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 Thailand
~ A Place Expats Call Home - Kaleidoscope
for Escape - Escape Artist extraordinaire, adventurer,
and sage Harold Stephens reports from the land of golden temples, tiny
bells tinkling in the breeze; lofty mountains, tropical forests and endless
offshore islands; a nation of smiling people and happy children; of high
rises, shopping malls, tropical five star resorts, and even McDonald's.
Stephens writes, "For the expat living in Thailand, it's not the lack of
love for one's home country, or the desire to flee from an unhappy home,
nor is it for political, economic or social reasons, that brings the expat
here. The reason might be more complex, but their motives are quite simple.
It's not so much to escape as it is to find, and expats find what they
are looking for in Thailand." - by Harold Stephens |
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Stone Faces - Cartagena,
Colombia
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 How
To Disappear In Six Easy Lessons - Hiding
Out In The Walled City Of Cartagena - For professional reasons I read
all the books on 'disappearing,' how to become a fugitive, vanish, jump
ship, go away, and not be found. Most of them are rubbish. One failing
they all have in common is telling the 'disappeared' what location to go
once they jump ship. Most of them mention Costa Rica. Disappearing
in Costa Rica is like disappearing in Beverly Hills, and almost as expensive.
No one disappears in Costa Rica, except perhaps the Costa Ricans that you
invest money with. If I were seeking a city where I could live without
being found it would be Havana, Cuba. Cartagena would be a second
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On
the Road: From Turkey to Bulgaria ~ Dark
Passage - Jay Winfrey lives and works in North Carolina.
He has an unnatural addiction to other cultures and people. Sometimes
it puts him in grave danger. He continues to try and escape the country;
via cargo ship, hitchhiking or any other semi-viable method of relocation.
Recently, Jay made the east-to-west trek to Bulgaria. He encountered a
dark passage filled with scotch, timeless border crossings, prostitutes,
remnants of communism, and Sofia's Salvation. Jay writes, " I became intimately
familiar with the Bulgarian way of life: the dirt on the ground and
the unattainable hope of Mt. Vitosha towering above, a focal point that
nobody seemed to look to anymore. Old habits are like favorite clothes,
and communism sinks its teeth in far too deep."
The
Magical Island of Reunion ~ Under
the Splendid Volcanoes - Bev Mortimer is a TI writer
for two companies, providing travel content for two Web sites, and writing
ad hoc travel articles for a local magazine. Her greatest joy is
travel to unspoiled areas of the world. Reunion in the Indian Ocean off
the coast of South Africa is just that sort of place. Bev writes, "This
mountainous region, with peaks of more than 3000 metres, hidden valleys
and countless waterfalls, offer tourists many sporting adventures. For
the not so sporting enthusiast, the hidden environs offer much to the inquisitive
visitor. The volcanic activity has over many years resulted in gigantic
craters and valleys surrounded by mountainous peaks and deep ravines, with
rivers far below, pushing their way to the coast. Often completely surrounded,
these valleys are where inhabitants in tiny villages eke out a primitive
existence with age-old technology."
Property
Caretaking Rent Free - Living
the Good Life - Gary Dunn is the publisher of The Caretaker
Gazette, a unique online newsletter containing property caretaking and
housesitting opportunities, advice, and information for property caretakers,
housesitters, and landowners. Published since 1983, it's the only publication
in the world dedicated to the property caretaking field. Each issue provides
its paid subscribers with more than 130+ caretaking/housesitting positions
throughout the United States and overseas. Estates, mansions,
farms, ranches, resort homes, hunting and fishing lodges, private
islands, and any other kind of property imaginable are available. Gary
writes, "Housesitting and property caretaking can provide people with the
opportunity to experience life in a different geographic locale and save
money by living rent-free. While there are numerous positions available
throughout the United States, more intrepid retirees opt to explore the
caretaking lifestyle in another culture."
International
Jobs Marketplace ~ The Only one of Its Kind - The
Overseas Job Search Tool - After five months of operation
The Jobs Marketplace is fast becoming the center for job postings and job
searches. Job listings in over forty countries currently exist. Last month
over 60,000 users accessed The Jobs Marketplace, and over 300,000 pages
were used. It's the best source for job listings on the Internet. The fully
automated feature allows employers to post job listings as they arise.
It also allows people to search for the job of their choice at the salary
they need to live wherever in the world they choose. EscapeArtists can
communicate directly with the employer, send resumes or curriculum-vitaes
to the appropriate people, be the first to apply for the position, and
receive confirmation when they are awarded the position.
Case
Study: Emergency Medical Aid in a Remote Coastal Area of Panama - Case
Closed - John Anderton was sailing his way south from
his home in San Francisco Bay. Off the western coast of Panama, he was
stricken with an illness that needed immediate emergency medical care.
