>I'm researching coming to Montebvideo in July. Should a single
>doesn't drink or smoke and only likes to dance for fun be able to
>get by for around $2K (US). I'll be looking for a room/small studio to
>stay. I write for an online magazine and also do some YouTube
>stuff so I'll be willing to pay for decent internet.

You scared me with $200 in the subject line. :-) You should be able to live ok on $2000 a month if you're not extravagant.

Others might want to chime in on the health care situation.

>P.S. I assume my debit card will work in the atm's there, right?

Mine work fine. Has anyone else had problems with the ATM cards that have chips in them?

brian

Post a Reply

00abuse

Choosing an expat health insurance provider is an important decision. Get a quote from our trusted expat health insurance partner, CIGNA. With Cigna Global Health Options, you can create an international health insurance plan that's perfectly tailored for the needs of you and your family.

Learn More Get a Quote

There have been a lot of folk having problems with US and Canadian cards recently. You may have to go into the bank if you cannot get money from the machine.
Some are saying the limit is $200 US now with a foreign card, I have not tried it.
Keep in mind if you eat in small restaurants, many only take cash.

Airbnb is worth looking at for accommodations.

Post a Reply

00abuse

>Some are saying the limit is $200 US now with a foreign card, I
>have not tried it.

The limit appears to be $300 per account. The problem is that for some ATM machines, $300 plus the transaction fee is more than $300. So the machine tells you to enter a smaller amount. So you enter $280, and the machine tells you to enter a multiple of $100. :-/

We use BROU ATM machines and pull out pesos. This gets us maybe $290 a shot.

The banred machines don't seem to work with my cards.

I've heard of some people not being able to use AMT cards with chips in them though. It appears to be that the machines don't support them. I suspect that the machines will get upgraded here at some point though.

Post a Reply

00abuse

Crazy Farmer:

You mentioned health care. Honestly, healthcare isn't a big issue with me.

Art

Post a Reply

00abuse

OK...so, regarding the ATMs and withdrawal size... I'm guessing there's no restriction on doing a withdrawal every day, right? I'm really not a big spender so as long as I can get some 'round' amount every day or two, I'd be OK. Actually, the card I use now (just a debit card where my pittance of a salary in deposited, is from UAE.

art

Post a Reply

00abuse

The daily limit at BROU ATM machines is 7500 pesos per day. For one person, this is a lot.

Post a Reply

00abuse

I'm confused. Are you coming for 10 days @$200 a day? or Are you coming for the entire month of July for $2000?

I would agree with Crazy... if you live frugally, $2k will last you a month. Therefore, if you meant $2K for 10 days, you're golden.

Suggestion... 1) Get a flu shot before you come, if you can. and 2) Bring a little cash in case you have an ATM problem.

Post a Reply

00abuse

> Get a flu shot before you come, if you can.

Do not ever get a flu shot for any reason anywhere in the world ever.

Just No.

Post a Reply

00abuse

Also since you pay the ATM fee (100 pesos at BROU in our case plus 3% from our bank in the US) you pay extra for your cash. Using a credit card like VISA where they take it seems to make sense as you are never transferring the cash. On the other hand you'll pay at least 20% less at the ferias (little farmers' markets) which take place in every neighborhood at least once a week, so you need cash for that, little neighborhood stores and some restaurants.

Post a Reply

00abuse

Crazy farmer, are you a doctor?
I agree, get a flu shot.

Post a Reply

00abuse

Hi afj21:

Well, I might not have been clear on that. If I come, it will be in July, around the 18th, and I'll be intending to stay for as long as I can as a tourist. My understanding is that I can get a tourist visa for 90 days and then renew it one time.

Correct me if I'm wrong on that.

I'm sort of a 70 year old (now) world vagabond...and a writer. And I'm starting to do some work in internet marketing. My income is limited but my health is good and I'm single and flexible for traveling.

There's a few difference places I'd like to see still and, in South America, Uruguay is one of them...because I'd like to learn to Tango. I might enjoy Argentina too except that I hear bad things about the government there so I'm not considering that at all.

Regards,
Art
skype: atwill4

Post a Reply

00abuse

If that message about the atm fee was for me...the fee isn't a big deal. I really don't spend much money on useless stuff. If I come, and depending on where I stay, I may not be doing much cooking. I typically eat one meal a day with maybe a snack or a liter of milk in-between. Pretty much all I do for fun is go dancing (Salsa, Bachata, Kizomba) and I'll be looking for Tango lessons if I come to MV. I spend a lot of time online, writing and doing some remote support.

