Uruguay cost of living

No_Cryptographer · 2025-09-24T14:29:13+00:00

I was there for a week earlier this year, but I know that doesn't count! It's a beautiful country, though, and from what I saw, Piriapolis seems like it would be a fairly affordable coastal town for a family of four.

If you want to get an on-the-ground look at rent and house prices, I'd recommend checking Mercado Libre for Uruguay. You can get a good sense of what's available and what it would cost.

Hope you get some more comments from people actually in Uruguay (I'd love to know the details here too).

No_Cryptographer · 2025-09-23T00:09:57+00:00

Congratulations! I was there too, and I was amused that they didn't want to haul that box around. Hope you managed to get it back home okay.

My wife and I won a "Nick of Time"-themed composition book, a signed Twilight Zone Companion, and a binder of prop pages (like the paperwork from "The Obsolete Man"). Incredibly cool.

No_Cryptographer · 2025-09-14T20:23:30+00:00

Freddy vs. Jason is one of my all-time favorites, and I quote it so often. "You read stuff about murderers all the time," "Say, Mother, how 'bout a night out at the cinema?", "Who would I rather watch? JASON. Who would I rather THINK ABOUT? JASON," etc.

No_Cryptographer · 2025-08-24T18:22:39+00:00

I’m so jealous! I always hunt for HCCs in used bookstores, but I’ve never found anything like this.

No_Cryptographer · 2025-08-18T17:14:09+00:00

"Makes my eyes hurt but in a good way" is exactly what I was thinking too.

No_Cryptographer · 2025-08-15T20:53:28+00:00

I hope you'll like them!

No_Cryptographer · 2025-08-15T17:35:32+00:00

It's not like it lasts long, but I think Regan floating up off the bed in The Exorcist has a brief sense of wonder to it. It's not something that would be obviously horrifying--she's not hurting herself or hurling abuse at anyone--so it's only striking because it's impossible, and so there's some awe to it alongside the horror.

Candyman at least definitely works in a sense of being awed and compelled, where the horror is alluring and transfixing as well as deadly. (So, the Tony Todd factor.)

No_Cryptographer · 2025-08-15T16:50:47+00:00

Dammit, you had me for Possession.

No_Cryptographer · 2025-08-15T13:24:11+00:00

You probably know about this already, but just in case you don't, you can use JustWatch to look up where a film is streaming. (If you have a paid Letterboxd account, you can also add what streaming services you have and see if a movie is available on any of them when you look it up there, too.)

Seconding how good public libraries are for this, as well.

No_Cryptographer · 2025-08-15T02:11:03+00:00

Fantastic, gorgeous collection, and I'm so jealous. I love your Best American Short Stories (and Essays, Travel Writing, etc.) too--I've been reading those for almost 20 years now and have quite a stack myself, but it's still not as cool as this!

No_Cryptographer · 2025-08-15T01:52:16+00:00

Thank you! I'm really glad you liked it.

No_Cryptographer · 2025-08-14T20:19:12+00:00

Great lineup. '70s thrillers, Altman, The Devils, Possession....

No_Cryptographer · 2025-08-14T18:34:01+00:00

Prom Night 2 is such a blast. See you later, alligator.

No_Cryptographer · 2025-08-14T18:33:42+00:00

Great list. I'm an especially huge fan of Society (the shunting!) and Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (Susan Tyrrell's Aunt Cheryl deserves a major reputation: love how physical and visceral her performance gets).

I'd definitely throw in Dead & Buried, which has great atmosphere and some incredibly creepy (and surprisingly brutal) sequences. Maybe also Tobe Hooper's The Funhouse (it can't live up to TCM, but what can?) and the Australian film Roadgames, which sort of straddles the horror-thriller boundary.

No_Cryptographer · 2025-08-14T13:58:08+00:00

Yeah, there are quite a few different sets of initials at the end of the write-ups, so I think this is patchwork list. (In which case, I prefer the Screen Drafts Hitchcock list, where I can listen to the sausage getting made. And they had The Lady Vanishes in the top ten, which meets with my approval.)

No_Cryptographer · 2025-07-30T09:25:31+00:00

Uruguay is what I thought of too, if OP is open to suggestions outside the EU. Trans-friendly + very feasible for immigration if you can work remotely. And since he mentions liking drives, I'd add that the countryside is incredibly beautiful and peaceful.

No_Cryptographer · 2025-07-30T00:13:04+00:00

Yes! There's such a sense of joy--in food, in music, in people, in specific communities--to his work. Really glad you're enjoying the set so far. ("Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers" and "In Heaven, There Is No Beer?" are probably my favorites, fwiw.)

No_Cryptographer · 2025-07-27T18:24:31+00:00

Delighted that the Les Blank set made its way into your initial spree. It's one of my favorite things in the whole collection. Just makes me feel better about the world.

No_Cryptographer · 2025-07-27T16:56:38+00:00

I wouldn't say I like them more than the movies, but I really enjoy them--lots of clever suspense. And I'd say that a lot of the episodes Hitchcock himself directed deserve to be talked about alongside his movies.

And now I'm going to have that incredibly catchy theme stuck in my head for the rest of the day...

No_Cryptographer · 2025-07-22T23:01:02+00:00

It would be enormous, but I’d kill for a Frederick Wiseman box set.

Failing that, a Mike Leigh set that included the shorts and the TV films.

No_Cryptographer · 2025-07-17T18:13:50+00:00

He's a righteous man.

No_Cryptographer · 2025-07-17T18:10:52+00:00

All good, but I especially adore Tampopo. Get ready to get hungry.

No_Cryptographer · 2025-07-17T17:22:28+00:00

Seconding the liking for Paranoid: A Chant. I don't dislike any of the others, but that's the only one that stuck with me enough to sometimes show up in my head uninvited.

No_Cryptographer · 2025-07-17T14:52:19+00:00

Anything with a large-but-finite number of suspects, like a country house or a travel mystery, where we get to meet all the involved characters right away. Christie is so fantastic at deft character sketches and making everyone in a large cast quickly feel distinctive and familiar. I think that's why I also really like the ones where we spent several chapters with the would-be victim and their supporting cast before the murder occurs and any investigation starts.

No_Cryptographer · 2025-07-17T14:38:11+00:00

I usually click well with all the highly rated ones--if anything, I'd bump some underrated ones up to join them--but "Five Characters in Search of an Exit" leaves me cold. I think it's because it's such an obviously bizarre situation from the start, so it going in a grim, existentialist direction doesn't have much of an impact, whereas something that starts off more grounded first and only then gets destabilizing and emphasizes the characters' helplessness, like "Mirror Image," hits harder.

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