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[alonewiththemoon]

According to NPR, if you are having trouble buying a house in today's market, you should look into buying a house in Panama or Honduras.  That is such not the helpful advice.

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[mittenstone.livejournal.com]

you could probably move to the midwest and be able to afford something, too.

i heard something similar on npr a few weeks ago. they interviewed this guy who recommended croatia, emphasizing the lack of roads, &c. as a good thing.

uh.

i guess you could buy a tank in croatia, too. and you wouldn't need roads.

[alonewiththemoon]

i guess you could buy a tank in croatia, too. and you wouldn't need roads.

now see, that's actually tempting.

[ayun.livejournal.com]

The expat community and attendant real eastate bs in parts of Panama is insane - I saw a Century 21 sign on one of those stilted platforms with palm-leaf roofs on Isla Colon.

[julishka.livejournal.com]

thanks NPR! now i'll have to pay rent, mortgage AND real estate taxes of some sort. oh yeah, and hire some sort of security firm to guard my out of country property. awesome.

you'd think they'd just recommend we buy in the midwest or out in the boonies - at least the commute wouldn't span international borders. sheesh.

[frankensplean.livejournal.com]

<chortle> i've heard good things about Bulgaria! (Well, Sofia, anyway..)
Oh, and recent spam-a-thons suggest Costa Rica is the way to go! </chortle>

[julishka.livejournal.com]

my dad, being the son of Hungarian immigrants, could have bought back the family home from the state out in the boonies of Hungary. a 3 storey stucco'd building w/a carriage door & courtyard for only $10k usd. holy shite! we were so bummed it was far from a big city or town. sigh. not a great place for a bnb either. oh well.