[STEPHEN VAN OSDELL]

There is a lot of nasty stuff headed our way here in the states in the next year or two. Remember those ‘black boxes’ in the new cars which they say were only for your safety? Well, now Oregon is passing (or has just passed) a law to start charging motorists highway tax by the mile based on the mileage on your black box. Won’t be long until they will be issuing tickets based on your recorded speed at a certain time and place all extracted from the black box at fillup time. And that’s just an ‘gentle’ one! I’m working on my wife very very hard to come over to my side of thinking and moving. And just one more big earthquake (we dodged a bullet last week with the 7.3 on Friday) or tsunami close to Fukushima and the entire northern hemisphere will become a radioactive ‘slow kill’ zone. Of course, better to be like the major news channels and just not talk about it. Much more to worry about from Assad! HA!

[STEPHEN VAN OSDELL]

They always throw the frog into a pot of lukewarm, never boiling, water!

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Susan, first choice is to be able to move it to a secure ‘bank’ without physically having to go there. 2nd choice is that I could personally travel there is necessary. But what I’m talking about is ways to do this without setting up residency in the country where my money is. Hope this helps. I’ve read on my back channels today that, effective Nov 17, is going to stop international money transfers. Here is what they are halting, for how long I don’t know.

• All international wire transfers will be disallowed.

• All cash activity, including cash withdrawals and deposits, will be halted at “$50,000 per statement cycle.” How are businesses who deal with a lot of cash (such as restaurants) supposed to function under such restrictions?

This is pretty reliable information.

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Robert, I’ve never taken cars for a test drive that I couldn’t afford to begin with. But, more seriously, things are beginning to crack here in the US of A (IMHO) and we are planning to come visit in January. But, I wanted to settle the financial question in my mind first – that way I don’t come down there, fall in love with the place, and then figure out I shouldn’t move.

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THANK YOU Lawrence for the encouraging words!

[STEPHEN VAN OSDELL]

My wife is very open to the move and we are planning to visit Ecuador this coming January or February. If we leave here and move, we would liquidate everything here. We have a house that we can sell and come away with about $30K (it isn’t paid for). So, if we moved to Ecuador, we would have the $200K and be debt free. Put is this way, if we had a million in the bank, we’d both already be there! My wife would agree. My wife has just one son here who just finished college in chemical engineering and he already has a job in Texas. IF we stay in Ohio, we won’t see much of him anyway. I have 2 older kids that come visit maybe twice a year. They all said they would be excited to come visit us in Ecuador more than just sitting at home in Ohio. My wife says she would not ever really want to move back to Ukraine as there would be nothing there for her job wise and her brothers are scattered to other cities. Her mother (who is 64) is the biggest question mark? But we only see her about every 2 years.

I don’t mind sharing our financial situation if it helps us make the right informed decision. I’m not asking anyone else to share their situation, but I’m mainly wondering how many people move to Ecuador depending mostly on their social security? (meaning if it stopped, they wouldn’t be able to provide decent food and shelter). If we stay in US with my wife working, my life as I see it will be either continuing to work until to ‘drop’, or just sitting at home being bored death and with great wonderlust. I went through 2 bad divorces with children which wiped me out twice is why I don’t have more saved up. We both basically started life over when we got married in 2002 and started over from not much and with me still paying $1000/month child support.

So, Susan raises a good question – what happens here with inflation/devalued dollar is SS goes belly up anyway? Yes, I’d have to work as long as I could and then depend on my wife and children in some way.

I’m just being realistic and wondering if people considering moving down there need to really have a big nestegg before doing it, OR are there others who plan to live on mostly social security also? I’m not sure how much my $200K invested could bring in a month, but I don’t thing is would be $1500 each month.

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Susan, this is GREAT information! Wish we had some photos of some of those mercados!

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Susan, thank you very much for this contact, but could you please re-verity the email address. I also tried sherwis@mem.com and that bounced back also.

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That’s the kind of information I was looking for! Thanks! It is curious that you can buy and own a firearms there, but you can’t import your own (even after taking all tests and being checked out). I do have a concealed carry license here and I’m very trained on when it is legal to use a firearm for protection. Sounds like in Ecuador, there is nothing like a ‘castle doctrine’. And one would have to study up to see if wielding a knife or machete qualified as being ‘armed’. Mainly, though, I want my guns for sporting purposes and recreation when going in the ‘woods’ or ‘hiking’ in the forest. I’ve given up on Constitutional protections anywhere even in US and that is one reason I want to leave. My wife (Ukrainian) sat and compared what we are free to do in the US to what people are free to do in the former soviet country of Ukraine. About the only thing we discovered was that, for the time being, we in US could still easily purchase and own firearms (which is new impossible to do in Ukraine). Uruguay is about the same as Equador correct? I would like to know more about this area of law down in Nicaragua if you could put me in touch with someone. I’ll check with those lawyers also, but do I just pay them for their time using a credit card, or what?

Thanks again, Steve

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Susan, judging by the way you answered my questions, can I assume you are against gun ownership? It appears from your answers that a person can own a firearm, they just have to buy it there after having passed the test and and registering process?

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Reply to Michael Sylvester – Michael, I live in Maineville! I’m also interested in hypnosis. We need to meet sometime. Please email me – svanos49@gmail.com Steve

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