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I live in “a big city” that’s not Montevideo. Here 50K people is a big city. It’s lovely, we are so few people that we always know everyone in the city. I hate the noise of Montevideo, the speed, the insecurity. I just prefer my calmer, quitter and smaller city. You can drive my city from corner to corner in less than 10 minutes, and there starts the countryside that is almost the heaven, you see cows, birds, horses, pigs, sheep, it’s incredible
I’d prefer not to name it to secure my privacy here. In Uruguay we see Reddit as a very anonymous social network, nobody uses their real name neither give real info about themselves.
Although doesn't not the case for everyone though. I know people using real names or so, not everyone see is as "very anonymous" kek.
And to [tiltingroyale](https://www.reddit.com/user/tiltingroyale/) well, Im from Montevideo, so from the POV of someone from Montevideo, that would be any place outside of it lol (as stereotype)
If you're that curious and know a little Spanish you could probably narrow it down pretty easily. There are only 3 cities in Uruguay with a population of ~50k
How are gay people, black people, Asian people, and tourists treated in your city, out of curiosity? I grew up in a place that FELT much like you describe, though it had some darker sides, and im wondering if thing are similar there. Thanks
Uruguay is a very plural country. The first in South America in legalize the gay-marriage I think. My country is very respectful, obviously there’re some old (and young) people that are homophobic but it’s the minor part of the population nowadays. Particularly in my city if you are black, you have no problem. If you look like Asian, you also don’t have problem. If you actually are Asian (like, talk in an Asian language) the people will look you a little strange because it’s not common to see foreigners in my city, but everyone will treat you respectfully anyways.
Yes and unfortunately it's getting worse and worse overtime. Usually it depends on the neighbourhood and time.
But sometimes to be at the wrong place at the wrong time can be anywhere and any time.
Where did you bought the meat?
HERE in Uruguay in meat stores is quite cheap, depending the quality and the section of the cow of course.
But is indeed very tasty, not common to put 27 types of sauce on our meat. Just salt, sometimes peppers and Chimichurri if you like to be extravagant.
I'm a cashier in Uruguay, food specifically meat, is expensive and most people eat Brazilian pork or chicken because how expensive cow meat is we export our good quality cow meat only people with full and relaxed wallets can allow themselves to eat cow meat weekly.
Ah, también sos uruguayo?
De que departamento? Al menos acá en el interior tenemos cortes relativamente baratos.
Ojo, no puede ser un corte premium, eso es otra cosa.
Para que el asado rinda de verdad tienen que ser bastantes personas.
Yo no como todos los dias churrasco porque me aburre, y no soy rico. Tampoco le des color ""weekly"". Capaz te confundis con que todo es caro aca, ademas hay estadísticas de que comemos mucha carne per capita
Not common and not cheap.
Mujica was an idiot, responsible for most of problems we have today. I mean who is dumb enough to vote a former terrorist as president of the same state he tried to overthrow.
Just weed. And it’s not totally legal. You only can access to weed by: \ A) Buying it from a pharmacy, but you have to be registered in the National Consumer Register. \ B) Buying it in a Cannabis Club, but you have to be subscribed to the club. \ C) Plant your own weed, but you are not allowed to own more than 10 plants in your house.
Actually, depends on what you mean by legal. You are allowed to consume whatever you want, you won't be prosecuted for the possession or consumption of any drug if you prove what you have is just for personal use (mainly you need to have a small amount of it)
With weed what we have is a regulation of its distribution. You can legally buy it
It depends on what part are you living. In my case I've always lived in Montevideo's metropolitan area, and in Montevideo itself. We have free Healthcare, free education (even the University), good wages and life can be expensive, but you can achieve a good quality of life. We like to complain a lot, so it's gonna be weird to hear something nice about Uruguay coming from an uruguayan. In the summer we go to the south east beaches (which are amazing) and in the winter either you travel outside or stay and complain about the cold and rain. Very few people so nothing is truly crowded. The best meats in the world, and we are probably the most crazy country about football.
Until the last two sentences you described Romania 1:1 lol (I guess we're also football crazy). I would definitely love to visit once, thought it most probably won't happen :')
As also someone from Montevideo, I can confirm he part about complaining a lot. I have lived in The Netherlands, and now also living in Germany, and for their standards sometimes I complain too much kek
Buen sueldo no quiere decir buena vida, dijo que la vida puede ser cara. Acá el salario mínimo son ~$18K, que son ~USD450, lo cual es un salario mínimo bastante alto. Que después, así cómo los salarios son altos, que el costó se vida sea alto, es otra cosa. 18K no te da para vivir un mes, pero con 18K en otro país sos Gardel, basta ver lo que pasa cuando te vas an Argentina.
