Comments on: Unloading your container http://urufish.wordpress.com/2007/05/27/unloading-your-container/ Every day brings ???? Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:16:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Doruletz http://urufish.wordpress.com/2007/05/27/unloading-your-container/#comment-1981 Doruletz Sat, 23 Aug 2008 11:13:59 +0000 http://urufish.wordpress.com/2007/05/27/unloading-your-container/#comment-1981 Hi Urufish. I read all your posts with outmost interest. We live in the US and want to move to Uruguay. Both my wife and I are 41 yrs of age, not retired, no monthly pension or other income. We will have suficient funds to come over with in order to buy a house, start a small business, etc. My main question is: Can we get the permanent residency processed and approved at an Uruguay Consulate and obtain it pryor to coming to Uruguay? Also does your mover Canur Courier Service have people in the US? Or can your Oscar come to the US and do / supervise the packing? Is it better if I buy my own container(s)? Can I keep / use / sell them in Uruguay? If I want to bring a 2007 model vehicle will it be dutty free or do you have any ideea on how much the dutty tax will be? Please reply. Thanks. Hi Urufish.
I read all your posts with outmost interest. We live in the US and want to move to Uruguay. Both my wife and I are 41 yrs of age, not retired, no monthly pension or other income. We will have suficient funds to come over with in order to buy a house, start a small business, etc.
My main question is: Can we get the permanent residency processed and approved at an Uruguay Consulate and obtain it pryor to coming to Uruguay?
Also does your mover Canur Courier Service have people in the US? Or can your Oscar come to the US and do / supervise the packing?
Is it better if I buy my own container(s)? Can I keep / use / sell them in Uruguay?
If I want to bring a 2007 model vehicle will it be dutty free or do you have any ideea on how much the dutty tax will be?
Please reply. Thanks.

]]> By: Anonymous http://urufish.wordpress.com/2007/05/27/unloading-your-container/#comment-1950 Anonymous Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:59:07 +0000 http://urufish.wordpress.com/2007/05/27/unloading-your-container/#comment-1950 If it's a full container. If the manifest is exactly what customs wants to see. If there's nothing on the manifest of particular interest to them. If there's nothing in the back 5 feet that's of particular interest to them. If it's being unloaded at your apartment/house here in Montevideo the customs people normally spend 30 minutes at the beginning.. just looking on and then leave. If they find something unusual, they may stay for the entire unloading, looking into most or all of your boxes. If it’s a full container. If the manifest is exactly what customs wants to see. If there’s nothing on the manifest of particular interest to them. If there’s nothing in the back 5 feet that’s of particular interest to them. If it’s being unloaded at your apartment/house here in Montevideo the customs people normally spend 30 minutes at the beginning.. just looking on and then leave.
If they find something unusual, they may stay for the entire unloading, looking into most or all of your boxes.

]]> By: Agnieszka http://urufish.wordpress.com/2007/05/27/unloading-your-container/#comment-1949 Agnieszka Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:40:49 +0000 http://urufish.wordpress.com/2007/05/27/unloading-your-container/#comment-1949 Hi there, I have a question about a manifest and customs in Uruguay. I just loaded my container 2 days ago and Im wondering how it works once the container gets there. do they open the boxes , how do they check what's in ?How detailed they are ? Thanks Hi there,
I have a question about a manifest and customs in Uruguay. I just loaded my container 2 days ago and Im wondering how it works once the container gets there. do they open the boxes , how do they check what’s in ?How detailed they are ?

Thanks

]]> By: urufish http://urufish.wordpress.com/2007/05/27/unloading-your-container/#comment-1087 urufish Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:44:13 +0000 http://urufish.wordpress.com/2007/05/27/unloading-your-container/#comment-1087 We brought all of our electrical appliances with us... See a full description of how that's done at http://urufish.wordpress.com/2007/07/08/youre-no-pal-of-mine/ I lived in the biggest city in Canada all my life, 6mil people in the metro area. I didn't want to do that again. Montevideo is smaller... abou 1mil people.. Right size for us. If we decide we want the glitz again for a weekend or even a day, we take the Buquebus overt to BA. We have friends who go there almost every weekend. Doesn't get near as cold as it gets in Toronto. No snow. No ice. The coldest months are Jul/August. If you have central heating, it's just a dreary experience... I've been here for 3 winters. Lived through 2 of them. 2006 was mild by Uruguay standards and it was a non event. 2007 was severe by Uruguay standards. Most northerners complained about it... Many expats didn't have central heating. We do. So it didn't bother us much. My advice to a northerner coming to live here is simple. Do what you did up north, in reverse. Break up the winter here by going north (as opposed to going south), in July or August. I break up the year this way.... you have 6 months of excellent weather... Come mid September, things start to get nice. You get nice days here and there. By October, it's nice most of the time. November is nicer and getting hotter. December is hot, as is January and February... come March, things are nice. April nice most of the time.. May, you'll get cool evenings... and some cool days.. It's winter by June. To sum it up, 4 months are cold, with some nice and even warm days sprinkled through... a real treat... But it's not the cold you get in the northern US or Canada. Net: 8 months are good. 6 of those are great. Locals drive scooters and motorbikes all year long. That should give you another perspective on winters here. We brought all of our electrical appliances with us… See a full description of how that’s done at
http://urufish.wordpress.com/2007/07/08/youre-no-pal-of-mine/

I lived in the biggest city in Canada all my life, 6mil people in the metro area. I didn’t want to do that again. Montevideo is smaller… abou 1mil people.. Right size for us. If we decide we want the glitz again for a weekend or even a day, we take the Buquebus overt to BA. We have friends who go there almost every weekend.

