| EL
SALVADOR |
| El
Salvador Autohotel - Salvadoran Hotel Pleasure |
| I
just don't get it! Is this just a place to park your auto? Where's the
freakin' office? I drove around the circular interior of the drab cement
complex several times and all I could see were small garage spaces with
a door inside and a rolling metal garage door outside. "Where's the office?"
I asked the security guard with a big shotgun and a nasty german shepard.
My much improved Spanish was not enough to comprehend the situation. "Are
there rooms here?" "Yes. |
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| The
advantages of Living Overseas: a new and refreshing way to look at Offshore |
| Edmund J.
Pankau writes about the broader meaning of offshore, this time in terms
of the real advantages to the ordinary person seeking a lower cost of living,
a better quality of life, reasonable and fantastic real estate, lower taxes,
and ground floor business opportunities. "In recent years, Central America
has become the Florida, California and Arizona of the 1950’s. Remember
when you could buy beachfront property in Florida for a song? When prices
in California were dirt cheap? Well, those days are now in full bloom
just a little further south of the border. The slower paced climate
of Central American has awakened to the realization that is can revitalize
its economy by becoming the retirement center of the western world. All
of the things that made Florida and California boom are now happening in
Belize, Honduras and Costa Rica, as is starting to emerge, Nicaragua, Panama,
El Salvador and Guatemala." |
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| What
You Need To Know About Living In El Salvador - A Forgotten Beauty |
| El
Salvador is one of those countries that most people either ignore or know
nothing about or are fearful to visit. And then you talk to people who
can talk about nothing but El Salvador and why you should visit or move
there. The country does have some stunning spots and the economy has picked
up as the political problems of the 70s and 80s have faded. Now might be
El Salvador's time. |
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| ENGLAND |
| Felixstowe
- On The Coast Of England |
| Walking along
the “boardwalk” or waterfront area I can’t help but be reminded of Coney
Island in New York. There’s no roller coaster about but it has the same
feel. On one side of the main drag you have shops and arcades; on the other
side is the beach and ocean itself. The town is old and rustic, very little
modernizations anywhere, which give it a real charm and appeal. |
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| From
Idea to Reality: The Story of Expatboxes Start-up |
| Four expat
escape artists from England band together and form Expatboxes.com, a new
internet site e-commerce company based in the heart of Devon, England.
The company went online in November 2000. Founder Susan Ubl has lived
abroad for 20 years. Susan says, “After returning to the UK five years
ago I have been constantly asked by all my expat friends to send them various
essential things they miss from home!" This is the story of their start-up,
a feat easily accomplished with a little of that ol' British fortitude
and ingenuity. |
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| In
The Mists Of Avalon - Glastonbury, England |
| From 2001
to 2003 I lived in a small rural village in Somerset, England. You are
probably picturing me strolling around meandering cobbled alleyways and
pruning the roses in my cottage garden now. Bored to death, most likely.
But you’d be wrong. Because the tiny historic market town (population:
8800) that I called home was not your average rural English idyll. Not
by a long shot. Legend tells us that when King Uther died, England was
left without a king. How to find one? A cunning plan was devised. |
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| Letter
From Cornwall |
| I
was looking for a quiet, inspirational place to write, a place far removed
from the expense, noise and crowds of London. ‘Why not Cornwall?’ I thought,
with that memory of the beach below the cliffs stuck in my mind. As things
turned out, I came for a break and stayed for two years. I was seduced
by landscape and seascape, by the lure of mythology and romantic legends.
