Uruguay

Anyone been there? Know anyone who lives there?

Trailrunner wrote:Anyone been there? Know anyone who lives there?

BOY!! That's a loaded question for anybody that's followed this board the last year or so.

I'm afraid to answer.

uruquay:

Endless brown beaches fronted by murky seas and unprepossesing urban sprawl annexed from the earth´s snottiest political subdivision known laughingly as Argentinistan as defined by the muddy Rio Plata. If Uruguay did not exist at present it would be too soon.

hound dog wrote:uruquay:

Endless brown beaches fronted by murky seas and unprepossesing urban sprawl annexed from the earth´s snottiest political subdivision known laughingly as Argentinistan as defined by the muddy Rio Plata. If Uruguay did not exist at present it would be too soon.

I knew someone would have a scientific answer...so Pete, your off the hook...rest easy and take the day off.

A friend of mine has been exploring S. American locations for a possible move and says Uruguay is very expensive; she's thinking more like Ecuador.

How does one think more like Ecuador?

The best place to settle in South Ameica is Colombia if you are an old fart. Brazil if you are young and energetic. Guayana if you want to escape San Francisco and start a cooperative farm and know a couple of thousand morons who love Kool Aid.

slainte39 wrote:

hound dog wrote:uruquay:

Endless brown beaches fronted by murky seas and unprepossesing urban sprawl annexed from the earth´s snottiest political subdivision known laughingly as Argentinistan as defined by the muddy Rio Plata. If Uruguay did not exist at present it would be too soon.

I knew someone would have a scientific answer...so Pete, your off the hook...rest easy and take the day off.

Thank you Lord.

hound dog wrote:How does one think more like Ecuador?

The best place to settle in South Ameica is Colombia if you are an old fart. Brazil if you are young and energetic. Guayana if you want to escape San Francisco and start a cooperative farm and know a couple of thousand morons who love Kool Aid.

Being somewhat of a francophile Dawg, I thought you would have suggested FRANCE.

Yes, France, a member of the the EU with euros, french cuisine, and all, exists in SA with one of it's integral departments called (in English), French Guiana.

Is it Paris?....No!
Just a suggestion.

Since Dawg´s darlin wife is a Parisienne, one might wonder why Dawg and Dawgette chose Mexico as a place in which to retire. Let me sum it up:

* Almost endless springlike sunshine vs. many months of cloudy, cold drear.
* A home in Mexico that, as an example, might cost $200,000USD versus $2,000,000USD for a comparable dwelling in a nice place in France. Dawg lives in two, count them, two, fantastic houses in Mexico for what a closet would cost in France.
* So, France has its foie gras and champagne which are two substances I love. I´ll settle for a tamal and tequila at 1/10th the price and and you can kiss my butt.
* The sour and constantly pissed off dispositive French vs. the also nasty but more civilized Mexicans.
* An extraordinarily inexpensive cost of liveing in Mexico, especially Chiapas, vs. an absolutely obscene cost of living in France. In France they tax every Goddamed thing including, by GOD, the right to f*cking even breathe the air.

You wonder why Dawg retired to Mexico rather than France or some U.S. Texas Shithole? Wonder no more.

No need to get angry...was just askin'.

I just remembered that famous line in the movie "Papillon" with Steve McQueen, when the French Commandant of the Devil's Island Prison said to the new arrivals....
"Welcome to French Guiana".....
that helped to make your point.

slainte39 wrote:No need to get angry...was just askin'.

I just remembered that famous line in the movie "Papillon" with Steve McQueen, when the French Commandant of the Devil's Island Prison said to the new arrivals....
"Welcome to French Guiana".....
that helped to make your point.

Or, for that matter, the commandant at the prison supposedly in Louisana but actually located inear Stockton, California who said to Paul Newman, "Whut we have heah is a failure to c´mmunicate."

Actually, however, Dawg was referring to Guyana and Jim Jones who was a hero in San Franxcisco until he left for Georgetown and later Jonestown a few decades ago. The family victims of the Jonestown massacre opened an account in my Downtown San Francisco bank branch just after their relatives were destroyed by that event. I wonder what happened to that money. It was a pittance since Jim Jones stole all the real money they ever accumulated.

