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Kingfisher
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Estates & Marina In Panama - In May, on a clear bright day with
a big sky, the Editor of Escape from America Magazine boarded a helicopter
and flew for 25 minutes on a southeast bearing of 144 degrees over the
Gulf of Panama to visit the proposed site of Kingfisher Bay Island Estates
& Marina. His mission was to cover a story about an exclusive development
project underway in the Las Perlas Islands. What he found was triple canopy
forest, pristine beaches, miles of nobody, and a highly plausible vision
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Robin
Sparks In Bali - Looking
At The Expat Scene In Bali - I move into a house in the
midst of the rice paddies above the old artist village of Bali called Penestanan.
It is like moving into a zoo, so full of creatures that I must wear earplugs
at night to sleep. The house is a large traditional Balinese home open
to the outdoors complete with a lush garden and lotus pond stocked with
fat goldfish. Like most homes in Bali, it comes with a "helper" or pembante.
The cost of my magnificent home in paradise? One million five hundred rupiahs,
which at this writing equals about $175 a month.
Dalmatia
~ Croatia's Adriatic Riviera - Dalmatian
Coast - John Hurd is a former aerospace manager and an
amateur writer, painter, poet. Today, he and his wife live on the
Dalmatian Coast. John writes, "You can feel it in the air, in the shining
white yachts visiting the Adriatic harbors, in the industrious village
renovations by the local people, in the sheer number and richness of the
websites: something big is about to happen. There’s a feeling of
widening awareness, rippling out from this narrow band of Europeans.
This year, the beauty and timelessness of the islands got top story headlines
in the New York Times. The region is on the verge of a market explosion."
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Mazatlan, Mexico ~ Almost Forgotten but Never Gone
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Mazatlan,
Mexico - Art Jones is a normal kind of guy who spent most of his adult
life in Alaska, first building, then maintaining the Trans Alaska Pipeline.
In the 90s, he took early retirement and headed south to warmer climates,
looking for a place to settle. After Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala,
Belize, and much of Mexico, he found Mazatlan. For decades, Mazatlan
has been a favorite place for expats. According to Art, however,
Mazatlan is ready to be discovered, again.
Successful
Living in Malaysia ~ Being a Student of Life
- Kuala
Lumpur - Caroline Couronne tries to show the country to expatriates
the way a local would see it. She writes, "You should remember not to order
pork and alcoholic drinks when eating with Muslims, not to help yourself
with Chinese Tea while forgetting to serve other table members, not to
offer a welcome hug to your guests but instead a soft and polite handshake.
Knowing the basic rules is crucial, when you happily poured soy sauce on
a special home made fish dish, your host will simply not re-iterate invitations."
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Childhood
Education Abroad
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Cultural
Attitudes Towards Learning ~ The People's Republic of China - Childhood
Education - Eva Lynne is an ESL teacher in the Peoples Republic of
China. She writes, "Education is a precious privilege, and a keen
recognition of this is ever so evident in China. In China, it is said that
the three most important persons in your life are: your mother because
she gave you birth; your father because he guides your upbringing and prosperity;
and your teacher because a teacher nurtures your mind. Education in China
is viewed as a life-long process. Throughout life, the quest for knowledge
and the desire to better one's mind is fervent."
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visit that section of our website alone. Find the property you want, sell
the property you want. ... or just browse and dream. Plenty of photos. |
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Squid
Island ~ Ullungdo, South Korea - Squid
Island - Richard S. Ehrlich is from San Francisco, California, and
first journeyed to Asia in 1972. Ehrlich writes, "At night, Islanders tie
undried squids to indoor racks. Down by the seashore, fishermen's trash
buckets are filled with discarded squids' eyes, but the rest of the slippery
animals are carefully gutted. They have turned isolated, middle-of-nowhere
Ullungdo into a boomtown with tentacles. The island offers moody, inspiring,
rocky hills and a seemingly hostile coastline."
Shopping in the Mountains of Vietnam ~ Not Your Average Shopping Tour-
Vietnam
- Alexis Silver details a trekking route in the mountains of Vietnam where
local villagers sell their traditional crafts. It offers savvy advice
on how to bargain with respect and humor and describes the vibrant children
that travelers to the area will encounter. Alexis writes, "Never before
had I haggled with such tenacity, negotiated such tough terms and been
simultaneously charmed, manipulated and endeared by a business opponent,
and it was all with a 10 year old Vietnamese girl."
