Hi again! Wow, that 5th apartment was my favorite as well. It is amazing! Honestly, considering the prices of some of the others, I thought the 5th apartment was a fair price. It just goes to show you that if you look around, you can find something good. I am so glad that you two found such a great apartment. Congrats!
yes exactly! Honestly I think its expensive for what we are getting, BUT Ale really wanted this area and, it's an expensive area! So we had to compromise and just make the most of it :)
Thank you for the video! Glad to hear you found a nice place! Would love to learn a bit more about how far the paper work goes. Like what kind of documents you need to rent a place etc.
Yes thats the plan for our next video! I'm almost done editing the moving vlog then next will be about HOW to move/find an apartment etc :) any specific questions please ask now and we can answer in the next video!
@@MaddieAle You're so sweet! My main question is what kind of papers/documents you need to rent and what to keep an eye in the lease maybe? Also what are good resources for appt hunting
Do you have to buy your own appliances? I am a retired Uruguayan living in Canada for the last 42 years and thinking of moving back. I am very lonely here, and I have friends there. Every time I go back I really enjoy myself. The garbage everywhere is disheartening. The crime situation is unsettling. You have to be extremely aware of your surroundings at all time. Eyes on the back of your head are a must. I have been lucky so far because I am very tall and I walk with confidence. I always make eye contact in suspicious situations and let them know I'm onto them. I think that helps a lot. I believe your handsome husband's presence is a plus. You'll be safe. When I go for a visit I rent fully furnished (twice, for a 2 and 3 months stay) but usually go to a hotel for 3 weeks. I have been watching some of your other videos and when I saw the garbage everywhere, brought me back to reality and the reason why I could never live there permanently. I can't deal with that. Very sad. But Uruguay calls me back, time after time. I grew up in Pocitos (on Ave. Brazil ) until I was 13 then I moved to Departamento de San José). Good luck and I will keep watching your videos.
Yes i definitely feel safe walking around with Alejandro! No one would bother us together, but when I'm alone I'm much more careful and never hold expensive belongings like my phone. Most apartments come with NOTHING! I was shocked that our first apartment did not have a fridge or oven or even microwave, completely empty! When we looked at some apartments for this video, some had fridges and ovens left in them, but not all, so it really depends! I would 100% check out mercado libre, you might find second hand or cheaper appliances, but otherwise things here can be VERY expensive! Good luck and feel free to ask as many other questions as you need!
Montevideo is pretty dirty an unsafe but not all the country is like that. You have a lot of clean cities like Colonia, or Mercedes. Recently I was surprised by how clean is Rivera. It has improved a lot, and they have a terribly dirty and unsafe city (Santana) just crossing the street to Brazil, so the local government has done a really good job there. Punta del este has also grown a lot, so now it's more livable also during winter. If I was retired I would definitely live in punta del este, really clean and safe. There is a RU-vid channel called 4K walk, or something like that, they have a lot of videos about different places in Uruguay (street walk)
Glad it was helpful! Our apartment is in pocitos nuevo, the further away you go the cheaper it becomes! I'd love to show some more options of really cheap apartments and then SUPER fancy ones too! just for interest :)
Pocitos is the place where the mayority of building apartments are. The closer to the beach, the more expensive they are. Then you have other places when you can rent apartments or houses near the center: cordón sur, Palermo, and Parque rodó; If you prefer to live in a house, I recommend you those.
Am moving to UY in few days... do we get fully furnished apartments in less than 23,000 UYU, including building charges? And are there apartments with gas/electricity/wifi charges included? By the way, great vlogs... Thank you 😊
:/ ummm unlikely! Fully furnished is uncommon here, most come completely empty and that was our biggest struggle this time last year because we owned NOTHING but our suitcases! and having to purchase furniture, appliances, and even plates bowls and cutlery was a LOT to go through. Good luck! I highly recommend Mercado Libre, check them out and look through apartments on there, there MAY be furnished options but most are not. You can find some nice AirBnB's and at least thats good for the first while!
@@MaddieAle Thank you 😊 And utility charges (like power, water, gas, internet) also come as extra? Or are included in rent/building charges in any way?
Usually, you will have to pay power, internet and TV (if you want other than the local stations) apart. Some places also water comes apart. If the building has central heating (for winter) it will be in the building fees. Summarizing: building fees are gym, pool, and common areas, central heating, the lift an other things like that. The expenses inside your apartment are usually your own issue.
Thank you for sharing. It looks like your husband need something bigger, he is very huge and tall guy. Did you also have a look at the old city ? I see there is some old appartment with nice and high celling (almost 3m high) and large doors. What about the pretty new construction plan "More" building (it seems to be his name) in Buceo barrio ? I don't know nothing about Uruguay, but i'm looking at this place since 2 years since i would like later to come to there.
the problem with ciudad vieja is that the area is a lot less safe, and also with our two dogs we don't want to live in an apartment anymore! Its houses for us, or, an apartment right across from a big nice park could work :)
@@MaddieAle Ho ok. Thank you for your answer. I'm going to have a look at Montevideo next month, between 18 and 28 february. I plan to expatriate myself and my old mum and leave our french country who is now much more unsafe and expensive than ever, with a very huge growing economic inflation starting since 2 years and growing upper and upper dangerously. We are living in the french riviera where we are coming from, and it is becoming incredibly wrong there (not only for safety concern, but also for price of anything for low service if not zero). My mum can no more stay stay living alone in a house (too big and too much work to maintain a so hugely taxed property) and i also have to take care of her (i don't plan to put her in a kind of old people retired house... because there, it is horrible, they give then a lot of drug and... there is close to no humanity in these practices). Which kind of neighborhood do you think to be safer and easy to access to any commodities without a car and for old people in Montevideo ? Ho... i wish you the best for 2024 and happy new year together.
