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Guyanna no expat forum, why?

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DDR
  7/6/2017 03:24 EST

Why not Guyana as a forum here on expatex? I've been looking for more relevant information on this english speaking SA country,with lots of virgin coast line.Plus spanish isn't my forte.
Anyone here have any experience there?Other than Jim Jones I have very little insight there.It's a cheap quick flight from Florida.And they basicly use english law not Napoleonic,thus easier for US cits to understand.I'd say avoid all countries that use spanish in their law if you don't have fluency,or married a hot latina that knows the local stuff.

remoore2001
  7/7/2017 20:39 EST

I think because the 6 expats that live there have no internet.
Seriously, It's about clicks and I doubt you would receive many from Guyanna

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DDR
  7/8/2017 11:19 EST

That could be it Remoore.There's also Surinam and French Guiana lump them into one category the Guianas :)

The Venezuelan military is on their border and making incursions.It's interesting after the Columbian govt got a treaty with FARC the voters rejected it.

I was reading the online Guyana newspaper.They publish their court dockets.Mostly drugs,one doesn't want to catch a case there.Funny thing is they make little distinction on amounts, where one gets the book thrown at them if they are guilty of small amonuts say 12 grms marihauna or 100 kilos of rock, same three year sentence.

Most of their other cases are police selling their issued guns and bullets.If you're a cop there, you have to turn in your gun and bullets at the end of the shift.Also smuggling gold is a huge crime there too.

Very scenic too.Lots of pristine beaches and rain forests.

good luck and happy returns :)

cccmedia
  7/9/2017 06:05 EST

On the surface, it seems odd that Guayana, the one country in South America where English is the official language, does not have a discernable Expat presence.

Georgetown, the coastal city/capital city/largest urban area, has a hot climate -- 84 to 88 F. average high most months year-round, according to various weather websites.

expat.com has a Guyana forum, but almost all the threads were initiated by the moderators, who are on an island in the Indian Ocean, with hardly any responses from folks in Guyana.

The exception is the new-members intro thread, which has gotten posts from time to time.

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cccmedia
  7/9/2017 06:36 EST

I was just reading a write-up by a writer named Brian who served in the Peace Corps in Guayana.

According to him...

The heat and humidity will be an unpleasant surprise to USA visitors to Guyana unless they are from the deep South.

The beaches in Guyana are inferior to those in nearby countries. There are dikes built centuries ago by the Dutch when they reclaimed land from the sea .. and those dikes today attract mosquitos that are a nuisance until you move inland from the coast. The water on the Atlantic Coast is the color of YooHoo (brackish brown).

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DDR
  7/11/2017 14:43 EST

Actually, the five Guianas.The other previous two are now part of Brazil & Venezuela.French Guiana ? WTF happened to the Monroe doctrine?
Colonization went out long time ago.
FG is having riots over the French 45% import duties.Which means items run 45% more in FG than in Paris eek.And part of the EU in SA? How does that make sense?

It's mind boggling how screwed up thing are almost everywhere.

Back in the day I used to laugh at political science majors, now I pity them,talk about complicated BS.

Found the perfect way to get out of the USA.Join their military,get paid
easier citizenship. I can see my tired old ass marching through the jungle.

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19naia
  7/15/2017 00:48 EST

I think Guayana is more expensive also, in comparison to other places with better options and more to them than just a sleepy city or two and great big wide open annex to the Amazon Jungle.
Expats factor in the cost of what they are getting, what they have being offered at that cost and what comparisons are like in other countries.
Expats are cheap, and the ones that are rich are not looking at third world countries to pay more for less.

multiego
  7/15/2017 08:32 EST

19naia

So when are you going to Guyanna? Your insights suggest a world traveler steeped in wisdom which can only be gained by years of slogging through jungle and over Savannah. Don't the Europeans have a rocket base in Guyanna? I would like to see one of those rocket launches. I'd climb up when they weren't looking and ride all the way to Mars. Have you been to Mars? Its nice. Not at all expensive. They don't even bother with money. I don't think I'll ever make it to Mars but I hang out at the Mars expat forum! They all think I live on Mars!! I drop little hints like, "gee - the air is thin" and "we're 140 million miles from the sun!" I like to help the newbeez that way. Its something to do.

