New members of the Uruguay forum, introduce yourself here

Hi eveyone. We are hoping to find out all the pro's and con's of moving to Uruguay. What we may and may not bring with. What the situation is regarding pets, and anything else of importance and relevance. Hoping all you guys can help in this regard.
Colin+Fran

Hello all!
Delighted to hear your kind invitation to introduce ourselves and talk about our dreams and hopes.

My husband Ion and I (Laila) are dreaming about leaving the US for good, upon retiring in 1-2 years, hopefully sooner. We are both artists, we are self employed and still work in the jewelry industry. We will be coming for our first visit to Uruguay Nov.28-Dec.19 and would like to establish contact with other people who came to Uruguay later in life and who may want to share their knowledge of Uruguay.
As we are originally from Romania -another 3rd world country- we are pliable and malleable to whatever is awaiting us. Our expectations are for a simpler life, eye contact with people -rare commodity in the US, alas!- taking care of critters, going back to the little things that make existence worthwhile.
I am fluent in Spanish, Ion is still shy to talk, but understands 85%.
1.We would like to know if any of you guys have any suggestions on where to go to check things out for the future, besides the vecindarios and colonias mentioned in the travel guides. We would like to buy a small 2BR house with some land around, in the outskirts... Modest.
2. Anybody knows if there is any interest for serious internal martial arts teaching? T'ai Chi, Chi-Gong, Pa-Kua Chang? For baby-boomers, for health, for real self-defense? Ion is a world class martial arts practitioner and teacher. We do need to figure out some additional income sources...
3. Do people put all their $$$ in Uy. banks, or leave some in US banks? I still shiver thinking of what happened in Argentina, few years back...
4. I kept trying to find current info. on bringing pets over... All info I found is years old... Any suggestions? We have 4 small dogs and 2 ancient cats...

Enough questions for the moment!
I'm very glad I found this community.
All our best to all and we are looking forward to hearing from you.
laila and ion ionescu

Hello all!
Delighted to hear your kind invitation to introduce ourselves and talk about our dreams and hopes.

My husband Ion and I (Laila) are dreaming about leaving the US for good, upon retiring in 1-2 years, hopefully sooner. We are both artists, we are self employed and still work in the jewelry industry. We will be coming for our first visit to Uruguay Nov.28-Dec.19 and would like to establish contact with other people who came to Uruguay later in life and who may want to share their knowledge of Uruguay.
As we are originally from Romania -another 3rd world country- we are pliable and malleable to whatever is awaiting us. Our expectations are for a simpler life, eye contact with people -rare commodity in the US, alas!- taking care of critters, going back to the little things that make existence worthwhile.
I am fluent in Spanish, Ion is still shy to talk, but understands 85%.
1.We would like to know if any of you guys have any suggestions on where to go to check things out for the future, besides the vecindarios and colonias mentioned in the travel guides. We would like to buy a small 2BR house with some land around, in the outskirts... Modest.
2. Anybody knows if there is any interest for serious internal martial arts teaching? T'ai Chi, Chi-Gong, Pa-Kua Chang? For baby-boomers, for health, for real self-defense? Ion is a world class martial arts practitioner and teacher. We do need to figure out some additional income sources...
3. Do people put all their $$$ in Uy. banks, or leave some in US banks? I still shiver thinking of what happened in Argentina, few years back...
4. I kept trying to find current info. on bringing pets over... All info I found is years old... Any suggestions? We have 4 small dogs and 2 ancient cats...

Enough questions for the moment!
I'm very glad I found this community.
All our best to all and we are looking forward to hearing from you.
laila and ion ionescu

Welcome to the Uruguay forum, Laila and Ion.

Under the terms of the Mauritius Mandate, expat.com's Home Office has deemed this thread to be appropriate only for the self-introductions of members.

Questions such as you originally asked above should be posted on an existing thread .. or a new thread you could create.

In this case, I have asked the Home Office to re-post your questions on the Uruguay forum's "Lots of questions" thread.

cccmedia

Hello everyone,
I am an English language instructor currently working at a private university in Istanbul , Turkey. Besides, I am a new author whose novel was published in January,2017 .
I am more than interested in working in Montevideo.
That's all for now.
Have a good day.
evRim

Hi,

I invite you to follow this topic on this new thread:
https://www.expat.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=751461

Thanks!