[Goanet] Selling ancestral property

[Ana Maria de souza-Goswami]

Hi,

Lots has been written about goans selling ancestral property. How will goans 
be 'pverty-stricken' by selling property. What they do with the money is 
nobody's business.  Parents can sell the property because it belongs to them 
and not the children, and besides if  most of the children are living 
overseas and do not want to come back to Goa, why can't they sell the 
property especially those  who need the money.

If it hadn't been for rich Indians and foreigners who have  bought our 
ancestral homes, they would have gone to seed.  We had to sell our home in 
Moira because no one wanted to live there after my father expired in 1989. 
My mother couldn't live there alone so shifted to her maternal place in 
Margao, and my two brothers and myself had already acquired our own houses. 
Also we had to sell our maternal grandparents place in Margao this year 
(late 17th century) as all the inheritors,except for three of us live in 
Portugual/Brazil.  We did not sell it to an outsider but to a fellow Goan.

Goans do not want to come back to live in Goa, but still criticize on the 
Goanet about outsiders coming in hoards to Goa.  Blame it on others, blame 
it to the builders, who need migrant labourers to build the flats which 
goans have acquired and non-Goans.

Don't goans go to the West and buy houses/flats in  the UK, USA, Canada, 
etc. Do the people of that country criticize Indians buying property in 
their own country?.

Please lets end this subject of selling ancestral land and  tackle other 
issues, as garbage, rash driving, etc.

Ana Maria de Souza-Goswami