Offshore
Real Estate Magazine - Index ~ Issue Number Twenty Six - January
2007
Live Where
You Want To Live! ~ Live How You Want To Live! ~ And Make Money Doing It!
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"Forgive
your enemies, but never forget their names."
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John
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SECTION
ONE - EXOTIC REAL ESTATE
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| Real
Estate in General Alvear, West Argentina - A place to rest or invest? |
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By
Susan Beverley
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Real
Estate in General Alvear, West Argentina - A place to rest or invest?
-“If
you’re looking for a place to drop out of the rat race in to, then this
is it” As he spoke these words the American expatriate I was in the
company of, swept his hands in a broad open gesture suggesting I look around.
We ordered another beer. Work on the 30 acre farm he had bought 6 months
earlier could wait a little while longer. Sit and watch the world go by
in this town and you soon start to feel that everything can wait.
From the comfort of my café bar seat in the main street of General
Alvear that is exactly what I did.
| Will
Property Prices in Estonia Continue to Rise? |
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By
Rhiannon Williamson
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Will
Property Prices in Estonia Continue to Rise? - According
to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors’ European house price inflation
league, Estonia has enjoyed the most significant gains in underlying
property price for the last two years in a row. Much has been made
of this fact in the media and many interested buyers have been hunting
around for information about the types of property they should be buying
and the most ideal locations for purchase.
| A
second home on Brazil’s northern coast for $80,000? Just beware the sharks! |
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By
Lee Harrison
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A
second home on Brazil’s northern coast for $80,000? Just beware the sharks!
- Picture it: you hit the beach early, but many of your fellow
city-dwellers are already there, jogging, walking, and enjoying the shimmering,
clear morning. The aerobics instructor begins stretching for her first
beachside class of the day on the firm, fine sand, just as the giant yellow
ball of the sun separates itself from the Atlantic horizon. The early-bird
vendors set up their stands and start preparing the fresh fruit and juices
that the beach-goers are accustomed to.
| Banging
Around Belize |
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By
Lan Sluder
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Banging
Around Belize - Continuing
from the last issue Lan "The-Belize-Answer-Man" Sluder guides us expertly
around Belize, the laid back Caribbean country of Central America
| A
Fresh Look at Costa Rica for Retirement |
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By
Andrew Mastrandonas
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A
Fresh Look at Costa Rica for Retirement - For
many years, Costa Rica has been touted as one of the top retirement havens
in the world. With a stable democracy, growing economy, government friendly
to foreigners and tropical climate, as well as incredible natural beauty,
it rightly earned the phrase, "the Switzerland of Latin America."
Is this still true today? Is it as expensive as Switzerland?
Are retirees still coming here? Should they still consider Costa
Rica?
| Could
this be the perfect way to make sense of real estate in Nicaragua? |
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By Claudia Gonella
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Could
this be the perfect way to make sense of real estate in Nicaragua?
- Searching
for good real estate opportunities in an emerging market where there is
no Multiple Listing Service can be a very time consuming and frustrating
process. It also doesn't help if you can't speak the local language. It
can be hard to make sense of the property market
| Ramada
Resort and Residencies |
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By
David F Sagal
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Ramada
Resort and Residencies - Ramada’s
luxurious $45 million resort and residential condo complex is now being
built in Jaco Beach, Costa Rica. The hotel will be a Ramada four-star
72 room beach resort. The 228 deluxe residences are located in six 10-story
towers. Owners can participate in income producing programs sponsored
by RCI, the world’s largest Global Vacation Network
| International
Real Estate Marketplace Featured Listings |
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International Properties
With Color Photos
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International
Real Estate Marketplace Featured Listings - See this month's featured real
estate listings - Real estate in New Zealand, Chile, Brazil, Croatia,
Panama, Belize, Costa Rica, and from around the world. Each month we feature
new properties in our featured listings, colored photographs and access
to our entire database of properties from around the world. Find your dream
property and plan your escape.
 For
a long term investment in the "greenest" jewel of the Caribbean, take a
look at the little known island called the Commonwealth of Dominica.