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| What better way to travel than
to take an expat tour - Lyle Burke really knows the territory. A long
time resident of Roatan, Lyle knows what it means to live overseas. Tropical
Pathways Expat Tours - Investment
Tours Of Panama, Belize & Roatan - A U.S. based tour group
that brings those who want to consider living in Panama to Panama.
The tour is well designed, covers all the major investment spots, including
Boquete and Bocas del Toro. Those who travel on the tour get a complete
cross section of what's going on, they are introduced to a wide range of
various properties, investment opportunities, expatriates who are already
living in Panama, restaurants, beaches, and all in a well coordinated tour
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Interns
Needed ~ Gateway Language Village, People's Republic of China ~ The Who,
What, Where, When, Why, and How of Interning at GLV - Teaching
English Overseas - Escape from America Magazine was recently
contacted by Gateway Language Village to help in their search for Interns.
The editor of Escape from America Magazine thought it would be helpful
to readers if more was known about the job opening, its location, amenities,
and other particulars readers might like to know about. GLV is offering
three month and six month contracts to anyone with a strong desire to see
and mingle with the authentic cultures of China. It's a chance for mature
High School graduates, college students, world travelers, and people looking
for an interesting adventure and educational experience to travel and work.
International Work ~ Overseas Volunteer Resources - Volunteer
Work Overseas - Escape from America Magazine and EscapeArtist.com have
compiled an abundant list of resources for people wanting to contribute
their time and energy and help make a better world. Volunteer jobs worldwide,
covering virtually every country are included. Search by region, too. Books
about opportunities for volunteer services are also presented.
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International Jobs Marketplace ~ The
Overseas Jobs Pages - Current Job Openings
From Around the World. Plus Country Resources, Jobs Websites, Contacts,
Information On Living Overseas, Articles, Listings of Expatriate Groups
In Various Nations, Recruitment Agencies, Books, Plus A Wide Range Of Resources
For Those Wishing To Restart Their Life Abroad ~ |
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Investing,
Business & Real Estate
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The
Case Against Cuba Sanctions ~ Latin Business Chronicle - Cuba
Tourism - Philip Peters is a vice president of the Lexington Institute.
Peters writes, "On the eve of Congressional consideration of amendments
affecting U.S. economic sanctions against Cuba, the State Department has
released a 20-page "white paper" to bolster its point of view. The
paper may well reveal the Administration's real reason for wanting to deny
Americans the right to travel freely to Cuba: it does not want Americans
to see how distorted is their own government's presentation of Cuban reality.
Compassionate
Communism in SE Asia ~ CC = InE (Cq<D) + (ciCcl) - Investing
in SE Asia - Eric Vogt was recently in SE Asia and saw a new kind of
communism, one more tailored to 21st century globalism. Eric write's, "In
layman’s terms Compassionate Communism (CC) comes into existence when the
Ironic non-Existence coefficient (InE) is multiplied by the Compassion
quotient (Cq<D), which increases in direct proportion to the amount
of hard currency potentially available. Compassionate Communism results
when these are combined with the capitalists in communist clothes factor
(ciCcl)."
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Mapping
the Future ~ A Book Review – Human
Geography - Julie Kane of the College of Architecture & Urban Studies
at Virginia Tech, reviews "Places and Regions in Global Context" by Knox
and Marston. “Overall, Knox believes, the world economic forecast
is good. However, today’s developing countries will account for more than
half of the world energy consumption, the development of three specific
technologies is crucial for future economic development, and governments
will be locked into their 19th-century quilt of territories and institutions.
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Isla
Solarte in the Bocas Del Toro Archipelago -
Boating,
Sailing, Zodiac Jamming -
Everyone in the Bocas Del Toro Archipelago seems to own a boat. In
fact you can live in Bocas without a car, but everyone wants a boat.
Water taxis abound, but it's more fun to jump in the family zodiac and
go shopping, diving, surfing, fishing, or just island hopping. The
extraordinary calm and protected waters of the Archipelago mean that one
can go on the water 365 days a year. No hurricanes or inclement weather,
and an endless archipelago that is an ecological paradise. Find
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Real Estate Quarterly - Index - Spring 2002 - Offshore
Real Estate Quarterly - Spring 2002 - Global Nomadic Housing For Expatriates
- Designing A Shipping Container As Nomadic Housing ~ Investing in Cuba
- Why Cuba? [An EscapeArtist Exclusive] - Cuban Capitalism - A Chapter
From The Book by Louis Sola ~ Buying Real Estate In Bali - Island Of The
Gods ~ Looking At Chile As A Place To Live & Invest ~ Paradise
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