Hi Selma I regret I have been away from Goanet posts for a few days watching a lot of sport and am only just catching up.
If you insist that your residence is a "gated community" without sight of a gate or fence to stop anyone from entering the premises, that is your prerogative. You are welcome to believe and state what you like. Equally then, you have to give credence to my informed view, without you getting so emotional, that yours is not a gated community--the rather simple point I was making in initiating a debate. By way of an illustration, accommodation in a proper gated community in Bangalore and Delhi that I have seen for returning people re the current reverse brain drain, costs around £5000 or Rs 400,000 a month and I reckon someone would be paying at least £15,000 a month even if miles from central London for something similar. I will also accept it if you insist that you are indeed paying this kind of money (for a conventionally understood gated community and of the kind I have also seen in Rio and Chennai but am unaware of the cost), and perhaps £30,000 a month for your non-visible gated community accommodation bristling with electronic gadgetry! I am sure thousands of Goanetters will be suitably impressed too if you allow yourself to provide a clue as to how much your "gated community" accommodation may be costing you. Further, it is a fact that, your block of flats are not being rented or sold as part of a "gated community" otherwise, their cost would have been infinitely greater than they are priced on the market currently. Please check this out as the info may yet be there with the estate agents, assuming that the flats are not yet sold in the current depressed housing market. As the premises are not on any printed map because they are very new, I had to initially find out their location from estate agents who had the flats for sale on line. So, in sum, I put it to you that: a)you were unable to enter a simple debate on the idea of a "gated community" initiated by you and to which I responded entirely and strictly in terms of your tenor, and the context and content you supplied--nothing more and nothing less. b) at one point, you claimed that I must have missed the gate! Do check this point as a fact. In other words you initially took the line that there was indeed a visible gate that I had somehow missed as well as a substantial fence around, that I had also somehow missed! c) when you realised that you were getting yourself into a deep hole I suggest that, you switched to the idea of an electronic "gated community". Do you think that the sellers/renters would not have emphasised this point strongly in their sales literature if this were true? d) At absolutely no point have I referred to you as a "liar" for you to 'loudly' proclaim that you are not a liar. This is something that I found unexpectedly odd. Let me end by saying that, I really get quite tired of some Goans in the West, trying to impress fellow Goans, particularly in Goa/India with exaggerated spoken and written claims about rosy living conditions here. In my book, this is something terribly wrong to do. Providing an accurate picture is one thing but not something that may be quite untrue and grossly exaggerated. Therefore, surely if you so wish, the proveable fact of your monthly rent, for your electronically controlled, "gated community" accommodation, MINUS any physical signs of gates, should hopefully put an end to this totally unexpectedly contentious issue. Cornel PS I also note that in the info you chose to provide and supposedly from the owners, there suddenly is absolutely nothing there about a gated community with an electronic fence. --- Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In your hurry to castigate me and save 9000 members > from being deceived, you didn't even consider that > maybe you could potentially wrong as well. Gated > communities are found all the way from Rodeo drive > to the marsh-lands of Chennai all in varying degrees > and shades of prosperity. If the standards of mine > did not meet with your expectations of what a gated > community should be that is upto debate.
