... in response to Re: Re: "Looking for different valu..., posted by cancunhound on Jul 31, 2003For me, values is a high priority. I had travelled to Colombia and the Dominican Republic before Brazil, and had not considered living abroad. It was my trips to Brazil that change my thinking. I have expressed in previous posts that I like being in Brazil and travel there for reasons unrelated to wife searching (ie vacations).
If it was possible to earn a secure salary high enough to live comfortably, I would likely move South. In the near future that is not possible. However, my Portuguese is improving and technology (the Internet) is advancing fast enough that the possibility of being employed in the US but working out of Brazil (or some other country) may become a reality in a few years.
I work in academia. I am currently participating in a training programn for teaching courses over the Web. A local (to me) university already has an online curriculum and satelite campuses in the English speaking Carribean through partnerships with the University of the West Indies and other schools.
When LA gets wired with high speed Web access, LOOK OUT!!! US colleges will be competeing with foreign ones for students in THEIR countries through the Internet. That will make all the new student visa hurdles obsolete. I think anyone who is multilingual and wants to work abroad should get computer/Web competent. Ralph is in a good position and will be in an excellent one when LA countries start to spend real money on their computers and telecommunications infrastructure.