Half way along the curved necklace of islands comprising the Windward Islands
of the Eastern Caribbean basks a mountainous rock of 290 sq miles (750
sq km). At longitude 61º 20W, and latitude 15º 25N, Dominica
is a land of steep mountains and cliffs plummeting straight into the blue
Caribbean sea on the western side and the grey Atlantic on the eastern.
Rising at the highest point to Mt. Diablotin at 4,747 ft. (1,447m), this
is a country of raw beauty, rugged headlands and moody mountains, their
peaks often buried in cloud - Click
Here for details on living in Dominica - |
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INTERNATIONAL
REPORTS ON OVERSEAS RELOCATION
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| The author
of this No-Nonsense
Expats Guide to Asian Sales and Marketing has spent more than 25
years in China trade and Asian sales and marketing generally, and is based
in Kuala Lumpur where he has been for 7 years now. He has set up a number
of American and European companies out there, and has had great success
at doing it, so what he has to say will be of interest to anyone who has
an interest in entering the Asian market. He focuses on the day-to-day
aspects of running a foreign office from a Stateside or European location,
how to handle business meetings, establish distribution channels, deal
with "entertainment" and the inescapable phenomenon of the bribe. This
report is a compliation of 20 years of first hand experience. |
| Privacy - Your most important
possession - They've Declared War on Your Wealth & Your Privacy
..and You Could be the Next Innocent Victim! - The
Privacy Report - Regain Lost Privacy With The Lifeboat Strategy - Mark
Nestmann was one of the people whose work I consulted when writing the
book version of Escape From America. The ongoing erosion of privacy in
the United States is the most important issue facing Americans today.
Without privacy, we have nothing, or less than nothing. Privacy is a human
imperative because privacy of self is an important biological necessity
of a sane and stable sense of self. It is a scientific fact that a rational
person cannot have their autonomous sense of self (their sense of privacy
of self,) compromised and still function as a healthy individual.
Thinking and creativity require the capacity to make independent judgments,
an invasion of our privacy such as that going on in America today violates
that capacity. It is more than important to reclaim our privacy, it is
a biological necessity. Those who want to know about privacy and how to
regain it turn to Mark Nestmann; he is the authority on issues of privacy,
and he has a wide range of solutions to our loss of privacy problems. |
| Escape The Corporation - What
Every Corporate Employee Needs to Know - Escape
The Corporation - What Every Corporate Employee Needs to Know - Read
what may be the most important ebook of your life. This may well be the
final push you need to live the life you have always wanted. Join thousands
of others who have seen their lives drastically improved just by taking
the time to ask themselves a few questions... |
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Joint Adventures - How Anyone
Can Create Financial Freedom with No Cost or Risk, Using Joint Ventures
- Joint
Adventures - How Anyone Can Create Financial Freedom with No Cost or Risk,
Using Joint Ventures ~
Financial independence offers people freedom, dignity, self respect, education,
quality of life and personal growth opportunities. This eBook is an instruction
manual that shows the reader how to use Joint Ventures to create multiple
streams of increasing passive income with no cost or risk and how to remove
all income limitations from your life. It will show you how financial freedom
can be yours. Get the report - Click
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January
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| Ramada’s luxurious $45 million resort
and residential condo complex is now being built in Jaco Beach, Costa Rica.
The hotel will be a Ramada four-star 72 room beach resort. |
| The 228 deluxe residences are located
in six 10-story towers. Owners can participate in income producing
programs sponsored by RCI, the world’s largest Global Vacation Network. |
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Ramada
-Jaco Beach, Costa Rica
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SECTION
TWO - FINANCE AND INVESTMENT
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| The
Gold Price-Fixing Conspiracy |
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By
Doug Casey
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The
Gold Price-Fixing Conspiracy - For
many years now, a number of people in the financial arena have been alleging
that there is an active conspiracy to suppress the price of gold. Some
see it as a sinister backroom affair. Others claim that it’s just the way
the world works, and that it happens right out in the open, if only you
know where to look. |
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SECTION
THREE - JOBS OVERSEAS / INTERNATIONAL EMPLOYMENT
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| Making
Money Overseas - Writing eBooks For EscapeArtist.com |
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By
EscapeArtist.com
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Making
Money Overseas - Writing eBooks and Reports For EscapeArtist.com
- Yes, you can make money writing eBooks and reports for us, good money.
