Dear Albert, You have incorrectly started your e-mail below with the statement "We Goans". Please correct it to read "Goans like me, Albert Desouza...."
All of us Goans do not preach like emotional idiots. I personally, salute and congratulate the many Goans who have stayed, worked in Goa and personally contributed their best, to make Goa, the wonderful state it is today, as also, the Goans who are returning from foreign countries,today, after retirement or even earlier to settle down in Goa. Remember - Poor goans are forced to sell property out of poverty. What is the excuse for some Goans who have no love for our state of Goa, who sell inherited, ancestral property and take this wealth out of India, to make foreign countries like Australia, Canada etc. richer? Your statement - "Why should they sell the house for five lakhs when they can get eighty lakhs ? Does any one work for lesser salary ? That is the reason they prefer to sell their house for non goans who would give them a nice price." My reply - I have heard criminals too, state that they turned to crime because they could earn Rs. 1 lakh a month or more and as salesmen they earned only Rs. 5,000/- per month. I LOVE GOA. Regards, ======================= From: Albert Desouza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, 6 August, 2008 8:17:10 PM Subject: [Goanet] Goan selling houses Albert writes:-We goans have the habbit of preaching. We are just emotional. Take an example of a big portuguese house which was actually built to accomodate at least three to four big families. Big halls, big dinning rooms garden etc etc. now worth say forty lakhs or more. Most of the sons have gone to Canada, Australia, US New Zealand. Only one nuclear family lives over there. The family made up of just four members and the head of the family and his wife working in Goa may be each drawing twenty thousand. The head will definetely think, what will I do if I have to change the; roof of the house or the door of the house or repair this house I will have to spend lakhs of rupees. The wife has not opened the windows for months together as the windows are too high and needs a ladder. Everyone finds the house dirty as they cannot sweep this big house. The wife says"Lets sell this house and use the money. So the time when the other family members are down for holidays they decide to sell the house. Why should they sell the house for five lakhs when they can get eighty lakhs ? Does any one work for lesser salary ? That is the reason they prefer to sell their house for non goans who would give them a nice price. albert de souza