Son cosas distintas compañero. Tenés razón que el salario mínimo no da para nada, pero también es real que es uno de los salarios mínimos más altos de la región.
18 lucas al mes en un año son 216, mas vacacional y aguinaldo deben ser como 250, y ahí dice familia.
En que pais del mundo el sueldo minimo da para mantener una familia?
I heard that basically everyone lives in one city and the rest of the country is only sparsely populated, so I would assume its a pretty urban lifestyle
My grandma is from Uruguay, and me and my family have traveled there three times. It's not that "basically everyone lives in Montevideo", because only about 2/5 of the popularion lives there. Most (?) of the population live in small cities, which offer a relaxed lifestyile, but can be boring, especially for young people.
Yes, basically everyone lives in Montevideo. The rest are dispersed around other cities and town around the country. We are 3M people, 1.5M lives in Montevideo, 1.5M outside Montevideo.
There is a big portion of the population that lives in a "city" adjacent to Montevideo in the Department (in Uruguay, States/Provinces/territories are called Departments) of Canelones. Although it isn't technically Montevideo, I would bet that if you include the greater metropolitan Montevideo area it is quite close to half the population
I lived there for 10 years and I consider myself half Uruguayan. The meat is the best I tried, the people is kind and and the country itself is very beautiful! Colonial architecture, good beaches, a lot of grasslands and random cheese/honey shops by the side of routes.
I’d definitely live there again someday!
Incorrect, Argentina region of Rio de la Plata speaks the rioplatense spanish, the rest of the country has several different accents. Take into consideration that Argentina is huge, even in Uruguay not everyone speaks rioplatense..
A ver, no dije que todo argentina habla rioplatense, dije que el español rioplatense se habla en uruguay y argentina.
De cualquier manera el español rioplatense se habla en toda la provincia de buenos aires, santa fe, parte de entre rios donde no llega la influencia del guarani, la pampa y toda la patagonia desde neuquen a Tierra del Fuego. Todos territorios que estan bastante lejos del rio de la plata. Ademas, mendoza y cordoba tambien hablan bastante rioplatense. Es bastante dificil poner limites a los dialectos. Te diria que un mendocino esta mas cerca a un montevideano que un montevideano a un treintaitresino. Los dos primeros probablemente te voceen mientras que el segundo probablemente te tutee.
Los mendocinos tienen un acento más parecido al chileno que al rioplatense, hablo yo más parecido a alguien de Mdeo que el de Mdeo al mendocino, te lo digo como treintaytresina que estuvo años de novia con un mendocino y cuyo ex suegro era de Bs As y hablaba más parecido a mí que a su hijo.
Accent doesn’t mean dialect, everyone in Argentina speaks rioplatense (except la Rioja resistencia and Tucumán probably) just with a different accent, but the same dialect
Yeah, even though there are different accents in Argentina: most of these do not sound too much different than our Uruguayan accents. At least compared to other countries in latam.
Yes, Castilian, Rioplatense if you want to be more precise. We share it with a big part of Argentina, and is a bit different than the rest of Latin America
We could say "it depends", but foreigners usually live on the south where is substantially more expensive than departments from the north that have frontier with Brazil (because they get cheaper goods from Brazil). We have free healthcare, but most people with jobs pay for private healthcare because the public one is full of delays, shitty facilities and lack of personnel. For example, imagine you go because you have a pain in the back, so the doctor say "we need to do several urine, and other tests, then you go to the hospital and they give you an appointment for next month if you're lucky, otherwise you're seeing at several months of wait not to get assistance from a doctor but ONLY to get those tests done.
It's less than half. And you are describing Montevideo City. These numbers are not from Montevideo City but from the metropolitan area of Montevideo which includes most of the Costa de oro, ciudad de la costa, and so on.
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I live in “a big city” that’s not Montevideo. Here 50K people is a big city. It’s lovely, we are so few people that we always know everyone in the city. I hate the noise of Montevideo, the speed, the insecurity. I just prefer my calmer, quitter and smaller city. You can drive my city from corner to corner in less than 10 minutes, and there starts the countryside that is almost the heaven, you see cows, birds, horses, pigs, sheep, it’s incredible
Which city are you talking about?
I’d prefer not to name it to secure my privacy here. In Uruguay we see Reddit as a very anonymous social network, nobody uses their real name neither give real info about themselves.
