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SECTION ONE - LIVING OVERSEAS - INTERNATIONAL RELOCATION . Alderney: A Sojourn  By Elizabeth McNamer  Alderney: A Sojourn - In the summer of 1956 I needed a job.  The American Government was offering five pounds sterling per day (thirty five pounds a week!) to London students to dig up the bodies of American soldiers buried in Normandy for return home.  While the thought of earning such a colossal amount, plus the idea of France appealed to me, I was squeamish about the dead bodies.  . Being in Beijing By Vinnie Apicella Being in Beijing - Beijing is moving forward in a big way;  really, a quick moving microcosm of the country as a whole.  Irrespective of the Olympics catalyst, the “People” get things done in the Republic and in some small way I’m pleased to be a part of it, whether it’s plunking down small change for a token gift or photographing the city skyline to share with my readers.  It’s an imperfect city that’s given plenty the right to complain - pollution, heavy traffic - but it’s also taking great strides to improve the living conditions and still offers plenty in the way of cultural heritage and daily attractions.  . Uruguay: Diary of an Ex-Pat  By Southron Uruguay: Diary of an Ex-pat - After living in the West Indies, former Yugoslavia and Costa Rica, Uruguay seems normal.  Montevideo is a city of about 1.5 million people.  It is a combination of old and new, rather like Florida's St. Augustine.  It is at the same relative latitude as the North Carolina Capes - the climate is perfect for me.  On average it goes below freezing about 2.5 days/year and above 90F/32C only 6 days per year.  As we all know, the Good Lord did not intend fat men in wheelchairs to live where it is hot! . Venezuela: Hato Nuevo By Margo Rose Venezuela: Hato Nuevo - Hato Huevo is a nearby oasis for the weary cruiser who must hide from the ‘tormentas’ for the whole summer and with all the work, doesn’t have a lot of time or simply needs a breathing spell.  Here is a place to find a tranquil getaway and a place to retouch nature, llanos style.  If you go on any weekday, you may be the only visitor, as I was - the weekends are very busy with the local Venezuelans enjoying this special place. . Escape to Hawaii  By Camille Glenn Escape to Hawaii - Yes, Hawaii! not exactly ex-pat, since technically these islands are American - but we found that our new home offers a unique blend of an exotic, multi-cultural lifestyle that still retains the ease and familiarity of American real estate practices, banking, licensing and laws.  And in spite of misconceptions, there are still areas here which are affordable, especially in comparison to the west coast of the USA. . Cyprus: Archaeological Adventures  By Janie Ravenshurst Cyprus: Archaeological Adventures - The Athienou Archaeological Project (AAP) is a multidisciplinary project focusing on the site of Athienou-Malloura and the surrounding valley.  This site was settled for nearly 2500 years and encompasses the Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Frankish, Venetian, and Ottoman periods in the island's history.   Due to its long occupation coupled with the variety of the archaeological remains found-religious, domestic, funerary - the site remains an ideal training ground for archaelogical students.  . Brazil or Bust: Catching Up  By Andy Neill Brazil or Bust: Catching Up - The upshot of the whole saga  was that I bought a car on my own and was left several thousand Reals short by the crook!  I didn’t realize just how big a crook until my lawyer ran his name on the police computer and found eight criminal charges and an almost equal number of civil cases against him.  Two lessons can be learned from my experience...Don’t pay for any services up front, and make sure you get receipts.  . The Argentinian Gaucho By Samantha Dobbs The Argentinian Gaucho - The Gaucho: Man or myth? Hero or Vagabond?  The gaucho, a romantic image of the past, he represented freedom from colonial control.  Today, a heroic image of the present, he represents freedom from social constraints.  In reality, life for the horsemen of the pampas (grasslands), then and now, is harsher than myth relates. . Meanwhile...... Le Bout de Monde 2 - Basil Howitt continues his True Stories of Life and Love from remotest Cansal in the Languedoc-Roussillon, and adds a few from neighbouring villages. . . INTERNATIONAL REPORTS ON OVERSEAS RELOCATION Uruguay for Retiring, Investing, or Just Good Living by Lee Harrison - Uruguay for Retiring, Investing, or Just Good Living by Lee Harrison - If you've never considered Uruguay as a place to live,  or even to visit you’re going to be completely surprised by all it has to offer - The country is diverse. Montevideo is a old-world European style city with fine restaurants, colorful markets, sycamore-lined streets and a cultural scene second to none. Here you’ll encounter an honest, European culture that’s representative of what you’ll see throughout the country. In Colonia, you’ll find that the original Portuguese settlement has been restored, and its residents have made it one of the finest examples of old colonial architecture in South America. With it’s year ‘round tourist trade, Colonia is a great place to invest in a colonial restoration or a rental property.  Living & Investing In Panama - Find Out About Living & Investing In Panama - As things continue to deteriorate inside the United States intelligent people are looking offshore for a stable relocation safe-haven - Panama has it all - Panama is affordable - Panama is modern - Panama is two and one-half hours by air from Florida - Panama is stable - Panama has great real estate - Panama uses the US Dollar - Panama has almost no crime - Panama has a good climate - Panama is enviromentally pristine - North Americans, Canadians & Europeans are welcome in Panama - Find Out About Living & Investing In Panama - Everything You Need to Know About Immigrating to Australia - Everything You Need to Know About Immigrating to Australia  - “Thinking about working in or immigrating permanently to Australia  … and frustrated with trying to get answers from government sources? Don’t spend a single cent – or waste a minute more – on your visa application until you read about this report -