Doesn’t get near as cold as it gets in Toronto. No snow. No ice. The coldest months are Jul/August. If you have central heating, it’s just a dreary experience… I’ve been here for 3 winters. Lived through 2 of them. 2006 was mild by Uruguay standards and it was a non event. 2007 was severe by Uruguay standards. Most northerners complained about it… Many expats didn’t have central heating. We do. So it didn’t bother us much. My advice to a northerner coming to live here is simple. Do what you did up north, in reverse. Break up the winter here by going north (as opposed to going south), in July or August.

I break up the year this way…. you have 6 months of excellent weather… Come mid September, things start to get nice. You get nice days here and there. By October, it’s nice most of the time. November is nicer and getting hotter. December is hot, as is January and February… come March, things are nice. April nice most of the time.. May, you’ll get cool evenings… and some cool days.. It’s winter by June. To sum it up, 4 months are cold, with some nice and even warm days sprinkled through… a real treat… But it’s not the cold you get in the northern US or Canada. Net: 8 months are good. 6 of those are great.

Locals drive scooters and motorbikes all year long. That should give you another perspective on winters here.

]]> By: David Akerberg http://urufish.wordpress.com/2007/05/27/unloading-your-container/#comment-1068 David Akerberg Sun, 28 Oct 2007 23:02:33 +0000 http://urufish.wordpress.com/2007/05/27/unloading-your-container/#comment-1068 Shall we bring electrical appliances to Uruguay? Is Montevideo a better city and Uruguay a better country to live in than Buenos Aires? How cold does it get in Montevideo? Shall we bring electrical appliances to Uruguay?

Is Montevideo a better city and Uruguay a better country to live in than Buenos Aires?

How cold does it get in Montevideo?

]]> By: urufish http://urufish.wordpress.com/2007/05/27/unloading-your-container/#comment-386 urufish Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:58:11 +0000 http://urufish.wordpress.com/2007/05/27/unloading-your-container/#comment-386 I'll give them a call later today.. BTW, had lunch with Migel, Canur brother #2, last week across the street in Costa de Azul... When he moved our house, I loaned him my measuring tape. He put in his toolbox by accident. He found it after I left and brought it all the way down here and dropped it off at my house. Really nice guy. I’ll give them a call later today..
BTW, had lunch with Migel, Canur brother #2, last week across the street in Costa de Azul…
When he moved our house, I loaned him my measuring tape. He put in his toolbox by accident. He found it after I left and brought it all the way down here and dropped it off at my house.
Really nice guy.

]]> By: juan del plata http://urufish.wordpress.com/2007/05/27/unloading-your-container/#comment-384 juan del plata Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:07:43 +0000 http://urufish.wordpress.com/2007/05/27/unloading-your-container/#comment-384 the email for canur doesnt work: canur@bellnet.com juan the email for canur doesnt work:
canur@bellnet.com
juan

]]> By: Pros and Cons of Shipping Furniture Abroad http://urufish.wordpress.com/2007/05/27/unloading-your-container/#comment-375 Pros and Cons of Shipping Furniture Abroad Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:55:51 +0000 http://urufish.wordpress.com/2007/05/27/unloading-your-container/#comment-375 [...] to these two articles( here and here), the cost of moving household goods from North America to Uruguay falls in the range of [...] [...] to these two articles( here and here), the cost of moving household goods from North America to Uruguay falls in the range of [...]

]]> By: Should I Bring My Electrical Aplliances to Uruguay? http://urufish.wordpress.com/2007/05/27/unloading-your-container/#comment-320 Should I Bring My Electrical Aplliances to Uruguay? Sat, 07 Jul 2007 21:13:17 +0000 http://urufish.wordpress.com/2007/05/27/unloading-your-container/#comment-320 [...] thank for it. He helped settled the issue once and for all, by writing about the trans-hemisphere moving process and the costs associated with [...] [...] thank for it. He helped settled the issue once and for all, by writing about the trans-hemisphere moving process and the costs associated with [...]

]]> By: Anderson http://urufish.wordpress.com/2007/05/27/unloading-your-container/#comment-306 Anderson Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:11:22 +0000 http://urufish.wordpress.com/2007/05/27/unloading-your-container/#comment-306 Great work, keep it up..... Great work, keep it up…..

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