Thanks,
Art
http:/about.me/artwilliams

Post a Reply

00abuse

>Crazy farmer, are you a doctor?

Are you?

By the way, my wife is a registered respiratory therapist. My daughter is currently studying this in medical school. And there are many, many doctors who agree with me.

I think it's idiotic to blindly trust a medication or vaccine simply because "experts" tell you it's safe, when those same experts have a conflict of interest, and other experts point this out while claiming they're unsafe.

>I agree, get a flu shot.

Enjoy your poison.

Post a Reply

00abuse

Just wondering if you are an expert on the topic or if this is just a personal point of view.

I did work in healthcare for over 40 years and believe in science based medicine such as

http://www.redwineandapplesauce.com/2014/10/10/33-flu-vaccine-myths/

Uruguay is promoting flu shots right now and they are available free at many medical clinics.

Post a Reply

00abuse

>crazyfarmer
>Do not ever get a flu shot for any reason anywhere in the >world ever.
>Just No.

I 100% agree!

Post a Reply

00abuse

>Just wondering if you are an expert on the topic or if this is just a
>personal point of view.

I take the health of my family seriously. So seriously that I began researching this subject several years ago when more than a few experts with credentials better than both of us began asking serious questions about the safety of vaccines. Some of them published information on the subject questioning vaccine safety and were promptly ostracized by the medical community, rather than having a fair and open scientific dialog on the subject. They were ostracized because they threatened someone's cash cow.

As an aside, this happens in the greater scientific community all the time... scientist with good credentials discovers something that either threatens someone's cash cow, or threatens preconceived notions of how the world should work, and they're promptly ostracized, no longer able to support themselves. This is a powerful motivator to toe the mark in the scientific community. So much for the objectivity of science.

>I did work in healthcare for over 40 years and believe in science
>based medicine such as

The problem isn't science. The problem is money and a lack of ethics. It's entirely possible to create a safe and effective vaccine. What anit-vax people are saying is that the vaccines made by big pharma today are unsafe. When anti-vax people say this, they're accused of being anti-science. This is a disingenuous argument. It's like you got food poisoning from a bad batch of potato salad, and when you complained, everyone accused you of saying all potato salad makes you sick.

The vaccine producers today are immune from prosecution in the US. They are totally free to create unsafe vaccines and sell them to the public. Unsafe vaccines are cheaper to produce, so this is what they do. It increases profits at the expense of the public health. This is the reason for the increase in the autism rates. Rather than admit that this is happening, they find unethical scientists who will do intentionally flawed scientific studies which support the findings pre-ordered by big pharma.

There are currently over 250 vaccines in development. Will they try to give them *all* to children under 2 years old? Sorry, but I choose not to participate anymore. If vaccines ever become a safe and effective again, then I'll start taking them again. But I don't see that happening in my lifetime.

>http://www.redwineandapplesauce.com/2014/10/10/33-flu-vaccine-myths/

The internet is full of truth and lies, with both debunked.

>Uruguay is promoting flu shots right now

Of course they are. They're on board.

Post a Reply

10abuse

Crazy Farmer,
"Will they try to give them *all* to children under 2 years old?"

In Japan SIDS went to a statistical zero when they outlawed vaccination of children less than 2 years of age. Overall, infant mortality rates plummet in un-vaccinated children.
http://www.whale.to/vaccines/scheibner1.html

Post a Reply

00abuse

Maybe, maybe not.

http://www.drwile.com/lnkpages/render.asp?vac_SIDS

Post a Reply

00abuse

I spent a lot of my youth as a United States Marine and we were forced to get the flu shot, along with other vaccines.

No one died from it, turned into a zombie or became insane from it.

The first year I did NOT get the flu shot I had the flu so bad I needed to be hospitalized. Ever since, I've gotten the flu shot and never gotten the flu.

For those of you have had the legitimate flu and not some weak cold virus you would know that getting a harmless flu vaccine could save your life and it sure beats laying in bed for three weeks waiting for death to take you.

As a 70 year old man in good health I advise, through experience, to get the flu shot. It beats being laid up in a hospital in a foreign country. Anybody who advises against it is being irresponsible.

