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Features Living Overseas Overseas Jobs Unique Travel Investing Overseas Commentary Medical Care Overseas Columns Editorial Classified Ads Back Issues Letters to the Editor Submit an Article Escape Leads Isla Solarte Real Estate Quarterly Real Estate Marketplace Jobs Marketplace . "Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveller, belonging no more to one place than to the next, moves slowly, over periods of years, from one part of the earth to another. Indeed, he would have found it difficult to tell, among the many places he had lived, precisely where it was he had felt most at home."  - - The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles . Living Overseas 39,000 Reasons Not To Live In The USA - What You Don't See When You Live In America - Roger Gallo is back with more of the different.  Contrarian advice to Americans stranded in America. Just when you thought it was safe to live in America again, Gallo reveals that you are not seeing it straight.  When you live in backwards-land you have to remember to turn around... the subliminal is everywhere...  you live at the whim of people whose power does not derive from your own consent, and who regard you as expendable, disposable. The fact is, neither black nor white are true colors,   ...but then neither is gray.

Tertullian, [150 AD] claimed that among the delights of Heaven, would be the contemplation of the tortures of the damned.  Uh oh, Roger Gallo is back... with another article bound to alienate just about everyone...  Warning: The article includes grapic views of hell as well as numerous multi-syllable words.

Unique Travel

Surströmming in Northern Sweden - Yuck! YUCK!!!! - Andreas Grundtvig went to Sweden and discovered the culinary practice of eating fermented fish, the stink from which will hopefully stay in that part of the world thanks to the Coriolis Effect and Wegner's Theory of Plate Tectonics. Grundtvig writes, "On a sunny balcony in soaring temperatures of 15ºC, my hosts take the tins to the bottom of the garden. Trying to protect their noses with their shoulders, they carefully open them. They try hard not to inhale as the pressurized stink emanates from a suspect, murky brown liquid. The smell is so overpowering, I wonder if somebody nearby has a very bad stomach problem and should make a quick exit to the crapper, or leave altogether."
All Over Belize in Boats, Planes, and Golf Carts - Getting Around Without a Car - Keith and Erin are travellers who are taking a couple of years to see the world. This is the first of many articles that will chronical a their journey from beginning to end. In Belize, they discovered a new and different way to travel. Keith writes, "As Americans, we are all about cars. Everyone has one, sometimes two or three, and we use them to go anywhere, even it's just around the corner to get a cup of coffee. The same cannot be said for the country of Belize." In the ten days they spent in Belize, they succeeded in shedding their all-American dependency on the automobile by relying on just about every other kind of transportation imaginable.

Overseas Jobs

The Universal Language: Teaching ESL in a Czech Cat House - MeeeOW -D.A. Blyler is an ESL instructor. He has taught English as a second language in many places around the world. He wrote this article during his tenure as a faculty member at the University of West Bohemia in the Czech Republic. The story takes place at an upscale brothel in Plzen. Blyler writes, "The girls were quick learners, and by the end of a month, they had mastered most of their lessons. Steffi thought that two classes a week would be sufficient, but also offered me another job as a limited partner. For every client I steered or brought to the club, she would give me half of her 50 percent take. I took her up on the offer. She handed me 100 Steffi's Club business cards, and I went to work."
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.

Investing, Business & Real Estate

The Undiscovered "Pearl of the South China Sea" - Labuan - Brad Fields is a top financial consultant with Opportunities Abroad which has dedicated itself to years of intense review of top international tax havens, privacy tactics, luxurious lifestyle destinations, offshore banking laws, overseas real estate bargains - practically every international opportunity available. Brad writes, "Labuan is an offshore tax haven you probably don't know much about. This is a significant advantage since keeping a low profile is an integral part of privacy, after all. Just how "secret" are you if you conduct your banking or business transactions in such well-known jurisdictions as Switzerland or the Cayman Islands?  If privacy weren't high on your list of financial criteria, you wouldn't be interesting in going offshore in the first place."
Short Term Trading - Stack 'em High - Gordon Corp is a successful short-term trader/manager who has traded for over 15 years. He has tested and scrutinized 100's of trading systems. Corp writes, "All it takes is a little education, a little testing, a little knowledge, and a little experience, and you can make this system work for you in a down market. The NASDAQ 100 E-mini is valued at US$20.00 per point. Margin requirements are very low; typically US$3000 - US$4000 are required to trade one contract. Ten points per day equates to US$200.00 profit per contract."

Commentary

US Tax Information Exchange Agreement with Antigua and Barbuda ~ Another Tax Haven Falls and the Poverty Gap Widens - Monroe What? - On December 6, 2001, the governments of the United States and Antigua and Barbuda signed an agreement for the exchange of information with respect to taxes. In effect, the Antigua and Barbuda government will now serve as an enforcement arm of the US Internal Revenue Service, applying US tax law to US citizens with business there. The agreement will also restrict the economic growth of that tiny island nation. Is it a blueprint for the future of tax havens and some developing countries?

Classified Advertisements

Success Story Continues! ~  Ads for Expats - 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 EscapeArtists to advertise, and for other EscapeArtists 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.

Letters to the Editor

Now an even more interactive magazine ~ Beam Me Up Scotty - Escape from America Magazine cordially invites readers to send their comments and suggestions in the form of praise 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, thus providing insightful feedback to the magazine staff.  Letters can also be shared with other readers if the sender so desires. Your comments will provide us with the valuable information needed to make Escape from America Magazine even better and also provide you with the best information available to help you make your escape to great adventure, unique travel, and residence abroad.

ESCAPE LEADS

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.

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 Part of the U.K. ~

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! It's free for a limited time.

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!