Harare experiences please!
#47
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Re: Harare experiences please!
You are 60 years too late to think of emigrating to this part of the world.
I worked in Zambia at the time of the "Chimurenga" in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe.
Things are not good in Central Africa and will not get any better any time soon.
I worked in Zambia at the time of the "Chimurenga" in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe.
Things are not good in Central Africa and will not get any better any time soon.
#48
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Re: Harare experiences please!
Like Yve I am contemplating a life in Zim.
How can I get in?
Age: 50+
Start a consulting business - how?
Thanks.
How can I get in?
Age: 50+
Start a consulting business - how?
Thanks.
#49
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Re: Harare experiences please!
To start a consulting biz depends on what you want to be consulted on and the contacts you have.
#50
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Re: Harare experiences please!
My adopted teen daughter, 13, was born in Zim, now living in Europe, I am now a widower seeking a change from the pessimism here. I am ex-mining engineer in Africa, done tech marketing, now teaching English to adults. Now considering options. Europe is in decline. It may not be smooth but Africa has to grow.
#51
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Re: Harare experiences please!
My adopted teen daughter, 13, was born in Zim, now living in Europe, I am now a widower seeking a change from the pessimism here. I am ex-mining engineer in Africa, done tech marketing, now teaching English to adults. Now considering options. Europe is in decline. It may not be smooth but Africa has to grow.
#52
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Re: Harare experiences please!
Wow Chile! - need to think about that. I last did mining in 1985.
Don't know Spanish, just a bit of French!
Don't know Spanish, just a bit of French!
#53
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Re: Harare experiences please!
Well they have found Gold in Karamoja, Uganda. Perhaps there will be opportunities there.
#54
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Re: Harare experiences please!
I dont think they are bothered much about whether you speak Spanish or not as it seems the decent jobs are filled by expats anyway. I believe though that if you are prepared to take some risks, the mines in Africa also pay well, but with a teenage daughter I think you should rather consider her education and future. Good luck!
#55
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Re: Harare experiences please!
Much prefer the States.[/QUOTE]
Yeah i lived in the states for a while. Apart from the extortionate cost of health care, excluding the less well off to anything other than a 3rd world level of treatment. The 19th century gun laws resulting the continous mass murder of innocents, while those in power seem to think the answer is to give out more guns. The ghettoisation of major cities making them virtual no go areas and the mass obesity. But on the whole it was ok, just far better places in the world
Yeah i lived in the states for a while. Apart from the extortionate cost of health care, excluding the less well off to anything other than a 3rd world level of treatment. The 19th century gun laws resulting the continous mass murder of innocents, while those in power seem to think the answer is to give out more guns. The ghettoisation of major cities making them virtual no go areas and the mass obesity. But on the whole it was ok, just far better places in the world
#56
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Re: Harare experiences please!
About 60 years too late for Harare.