Been planning to retire elsewhere than the USA. Seeing I can retire here in the US just as cheaply as anywhere. Guess I will just buy a trailer in a +55 resort & that Harley I've been looking at. Found a trailer for $10k & $425/month lot/resort fee and a used heritage soft tail for $7k.
Thank you for the info. Looking at maybe moving to Montevideo myself. Super good info to get a basic understanding what you get for your money. Btw how tall is your husband? I'm 193cm and he looked a giant in all videos and wondering if he is tall aswell or if I will be way out of place in Montevideo.
alejandro is over 200cm, but at 193 you will almost always be the tallest in the room in uruguay! bring a lot of pants and long sleeve shirts with you, because finding TALL clothing here, is impossible haha
it is in Pocitos, the name of the building is BE ONE, there are a lot of these buildings now! BEWARE THOUGH, it is all about the looks and the management was awful. we left after 1 year because it was overpriced and very not worth the hassle. the upstairs area that was communal, they changed the rules and required us to book it in advance and pay almost $100usd to use the room each time, they banned dogs from the fake grass and just kept being rude about lots of small things. i wouldn't recommend it personally.
In Uruguay, rustic finishes are widely used, generally contrasted with a better finished wall or surface. This gives personality and a somewhat bohemian aspect to the room. Many architects and decorators around the world use exposed concrete in their designs, as a decorative or ambience element. Not all surfaces must be strictly smooth or boringly covered with plaster as is the style in certain countries. The contrast of finishes and finishes generates visual and decorative interest.
Congratulations! I hope you enjoy your new place. I'm curious to know about appliance brands there. What are some of the better quality, more reliable ones?
You can get some of the standards... it just depends on your budget! Like you can find boche products etc but it depends on the item, price, and where you do to look for it! we tend to get cheaper items because we are young and not going to live here forever, but they do have alternatives.
@@MaddieAle I was told popular brands, like Phillips, are of noticeably lower quality in South America than in Europe or North America (I assume Australia, too). Do you have any experience with that? Someone also recommended a brand called James (or something like that).
@@kinslowrainer3982 James and Philips are really popular down here . Virtually everybody has or knows those 2. Appliances , didnt know that word.. in spanish its "electrodomesticos" (from domestic + electric)
Whenever I travel to another country for an extended stay, I alway carry my personal refrigerator with me. I don't like to bother the landlord to provide me a refrigerator with my leasing of his apartment. That would be like treating a refrigerator as if it were like a toilet commode, an expectation, when its a matter of personal choice. Many people do like to eat all their food purchases as soon as they get home. Fresh is best. Trouble is I would have to throw away many eggs and uneaten hamburger, each day. Be smart: when you go abroad, carry your refrigerator with you.
they do have them, but its not common! You can filter on Mercado Libre to only view furnished ones, but we didn't know this when we first moved and Alejandro's Aunt helped us find our first apprtment, downside was we had to buy EVERYTHING for it and that was a slow and expensive process!
@@MaddieAle Hmm, well thanks for the reply. It looks like Argentina and Uruguay might have to be visits rather than long stays (Arg want a 2 year lease!) Just as well I'm doing the research now and thanks for the excellent videos.
there really are much cheaper options, but we just wanted a specific area which is a lot pricier! and also with social media i wanted somewhere that was "Cute" for photos, which i know is not a high priority for a lot of people, but to me, for getting work deals, it actually is quite important haha
again if you would like to see a PART 2, with more cheaper options, like what you can get for $300 / month etc, we could make one! just for comparison.
Yep! We have to wear them most places, if you're outside then its optional but recommended. You could probably tell in our tours that we were always wearing masks
Really interesting video! I’m in the US, and I’m been researching cool countries with remote work/digital nomad visas (it’s just a dream right now)-but how is it if you have pets as a renter there?
honestly pets are almost a "non-issue" we heard once that they legally cant tell you no.... but also some listings DO say "NO MASCOTAS" (pets) but most are fine!
ok so go find another video in english about apartment hunting in uruguay. look sorry but I like to make my situation known at the start of the video, if you don't like it you can always skip ahead to the part where we are clearly looking at apartments.
I’m frankly shocked at what their charging for such small apartments! Visiting of course, living there- oh hell no Are you sure your not getting charged more because your a foreigner ?
with the apartment no, but with other things, we absolutely are sometimes haha. i'm always careful to not talk when we are at the markets! i know its stupid but i truly have seen people charge us more when they hear us talking english. Which i think is fair for tourists tbh... but for people who live here, i'm a local, so i want to pay local prices! the apartment price was because of the "ammenities" but that all went to shit anyway, and in the end it was 100% not worth the price we were paying, despite the original look of the place and the incredible location (right by WTC and Montevideo Shopping + the Pocitos Nuevos beaches)
