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ing its open approach to foreigners, and the relatively
large numbers of ethnically Swiss and Germans who
live there.
Besides, there was another attraction to Uruguay.
Uruguay sits beside the much larger Argentina in
much the same way that Canada borders the U. S.
Soon, Lumley learned that a group of farmers
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Uruguay about 20 years earlier. Lumley contacted
one of the group, Brian Fox, to learn more. The plan
hadn t really worked as well they had hoped, Fox
told Lumley.
The Canadian group had bought some land and
were figuring out how to farm it. They avoided the
extremes that a group Australians for instance had
gone to, buying land and telling themselves they
could farm it without any help from the locals, until
they foundered.
Still, the Canadians grappled with learning how
to succeed without a safety net in a different country
with a different language, different ways of doing
things, and a different and sometimes volatile economic
climate.
