Hi Ana Maria Amen to what you say, I do agree , with you all the way. People have all the time to write what they think, not to act, I have no intention of selling my house, but to check the aptitude of these so called Goans at mouth, I put a sale form, guess what just one single respondent, But madame if you do have any more properties for sale at Goa, Kindly contact me, regards Ayres deSouza
On 8/7/08, Ana Maria de souza-Goswami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > -- Ayres deSouza