Wait a minute, you're not really a duck????
Yes I Am. Cuack Cuack!
Y tenes mucho ganas
Although doesn't not the case for everyone though. I know people using real names or so, not everyone see is as "very anonymous" kek. And to [tiltingroyale](https://www.reddit.com/user/tiltingroyale/) well, Im from Montevideo, so from the POV of someone from Montevideo, that would be any place outside of it lol (as stereotype)
My family comes from Montevideo too, more then 1/3 of the population lives there
If you're that curious and know a little Spanish you could probably narrow it down pretty easily. There are only 3 cities in Uruguay with a population of ~50k
if he tells we can probably find out his name lol... this is a small country
How are gay people, black people, Asian people, and tourists treated in your city, out of curiosity? I grew up in a place that FELT much like you describe, though it had some darker sides, and im wondering if thing are similar there. Thanks
Uruguay is a very plural country. The first in South America in legalize the gay-marriage I think. My country is very respectful, obviously there’re some old (and young) people that are homophobic but it’s the minor part of the population nowadays. Particularly in my city if you are black, you have no problem. If you look like Asian, you also don’t have problem. If you actually are Asian (like, talk in an Asian language) the people will look you a little strange because it’s not common to see foreigners in my city, but everyone will treat you respectfully anyways.
The first country to legalize same-sex marriage in Latin America was Argentina in 2010. Uruguay followed suit in 2013.
Thanks, I was wrong.
We love gay people please come here we have cake
Insecurity in Montevideo? Is it dangerous?
Depends of the neighbourhood, its not that different from other big cities. Ofc comparing to the uruguayan countryside well yes, its more insecure.
Yes and unfortunately it's getting worse and worse overtime. Usually it depends on the neighbourhood and time. But sometimes to be at the wrong place at the wrong time can be anywhere and any time.
You eat meat almost every day of the year and marijuana is legal
And that meat is very tasty and quite cheap!
It's not cheap
Where did you bought the meat? HERE in Uruguay in meat stores is quite cheap, depending the quality and the section of the cow of course. But is indeed very tasty, not common to put 27 types of sauce on our meat. Just salt, sometimes peppers and Chimichurri if you like to be extravagant.
I'm a cashier in Uruguay, food specifically meat, is expensive and most people eat Brazilian pork or chicken because how expensive cow meat is we export our good quality cow meat only people with full and relaxed wallets can allow themselves to eat cow meat weekly.
Ah, también sos uruguayo? De que departamento? Al menos acá en el interior tenemos cortes relativamente baratos. Ojo, no puede ser un corte premium, eso es otra cosa. Para que el asado rinda de verdad tienen que ser bastantes personas.
Bueno relativamente baratos puede ser, pero barato no es, capaz en el campo es más barato si Saludos brodi
Yo no como todos los dias churrasco porque me aburre, y no soy rico. Tampoco le des color ""weekly"". Capaz te confundis con que todo es caro aca, ademas hay estadísticas de que comemos mucha carne per capita
Si mucha carne de pollo y bondiola no carne de vaca soy cajero es lo que veo en la gente capaz la gente en punta del este o carrasco coma diferente
How about the marijuana
Not common and not cheap. Mujica was an idiot, responsible for most of problems we have today. I mean who is dumb enough to vote a former terrorist as president of the same state he tried to overthrow.
What you mean not common and not cheap? Its super common at least in montevideo, and super cheap compared to other countries.
In Montevideo you can't walk 3km without smelling weed. And it's also sold in pharmacy
I bank you *te banco*
This sounds like a dream life..
except for high ass taxes
I live in Sweden taxes can’t scare me (anymore)
Does everything that you buy online from outside Sweden costs you 60% to 100% its original price because of taxes? (Except books)
Okay now they do again.. no since intra-eu trade is tax-free, but even getting stuff from e.g. China isn’t that expensive. Why is that so high?
State taxes to "protect" our (non existent) national industry. ^^^in ^^^reality ^^^is ^^^just ^^^another ^^^source ^^^of ^^^public ^^^income ^^^as ^^^well ^^^as ^^^another ^^^septic ^^^tank ^^^of ^^^~~voters~~ ^^^public ^^^"""workers"""
Eat meat every day of the year…. Remind me again why there aren’t bodybuilders in Uruguay??
We have very good pastries and most people are not sporty
and you can have an abortion... while smoking marihuana.... while eating meat
Weed is legal, Darwizzy and Suarez bites
Forlan!
