There are some fabulous new wide patterned pavoir pavements being built along the "Saligoa to mapusa" stretch.

Never actually ever seen anyone walking on this road!!!!!!!!!!!

Perhaps there is a local politician that needs somewhere to go jogging or walking...

This road was virtually impassable today with the locals drying their recently harvested paddy along both sides of the road.

Hi Noni, I really do not understand all the negative comments about Goa by some of the Forum users. If they want nice pavements, easy shopping, edible bacon and all the other nonsensical complaints then go somewhere else to live. Sometimes its like reading the comments of bitter old men with nothing better to do with their lives. It is so refreshing when we read positive comments and good news..well done Noni for trying to do just that! Chris

Thanks Mr. Jolly living up to your name can't wait to return.
watching the Rugby and real bacon butties.

Hi Chris, if you are referring to my posts possibly you have misinterpreted what you call" nonsensical complaints". These are observations and for the record you'll find I am against pavements (whether good, bad, overgrown or entirely unnecessary), I can live without British food in India, and shopping is most times best face to face between Indian persons you have known for years, and not in supermarkets.

There is a site called holidaytruths where no criticism of Goa/India is allowed; infact negative posts are censored by deletion and there is a mafia of moderators as enforcers of "the truth", i.e. no reality allowed.

Honestly, I prefer an expats site where we are mostly clued up to the reality and not the rose tinted glasses view. We have all spent large chunks of our lives living there and witnessed the changes.

Of course we can all find positives in Goa ( even if they are diminishing returns year on year).If you want to promote the tourist industry in Goa, go ahead, but it is a tenth rate product in a third world country and long may it remain so because that's what first endeared me to it.

Could it be that there are two issues here? 'Tourism' and 'expatism' and that yourself and Chris both have valid points.
The average tourist travels to another country for the weather, beaches sightseeing etc. and expects a clean hotel, familiar food and to be understood in their own language. Goa fits most of these requirements much of the time, and if not they don't come back.
On the other hand a voluntary expat (not forced because of work) chooses to live in a country and become a 'local' presumably because they appreciate the country, customs and people as they are.
Obviously they will have the same grouses and grumbles about pavements, traffic, corruption etc. that other locals have (and not the acceptance that comes from long experience).
Perhaps what Chris meant and I would agree, is that to make use of a country for its weather and beach etc and then expect to turn it into a 'little England' defeats the whole purpose of being an expat (and I mean generally not just Goa).

You're not wrong. I hate 99% of tourists.

Most people have gone somewhere else. Maybe you're not English and don't understand "taking the piss." If you can't have a laugh, you're the one in the wrong place. See yer later.....

Go look at some old posts here on the property jungle and you'll find a few arse'oles who think they still rule India. These are the ones who piss me off. But they keep coming back????

Why do you hate tourists, do you mean the domestic ones?

Just past the junction of the airport road and NH17 is the place to dry your rice.

I'm referring to the British who demand the same sunbed every day, drink 1 bottle of water, order poached egg on toast lunchtime, complain that the yolk is not in the middle, don't tip and eat at the cheapest dump in the village in the evening. Are you reading???????

Sorry, forgot to add.....and can't understand why the Russians get better service.

Have not met any of these, as yet. The Russians we have at our shack have been polite and great people. But those who have taken over another shack on the Beach are really rude, and like the people you mention.

Go to Margao. The pavements are for bike parking.

By the way, I'm told shack licences will now be issued Monday/Tuesday. Saw 8 Lamanis resting under the shade where Camron has his gear ready.

Oh! silly me, I forgot that.

The Shack licenses are already out in the North.