The truth about living in Uruguay | A foreigner's point of view

The truth about living in Uruguay vs the United States of America | Uruguayan food, language, safety, etc | A U.S. foreigner's point of view.
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[@alfredoistic]

📌 I'm Uruguayan here, I'm glad you liked my country, thanks for making a video about it cheers!!

[@Maxler5795]

Im a uruguayan anomaly. I was born in the US but lived my life on Uruguay. And boy am i glad i did. Uruguay is... just... amazing.

[@guillermotraverso4112]

"I thought all of south america was kinda like México"😂 it always happens bro, we are used to things like that and to see European tourists coming on winter barely with clothes thinking that they are in the tropical SA. No problem now you know it. Peace!

[@itsmv111]

It's the way he pronounced Alfajor for me... Lol

[@fleckx]

alfa jors are my favorite jors.

[@ripzonar1542]

@@fleckx alpha horse

[@deleted72636]

Alfa-hoaar

[@BlackURU23]

q onda todo el mundo hablando de mi hermoso pais..

[@yuri2973]

Vamo Uruguay🇺🇾

[@williamrodriguez7412]

Uruguay is the best country !!! Its very quiet and beautifull !!!

[@gastoncedres442]

I’m from Uruguay and lot of people know what a taco is but they’ve never had it

[@marcelae9798]

They know now. Before globalization (AKA internet), no one in Uy knew what a mexican taco or tortilla were.

[@charruaporelmundo]

They do know, because of TV,...nothing else, and to be sincerely, we do not need it.

[@celiomorais6357]

Uruguay ? It's Cisplatina , our province.

[@magallanesagustin4952]

@@celiomorais6357 seguí soñando que no cuesta nada.

[@celiomorais6357]

@@magallanesagustin4952 Este "sueño" podria ser una verdad se Brasil quicer.

[@maurofac841]

We all love milanesas! It is yet another food brought by the Italians. The name translates to "Milanese" (from the city of Milan) and it's a fairly common food in the Alpine region, maybe in North American culture you're probably used to its German name, Schnitzel.

[@javierpizzikato7800]

"Black beans" is what we call "Poroto". With rice is delicious. PD: Sorry for bad english.

[@zentiera]

Yours English is good Javier👍

[@timothychamberlin6985]

Sorry english is great....

[@lewisanthony1955]

Flat out I love that tiny country and modestly I’ve been there 7 times , and knew 14 of 19 departments. The worst part it’s comparing all the stuff with Mexican ...

[@GracieAhora]

Wow! I was also born in Uruguay and haven’t visited more than 6 or 7 departments. I promise to change that! I agree with you, never compare that part of South America with Mexico!

[@thejusticechannel13]

Uruguayans are probably nicer than Mexicans too. Mexicans are entitled and like to act tough.

[@RedScareClair]

White Americans think all of Latin America is Mexico... Nevermind the fact that Uruguay and Mexico are on 2 different continents 🙄

[@eduardoburghos]

beautiful Uruguay

[@MadGamer_666]

La Milanesa! Y el Alfajor!! Que grande! 😂

[@sacaloslots8577]

Uruguay is for meat and wine lovers 🍷🍷🍷

[@sambaion8473]

comida argentina

[@albertowachsman7878]

Very nice guy. Castellano (Castilian) is actually not a Uruguayan dialect. There are multiple regional languages in Spain, such as Catalan, Vasco, Gallego and Castellano. When Castilla became the dominant power in Spain, their language became the official language of Spain, so for most of the world Castellano is known as Spanish.

[@GracieAhora]

True, but you’re making it too complicated. The guy is just trying to give a simple, easy to understand explanation to why / how our Spanish is different from the kind of Spanish people in the USA usually hear

[@gaa389]

I appreciate it. It's not too complicated for my brain.

[@albertowachsman7878]

@@gaa389 Thanks

[@josemrodriguez3080]

The local dialect derived from castellano - es rioplatense - on both shores of Rio de la Plata

[@naraiancepeda826]

Muchas gracias hermano ! Thanks brother ! Greetings from Uruguay 🇺🇾

[@alidarotondaro6821]

Love Uruguay 💋❤️ nice video Your Spanish is very good 👍🏼💕

[@Timithos]

Food, dialect, and safety.. ok well, I came for banking, taxes, property ownership, vehicle ownership/rental, cost of living, visas, residencies, citizenship. Moving along then.