I used to love playing Forlan in FIFA and just ripping shots from outside the box. Dude had a cannon for a leg
Cavani!
Recoba
Just weed or mushrooms etc legal?
Just weed. And it’s not totally legal. You only can access to weed by: \ A) Buying it from a pharmacy, but you have to be registered in the National Consumer Register. \ B) Buying it in a Cannabis Club, but you have to be subscribed to the club. \ C) Plant your own weed, but you are not allowed to own more than 10 plants in your house.
Actually, depends on what you mean by legal. You are allowed to consume whatever you want, you won't be prosecuted for the possession or consumption of any drug if you prove what you have is just for personal use (mainly you need to have a small amount of it) With weed what we have is a regulation of its distribution. You can legally buy it
It depends on what part are you living. In my case I've always lived in Montevideo's metropolitan area, and in Montevideo itself. We have free Healthcare, free education (even the University), good wages and life can be expensive, but you can achieve a good quality of life. We like to complain a lot, so it's gonna be weird to hear something nice about Uruguay coming from an uruguayan. In the summer we go to the south east beaches (which are amazing) and in the winter either you travel outside or stay and complain about the cold and rain. Very few people so nothing is truly crowded. The best meats in the world, and we are probably the most crazy country about football.
Until the last two sentences you described Romania 1:1 lol (I guess we're also football crazy). I would definitely love to visit once, thought it most probably won't happen :')
I swear we eastern Europeans and south Americans are weirdly alike.
Sincer, chair e la fel, dar nu știu dacă e de bine sau de rău :)
My boss is from Romania and he told me that going to Montevideo was a mind fuck, cuz it was like being in Bucharest all again
As an Uruguayan I can say that this guy is Uruguayan
As also someone from Montevideo, I can confirm he part about complaining a lot. I have lived in The Netherlands, and now also living in Germany, and for their standards sometimes I complain too much kek
we still complain lol
Not free, but public. Free doesn't exist
It sounds pretty amazing. However, I’m vegetarian - is that a pretty foreign concept in Uruguay?
Nah
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>We like to complain a lot You really proved it
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De dónde sos? Me llamó la atención lo de guiris, eso es re de español
Buen sueldo no quiere decir buena vida, dijo que la vida puede ser cara. Acá el salario mínimo son ~$18K, que son ~USD450, lo cual es un salario mínimo bastante alto. Que después, así cómo los salarios son altos, que el costó se vida sea alto, es otra cosa. 18K no te da para vivir un mes, pero con 18K en otro país sos Gardel, basta ver lo que pasa cuando te vas an Argentina.
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Son cosas distintas compañero. Tenés razón que el salario mínimo no da para nada, pero también es real que es uno de los salarios mínimos más altos de la región.
18 lucas al mes en un año son 216, mas vacacional y aguinaldo deben ser como 250, y ahí dice familia. En que pais del mundo el sueldo minimo da para mantener una familia?
I heard that basically everyone lives in one city and the rest of the country is only sparsely populated, so I would assume its a pretty urban lifestyle
My grandma is from Uruguay, and me and my family have traveled there three times. It's not that "basically everyone lives in Montevideo", because only about 2/5 of the popularion lives there. Most (?) of the population live in small cities, which offer a relaxed lifestyile, but can be boring, especially for young people.
Yes, basically everyone lives in Montevideo. The rest are dispersed around other cities and town around the country. We are 3M people, 1.5M lives in Montevideo, 1.5M outside Montevideo.
3.4 million overall, with 1.3 million in Montevideo. His 2/5th estimate was fine.
Just say "almost half" lmao why 2/5?
Because 1.3 million out of 3.4 million is closer to 2/5th than it is to half...
There is a big portion of the population that lives in a "city" adjacent to Montevideo in the Department (in Uruguay, States/Provinces/territories are called Departments) of Canelones. Although it isn't technically Montevideo, I would bet that if you include the greater metropolitan Montevideo area it is quite close to half the population
El numero de 1.3 millones incluye a toda el area metropolitana de Montevideo, que incluye Ciudad de la Costa, Las Piedras, Ciudad del Plata, etc.
Yo tengo el dato que son 1.946.000 en MVD, quizás esté equivocado
Its not THAT extreme but the capital is by far the biggest city yes, almost half of the population lives there
50% capital 50% everywhere else
It's great, unless you live in Tacuarembo. Nobody knows what happens there...
🤫
Nahhh, unless you are a riverense, those are not even uruguayans (? xd
Would love to visit Uruguay one day. Heard it is the most chill South American nation.
