--- Dacosta Amilcar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Being of Goan origin, I felt ashamed to read the > article by some Pushpa Iyengar on "Goa wants expats > to leave". > Mario responds: > Dear Amilcar, Please calm down. No need to waste your energy being "ashamed". Why are you ashamed after reading an article that does not even make sense? Save your shame for when you have actually done something wrong yourself. In the meantime please be either irritated, irate, upset, angry, mad-as-hell, or some equivalent that fits your thinking more closely. Then maybe you will be motivated to let the author know what you think, and she will be more careful the next time. > When I read Pushpa's article I was PO'd, and I let her know it. But I think she is hiding under her desk because I haven't heard from her. > Ms. Iyengar apparently thinks it is good to write inflammatory articles - an old journalistic technique among opinion writers that gets people to notice them. This one made no sense on it's face because she was complaining about foreigners on TOURIST visas being unable to buy property in Goa. Why would anyone on a TOURIST visa want to buy property, when they will be going home shortly? > Joe something-or-other, who goes as JoeGoaUK on Goanet because he wants to hide his identity from the rest of us, has reported that there are several foreigners who own property in Goa, he said 49 just in Bardez. Obviously those foreigners had the proper visa that enabled them to do so. Joe's research proved Pushpa was wrong. > I am generally uncomfortable when someone hides their identity - there is this one guy who hides in the Canadian cyber-bushes and snipes at people using one of several identities, and no one knows who he really is. However, I have learned that this particular Joe is a serious guy and is particularly interested in real estate in Goa. So I am inclined to believe him even though I would prefer to know who he is. >
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