. . Currency Converter Request a LIVE quote ... "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."             George Bernard Shaw . . . . . . "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to  find the ways in which you yourself  have altered."  Nelson Mandela .

Languedoc: 10 Steps Buying Guide                                                                                         By Louise Hurren Languedoc: 10 Steps Buying Guide - You know those month-by-month guides that are sometimes advertised on TV – they usually have a title like “Creative crochet for your home” and you get a handy ring binder to keep them in?  This part of the site gives you a step-by-step, monthly planner to help you buy a home in France (afraid there’s no ring binder, though).  Think of it like planning your wedding, or the birth of your first baby: it’s all about counting down to The Big Day. Preparation is key. . International Real Estate Marketplace Featured Listings International Properties With Color Photos 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. . Panama: Investment and Real Estate Update By James Hickman Panama: Investment and Real Estate Update - You’ve heard the talk. . .  Panama is investor friendly.  Open for business.  Economically ripe and growing so quickly that it has generated tremendous interest in business, investment, and real estate opportunities.   Honduran Mainland: Cheap Properties By Lee Harrison Honduran Mainland: Cheap Properties - This is La Ceiba, a Caribbean port city on the northern coast of Honduras.  Home to more than 100,000 people, it’s a town that has everything: a pleasant central square, a large, modern mall, new supermarkets, food markets, a cinema, fast food restaurants, and waterside dining.  They even have a North American-run real estate office right on the town square.  The lush cloud forest is just a few miles to the south, with an awesome peak known as Pico Bonito overlooking the region.  The Caribbean beaches stretch from La Ceiba for more than 100 miles to the west and almost 300 miles to the east. . Real Estate In Brazil -  Imobiliária Em Brasil - By EscapeArtist.com New - Real Estate In Brazil - See our new page dedicated to resources and information on Real Estate In Brazil -  Articles, links and resources on Real Estate In Brazil - Imobiliária Em Brasil - Note, this is not an article page, but a new EscapeArtist.com resource for international real estate. By EscapeArtist.com ..

See This Month's International Real Estate Marketplace Featured Listings . . "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." - Sir Winston Churchill .

Teaching and Travelling By Donna Morang Teaching and Travelling - My life was finally everything I thought it would be; my art gallery was full of wonderful artists, including me; I had just finished restoring my house; I had lots of friends…. but then my daughter sent me a magazine about classes for ESL (Teaching English as a Second Language) and something in me just clicked!  So when I told friends and family that I was closing my gallery, renting out my house and going to Mexico to take a class in ESL, so that I could travel the world teaching English they thought I had gone crazy.  . Making Money Overseas - Writing eBooks For EscapeArtist.com By EscapeArtist.com 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 .... INTERNATIONAL REPORTS ON OVERSEAS MONEY MAKERS 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! - .

Travel Writing and Photography Workshops . "I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.' "  Earl Warren, Chief Justice US jurist & politician (1891 - 1974)  ..

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SECTION FOUR - OFFSHORE INVESTMENT / ASSET PROTECTION / PRIVACY

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Worse than Worthless:3 Asset Protection Scams Exposed By Mark Nestmann Worse than Worthless:3 Asset Protection Scams Exposed - In 20 years of studying asset protection methods, I have never found one of these schemes effective. Indeed, the vast majority of these “plans” are worse than worthless.  In fact, some of these “asset protection plans” not only help you lose your “protected” assets, but can also land you in prison.  Or help the IRS, rather than your creditors, seize your assets.  . Obtaining Residency And A Second Passport From The Dominican Republic - Obtaining Residency And A Second Passport From The Dominican Republic-John Schroder has written numerous articles for EscapeArtist.com - He has devised a unique residency / passport program that is quick and effective. While not given mention by the so-called 'instant passport' websites, John's program results in residency in less time than any program we know about.  In addition, with John's program one ends up with a legitimate passport, unlike the sort of document that the 'instant passport' scam artists proffer.  Take the time to contact John and find out what he can provide in terms of residency. The feedback that we get from John's clients demonstrates that John has the speed record for providing offshore residency.  Getting a passport after residency involves method.  John knows the method.  If you want residency and a passport in hurry, go see John -  .... . INTERNATIONAL REPORTS ON OFFSHORE INVESTING 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. 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. .

