'Uruguay's is a safe country' Punta del Este

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Uruguay's is a safe country

Uruguay and Chile are the 2 most safe countrys in in all LatinoAmerica,

Expensive? I have friends that they live very well with only 500 dollars a month only 10 miles away from Montevideo....

If you have enough money to buy an apartment, then you should live very good with 500 Dollars a month, only you.

People in Uruguay are very educated since we are the #1 country when it comes to finishing High School, 97% of Mens and 98% of Womans finish High School in Uruguay.

I think Uruguay is a lot better than Argentina if you want to ritire why? In argentina they will kill you for your shoes anywhere a soon as they found out you are from the US, the same in brasil, paraguay, ecuador, colombia, peru, bolivia mexico, and all centro americans countrys such as el salvador guatemala.... the only 2 countrys where you can live a Safe life is Uruguay and Chile ( im talking in Latino america)

In october 19 of 2010 President Mujica said, Uruguay is getting very close to have an strong economy like Countrys in Europe.... Unemployment below 6%... My mother is an American citizen, im about to become and American Citizen very soon, and she is moving back to Uruguay in the next few years since L.A economy is bad, and L.A is not Safe...

I love the US and Uruguay, but im just saying to retire go to Uruguay, Costa de oro, Atlantida, Costa Azul, Piriapolis, Punta Del este, or if you want to be only minutes away from Buenos Aires go to Colonia, or if you want to be just seconds away from Brasil, go to Rivera.

That's a pretty harsh assessment. When I was living in Brazil, all my American colleagues managd to turn up to work alive..... and with shoes.

In short I love the place and it would take much force or vigorously enforced punitive taxes to shift me now :-)

Having said that, the country is not without its problems. The very large public sector and the obstructive bureaucracy make doing business here difficult and the very strong peso coupled with the startling rates of food price inflation make it MUCH more expensive to live here now than it was 4 years ago. This week the price of a 200 gram block of butter rose by 18.90% in my local shop. I think that most people would find it hard to live on 500 U$S a month now though it was possible 4 years ago when prices were lower, the dollar more valuable and income tax was just a gleam in Danilo Astori's eye :-)

No doubt the cost of living situation will reverse itself when the northern economies recover and we have our next crash but if you are looking for a place to live right now solely on the basis of the cost of living, Colorado might offer you a better deal than Colonia.

Although the rapidly rising costs hurt me a bit, I am in the happy position of growing the very crops that are getting so expensive (wheat and soya) so I will survive. Even if I wasn't, the ROU is a great place to be whether you are rich or poor :-)

There seem to be few Americans wandering about Colombia, except for certain places like Cartanega when the cruise ships arrives. In other places people might ask if I was Canadian and if I responded that I was American they were happy. None seemed to have any interest in my shoes!

In Argentina I never felt unsafe, but maybe getting killed for my shoes would have been a better experience than the way I felt those in the hospitality industry generally treated me!

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ROFL!!! I know what you mean. I once made the error of taking an airport taxi and felt that I was lucky to escape with my luggage intact :-)

OTOH I experienced nothing but friendly helpfulness outside Buenos Aires and even won myself a free cream tea for speaking Welsh at a little town near Puerto Madryn.

Uruguay, to me, is a bit naive about the ways of thieves, for example, allowing rental cars to bear stickers identifying them as such. In the 1990´s Florida had to outlaw that practice, thanks to thieves who had come to understand rental cars as fonts of easy booty.

Are there places to avoid? Sure there are, almost anywhere. There are also conditions to avoid - finding yourself drunk, very late night, in a strange neighborhood is as stupid in Seattle as it would be in Tijuana, for example.

How do I choose? The granny check: If you see older women walking on a street alone at night, giving no signs of nervousness... why not? Anyway, the U.S. State Department was reported last week to be considering issuing Travel Warnings for Europe. A suspicious soul might be tempted to conclude that many reports and rumors of difficulties faced by travelers abroad may have more basis in the desperation of a domestic travel industry without travelers rather than any basis in reality.

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Do you feel ‘safe’ or is it safe? These for me are two very different scenarios and you would perhaps need to define safety first. Of course you can feel unsafe and it really is unsafe.

I read in the EL Pais newspaper yesterday of a spate of violent assaults in the affluent Carrasco area - forced entry into homes by gangs wielding arms, murder – and an armed robbery of a Carrasco restaurant, all within a 45 day time frame and most targets having the most sophisticated security available. Feeling safe when it’s not or feeling unsafe when it is one thing, but when you are presented with these shocking stats the reality is in front of you. I don’t think I should become complacent as to the dangers abound, but rather understand and react to them by reducing any risk where possible based on the data and trusted local knowledge I receive. The obvious ones here are to keep a low profile, not to flash your valuables about. Be watchful near ATM’s etc.

It’s a sad fact but there are individuals about who would gladly relieve you of your valuables at an unlimited cost and in some areas of the world that becomes more accentuated. I feel then that the important message is to react to the information and dangers around as discussed; be safe, and as a consequence, feel safe.

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