Foreign owned property in Goa, (part Two)

crvlvr

But, you do seem to speak the truth.

dzibead

Indeed.

cyberhippie

Goa is not just a beach, that's fallacy as well!!

dzibead

Well, maybe a reductionist statement.

But I think the point was that many of the people who go on about "falling in love with Goa" haven't really connected with anything that's actually peculiar to Goa and/or India in general, and might just as well find their "dream" on a tropical beach elsewhere. Frankly, it does seem to me that a lot of the folks who are fixated on Goa actually just want some sort of "Little Britain With Palm Trees" anyway.

capt_mahajan

Spain was like that, and still is, to many Britons. (except one told me in dismay.. everyone goes to Spain!)

Sometimes the idea of a place is as potent as the place itself.

The Himalayas do that to me.

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Nick-H

Little Britain With Palm Trees --- you can get that in Cornwall.

But the booze is not cheap, the houses are aburdly expensive, and the weather is errm... British

cyberhippie

Even along the coast Goa is STILL very Indian, cows wandering around, Bhel Puri stands, the rice being planted, temples being attended, Indian road rules, arranged marriages, cricket in the paddies, scooters with the mirrors turned inwards, so the rider can check his hair is okay, "meek" matrimonials, thali restuarants, Dilwali, Holi, elephants, sadhus, rubbish.

Goa isn't as far removed from "real India" as peoiple imagine, the day to day live of Goans is still VERY Indian. The other stuff just lives side by side with that!!

That people like the ones Dzibead is reffering to CHOOSE to shut themselves off from that, says eveything about the mentality of these people and little about how Goa really is!!
THE most intense Holi expereince I've had in India was in Palolem, lets not forget Hindus in Goa were persecuted and temples destroyed, this seems to have strengthened their beliefs rather than tempered them!!

dzibead

Agree. And the other (real) Goa you're talking about doesn't seem to be what they are looking for at all! Just look at that "British ExPats" website!

Even most of the (largely British) "Goa nuts" who manage wander into IM exhibit no interest in India in general, or even anything to do with Goa other than as it impacts their attempt to purchase property or the status of their visa. There are a few notable exceptions, of course, (goangoangone springs to mind) but if you look through the posts on this thread, including Part One, I think you'll see that what I say is true. Sad, really.

goangoangone

http://oheraldo.in/node/20280

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capt_mahajan

Interesting. Because trying to restrict other Indians buying in Goa will stir up a hornets nest AND open the pandoras box at the same time.

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Speaking at the Curtorim Congress workers convention, Naik said, “Not only foreign nationals, but builders from across Goan borders have bought acres of land in the State.
“Our Government should come out with some policy to check outside builders and foreign nationals from buying land in Goa,” he added.
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Mr Naik, Builders from outside every state have been buying land in every part of the country!

GoanCanuck

CM talks tough on land purchases by tourists
NT News Service


Margao, Nov 8: The Chief Minister, Mr Pratapsing Rane today said the tourists buying land in Goa through illegal means would be dealt with severely and such land transactions would be considered illegal, and hence would be the property of the government.

http://www.navhindtimes.com/articles...tory_ID=111014

goangoangone

About time too!!

http://oheraldo.in/node/20378?PHPSESSID=e2fcb785cb5ed8 e92494c6fdd4794bb2

colin c

surely some one somewhere will be able to sort out this mess .
i would dearly love a place in goa but at the moment wouldnt entertain it .
ging back to what some one said about spain , believe me its not so forward as you think . there are still arranged marriages , girls can legally have babies as young as 11 and are often married off as young as 15 .
we lived in spain for a long time and in land it is a lot different .
what made us leave was the way english people changed the spanish view of foreigners , ,onse welcome and invited to join the comuneity to being looked at as an easy meal ticket and some thing to hold at arms length
god help us the same thing happens in goa

malcolmgrundy

my wife and i have been living in goa for 6 weeks and would love to settle here but alas legally you cannot buy although estate agents will still tell you you can and we have met several people who are now buying on tourist visas.Legally you can apply for residency after spending the statutary period in the tax year but in fact this appears at the moment impossible as we have been informed that you have to stay continuosly for the 184 days but cannot get a visa for more than 180 days so although legal it appears impossible to do. At the moment we are renting on a 1 year renewable lease and will be returning to uk every 6 months or so to renew our visa hoping that the law in india will change at some time.

Captain Sink

This topic looks set to run and run. Ive been following with interest. Unfortunatly too many people came to Goa because it was the cheapest winter sun in the brochure, most people speak english, beer and fags are cheap. sad but true. And like all brits, obsessed with property prices, and able to afford a holiday home because their place in uk has gone up, and goa is so cheap, who cares if its illegal, this is India, and of course some dodgy lawyer and or estate agents will tell you a way around the law, its still illegal, and if the government want to enforce their laws, they will. Ive discovered the other favorite place for a brit holiday home is that other cheap place, Bulgaria, and just like here 'property portfolio investors' (I use the term loosely) are buying property for investment and they havent even been to Goa. The writing was on the wall about the present situation a long while ago, but there are none so blind as those who can not see.