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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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Monday is the Memorial Day holiday in the United States. It is a holiday which honors those who gave their lives fighting in America’s wars.
Even though I am NOT a fan of post Ronald Reagan America, I cannot help but wonder what kind of world we would live in, even here in Uruguay, without […]
Judging from the phone calls and conversations I have had, it seems as if some people just don’t understand (or refuse to understand?) plain English.
In my previous post, I quoted attorney Mark Teuten as saying, in part, that housebhold goods…”can be brought in free of tax within 6 months of the grant of permanent residence.” […]
For months there has been a discussion regarding rules on bringing household goods into Uruguay duty-free. As usual, there are many conflicting sources–even among the various websites hosted by the Uruguayan government and its consulates in various countries.
Attorney Mark Teuten graciously volunteered to do the legal research for us and provide us with a definitive […]
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 […]
My last blog entry about ANTEL and the ridiculous and insensitive way in which it operates drew more comments than any other entry I’ve written, at least for a very long time. The truth is that I really hate to say bad things about anything in Uruguay, and I feel an obligation to tell […]
I never thought that I would ever find any telecommunications company anywhere that was worse than Costa Rica’s state owned company called ICE, the Costa Rican Institute for everything electrical (probably including the static electricity you generate by shuffling your feet on the carpet). ICE is responsible for electrical power, telephones, cellular telephones, Internet […]
Despite the fact that Uruguay is the least Christian country in South America, I am amazed at the increase in piety whenever there is a Christian holiday to be celebrated. Its seems that even communists and atheists are converted, at least for the duration of the holiday. To show this piety, the majority […]
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, […]
About six months ago, the time change was easy: the US and the EU went back to standard time, while Uruguay simultaneously started using summer time. The net effect was that we became two hours farther from the US, and two hours closer to the EU.
At two o’clock tomorrow morning this process will […]
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 […]
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