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DDR
  7/16/2017 08:53 EST

Suriname seems a place to check out.English widely spoken.Being a Miami Gringo not into the spanish thing.

Almost all the SA countries are corrupt to a certain degree.Guyana although english speaking is on par with Belize,except with supermarkets.

remoore2001
  7/16/2017 13:49 EST

Talking corruption, look no farther than your home country. US politicians are experts at corruption, SA politicians not so good, they seem to get caught alot

DDR
  7/16/2017 18:47 EST

Exactly!
One isn't breaking the law unless caught. ; )

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multiego
  7/17/2017 15:29 EST

Nobody going to spring to the defense of North Americans in the area of graft and corruption?

nobody?

me neither

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DDR
  7/18/2017 11:25 EST

When the Cubans took over Miami it
definitely went from bad to worst.
Castro took a dump on the USA big time.

Grasshopper
  7/30/2017 01:19 EST

Sin!
How dare you, man..

Don't talk crap about the untarnished US, and especially don't talk.. (yawn).. crap about our president..

You know. That orange colored, sight-in target with the tie that's hangs to his zipper?

..and when I say not to talk crap, it means please, upgrade it to sh#t.

Anyway. DD, man do you reeeally have that much time on your hands? Go cook at a soup kitchen or help Habitat build a house or something, man..

Or, another idea..
Go join up. You'll love a 90 lb rukpack on your back in the steamy jungle "parks and recreational" areas that have drawn your attention - ..they just haven't drawn much else. Incuding expats it seems..

Jim Jones probably went there knowing no one would want to follow them there..

- for what it is worth, the idea of anyone living in Miami and hating the Latino people, who is also looking at moving to SA is confusing. To think of settling on one little mosquito pit, with riots, with Venezuelan troops on the border, just because they speak English..

Now, that just makes me laugh. (seriously.. soup kitchen - good for your soul)

Hopp

DDR
  8/2/2017 06:19 EST

Things (Hopp) that make me go Hmmm,

A good portion of the SA people aren't "latino" or "Hispanic" The Spanish & Portuguese were the conquistadors from the Iberian peninsula.Most of the natives came either by boat from Polynesia or over the Siberian land bridge NOT HISPANIC or Latino. Geez, you'd think I'm talking to bunch 7 yo's

No wonder you dumb asses left the USA you couldn't make it here on your best days. :;-)

Most Cubans are Spanish as they killed off most of the natives.So no I don't like the Spanish scum.

Not too many Spanish in the Guianas.
Their leaders aren't too fond of the US govt either.That's why I want to be among like minded folks.

Come on and take some smart pills or something.You should move in with McCain.That dumb ass almost sunk his own carrier Lol and now he's a senator go figure.

I'm not too fond of the gringos either.I hate everybody.Well the native people haven't pissed me off.

OceanHideaway
  8/2/2017 17:18 EST

My friend from Guyana who now lives in Salinas refers to it as " the gates to hell". He's much happier here, Mon.

He thinks ye' a foole...

(his exact words)

By the way...you might want to write it correctly. Correctly being how the folks there write the name of their own country. Work on that and then get back with the derogatory infantile educational references because they'll be a smidge more effective when you yourself are not the object lesson.

Grasshopper
  8/3/2017 19:56 EST

I can't even do it; It's seriously like he's five.

OceanHideaway
  8/4/2017 00:31 EST

I know what you mean Hopper...

This one isn't even worth it... He's just, not even worth baiting!

It just wouldn't be fair and it would be, well, just pathetic. Right?

Grasshopper
  8/4/2017 09:41 EST

Like putting on steel toed boots and going into a day-care at nap time to practice futbol.. but more pathetic

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