Well congrats to you guys for following through with your plans. The idea of being an expat appeals to me but I fear that I have too much Ugly American in me to do it now.
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Tracey de Morsella \(formerly Tracey L. Minor\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually, the weather is mild in the area we live. It never gets hotter than > 86. But from what I hear about the weather on the east coast last week, > you guys would have been rolling your eyes at my complaints about it being > cold earlier this week. > > The move started off as a joke. We had been talking about moving to the > west coast. My husband was reading an article on the open source software > movement in Brazil in Wired Magazine a few weeks before the Election. His > father was a diplomat and he has lived or traveled extensively in Latin > America, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and Asia. So, going to live in some > "exotic" location appeals to him. Anyway, we are liberals and had been > freaking out over all the stuff the Bush administration had been doing, so I > jokingly told him that if Kerry lost lets move our business to Brazil. > > I started researching start up companies setting up expatriate business > operations and how cheap it was to live in developing countries. After the > election, and my research showing how much our cost of living would go down, > we started talking seriously about it. > > While we were leaning toward moving to brazil, we looked at Costa Rica (we > have friends that did it there), Malaysia (some other friends there) and > about six other countries. Mexico was among them. > > Over time it went from our second choice to our first choice. I'm > relatively sure we are going to stay, at least for a while. > > Tracey > > -----Original Message----- > From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of B. Smith > Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 2:41 PM > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Map of SciFinoir Member Locations > > > Done. BTW how did you end up in Mexico? I'll trade weather with you. > > --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "tdemorsella" <tdlists@> wrote: > > > > Hi SciFiNoir Family. I just signed us up for a service that > provides > > a map of what cities in which scifinoir members live. While I no > > longer live near anyone anymore,(moved to Mexico in October) most > of > > you probably live really close to other memers and do not even know > > it. This map will hopefully correct that. Please click through to > > add your point on the map. Takes less than a minute. > > http://www.frappr.com/scifinoir/map > > > > > > Thanks > > > > Tracey de Morsella, your moderator > > SciFiNoir/SciFiNoir-Lit > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir-lit/ > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir2/ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.15.10/263 - Release Date: 2/16/2006 > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.15.10/263 - Release Date: 2/16/2006 > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
