How was your stay in Goa!
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Re: How was your stay in Goa!
J5, contributors to this Forum have many different circumstances, at least there has been some actual discussion on this thread about different prices for different types of accommodation.
Also circumstances are different in different years.
Yes at this moment in time our only permanent owned property is in the Indian City of karwar.
Only 35 mins drive from the good Southern Goa beaches, daily shopping in Margao possible. (There's an idea for others to move to!!!!!)
We sold our time-share and didn't rent, so this year only, on a very short stay in the area we stayed in hotels further North why not share the info?
(Avoided Benaulim; thought our ages and circs. might offend the chap that can be seen there waving a 5 year visa at passers by)
For those that want to leave, fine, why not do so. For genuine expats, and for those for whom the area is home, value for money doesn't always come into it, they will always be there.
PS our house is scruffy and ill equipped.
Also circumstances are different in different years.
Yes at this moment in time our only permanent owned property is in the Indian City of karwar.
Only 35 mins drive from the good Southern Goa beaches, daily shopping in Margao possible. (There's an idea for others to move to!!!!!)
We sold our time-share and didn't rent, so this year only, on a very short stay in the area we stayed in hotels further North why not share the info?
(Avoided Benaulim; thought our ages and circs. might offend the chap that can be seen there waving a 5 year visa at passers by)
For those that want to leave, fine, why not do so. For genuine expats, and for those for whom the area is home, value for money doesn't always come into it, they will always be there.
PS our house is scruffy and ill equipped.
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Re: How was your stay in Goa!
J5, I have never claimed to be an expat. But we have had a home just across the border for 40 years. We have spent varying amounts of full-time in Goa itself during this time. The time-share was just one of our means of staying (for a mere 8 of those years).
As I pointed out going to Goa was something we also did for the day or evening not a big deal. We have relatives and friends who live there. OH was travelling to there during Portuguese time.
Expats do not have an exclusive problem with crime, corruption, property buying and selling, etc. We ourselves have an ongoing long term struggle about which I will happily PM you if you have any interest, (and not do to family quarrels before you say it).
Everyone I have questioned on behalf of British Expats has sympathy with your situation.
As I said we will continue to be there whatever the problems because it is part of home for the rest of our mobile lives. Please don't look down on those who enjoy their time in Goa however short or long their stay.
As I pointed out going to Goa was something we also did for the day or evening not a big deal. We have relatives and friends who live there. OH was travelling to there during Portuguese time.
Expats do not have an exclusive problem with crime, corruption, property buying and selling, etc. We ourselves have an ongoing long term struggle about which I will happily PM you if you have any interest, (and not do to family quarrels before you say it).
Everyone I have questioned on behalf of British Expats has sympathy with your situation.
As I said we will continue to be there whatever the problems because it is part of home for the rest of our mobile lives. Please don't look down on those who enjoy their time in Goa however short or long their stay.
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Re: How was your stay in Goa!
What is your good name??.
You want Taxi??.
What is your good country??.
You look my shop??.
Time to go back to a tourist visa me thinks.
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Re: How was your stay in Goa!
[QUOTE=stevebenaulim;10026465]I must take care, as i seem to be the only non Savage to get the 5 year x visa, maybe they thought i had been in India so long, i started to turn into a Savage??, god forbid if i start dumping rubbish everywhere, clearing my throat a spitting in public, picking my nose in restaurants or anywhere i feel like.
What is your good name??.
You want Taxi??.
What is your good country??.
You look my shop??.
Time to go back to a tourist visa me thinks.[/QUO
Permanently scratching my testis.
What is your good name??.
You want Taxi??.
What is your good country??.
You look my shop??.
Time to go back to a tourist visa me thinks.[/QUO
Permanently scratching my testis.
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AndyD 8-)₹
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Dread - x
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With your credentials Dread you should be offering house sitting services to those who have to leave for 2 months!! Especially those with dogs that need looking after!
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[QUOTE=dreadsoc;10026959]Good point - but for the last 5 years they have been unavailable - and I made this comment to illustrate my point that there is really no need for one upmanship about how long someone stays when for the most part in recent years the difference is only a month or two between those who say they live there and those who are long stayers.
Dread - x[/QUOTE
Some of us who live here have 1 home.We made a commitment .
Long termers tend to have 2 or at least have a residence in the UK and rent here. Thats the difference.
I guess the majority of people who "live" here (as I do) made the decision to retire here before the "two month rule " was ever introduced !
Dread - x[/QUOTE
Some of us who live here have 1 home.We made a commitment .
Long termers tend to have 2 or at least have a residence in the UK and rent here. Thats the difference.
I guess the majority of people who "live" here (as I do) made the decision to retire here before the "two month rule " was ever introduced !
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Re: How was your stay in Goa!
Great thread! Lots of candid responses. Much to learn for all the posts. Thanks much to all!
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Re: How was your stay in Goa!
[/QUOTE Some of us who live here have 1 home.We made a commitment .
Long termers tend to have 2 or at least have a residence in the UK and rent here. Thats the difference.
I guess the majority of people who "live" here (as I do) made the decision to retire here before the "two month rule " was ever introduced!/QUOTE]
Like the British breakfast, eggs and bacon. The hen's involved but the pig's committed.
Guess we're pigs, Jill!
Long termers tend to have 2 or at least have a residence in the UK and rent here. Thats the difference.
I guess the majority of people who "live" here (as I do) made the decision to retire here before the "two month rule " was ever introduced!/QUOTE]
Like the British breakfast, eggs and bacon. The hen's involved but the pig's committed.
Guess we're pigs, Jill!
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[/QUOTE Some of us who live here have 1 home.We made a commitment .
Long termers tend to have 2 or at least have a residence in the UK and rent here. Thats the difference.
I guess the majority of people who "live" here (as I do) made the decision to retire here before the "two month rule " was ever introduced!/QUOTE]
Like the British breakfast, eggs and bacon. The hen's involved but the pig's committed.
Guess we're pigs, Jill!
Long termers tend to have 2 or at least have a residence in the UK and rent here. Thats the difference.
I guess the majority of people who "live" here (as I do) made the decision to retire here before the "two month rule " was ever introduced!/QUOTE]
Like the British breakfast, eggs and bacon. The hen's involved but the pig's committed.
Guess we're pigs, Jill!
If you are comparing living in Goa as the pig that becomes bacon, are you saying that living in Goa is like dying?
Jill I would never consider you as a pig -
Dread - x
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Re: How was your stay in Goa!
Chameleons.
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Re: How was your stay in Goa!
This is starting to remind me of that John Cleese sketch from the sixties - The 3 guys standing next to one another depicting Upper Class, Middle Class and Lower Class! As someone with grand children and business commitments I choose to spend between 4 and 8 weeks a year in Goa; weeks that I thoroughly enjoy, however as a glorified holidaymaker are my opinions on this forum any less valid? And just how has a thread asking as to whether you enjoyed your season degenerated into one of one one-upmanship as to how long you actually spend in Goa. To draw an analogy its a bit like when I go and watch West Ham,as a season ticket holder of some decades the post match discussion in the bar often involves how long we've supported the club and been a season ticket holder. The decades are a badge of commitment with the number of games seen each season a measure of our commitment to suffering for the cause!
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P.S. The eggs and bacon, pigs and chicken analogy made me laugh!