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07/11/11 14:03

Patrick

Rural east Colonia departmento

To quote Obama... yes you can :-)

When I first arrived I lived in a couple of hovels before buying the chacra of my dreams and building/rebuilding myself a modest mock castle. I was fortunate in that a hovel next to my land was vacant so I rented it informally for a year.

I have an Irish neighbour who lives about 10 kms away. He and his wife rent a rather nice larger hovel with a co-operative landlady who has allowed them to insulate the place, install a split air conditioner, a woodstove etc. His landlady rents the rest of her land to a local farmer as my neighbour writes i-phone, i-pod etc applications for a living. He is currently thinking about buying the place on instalments.

Most such rentals are done informally so the only way to find them is by word of mouth.

I used to pay 200 U$S/month in rent plus electricity and I think my Irish neighbour pays about 300 U$S for his nicer hovel. Most will come with a well, some form of water pump/header tank system, a cess pit, shower and a loo.

Foreigners buying or renting smallish plots of land to live on is socially acceptable... prolly because we are a nation of immigrants. There is a general feeling that those of us who live in the campo rather than in "cities" are to be pitied as only serious farmers, recluses and people on the run would want to live in the campo. :-)

I play-farm about 30 acres but I confine myself to growing crops and trees rather than keeping livestock. Long ago I owned a commercial pig farm in the UK so I'm a believer in the East Anglian proverb "Where there's stock there's trouble."

Simple timber pre-fab houses are available here. I've heard stories about people living in containers but bearing in mind the climate, I'd have thought that the heat of summer and the cold humidity we can get in winter would make some sort of house the preferred option.

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