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Subject: Cindy looking for a place to escape?
Hey, Bart, I recommend China, at least they're
up-front about the fact that there is only one party and you do what they
say.
The large Chinese cities are modern and you are
paid quite well often for little effort.
In 2006 I was given a free furnished apartment
with all the modern conveniences and $600 a month
plus round-trip air-fare after a year for a 12
hour work-week.
Joel.
Damn, $600 and free rent and air-fare for 12 hours work?
Need a roommate?
Subject: Cindy looking for a place to escape?
When I was up for the draft in 71 I wanted to
go to Canada, but stayed and went into the Navy.
In 2000 I started planning on leaving, no longer
willing to be known as a American.
Now I’m almost ready, next year My wife and I
are moving to Lake Chapala
Mexico.
Older but wiser.
Gregg
Damn, I'll bet the fine tequila is cheap there...
Subject: Cindy looking for a place to escape?
Bart- I have a good friend who moved to Costa
Rica.
There are many American ex-pats there!
Larry in Antelope, Ca
Subject: Cindy looking for a place to escape?
Hey Bart – Here is a place that CindyP “Leaving
the US of A” can utilize
to learn more about the wave of American Expats
resettling all over the world.
Personally, I’m thinking about Uruguay,
Brazil, El Salvador, Mexico, Croatia,
France, Italy and New Zealand when I fantasize
about my escape.
http://www.escapefromamerica.com/
Another source of info is International
Living
David B
Subject: Cindy looking for a place to escape?
Dear Bart:
I hear that New Zealand is beautiful and its people,
liberal.
Jim W
Someone told me you have to be rich to get into
NZ.
Hell, you have to have $100K liquidity to move
to Canada, right?
Subject: Cindy looking for a place to escape?
Bart,
Cindy should visit www.escapeartist.com.
It's a great source for folks wanting to live
and work outside of the U.S.
Peace,
Greg in the Philippines
Subject: Cindy looking for a place to escape?
Hi Bart,
Came across this article today on Information
Clearing House:
America, The Grim Truth by Lance Freeman, in
which he
gives advice on how to leave the United States.
He is an
expat and says he would never come back, that
the living
conditions elsewhere are far superior, starting
with single
payer health care, and that Americans have no
idea how
crappy their lives are in comparison or they
would be in
the streets.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25166.htm
Barbara in Saugerties, NY
Subject: Cindy looking for a place to escape?
Malta has a mild climate, speaks English, and
is a prosperous member of the European Union.
Its public healthcare system is rated 5th best
in the world by the World Health Organization.
And, it encourages immigration by financially secure people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta
http://www.legal-malta.com/immigration/
seldomread
Subject: Cindy looking for a place to escape?
Bart, yo.
Especially in that Cindy and friends are teachers,
they might want to consider
the
expat life in Taiwan. Taiwan has made strides to improve
the overall environment
for Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL)
and even hires from overseas to
get people into its school system to teach English
to kids starting somewhere in primary
school. There is also a ton of opportunity
within the private TEFL sector. The majority
of peeps doing TEFL actually have no prior teaching
experience here, so individuals with
Cindy's background are gold. And everyone
wants to learn English or improve their current
English skills.
Living in Taiwan and not being able to speak Taiwanese
or Mandarin is not a big problem
because, for one, enough people speak some English,
and the bigger cities are quite
English-speaker friendly. Culture shock
is another story, some people can't handle it.
Never been a problem for me, for the most part
anyway, which is not to say that I have
not had my fair share of, let's call them "incidents".
But enough about me (ha ha).
All through the Bush years, the people of Taiwan
never stopped loving Americans.
Moreover, this is a heated and passionate democracy
existing with nearly zero international
support under the shadow of the big bully in
Beijing. So, it's very vibrant that way. There is
a lot of "freedom" here. Tolerance for
the peculiarities of the alien national is the norm. Not to
mention a lively night life and plenty of modern
and traditional
cultural events. There is quite
a large foreign community here made up of people
from all over the planet. Taiwan itself is a
kind of crossroads on the Western edge of the
Pacific. This place is both totally cutting-edge
and mired in tradition. Great food, beautiful
scenery, hi-tech big-city transpo system
(especially Taipei), gut-wrenching urban energy
and peaceful, meditative ambiance in often the
most unlikely of places.
It is by no means perfect. That of course
would be Heaven or whatever is even better than
Heaven and comes after it, Heaven itself being
just some kind of way station as far as I'm
concerned, whatever that means.
As far as working goes, there are other things
to do here besides TEFL. I myself am no longer
teaching, now doing editing and translation stuff
instead. For those with the wherewithal,
a lot of biz-oriented trade activities happen
here non-stop. But again, for someone with Cindy's
teaching background, Taiwan and the Taiwan government
would welcome them with open arms.
Feel free to pass on my email contact to Cindy
(or even forward this email missive to her) if she
wants to get in touch with me and I will do what
I can, given personal time constraints and confusion
on my part, to get her pointed in the right direction
for more info. There is definitely a lifestyle and
the work available to support it here for the
asking. And like I said, the Taiwanese love Americans.
I kid you not.
Doug E
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