In fact you can make enough money to live on overseas. We
are now seeking eBook reports on almost any subject; not just on expatriate
issues. We have had so much success with our eBooks that we have decided
to expand our library to include more subjects - - subjects that are important
even if they are not directly related to expatriate issues. By
EscapeArtist.com
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INTERNATIONAL
REPORTS ON OVERSEAS MONEY MAKERS
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| Get a Job on a Luxury Cruise
Ship - Quickly & Easily! -Get
a Cruise Ship Job! - Click Here "Discover
how you can Travel to the World's Most Exotic Places...having the Best
Time of Your Life...and Get Paid for it!" - “Now is the best time in history
to get a job on a cruise ship” - Get Paid to Travel the World Having the
Best Time of Your Life! - “It’s almost the perfect job!” - |
| Careers In Yachting - A Unique
Lifestyle Career - A Special Report - How
To Get A Yachting Job - Where
to go to look for a yachting job. • Who to talk to get it. • Where to stay
while searching for employment. • How to make ends meet until you find
a job. • About and how to deal with crew agencies. • Extremely effective
means of obtaining employment outside of agencies. • The ins and outs of
interviewing. • The pros and cons of working on a charter yacht versus
a private yacht. • Crewing as a couple. • Vital tips that will put you
ahead of the pack. • Crucial mistakes not to make and much, much more. |
| The Portable Professional - Earn
A Living Worldwide - The
Portable Professional - Earn A Living Worldwide - It is now possible
to make a living from anywhere you can log on. The technology is
there and the opportunities are there. Mark McMahon has written an
eye-opening report on how to make a living worldwide. Earn US Dollars
and/or EUROS from wherever you are on the planet. The options are
limitless and the time is now. Learn more about how to break free
- learn how you can live your life like it belongs to you - Live Where
You Want To Live! ~ Live How You Want To Live! ~ And Make Money Doing It!
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SECTION
FOUR - ASSET PROTECTION / PRIVACY
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| Your
Ticket to Financial Freedom |
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By
Robert
E. Bauman, JD
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Your
Ticket to Financial Freedom - Suppose
you suddenly needed to become a citizen of another country. “That can’t
happen to me,” you say. But as the Chinese Communist takeover of Hong Kong
from the British neared in 1995, thousands of wealthy locals opted to obtain
second passports, “just in case.” Many moved to Canada as political refugees
or as potential investors with special residence visas. Indeed, in recent
times, millions of displaced persons escaping from wars and political tyranny
wished they too could have obtained an instant passport to freedom.
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 Regain
Lost Privacy With The Lifeboat Strategy -Identity Thieves, Greedy Lawyers
& The U.S. Government - They've Declared War on Your Wealth & Your
Privacy ..and You Could be the Next Innocent Victim!
YOU CAN'T
BE INNOCENT... THE COMPUTER FOUND YOU GUILTY!
Your bank
or broker will never tell you, but every financial transaction you conduct--deposits,
withdrawals, credit card, currency conversion through a US bank or broker--
helps create a financial profile of YOU. And the software these computers
used are programmed to identify suspicious transactions. If your account
activity is deemed suspicious, you'll never know until your cash is frozen
or you're arrested, because US law now makes it a crime to tell you if
you're under suspicion. One mistake--withdrawing too much cash, writing
a check to the "wrong" person, etc.--and you could be the next faceless
victim.
But you can
still legally create international "lifeboats" of wealth and privacy that
are practically invulnerable to snooping or confiscation. In a moment,
I'll show you how. And, I'll also show you six simple steps you can take
to protect your wealth and privacy, starting today
However, first
I need to give you the bad news . . . |
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INTERNATIONAL
REPORTS ON OFFSHORE INVESTING
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| How To Get A Second Passport
- Now
you can get a second passport - click here for details - This
is the only book that will get you a second passport; without the hype,
the rip off, the B.S. and the run-around common to most books on this subject.