MexicoPete wrote:

slainte39 wrote:

hound dog wrote:uruquay:

Endless brown beaches fronted by murky seas and unprepossesing urban sprawl annexed from the earth´s snottiest political subdivision known laughingly as Argentinistan as defined by the muddy Rio Plata. If Uruguay did not exist at present it would be too soon.

I knew someone would have a scientific answer...so Pete, your off the hook...rest easy and take the day off.

Thank you Lord.

I've been to Uruguay and I really liked it. I took day trips there when I lived in Buenos Aires so I didn't get anything but brief impressions, but I thought it was charming.

No way José,

We went there for a day while in Buenos Aires one time. Montevideo. One day was more than enough.

Fiends of ours looked at houses on the internet. You gotta be kidding me. They were really pricy and not very attractive.

E-raq wrote:No way José,

We went there for a day while in Buenos Aires one time. Montevideo. One day was more than enough.

Fiends of ours looked at houses on the internet. You gotta be kidding me. They were really pricy and not very attractive.

Kinda like LAS?

Don't get upset John...just jokin'.

The Gold Coast is worth considering - reasonable real estate, fairly affordable cost of living but you will require heat in the winter, it gets cold at night.

Info from a friend who retired there.

Si, Axixic that is what my research is revealing - however, it has become a little more expensive than it was, especially food and restaurants. It looks like a beautiful country with good politics, nice people, lots of business and investment opportunities (if one is so inclined) and you don't have to re-up every year as an expat. I'm more interested in the hill country with the lakes and river than the coast as I imagine it gets pretty humid. Yes, cold in the winter!

I've looked at a lot of sites but this forum stands out for real info:
http://www.expatexchange.com/expat/index.cfm?frmid=320&s=16

Check the cost of living thread.

Uruguay. Riviera to snotty Buenos Aires overreachers. Like Tapatios farting higher than their assholes looking down on the locals at Lake Chapala who serve their elevated butts while providing them undeserved status above those they exploit. What could be more excrutiatingly uncivil than the way the rich in Latin America treat those who daily wipe their asses to hide their stink and help them maintain phony delusions of social superiority.

The Alabama I grew up in in the 1950s was a dreadful place but never this decadent.

Trailrunner wrote:I'm more interested in the hill country with the lakes and river than the coast as I imagine it gets pretty humid.

My friend who retired there was a beach person; I don't recall if he even looked into the hill country so no information, sorry.

I can tell you that he bought a nice place on the Gold Coast for about US$100K (five or so years ago) and was living comfortably on about $1500/month for the two of them even up to last year. I never went there but from his descriptions and photos it looked very appealing. His wife was fluent in Spanish and I imagine that helped a lot - I didn't get the impression that there is a great deal of English spoken.

Trailrunner wrote:Si, Axixic that is what my research is revealing - however, it has become a little more expensive than it was, especially food and restaurants. It looks like a beautiful country with good politics, nice people, lots of business and investment opportunities (if one is so inclined) and you don't have to re-up every year as an expat. I'm more interested in the hill country with the lakes and river than the coast as I imagine it gets pretty humid. Yes, cold in the winter!

I've looked at a lot of sites but this forum stands out for real info:
http://www.expatexchange.com/expat/index.cfm?frmid=320&s=16

Check the cost of living thread.

Please PM me re "the hill country, etc." We have a young friend who just did 4 months volunteering in the Uruguayan hinterlands. I look forward to "debriefing" her shortly. A highly educated, and well funded gem. Her parents are now off the hook. She does it all herself, never afraid of a day of paid work in her life. Trilingual now.

One thing that is nice about here is the airport. I found many places to be
too expensive to come and go as tickets are high. Uraquay was high if I
remember correctly.

Z

Thanks, Axixic, good info.

Borderreiver, I'll PM you. But, I've been looking Department by Department on YouTube and the lay of the land and the towns of the hill country and I'm not sure that is what I'm looking for either. Maybe you have different info. . .