My husband, Jamie, and I moved to a small village outside of the bustling town of San Rafael, Argentina, in June 2005. We started our lives in the Southern hemisphere as the owners of a beautiful 65-acre farm with a new, 1,900-square-foot house, a vineyard in need of a little TLC, a plum orchard in need of a lot of TLC, and plenty of open land. This was by far the nicest home I had ever lived in and cost us about 30% less than we would have paid back home in California.