But the reality of life in Cornwall turns out to be both more and less
than anyone could imagine. |
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| Living
In North Yorkshire - In The North Of England |
| Buckingham
Palace, the Tower Bridge, Stonehenge and Big Ben are some of the places
people think of when traveling to England becomes part of their vacation
plans. These are all wonderful places and well worth visiting; yet some
of the most beautiful and authentically “English” parts of England have
to be the Yorkshire Dales. This includes the East and West ridings, or
counties, of Yorkshire, and the largest county in England, the county of
North Yorkshire. |
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| My
Secrets to a Lifetime of Making Money in Overseas Real Estate |
| If we can
now buy a ranch in Argentina (or Uruguay, or New Zealand, or name your
spot,) for ten cents on the dollar of what a similar property inside
the United States would cost us, and if we can carry on commerce from anywhere
we are, how long do you imagine it's going to take your neighbor to realize
the very same thing? As one writer put it, "those folks who buy that ranch
in Argentina today are going to have grandchildren who will think they
were a genius." Gary Scott tells us more, in an article from the best of
International Living. |
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| Suffolk
Classic Olde England, With London Within Commuting Range -Living In Suffolk |
| This is classic
English countryside. Between golden wheatfields, streams overhung with
willow trees glisten in the autumn sunlight. Corn dollies hang up in casement
windows like magic charms. In market gardens, red-flowered runner beans
grow on eight-foot high poles. Strings of racehorses exercise on Newmarket
Heath, village greens host cricket matches, and Greene King ale—real ale—comes
straight from the cask. ... from the best of International Living. |
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| The
Wasteland - From The Daily Reckoning |
| T.S. Eliot,
American by birth, English by choice, was once asked why he had moved to
London, instead of settling down in St. Louis with a nice woman from the
midwest. "I didn't like being dead that much," was his reply. - A new feature
on Escape Artist, The Daily Reckoning, by Bill Bonner - Bill is the publisher
of a group of investment services, called Agora Financial Publishing. Agora
has offices in Paris, London and Baltimore, so Bill had a choice of where
he wanted to live. While he shuttles back and forth between these offices
he chooses to live in a château in France which he and is wife Elizabeth
renovated. |
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| There's
no place i'd rather be- Living in Europe |
| For many Americans
the best fringe benefit of a relocation to Europe is the opportunity for
accessible travel through a continent with incredible cultural diversity.
Of course, there are the destinations that anyone on a two-to-three year
residency will have on their "must see" list, but few people will return
to the US without some village, region, resort or city occupying a special
place in their recollections of traveling through Europe. Those who stay
a little longer often have the chance to range a bit farther and perhaps
to form a long-term bond with a particular place. Clare Sievers asked six
prominent US citizens resident in Europe to share their thoughts on a favorite
holiday destination. |
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| ESTONIA |
| Real
Estate in Estonia |
| According
to Knight Frank’s latest ‘Global House Price Index’ Estonia once again
tops the list of worldwide property markets in terms of annualised growth;
the capital city of Estonia, Tallinn recorded growth of 17% in the first
quarter of 2006 on top of record annual growth last year of around 50%.
So what’s fuelling demand for property for sale in Estonia? What’s
sustaining the property price increases and is Estonia’s property market
booming healthily or about to explode and cause causalities? |
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| ETHIOPIA |
| Addis
Abeba, Ethiopia - A City Of Great Color |
| If there is
one word to describe Addis Abeba, the capital city of Ethiopia, it is colorful.
It is literally colorful, in the visual sense of the word, but it is colorful
in so many other ways too. Vibrant might be a better word, to cover all
the senses. People walk around the city in bright reds and yellows; women
wear everything on the spectrum from traditional wrap dresses and scarves,
to a scarf with jeans, to only western clothing. Buildings are painted
vibrant shades of purple, pink, and orange. Bright blue taxis - cars, vans,
and small trucks from the communist era of the 1960s and 70s - spew thick
black smoke from their exhausts. |
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| Warm
Milk and Closed Windows - Ethiopia!!! - Take Me Home Toto! |
| As a Peace
Corps volunteer recently returned from Ethiopia, Gina Perfetto’s stories
are varied. She has had authentic human interaction in foreign cultures
as the following story well illustrates. The story records an encounter
with an irate passenger on a bus in Ethiopia. Gina writes from the hip
and tells it like it is: of dusty friends on a back road to nowhere, of
dominating males in an archaic society, of a longing for logic and sense
... a return to sensibility. |
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