Don't argue with your mother, it will create bad karma. She may not know the facts, but she's still your mother.  The fact that everyone with a brain is moving overseas is not her concern... her concern is that you be normal just like everyone else; settle down, raise kids, send them to American schools where they'll machine gun each other with Uzi's, get into Goth, use crack, cut themselves and live a normal American life.  Won't it be fun? 

Hey, if you've survived, and you want some options other than the tried and trashed, then consider our Zine.  First of all it's free, second it's outrageously good, third it's filled with ideas and content. 
 

Ideas: i·de·a  –noun - 1) Something, such as a thought or conception, that potentially or actually exists in the mind as a product, abstraction, concept, inference, fantasy, proposal, theory, or well-designed blueprint of future reality. 2) A creation, or formation, of a concept out of two or more units of the same (similar) class of observed phenomena within our field of perception. (See: Thinking, thought, awareness, reality, consciousness, intelligence, logic) Content: [kon-tent]  –noun - substantive information or creative material viewed in contrast to its actual or potential manner of presentation: publishers, media, record companies, and other content providers; most web sites are flashy, but don't have much content; or, conversely; this is a brilliant web site, with an amazing amount of content.

If you want to find out how to live overseas, where to live overseas, where to find employment overseas, where to find real estate overseas, how to live an international lifestyle and how to move your cash and your life offshore; then do subscribe to our eZine.  Over 350,000 people already have, and you need to find out why.  However, before you subscribe we have a confession, just so you know what kind of liars we are when we're trying to be convincing. We used to think that your mother wasn't a subscriber until we were presented with the stunning manuscript of Chronicles of the Jungle Mom, the true story about an expat mom who goes to live with her children in the jungles of Costa Rica...  It is clear to us that mothers are made out of sterner stuff than they used to be.  We admit that we no longer know who the enemy is; but we do know who our heroes and heroines are, and you are they.  Live where you want, live how you want, and make money doing it.  Our zine is the guidebook, you, when you know what you're doing, are our guides.  This isn't a Blog, it's a website, and a magazine that shows you how to live wherever you want. Are we iconoclast, risqué, irreverent, politically incorrect, outrageous, provocative, and willing to take risks?  No, actually we're kind of like the cold oatmeal that George Bush eats before every speech.  Is he leaning on a bar in a tavern when he talks or does it just look like he's leaning on a bar in a tavern?   Hallelujah, George, you've been good for our website, our numbers have quadrupled since you've thugged your way into office.  Americans are starting to swim the Rio Grande going south...  (once they get past the volunteer "Minutemen" guarding Arizona's Mexican border.) Talk about irony. Is it going to start getting difficult to get out?  Of course not....  well, soon they won't let you take your children out of America, got to protect them from A-Rabs, won't let you get more than a 30 day exit visa, too many terrorists have been moving overseas and taking their money with them...  and soon they won't let you take your assets.   When it happens, and it will; those who read Escape From America Magazine will be long gone.   How about you?  Waiting for the Kristallnacht?  We'll try not to get too serious on this slightly capricious page, it is after all designed to be mirthful. You on other hand, while enjoying the mirth might try to remember not wait too long in getting a second passport.

Okay, we're Guru's.  We know the route.  We live offshore. Our writers are out there now, living on coffee plantations in Costa Rica, teaching school in Bangkok, living in old mansions on the coast of Panama, remodeling old farm houses in the south of France, selling real estate in Budapest, running dive shops in Belize, freezing their buns off in Antarctica, starting a vineyard in New Zealand and living the kind of life that others only dream about....   what are you doing and why are you doing it?

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Escape From America Magazine is supplemented by our Offshore Real Estate Update. The articles in our Zines are written by both professional and amateur writers.  Those who have been there and done it are encouraged to submit articles even if they aren't professional writers.  We look at it as our job to keep you informed as to how to find expat havens, artists havens, offshore enclaves and expat contacts.  We show you how to find the best spots, how to get there and how to land there on your feet so you don't have to take the next boat back.  Eight years we've been at this; it's our turf, and we welcome you....  as your Guru's, we invite you to become our Guru.