadventure that is foremost in my mind happened almost immediately after my arrival there. It was my first encounter with a real live cannibal.
One of the […]
There are several stories that I started and not completed for one reason or another. Now, I can provide a least a few answers.
A Corporal Work of Mercy: You may remember the taxi driver that was killed: and that we collected about $350 for his widow and children. It took several months, help from friendly […]
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 […]
Just the other day Clara wrote something in the forum about the crime rate seeming to be high when you are the victim. Having been the victim once or twice I completely understand what she means: even if the odds are one in one million and you turn out to be the one, the effective […]
I figured out why so many people think Uruguay is boring: there isn’t enough spectacular crime here! Sure, there are run-of-the-mill purse snatchings, amateurish muggings, inept burglaries, some very boring occasional robberies gone bad, and the usual tawdry crimes of passion. But compared to some of the places I’ve lived, Uruguay’s crimes are […]
After the daylight break in last week I determined that it would be a good idea to have a proper alarm systems here at my house/office, especially since we have so much equipment. Accordingly the existing minimal system has been vastly upgraded to include perimeter alarms, motion detectors, breakage alarms, laser tripwires, 4000 volt […]
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, […]
You may remember that a month ago one of the Americans visiting Uruguay had his passport stolen in Ciudad Vieja. Today, I was pleased to learn that upon his second trip, he checked in with the police, and to his surprise they had recovered his passport.
We also had a scare this morning when one of […]
Rhett Butler’s famous demurrer seems to be the state of the Law here in Uruguay, at least insofar as it applies to fraud–at least on a one-to-one basis. No where has this been more clearly demonstrated than in the ongoing plight of the couple from the UK who had everything stolen minutes after moving […]
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