Catalina Jack, a 37-year-old Argentine economist with two masters degrees, unceremoniously pulled up stakes in Buenos Aires three months ago and boarded a fast ferry to Uruguay. She got a job with a software firm and now looks out on the world from a home she rents near the beach resort of Punta del Este.
Her brother and his family had settled nearby a few weeks before. Two dozen friends have made the move or are doing so.
Catalina Jack near the beach resort of Punta del Este.
Photographer: Ana Ferreira Cirigliano/Bloomberg
“I’d have preferred to continue working in Argentina,” she said. “Today, I don’t think there is a place for me there. ...
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