[@Donyk]

Hi, what type of business or service need do they have?

[@the_Falcon_fall]

Well, we´re very concern about food here and that says a lot about Uruguay. If u care about food then u care about family and friends. If you have the right friendships and keep your family together then you will also do well in business. If you do well then why to worry about costs, ownerships, vehicles, taxes and so on? See? First F.O.O.D.: Family Over Other Duties.

[@UruguayTourism]

Thank you for this video and welcome to Uruguay when you wish! If you are looking for more info about Uruguay in the playlist of my channel you will find it !

[@santiagoimperio8860]

I am from Uruguay and i love every single food there

[@Elratauru]

Uruguayan here, a pretty honest review and a show of good understanding. Loved the Alfajor's description... even I find it hard to explain it sometimes! I'd also like to add the word "Vamos!" used as a "Let's go!" when something goes nicely (To pump us up!), we tend to cut the last "S" so it ends up as "Vamo'!"... Also "Vamo' arriba" it's pretty common too. As for usage, "Vamo' arriba La Celeste" is a common saying for cheering our local soccer team :)

[@auxmike718]

This guy looks straight outta 1980s high school yearbook

[@federicobalboa9145]

gracias por visitar nuestro país! big hug sr

[@jon6309]

Thank you for making this video. I am from Hawaii and curious about this country as I heard a lot of good things.

[@gonzauruguay100]

Very nice guy.

[@littlenothing1068]

“Doolsay day laychay” 😭🤣 so close, yet so far away

[@11aloalo]

That’s right, I didn’t know what taco was until I came to the US 😝Love them now! 😋😋😋 And the “este” word, nice point too 👍.

[@panchopozzoli3637]

Born and raised in Uruguay never ate rice and beans once my dude 🤣

[@wahidanaima557]

Algeria 🇩🇿 always stands with Uruguay 🇺🇾 United and amicably

[@bbqsauce875]

Merci bcp soeurs ,we love u too

[@valentino5367]

Nice to meet you again, big hugh ¡

[@estebansaona6188]

Que dou, la milanesa con queso y cosas arriba se llama milanesa napolitana

[@FrandjiCristian]

Half of video speaking about FOOD

[@user-wf4lg6ky7m]

Siii🥩🥐🥪

[@dj2000lbs]

fatty likes food lol

[@marcelae9798]

Pollo (chicken): Mexico: "poio", Uruguay/Argentina: "posho"

[@AndresMUy-vd2fy]

Poyo.

[@martingarxia5154]

poyo

[@cristhianmarshall8550]

I totally loved it… este!

[@Lucas_sGarage]

I'm from uruguay.... Hi

[@gustavoalbarrazin7924]

Thanks welcome always to Uruguay

[@pata2775]

Great video

[@gaa389]

The "sh" sound for "y" or "ll" is not a Castilian thing; that's a purely Argentine/Uruguayan thing. That is not how things are pronounced in Castilla Leon, Spain.

[@daigorowolf2136]

Gringo doesn’t know any better. He probably thinks the official language is Spanish and Castellano is the dialect

[@AndresMUy-vd2fy]

Riverplating castillian.

[@2107camilo]

Exactly, el acento rioplatense.

[@dedespedida4515]

A milanesa with ham and mozzarella (and a marinara style sauce)is call Napolitan Milanesa, (milanesa a la napolitana) there's a difference between the 2, and NO, we don't eat a lot of black beans.. seems like you never been to Mexico or Colombia or Brazil or Guatemala... Uruguay is the Latin country that consume less beans.

[@sos.gamers]

Milanesa it's schnitzel bro it's a german/italian food

[@WKfpv]

"no somos latinos, yo me crié acá en la Suiza del sur" 😉

[@elcoie]

Yo me crié en Uruguay 🇺🇾 un país latinoamericano que no se parece en nada a Suiza 🇨🇭. Suiza es un país de primera, en lo único que les ganamos es al fútbol

[@sos.gamers]

@@elcoie alguien no entendio porque se le dice la suiza de América...

