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Timeout

Posted on July 21, 2007
Filed Under Uncategorized | 6 Comments

I would like to inform regular readers that I will be writing much less often from now on. The illness that kept me bound to the home has improved dramatically and I can now leave the house and face the world again. This means however that I will have less time to devote to the blog.

Over the next few weeks I will reorganize the main page to better cater to new readers that discover this site every day.

Thank you,
Brazzie

Atlántida

Posted on July 16, 2007
Filed Under Places, Nature | 11 Comments

Atlántida is a resort town 45 km east of Montevideo with pretty beaches, tall shady trees and a small and charming downtown. In the early half of last century, it was the destination of the jet set, not unlike Punta is today. Nowadays however, it is just one more of many popular summer destinations for Uruguayan vacationers.

Atlántida has a year round population of 4,000 inhabitants but swells to many times that size in January and February. Since it less than an hour away from Montevideo, on weekends it receives bus loads of visitors from the capital and the surrounding areas. However, the balneario has a better infrastructure than might be expected from a small town: good restaurants, bars, several large supermarkets, small shops, cyber houses, telephone company, cable company, bus station, schools, policlinicas, etc. Read more

Ship or Carry?

Posted on July 11, 2007
Filed Under Transportation, Expat Tips, Immigration | 5 Comments

Sooner or later, anyone considering life abroad needs to tackle the question: do I ship my stuff of do I bring all-I-can-fit in my suitcases? In a previous article, I mentioned that my wife and I had recently been converted into the shipping group. However, when I reread the article today, it occurred to me that I should have discussed the pros and the cons of shipping as well. Read more

The Appliance Dilemma

Posted on July 7, 2007
Filed Under Transportation, Expat Tips, Immigration | 18 Comments

As most of you may already know, we are planning to move to Uruguay in the next couple of years. For some time now, the subject of whether to ship our household goods or have a large bonfire keeps coming up between my wife and me. My wife was more inclined to the bonfire approach (donation, really), while I have been more partial to the prune and ship approach.

After months of debate, we are now both firmly in the camp of bringing the stuff with us. And we have Urufish to thank for it. He helped settled the issue once and for all, by writing about the trans-hemisphere moving process and the costs associated with it. Read more

Uruguay as a Retirement Destination

Posted on July 4, 2007
Filed Under Real Estate, Cost of Living, Immigration | 11 Comments

A reader asked me to compare retirement incentives offered by the Uruguayan government versus incentives offered by other countries such as Costa Rica, Panama, Belize, Nicaragua, Honduras etc. Since I don’t know much about those countries, I decided instead to write more generally about the advantages and disadvantages of Uruguay as destination for retirees. Even though the incentives offered by the Uruguayan government to foreign retirees aren’t many, there are several other factors that may be just as important when comparing countries. Read more

Can You Take the Heat?

Posted on July 1, 2007
Filed Under Real Estate, Cost of Living, Weather | 9 Comments

The subject of heating has already been covered very competently by several expat bloggers living in Montevideo; see here, here and here for example. So why do I feel the urge to write about this subject again? Because despite all the information available, I think many North Americans and Northern Europeans will still assume that because the Uruguayan winter is milder, there is nothing to worry about. And they may wrongly assume that all homes are heated and they will have the same comfort they are accustomed to back home. This would be a big mistake. Read more