# Americans moving to Uruguay **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 7, 2024, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-moving-to-uruguay/1009872 "2024-11-07T17:28:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2024, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-moving-to-uruguay/1009872/1 "2024-11-07T17:28:49Z")
What might life be like for an American who moves to Uruguay? What if she’s a queer 65-year-old on Social Security disability who speaks Spanish moderately well and plays Spanish guitar and is learning to play “La Cumparsita”? First and foremost, the attraction of Uruguay is LGBTQ rights enshrined in law. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2024, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-moving-to-uruguay/1009872/2 "2024-11-07T19:58:05Z")
I really think you need to search out more specialized forums, for example: > **[Uruguay Expat Forum: Forum for Expats Living in Uruguay | Expat Exchange](https://www.expatexchange.com/uruguay/liveinuruguay.html)** > > Uruguay Expat Forum: Talk with digital nomads & expats living in Uruguay and people moving to Uruguay on our Uruguay Expat Forum. Plus, read past discussions about cost of living, best places to live in Uruguay, visas and residency, finding a... > **[Uruguay forum, forum expat Uruguay](https://www.expat.com/forum/viewforum.php?id=527)** > > Uruguay forum: ask your questions, find answers, share your experience about Uruguay in the expat forum Uruguay. Blogs, pictures, forum Uruguay on expat.com > **[Expat Community in Uruguay - Find Jobs, Forums & Events for Expats](https://www.internations.org/uruguay-expats)** > > Join our expat community in Uruguay✔ Discover Uruguay and its cities as an expat✔ Meet other expatriates in Uruguay✔ Attend local events in Uruguay✔ And other forums at: [https://www.google.com/search?q=Uruguay+expat+forum](https://www.google.com/search?q=Uruguay+expat+forum) And the Reddit sub-reddits: [https://www.reddit.com/r/uruguay/](https://www.reddit.com/r/uruguay/) [https://www.reddit.com/r/lgbt/](https://www.reddit.com/r/lgbt/) ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2024, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-moving-to-uruguay/1009872/3 "2024-11-07T22:15:38Z")
> [@Johanna](#): > > First and foremost, the attraction of Uruguay is LGBTQ rights enshrined in law. I know nothing at all about Uruguay (aside from remembering when it was ruled by a military dictatorship) but even if LGBTQ rights are enshrined in law, that doesn’t mean that people are going to be welcoming or friendly. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2024, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-moving-to-uruguay/1009872/4 "2024-11-07T22:53:51Z")
Well, you said it all right: You know nothing at all about Uruguay. For starters, the Global Democracy Index cites only three Western Hemisphere countries as full democracies: Canada, Costa Rica, and Uruguay. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-moving-to-uruguay/1009872/5 "2024-11-08T21:17:27Z")
Uruguay is one of the [three or four best countries in the world for LGBTQ rights](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equaldex#LGBT_Equality_Index_(2024)). Cis-het guys may not take much note of that, let alone care, but for me it’s a matter of life and death. Republicans intend to make it illegal/impossible for people like me to exist. I just rewatched _Cabaret_, thanks to a recent Dope thread link. I get how the Jews felt when the Nazis took over. Not only that. The Nazis rounded up LGBTQ people and put them on the trains to the camps, don’t forget.