Don't let anyone with a 91 IQ play games with your assets - It's Your Money! You've worked hard to get where you are...  you've earned your money the old fashioned way, by ingenuity and hard work.  You don't mind helping others, but you don't want to squander your money and you don't want others to squander it for you.  Your money belongs to you, and that means that it belongs offshore. Today there are a wide range of choices in going offshore - To find out how you can go offshore quickly and painlessly in offshore jurisdictions around the world - Click Here - Protect Offshore Real Estate - Click Here . "Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes" - Mahatma Gandhi . . "Be great in act as you have been in thought." - William Shakespeare .

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SECTION FIVE - UNIQUE TRAVEL - EXPATRIATE TRAVEL

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Sinai Desert: Diving in Dahab  By Tanis Newman Sinai Desert: Diving in Dahab - There’s no place on earth like Dahab – a palm fringed bay in the midst of a vast arid landscape - an intoxicating mix of desert, Bedouin culture....and diving.  The sand meets the sea in a most dramatic way and a fringing reef stretches further than the eye can see.  The best bit?  Many of the good dive sites can only be reached by camel!! . Moroccan Adventure By Lisa Stubenrauch Moroccan Adventure - Morocco lies in the center of diversity.  It is an African nation that incorporates it’s heritage with Islamic religion and Arabic culture, yet is European influenced and multi-lingual.   It is one of the easiest destinations to get to from Europe.  . A Ramble in South East Asia By Ron Hannah A Ramble in South East Asia - Ron Hannah, a Canadian who 'came of age' in the 1960s, the 'Vietnam War' era, takes a ramble around 21st century Vietnam.  This is the first of six 'musings'.....more to follow in the coming months..... The motorcycles of Hanoi - ah, who would have thought, in the let's-bomb-them-back to-the-stone-age sixties, that Hanoi would ever again have streets, let alone vehicles?  But vehicles it has "by the glory" (Ruth's favourite phrase), and the two-wheeled motorized variety predominates by far.  .   New eBook - The Bali Trilogy Click Here to read an Introduction to The Bali Trilogy - When retiring to Bali I expected to find paradise, good food, friendly people and tranquil beaches.  I found all of those to be sure.  What I did not expect to find was a dark and dangerous netherworld that no guidebook had prepared me for.

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SECTION SIX - CONFERENCES - CLASSIFIEDS  - EBOOKS - ANNOUNCEMENTS & MORE

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Expatriate Conferences

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Classified Advertisements - Success Story Continues! ~  See This Months Classified Advertisements - Due to popular demand the listings in our Classified Advertisements Section continues to grow and provide readers with the best way to advertise on the Internet at the most reasonable prices. Escape From America Magazine 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 Place A Classified - You can place a Classified Ad that reaches over 350,000 individuals twice a month at almost no cost. In addition, we're interested in your ad...  read on...

We have added  three new eBooks to our website: Jungle Mom - The True Story of an Expat Mom, The Bali Trilogy - Everything you ever wanted to know about Bali but were too afraid to ask and Offshore Telecommuting - Break free and Live Jungle Mom - The True Story of an Expat Mom - Jungle Mom - The True Story of an Expat Mom - An average mom breaks out of the confines of an eight-to-five government job and follows her lifelong dream to a tropical paradise. A quick sale of the family home and Michele is on her way to the Caribbean coastal town of Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica with her two young children in tow. As events unfold, the author not only finds her much sought after adventure, but begins to uncover the true meaning of life and living in a place some call Paradise. The daily writings of this talented lady will lead you down dusty roads, take you swinging out over cascading waterfalls, and touch your heart with an intuition and insight that every mother will embrace.  The Bali Trilogy - The Bali Trilogy - Everything you ever wanted to know about Bali but were too afraid to ask in 3 guidebooks available to buy individually or as a complete set.  Read Eating Bali to get the facts on over 200 eateries in the different regions of Bali. Get more than a glimpse below the tourist level surface by reading Secret Bali with information on the fascinating and dangerous underworld. Be Scared to Death, the third and final book detailing black magic and voodoo ceremonies involving former US president Ronald Reagan. Offshore Telecommuting - Offshore Telecommuting - Our new e-book 'Offshore telecommuting - How to avoid taxes and live the life of your dreams' is essential reading for anybody interested in the opportunities that telecommuting, and in particular overseas telecommuting can offer. Earning a living whilst living in an idylic overseas country, is for many the ultimate dream This e-book will show you how you could actually go about translating this dream into a reality. This e-book should provide any prospective telecommuter with an excellent introduction into exactly how they can take full advantage of their status, as well as showing anyone with any interest in offshore telecommuting what steps they would need to take to turn their dream into a reality. 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 growing daily.