[@conger8940]

@@sos.gamers hoy en día no tenemos nada parecido con suiza eso era en los buenos momentos 40 50 que vivíamos muy bien pero quedó eso y ta se sigue usando

[@sambaion8473]

@@sos.gamers pq es un paraiso fiscal donde podes colocar dinero negro al sistema bancario

[@deeprollingriver5820]

I’m moving to Uruguay within the next 2 months.

[@miriamzamora3709]

Did you move?...And if you did how do you feel there?...I'm planning to move there....

[@erenjeager9442]

Are people in Uraguay are Friendly their?

[@fabulousdick]

We all know what a taco is. 😂

[@gerardosmirazon]

Sabemos lo que es, hay restaurantes que los venden pero no es muy popular, es un tanto exótico.

[@Lucas_sGarage]

Yup

[@adamexcellie4272]

The truth is....the food is really great

[@georgep6495]

Heard its like Greece, but in Latin America... Dno if its true but Id like to visit sometime...

[@GssVega]

99 percent of the people have European genetics

[@user-wf4lg6ky7m]

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 "esteeeeeh"...

[@michaelcooke8665]

Castellano is spoken in Argentina too

[@deleted72636]

Very similar to Argentinian food and culture

[@AnaCeciFrutos]

Though good pronunciation of the ll but catellano is spoken in castilla and not here

[@1brickrow]

Spanish spoken in Latinamerica is no other than Castellano

[@hanksandoval3466]

Alphahor; 💪 you can have your cookie and your pie (cake) and eat it to.

[@charleskarnes5457]

This is the tip of the iceberg.

[@jotarocca2133]

Yeah I don’t think we eat rice and black beans

[@ivessellanes7214]

Quién gana? Uruguay vs USA.

[@Giacomo_cpz]

Uruguay obvio man

[@eminother]

Wow! AlphaHorses 😱

[@pisachu_]

Algún uruguayo

[@pisachu_]

@tryttf Jhfghu yo san jose

[@rubenacevedo2484]

Milanesa : schnitzel

[@andresdym6677]

Dude, Castellano is how the Spanish language is known, it's not a dialect

[@adrianguerra6541]

¿ porqué no hay subtítulos en español ? No sabemos que hablan de nuestro país.

[@gokuskanji1280]

Destacó la comida básicamente, y que desde su percepción es seguro andar en la calle. Nos comparó un poco con respecto a mexico que supongo es la referencia que tienen para latinoamérica, en especial la particularidad del español nuestro en comparación a otros países hispanohablantes...

[@GracieAhora]

Porque el vídeo está destinado a promocionar Uruguay entre gente de habla inglesa.

[@m.f.b7144]

Hablo buenas cosas de tu país. Dijo q su ignorante impresión antes de ir a Uruguay era que su creencia w todo Sud América era como Mexico, sobre todo la comida. Luego hablo bastante de la comida y bastante de la diferencia lingüística entre diferentes países.

[@adrianguerra6541]

@@m.f.b7144 Qe bueno ! gracias.!!

[@Giacomo_cpz]

🇮🇹🇺🇾🇮🇹🇺🇾🇮🇹🇺🇾🇮🇹🇺🇾

[@AndresMUy-vd2fy]

Uruguay = URU o UY República Oriental del Uruguay = ROU

[@bobmanp8653]

should of said este instead of uhm at the end

[@ShhmeattyHighDef]

Y el chaja??

[@fatiga2214]

No puedes comparar Uruguay con Usa, es como comparar un país rico con otro pobre

[@Kor835]

Uruguay no es un pais pobre, bastante lejos de serlo de hecho segun fmi banco mundial etc

[@nahuel-7755]

Uruguay país pobre ? será menos desarrollado que Usa, pero no es un país pobre.

[@littlenothing1068]

Omfg the way he pronounces milanesas has me dead☠️☠️☠️

[@Nefay_Max]

hablan mucho de la comida , que raro que no dicen nada del " chivito" xd

[@SatanicSapphire]

I like how its always a white american person that they're interviewing in videos like this

[@sacaloslots8577]

Don't forget they are steak lovers.

[@JoTokutora]

Lol, so urugayans pronunciation is similar to puerto rico

[@JorgeBA1995]

Not even close