He found it. Anderton writes, "I had to put all my trust in the local population,
and they couldn't have treated me better. The
hospital experience was a bigger ordeal than it would have been had I been
fluent in Spanish, but the doctors had all been trained in the U.S., and
the staff of the 300-bed regional facility were excellent. The total cost
for my six days in the hospital - including IVs, 12 x-rays, an exploratory
look around my insides with a camera, surgery under anesthesia, and all
medications - came to just US$390! Furthermore, an emergency room nurse
gave me a ride to the local Price Costco, so I could use the ATM machine
to get some money to pay the bill." - by John Anderton
A
Letter to the Editor on Mexican Health Care - Live
with It - Escape from America Magazine has received many
responses from readers of an article that appreared in the November issue
about living in Mexico for under US$400 per month. Readers want to know
about health care. We're reprinting a Letter to the Editor by Jerry
Draughon so that some of the questions of overseas health care can answered.
Jerry says, "In the US, I was paying $6,500 per year for my group health
plan, and that didn’t include my medicinal prescriptions, dental care,
or eyeglasses. Once I got settled in Mexico in my new home, I joined the
health plan offered by the Mexican government. It's called IMSS (Instituto
Medicina de Segura Social), and it costs everyone a total of $399, no matter
who you are or what your income is. Most of the doctors here are US trained,
and I’m impressed with the cleanliness of the facilities." Escape from
America Magazine invites readers to send in their experiences so that they
may be shared with others.
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Investing,
Business & Real Estate
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Has
Switzerland "Sold Out" to Washington, London, & Wall Street? -
Let's
be Franc - Investment expert Ron Howard is a frequent
contributor of articles to Escape from America Magazine. Once again Ron
Howard speaks frankly about investment opportunities in the very near future.
"It goes without saying that it has been a tough couple of years for Switzerland
and the franc. What Happened to Switzerland & the Swiss franc? What
is Switzerland's Future as a Financial Safe Haven & the Swiss Franc?
If You Are Already Invested in Swiss Franc Denominated Investments in a
US Product or Offshore in an Annuity or Swiss Bank Account - How Do You
Keep Up With What's Going On? Ron Howard has the answers.
France:
Buying a Car for Our Barge ~ Have
Car and Barge: Will Travel - Michelle and Paul Caffrey
summer in France aboard their 1906 Dutch steel barge. They enjoy 1000 square
feet of comfortable living space while crusing the famous canals and rivers
of Europe. It's the global nomad scene. How they did it is brought
to our readers in the Winter issue of Offshore Real Estate Quarterly. Soon,
though, the Caffreys realized they needed some land transportation for
those shopping needs. They went out and bought a Mini that would fit nicely
on the deck of IMAGINE. Now they can offer there charter passengers the
luxury of both land and sea travel ~ the only way to travel.
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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.
Now an even more interactive magazine ~ Beam
Me Up Scotty - Escape from America Magazine cordially
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or criticism to the editor of the magazine. Each page of the magazine
is linked to a form page where readers can easily express their thoughts,
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Isla Solarte . . . . Living
In The Bocas Del Toro Archipelago - The most popular
place in Panama is Bocas Del Toro - and with good reason. There is more
to do in Bocas Del Toro than anywhere in Central America and the Caribbean
combined. It is the Caribbean, the lowest priced real estate in the
Caribbean, it is Panama, and Bocas is just an hour from the high-tech international
banking center of Panama City, and minutes from the European ambiance of
San Jose, Costa Rica. (In fact it's only minutes by water ferry to Costa
Rica,) and it's sailing, diving and surfing is world renown. |
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Offshore Real Estate Quarterly - Index - Winter 2001 - Offshore
Real Estate Quarterly - Winter 2001 - Offshore Real Estate
- What Does That Mean? Very Exciting Real Estate Profits In The First Two
Decades Of This Century ~ The Dominican Republic Revisited ~ Barge Shopping
In Europe ~ Try Out a New Country the Easy Way – Swap Homes! ~ Owning a
Piece of Paris - Adventures In Parisian Real Estate ~ International Property
Investment ~ Stone Cottage Living In The Shetland Islands: The Most Northerly
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International Real Estate Marketplace ~ The
International Real Estate Search Tool - A
fully automated website that allows you to list your property. You
have the power to create and update your website. You can store up to 20
images along with a full discription. There's a statistical counter for
you to monitor Internet traffic to your property. You can use your own
URL address to give to potential buyers, submit to search engines, place
in newspapers and magazines or any other promotional medium. It's an international
showcase for your property. Do it yourself in just minutes! With our special
software anyone can do it! Publish as many listings as you like and manage
them from a single location!
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The International Jobs Marketplace ~ The
Overseas Job Search Tool - If
you're worried about finding a job overseas that will allow you to eascape,
EscapeArtist.com has solved that problem for you. Now there's a fully automated
Jobs Listing on the site that gives employers their own on-line access
to post new listings, and with the click of a mouse, job hunters can now
find jobs anywhere in the world. Bookmark this key to living and working
overseas now! |
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