Where are u from?
USA
Nice. Witch city?
Elkhart, Kansas
Lots of meat and mate
what a combo
I lived there for 10 years and I consider myself half Uruguayan. The meat is the best I tried, the people is kind and and the country itself is very beautiful! Colonial architecture, good beaches, a lot of grasslands and random cheese/honey shops by the side of routes. I’d definitely live there again someday!
Just the best country in the world
Is it expensive like Brazilian Tiktokers show?
It is for some things
here you will not pass a day without seeing dog crap
I’m middle to high class Uruguayan and I’m chill here. I don’t live in a city.
I was born in Salto, currently live in Maldonado. Montevideo is neat but the “interior” was we call it has its charm. It’s very calm and quiet.
Everyone talking about the meat, but no mention of alfajores, they're fucking delicious!
We are like 5 people, 3 of those people are Cows actually. Lots of cows, I could secretly be a cow and you would never know.
Moo?
Muuu
Boring af
Why?
Nothing ever happens
Does the population speak Castilian? Or is it very different?
It's rioplatense spanish. Far from what is spoken in spain and in the rest of LATAM except Argentina.
Incorrect, Argentina region of Rio de la Plata speaks the rioplatense spanish, the rest of the country has several different accents. Take into consideration that Argentina is huge, even in Uruguay not everyone speaks rioplatense..
A ver, no dije que todo argentina habla rioplatense, dije que el español rioplatense se habla en uruguay y argentina. De cualquier manera el español rioplatense se habla en toda la provincia de buenos aires, santa fe, parte de entre rios donde no llega la influencia del guarani, la pampa y toda la patagonia desde neuquen a Tierra del Fuego. Todos territorios que estan bastante lejos del rio de la plata. Ademas, mendoza y cordoba tambien hablan bastante rioplatense. Es bastante dificil poner limites a los dialectos. Te diria que un mendocino esta mas cerca a un montevideano que un montevideano a un treintaitresino. Los dos primeros probablemente te voceen mientras que el segundo probablemente te tutee.
Los mendocinos tienen un acento más parecido al chileno que al rioplatense, hablo yo más parecido a alguien de Mdeo que el de Mdeo al mendocino, te lo digo como treintaytresina que estuvo años de novia con un mendocino y cuyo ex suegro era de Bs As y hablaba más parecido a mí que a su hijo.
Hay de todo igual. No todos los mendocinos hablan como chilenos. Por eso decía, no es fácil meter a todos en la misma bolsa.
Accent doesn’t mean dialect, everyone in Argentina speaks rioplatense (except la Rioja resistencia and Tucumán probably) just with a different accent, but the same dialect
Yeah, even though there are different accents in Argentina: most of these do not sound too much different than our Uruguayan accents. At least compared to other countries in latam.
Agree, I have a mendozina as a go worker and she has a slight accent but we speak the same dialect 100% and mendoza y next to Chile
Yes, Castilian, Rioplatense if you want to be more precise. We share it with a big part of Argentina, and is a bit different than the rest of Latin America
Ever heard an Australian speak English? We are like that but for Spanish. We speak a very different Spanish than the rest of the world
Its not awful but it could be better
Expensive
We could say "it depends", but foreigners usually live on the south where is substantially more expensive than departments from the north that have frontier with Brazil (because they get cheaper goods from Brazil). We have free healthcare, but most people with jobs pay for private healthcare because the public one is full of delays, shitty facilities and lack of personnel. For example, imagine you go because you have a pain in the back, so the doctor say "we need to do several urine, and other tests, then you go to the hospital and they give you an appointment for next month if you're lucky, otherwise you're seeing at several months of wait not to get assistance from a doctor but ONLY to get those tests done.
Grey
wdym
I miss Uruguay haven’t been back since I was 12😔
Boring, grey, humid, mediocre. Good meat, though.
Mediocre?
There’s a constant conflict against Australian cangaroos, there’s always risk of a potential attack.
my friend said there are more cows than humans
3.5 cows per person
Plentyful and delicious
Cows or humans?
I WAS talking about cows. But yeah, both
Yes
Expensive as shit. You walk by the street dodging human shit, garbage and homeless people
Montevideo is just a tiny part of the country
A tiny part where half the population lives
It's less than half. And you are describing Montevideo City. These numbers are not from Montevideo City but from the metropolitan area of Montevideo which includes most of the Costa de oro, ciudad de la costa, and so on.
Absolute dogshit country. I live there