Post a Reply

00abuse

As a mother with a permanently disabled daughter from the baby vaccines, I agree with Brian. Until you see the results of shots in an individual, in
this case a little baby, immediately after the shot is given then you might reconsider your position. It is in her charts to never give certain vaccines to her ever again and this is from an AMA neurologist and a AMA doctor who treats disabilities due to vaccines. Opinions are all fine and dandy, but facts say differently. They are not safe for everyone and the vaccinated individual is the only risk taker here. The pharmaceuticals are not responsible so why would they even care if their vaccines work or cripple people?

Post a Reply

00abuse

First of all I'm sorry your child has an ailment. Is it a mental disability? I have read studies regarding vaccines causing ailments such as autism and other types which have widely been debunked in the medical community. As a matter of fact, one doctor fraudulently published a study saying it was, but has since lost his license.

Was your child's ailment diagnosed as being caused from a faulty vaccine? What vaccine was it?

I don't want to start a war on the internet but I'm 100% sure Vaccines have saved more lives than they have accidentally harmed people. Just a fact.

No one ever said that Western Medicine is perfect, it's just better than the alternative.

Post a Reply

00abuse

>First of all I'm sorry your child has an ailment. Is it a mental
>disability?

I... wow. I seriously hope that the extreme level of insensitivity in this question was accidental. Maybe you're using language from the 50s, but you'd be less insensitive and more accurate to call it a neurological disorder.

>I have read studies regarding vaccines causing
>ailments such as autism and other types which have widely been
>debunked in the medical community.

Yes, because big pharma never purchases studies with the results they want.

>As a matter of fact, one
>doctor fraudulently published a study saying it was, but has since
>lost his license.

Was it Dr Wakefield's associate? Because he published a study linking vaccines to autism. The industry attacked him and he lost his license. Then he sued and won. They were forced to reinstate his license. Nothing nefarious by the industry there at all.

>Was your child's ailment diagnosed as being caused from a
>faulty vaccine? What vaccine was it?

Nice try. The vaccine wasn't faulty. Read the insert. The risk is part of every perfectly normal batch of vaccines.

Frequently, parents get their infants vaccines, then later that day, the children have massive hemorrhaging in their brain, a symptom listed on the insert as a possible side effect. When they take their child to the ER, the symptoms look just like shaken baby syndrome. So the parents are immediately arrested for that and lose the rest of their kids. And the incident is conveniently never recorded as caused by the vaccine.

Doctors are under huge pressure to not list the vaccine as the cause of the problem. So you can't look at the lack of vaccine diagnoses and claim that they're all perfectly fine.

>I don't want to start a war on the internet but I'm 100% sure
>Vaccines have saved more lives than they have accidentally
>harmed people. Just a fact.

Do you mean before or after big pharma started compromising the production process?

>No one ever said that Western Medicine is perfect, it's just better
>than the alternative.

This is an extremely arrogant US-centric attitude. What is western medicine anyway? What about all of the transplants they're doing in India for medical tourists from the US? Are they getting western medicine?

By the way, two of my children were nearly killed by different vaccines. Vaccines today are like russian roulette for children. I don't believe they're worth the risk.

Seriously, put down the koolaid.

brian

PS, I like how when we talk about how vaccines injured our children, you claim that we're not doctors, or there's no proven link, or all the evidence says they're fine. But when you post your anecdote about how you got the flu that one time when you didn't take a vaccine, we're supposed to accept your anecdote as proof.

Post a Reply

00abuse

Okay Jade Helm...

I find it quite amusing YOU asking someone to put down the Kool-aid.

Sorry you felt my comment was insensitive. You can't please everyone in this overly P.C. world.

Post a Reply

00abuse

Yeah, I'm PC.

And it's perfectly ok to ask why our military is training on public streets instead of custom-made artificial environments on military bases made to look like the area where they're training to fight, like they've always done. You train how you're going to fight. So does this mean they're training to fight on american streets? It's a sane and reasonable question.

You've spouted the official government line so many times now that I'm seriously beginning to question whether you're a plant. Of course you'll just call me crazy and laugh at me because that's how the psyop works, right?

Why are you even here?

Post a Reply

10abuse

Why am I here?

I'm here to spy on you, what else.

Post a Reply

00abuse