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| I wanted to
take a moment and thank you for maintaining such an excellent resource
for expats. Your site is quite good and puts alot of information
out there that anyone considering a global move would be wise to read.
If you are ever in need of "first person reports" or other contributions
to the site let me know, I'd love to get involved and give something back!
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| I think the article portraying Costa
Rica as a dangerous mess is wildly exaggerated. I have visited three
times, and I have a friend who lives there. I never encountered any
situation where I felt threatened, and neither has she.
Yes, real estate for the typical
gringo is way overpriced. Yet when I was there, thinking about moving
there, I found a nice little house in a cute small town about two hours
from San Jose for only $20,000. No, this wasn't in a walled compound
full of other gringos, with condos imitating something you might find in
Miami. It was in a perfectly safe and pleasant area, with friendly
neighbors. But the neighbors were ticos, not other Americans. If
I wanted to be surrounded by other Americans, I could just stay where I
am.
I should admit, though, that my Spanish
is fairly good, so I could interact with and get to know my neighbors.
But why would anyone expect to move to another country without learning
the language?
Of course, the country has its problems,
and from what I understand, the economy is rather stagnant right now.
But if I do decide to move there, I would hope to make my own little contribution
to helping solve these problems, not just complain that Costa Rica isn't
as rich as the USA. I will not move somewhere and then be the Ugly
American.
Ted Chabasinski
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| Just got back
from Costa Rica. I gag at the prices of real estate at Tamerindo
Beach area--outside. I thought they were going to tell me $100,000
for 10 acres. Sure. No roads, gray water sewage, rebuild your
car every two years. Good-bye rain forest to the north. Plant a few
trees, will you, please. Missippi wasn't this bad in 1959.
T.Komar |
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| I found your
e-zine refreshing, new and informative.Why don't you do the same for "Escape
from Australia", to guide future expats, who want to start a new life,
and meet new challeges, outside of Australia. All tips to help expats survive,
know and be aware of, are a great gift.
I found your
international real estate section great reading.I want to buy a house in
central Europe too.I am sick of the same old thing!!A new life in a new
country sounds good to me, but we need help and advice to make the change.We
need to go about it without disasters and without being ripped off, due
to a lack of knowledge.
The article
about Slovakia was really intersting.
Richard Barndon |
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Gallo is absolutely
correct. It is only objective to see the white where there's white
and the black where there's black, and also the gray. Everything
in its due place. At the same time, some values are more critical
than others, and some evils are greater than others. The world isn't perfect,
so one always has to choose the lesser evil or the greater good and put
up with the rest.
The Latin
American countries are basically oligarchies, so that there is a large
population of semi-educated and often semi-barbarized (by the stupid popular
mass media "culture" that is foisted on them by the ruling media owners)
people, whose folkways were robbed from them. I do not include the
savage genocidal treatment that the indigenous people have received--that
is all too obvious. The ruling and privileged classes are European
in orientation (or "White"), and while their rule is surely preferable
to the slavery of communism, their pathological selfishness, their unbridled
greed, their corrupt collusions with foreign economic interests which loot
these countries to a great extent, and their callous indifference
to the welfare of their less priviledged countrymen, tends to drive the
populace towards the far left, who can thus become the prey of even worse
wolves in sheep's clothing. All because they forget: noblesse oblige.
It is a pity
that Cuba lost its educated and skilled middle and upper class, but to
a great extent, they deserve what they got, since they prostituted themselves
to the foreigners, llike all the other such classes in L. America, to the
disadvantage of their countrymen as a whole. And in any case, they
are now prospering in the great land of business, the US.
Regards,
Jorge Dominguez
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