This book will also show you how to get residency, work permits, retirement
residency, and student visas in every region of the world. Twenty seven
nations covered - 241 pages of rock solid facts. |
| Retirement
Planning for Offshore Living -
The advantages of outsourcing your retirement have never been better! Why
not start a second "dream" career, or retire in a low cost, tropical country?
Spend less than 25% of your present monthly budget while maintaining or
even enhancing your lifestyle. Say "goodbye" to your financial planner
and her "advice" that you must accumulate at least $1,000,000 or more in
liquid assets before you retire or leave your "day job". "Retirement Planning
for Offshore Living" will become your personal coach and roadmap to "offshore
living". Use the standards provided to identify, compare and analyze your
optimal country and retirement or second career haven. |
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SECTION
FIVE - UNIQUE TRAVEL - EXPATRIATE TRAVEL
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| Serious
About Learning Spanish? - Do it The Fun Way |
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By Susan Beverley
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Serious
About Learning Spanish? - Do it The Fun Way - Before I left
England in order to prepare myself for life in Latin America I enrolled
for private tuition to learn Spanish. At a fee of £20 (almost $40)
per hour the cost soon became prohibitive and I abandoned class after only
2 weeks. Undeterred I purchased a set of “Teach Yourself Spanish”
CD’s vowing to devote at least an hour a day to mastering the language.
The CD’s came in very useful, as coffee mats, and so when I boarded the
plane heading for South America my Spanish was still at the hello, how
are you stage.
| Travel
Adventures for 2007 - 10 Great Global Getaways That Won’t Break the Bank |
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By
Steenie Harvey
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Travel
Adventures for 2007 - 10 Great Global Getaways That Won’t Break the Bank
- Dreaming of taking a Big Trip in 2007? Finances a bit tight? Well, take
a look at the following destinations. Magic, thrills and adventure, yes.
But for the budget-conscious globe-trotter, what’s equally important is
that these are places where your dollars will stretch a long, long way.
As a travel writer, I’m lucky enough to have experienced all 10 --- but
I’d love to revisit every single one as a vacationer.
| How
To Get a First Class Seat -- For Less -- On Most Every Flight You Take
– Free Report |
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AWAI Travel
Division
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How
To Get a First Class Seat -- For Less -- On Most Every Flight You Take
– Free Report - Deals exist, if you know how to find them.
In fact, there are 7 insider secrets that will have you flying up front,
for less -- secrets that many airline reservationists and travel agents
may never tell you. If you plan to fly anywhere in the next 12 months --
whether it’s for business or pleasure -- you need to read this report immediately...
while the information is up-to-date. After all, why fly in cramped-up coach...
when you could fly in luxury without paying top dollar for it? Click
Here to find out how - |
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 Unique
Vacation Rentals in Unique Locations - Vacation Rentals around the
world - Themes - Categories, Search Enhanced - Color Photos - Find the
kind of vacation rentals that are hard to find - Gain ideas by searching
the numerous vacation rental listings - Do you want to rent a castle -
a house over water - a mountain cabin - an island hideaway - an Irish cottage
- an apartment in Rio de Janeiro - a ranch house in Argentina - a coffee
plantation in Costa Rica - beach house in Belize - EscapeArtist
Vacation Rentals - |
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| Disney
Channel needs kids aged 8-14 who were born in Great Britain, and now live
in the United States, to star in a brand new Disney Channel TV show!
