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Forum: Goa
Sep 25th 2015, 1:29 am
Replies: 0
Views: 995
Posted By oddjob1952

Health insurance

Has anyone got health insurance issued by an Indian provider. Wife is OCI and I am PIO (all be it both life long now) we have UK passports living in Goa. What I am finding out now is providers will...
Forum: Goa
Dec 17th 2014, 11:27 pm
Replies: 0
Views: 677
Posted By oddjob1952

want 3bhk villa in quepem to buy

I am looking to purchase a villa in this area if anyone knows of any for sale cash waiting for right place.
OCI holder so ownership issues.
Forum: Goa
Dec 13th 2013, 3:27 pm
Replies: 16
Views: 4,840
Posted By oddjob1952

Re: Autorickshaw/second hand cat buying in goa

Lagos has my vote as #1 crazy place to drive!
Forum: Goa
Sep 2nd 2013, 1:49 am
Replies: 2,456
Views: 316,545
Posted By oddjob1952

Re: GOSSIP AND CHIT CHAT

And what about trucks I dont think the middle class drive 20 ton lories, and by the way diesel goes up 0.5 inr every month to cut back the subsidy and bring the cost in line with petrol. This is due...
Forum: Goa
Jul 26th 2013, 8:43 pm
Replies: 2,456
Views: 316,545
Posted By oddjob1952

Re: GOSSIP AND CHIT CHAT

Just as I dont find all the Indian bashing that goes on by certain people on here so endearing, I don't find. So we seem to be even.
I was not smug about holding a PIO card until I first said I had...
Forum: Goa
Jul 26th 2013, 6:49 am
Replies: 2,456
Views: 316,545
Posted By oddjob1952

Re: GOSSIP AND CHIT CHAT

No voting or owning farm land thats it, other than that same rights.
Forum: Goa
Jul 26th 2013, 6:04 am
Replies: 2,456
Views: 316,545
Posted By oddjob1952

Re: GOSSIP AND CHIT CHAT

I am waking up for the 2nd as I have to catch my flight out of UK and looking forward to arriving on the 3rd August in Goa semi-retired and working in India as and when I feel like it.

Thanks to...
Forum: Goa
Jul 25th 2013, 10:02 am
Replies: 2,456
Views: 316,545
Posted By oddjob1952

Re: GOSSIP AND CHIT CHAT

Who else are you taking about then being you are on the India/Goa forum?
Forum: Goa
Jun 15th 2013, 8:43 pm
Replies: 2,456
Views: 316,545
Posted By oddjob1952

Re: Visa help.

You are illeagl if you enter a country on one visa then carry out acts which are not allowed on that visa. Just because you have entered on a legal visa does not allow you to do what you want there...
Forum: Goa
Jun 11th 2013, 11:31 pm
Replies: 2,456
Views: 316,545
Posted By oddjob1952

Re: Visa help.

Indian tax? how as a tourist?

Now I shall leave it be
Forum: Goa
Jun 11th 2013, 1:13 pm
Replies: 2,456
Views: 316,545
Posted By oddjob1952

Re: Visa help.

Feel free to stay in any other place than India! If you hate the place that much please tell us why you want to visit so much and then run the India/Goa down. No wounder people like me get hacked off...
Forum: Goa
Jun 10th 2013, 11:36 am
Replies: 2,456
Views: 316,545
Posted By oddjob1952

Re: Visa help.

You have just made my point as to your breaking the rules as you are not allowed to own a car in your name you put it into a locals name, so if he sells it from under your feet what can you say about...
Forum: Goa
Jun 10th 2013, 5:52 am
Replies: 2,456
Views: 316,545
Posted By oddjob1952

Re: Visa help.

Please tell me how you can live and retire in india on a 6 month tourist visa!!! People yell and scream about the locals when most of you just want to live as illegal immigrants. No wonder there are...
Forum: Goa
May 29th 2013, 1:09 am
Replies: 14
Views: 1,888
Posted By oddjob1952

Re: New kid on the block

Have some cash with you but just use your debit card in a ATM, just take out 2 or 3 days worth of cash job done bank account pain in the a**s.
internet go to "eatopia" spelling might no be right but...
Forum: India
Apr 17th 2013, 10:46 pm
Replies: 3
Views: 3,128
Posted By oddjob1952

Re: Job offer New Delhi -

I worked in Bombay in the 90's for 7 years with no issues however my wife is Indian. I saw lots of expats leaving India after 2 or 3 years only because the wife got fed up with it. 5 years is a long...
Forum: Goa
Feb 28th 2013, 8:11 am
Replies: 57
Views: 9,016
Posted By oddjob1952

Re: Someone left Goa early could not take it anymore

Much like the Costa del Sol, local culture ruined by unrestrained tourism, and too much building of hotels and apartments. Anyway as you say, you can move on to other 'backyards'.

Have you ever...
Forum: Goa
Feb 27th 2013, 12:05 am
Replies: 3
Views: 683
Posted By oddjob1952

Need import agent/broker

About to ship 40 foot container in the next 2 weeks with house hold goods to Goa and I need a broker to clear it by customs in Goa. Does anyone here have one they can recommend? Do they arrange...
Forum: India
Feb 18th 2013, 3:05 am
Replies: 9
Views: 17,757
Posted By oddjob1952

Re: OCI Dual Citizenship concerns

Not so my 2nd son was born in the UK he got OCI only because he was under 18 when his mother got her OCI if he was over 18 then he would have got PIO like me. Also while still a British citizen...
Forum: India
Feb 18th 2013, 12:36 am
Replies: 9
Views: 17,757
Posted By oddjob1952

Re: OCI Dual Citizenship concerns

Not so when I got my PIO card (wife and kids have OCI) I had to sign to accept that I can not get help from BHC in India. Also when carrying your British passport you must also carry the old passport...
Forum: India
Aug 14th 2012, 4:22 am
Replies: 4
Views: 2,581
Posted By oddjob1952

Re: OCI question

I think you will find that as you were not born in India and you a over 18 you will get a PIO card same rights as a OCI but has to renewed every 15 years. If your children were born in India they...
Forum: Goa
Feb 18th 2010, 10:20 pm
Replies: 3,948
Views: 716,395
Posted By oddjob1952

Re: GOA - Buyer Beware!

I am not trying to rub peoples nose in it but I get p****d off when "some by no means all" think being British allows them to bad mouth Indian,s just because they have been found to be holding...
Forum: Goa
Feb 18th 2010, 9:53 pm
Replies: 3,948
Views: 716,395
Posted By oddjob1952

Re: GOA - Buyer Beware!

call yourself an expat and you do not know what hasshing is shame on you
Forum: Goa
Feb 18th 2010, 4:45 am
Replies: 3,948
Views: 716,395
Posted By oddjob1952

Re: GOA - Buyer Beware!

Hashing now your taking "ON ON"
Forum: Goa
Feb 18th 2010, 3:50 am
Replies: 3,948
Views: 716,395
Posted By oddjob1952

Re: GOA - Buyer Beware!

1. who is to say your Advocate did not take a back hander from the builder to get sold.
2. As has been said in other posts who knows how they work the system the point is now that they see these...
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