Don Halbert, Author at Escape Artist

India

Living in the Himalayan Highlands of India – Part 2

Infrastructure While the Indian economy is booming, the government continues to control most essential infrastructure, and provide slow, incomplete service. Many roads are rough and pot-holed, the electric supply is…

India

Living in the Himalayan Highlands of India – Part 3

Moving Finding a house to rent can be difficult, simply because there are still relatively few modern houses here, and many of these are already rented by expats on long-term…

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Living In Paradise Without Working

Living In Paradise Without Working So, you’ve decided to move to “paradise”… but how are you going to survive financially? As Cecil Lewis says in The Trumpet is Mine, the…

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Living In Paris And Adjusting To The French Way

Living In Paris And Adjusting To The French Way My trusty American Heritage Dictionary says that an “intricacy” is something having many complexly arranged elements, elaborate, and even solvable or…

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Living Warm and Dry in Cosy Southeast Ireland

Living Warm and Dry in Cosy Southeast Ireland When people see Ireland’s rugged, spectacular west coast, they are often so overwhelmed by the sheer beauty of it all that they…

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Digital Nomad

Living in Thailand, Teaching English at the University

Living in Thailand, Teaching English at the University What kind of job do you have? I teach English at Chiang Mai University, known in northern Thailand as maw-chaw. (Maw-chaw is…

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Living and Working in Fiji

Living and Working in Fiji Suva, The Capital Bula! (hello). Living in Fiji can be just about what you make it. It can be cheap or expensive depending on the…

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The Many Advantages Of Living In The Philippines

The Many Advantages Of Living In The Philippines Tired of the rat-race that America has become? Then try something different, there is a place where things move at a slow…

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A New Life in Kabul: Living In Afghanistan

It’s just past midnight on a Thursday evening, and the party is going strong. A generator pumps artificial light into the green-walled restaurant, where about 50 people sit smoking and…

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A New Life in Kabul: Living In Afghanistan – Part 2

Please make sure you’ve read Part 1: A New Life in Kabul: Living in Afghanistan Probably the biggest misconception of Afghanistan is that it is a nation of fundamentalists, angry…