The key is they still have to have their British Accents! When picked,
they will be put on a well-compensated contract with Disney Channel and
flown in to Los Angeles every time we record a show. The show will
air in the United States and around the world on Disney Channel. Please
contact David Glasgal at 323-464-6789 x208 or send pictures and info to
david@7ate9.com
Thank you. |
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SECTION
SIX - CONFERENCES - CLASSIFIEDS - EBOOKS - ANNOUNCEMENTS & MORE
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| Travel
Writing and Photography Workshops |
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82 Easy Tips for Taking Holiday Photos You Can Sell - If you're
like most folks, you pull the camera out more this time of year than any
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Classified
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created a low cost way for EscapeArtist's to advertise, and for other EscapeArtist's
to make contact with their services, products, ideas, real estate and escape
routes. For those of us who've spent hours of discovery peering through
the classified sections of magazines like Mechanics Illustrated and Popular
Science, a classified section is like looking through a collectable store
for those surprises that make the hunt a pleasure as great as the discovery
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New eBooks
available on our website:
| Living
and Investing in the new Cuba - Living
and Investing in the new Cuba ~ This
guide offers assistance to anyone seeking a safe, affordable place to live
outside of the United States and Canada. It contains all of the ins
and outs, dos and don´ts, rules of thumb, secret insider information
and invaluable data about all aspects of living in Cuba. It shows
you how to stay busy, where to reside, how to learn Spanish, where to find
companionship. It provides you with novel, sure-fire ideas for starting
businesses and, best of all, this eBook will give you a head start before
you even move to Cuba. Get the report - Click
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| All You Ever Wanted To Know About
Buying A Castle - All
You Ever Wanted To Know About Buying A Castle ~ To
some, the idea of owning a castle in Europe is just an impossible dream.
To others, it is a romantic notion that they would like to pursue but have
no idea how to go about it, because information on how to buy a castle
is simply not available. To own a castle, to live in it and to have an
income from it by turning it into a solid business venture is the ultimate
dream job for castle enthusiasts. And it is possible! So how does one make
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| The Practical Guide to Practically
Everything You Need to Prepare for the Camino de Santiago - The
Practical Guide to Practically Everything You Need to Prepare for the Camino
de Santiago ~ So how does one prepare for the spiritual journey
of a lifetime? With this eBook you will find out directly from someone
who has made the journey and knows how to prepare for it. In the summer
of 2005, Cheri Powell and her husband walked the five hundred miles of
the French route of the Camino de Santiago. This trip was several years
in the planning as they researched, talked about various options and made
the best decisions they could with the information they had. However, when
the trip was actually underway, they found that some of the information
they had gathered was incorrect while other information that they really
could have used was just missing. Get the report - Click
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| Joint Adventures - How Anyone
Can Create Financial Freedom with No Cost or Risk, Using Joint Ventures
- Joint
Adventures - How Anyone Can Create Financial Freedom with No Cost or Risk,
Using Joint Ventures ~
Financial independence offers people freedom, dignity, self respect, education,
quality of life and personal growth opportunities. This eBook is an instruction
manual that shows the reader how to use Joint Ventures to create multiple
streams of increasing passive income with no cost or risk and how to remove
all income limitations from your life. It will show you how financial freedom
can be yours. Get the report - Click
Here |
The Fitness Starts @ Home Training
Guide - The
Fitness Starts @ Home Training Guide ~ We can all use more motivation.
That's especially true if we are starting an exercise program, or if we
want to take it to the next level. At last, all the motivation you
need is right here, because right now you can access the secrets the fitness
professionals have kept hidden for years!
Get the report - Click
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 eBooks
for Expats - International Relocation Reports - Offshore Investment
Reports - Reports On Offshore Real Estate, Moving Overseas, and a
wide range of subjects for those seeking to restart their lives overseas.
eBooks are a great idea. Consider
This: If, for example, you are trying to figure out how to move to Bolivia,
buy a ranch, get residency and a passport; you won't find a standard book
on how to go about accomplishing those ends at your local library.
You will here. We have hundreds of great eBooks lined up and coming
your way. Diamond mining in Africa, play the European lottery, where
the odds are ten times better than the USA, Homestead in Belize, Moving
to Thailand, Working Worldwide from a lap... our list of titles is
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resources and contacts around the world. If you want to teach school
in Japan, buy a condo in Rio de Janeiro, homestead beachfront land on the
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