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by **Rook** on Sat Nov 10, 2007 3:10 pm

I am an American who lived/worked in Chile for 9 months in 2003. Main goal will be to improve my Spanish for better communication with the in-laws and see how it is to live in Chile. The first time in 2003 was spent mostly working all the time with little to no free time. Lately I found some blogs of foreigners in Chile and they seem to be constantly complaining about life in Chile but I am still optimistic.

by **Rook** on Sat Nov 10, 2007 3:12 pm

forgot to add I will be returning to Chile (Vina) sometime in the next 30 days

by **admin** on Sat Nov 10, 2007 3:43 pm

Welcome to the forum. Yea, expats love to complain, but if you do a comparison against the number of complaints for just about every country in Latin America you will find Chile still beats all of them.

by **Chuck J 3.0** on Sat Nov 10, 2007 6:17 pm

Welcome back.

Yeah, guilty yer honor, I love to complain. But I'd rather be here than the USA. Just for laughs, :-)

I think I found the perfect example of the Chilean bathroom.

[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v622/chas2004/339781_DSC04838.jpg[/img]

I could see myself having an emergency not being able to squeeze by that sink. :-)

by **admin** on Sat Nov 10, 2007 7:19 pm

yea, that looks like a very well designed and thought out bathroom compared to some of the hostals I have stayed in Chile.

I swear on some of them they built half bathroom, then like 10 years later (long after the plans where forgotten) they returned to finish the other half.

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :lol: :lol: :roll: :roll: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

You see you got to have fun with the complaints, otherwise it will drive you mad and you will forget why Chile is so great in the first place.

by **admin** on Sat Nov 10, 2007 7:23 pm

By the way, may I invite you all over to complain in the all new Chile Customer service forum at:
http://www.allchile.net/chileforum/viewforum.php?f=27

Vent, it will make you feel better.

by **eeuunikkeiexpat** on Sat Nov 10, 2007 7:24 pm

That pic alone should discourage many overweight gringos from coming

by **RWS** on Sat Nov 10, 2007 9:01 pm

Chuck J 3.0 wrote:. . . . I think I found the perfect example of the Chilean bathroom.
[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v622/chas2004/339781_DSC04838.jpg[/img]. . . .

And one bathes in the sink?

by **RWS** on Sat Nov 10, 2007 9:08 pm

More seriously, and to tell one on myself (at 70 kg. or so and 185 cm., the squeeze-by doesn't much concern me -- at the least, not yet!), I remember visiting friends near Valpo early one Spring in the mid- or late '90s. It was the first time that I'd confronted the once-ubiquitous calefacción in Chile, and between ignorance of the system and fear of blowing everyone -- including myself -- to kingdom come, I just forewent lighting the awesome thing.

I don't remember how many early morning near-ice showers went by in October or November before someone heard my stifled moans . . . or was it my chattering teeth?

by **FrankPintor** on Sun Nov 11, 2007 4:29 am

More like a Dutch bathroom than anything I've seen in Chile.

And about the "complainers' forum": isn't there a Spanish proverb "No me busques que me vas a encontrar..." :twisted:

it's tempting. But I also think that if you don't compain, things don't get better.

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