Looking for a second home away from your country?

akee · Post by **akee** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 5:52 am

http://www.penangmyhome.com/index.html

LarsG · Post by **LarsG** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 7:30 am

Nice... thanks for the info..

akee · Post by **akee** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 11:58 am

you're welcome...

Shannara · Post by **Shannara** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 9:17 pm

Heh, looks quite nice until I saw the "Visa holders cannot work"! Yikes

So much for home away from home

akee · Post by **akee** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 2:50 pm

Shannara wrote:Heh, looks quite nice until I saw the "Visa holders cannot work"! Yikes So much for home away from home

Mmmm... not really. Proper work VISAs can be obtained if you have a sponsoring company. Penang has a Free Industrial Zone where companies like Intel, HP, AMD, Dell and Seagate opearate and we do have foreign nationals living here for a year or 2. I'm not sure where you live but if you can get into some of these companies, I'm sure you can find a way. In Intel where I work, the jobs that need foreign expertise will be in the area of operations.

LarsG · Post by **LarsG** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 6:03 pm

.. and what if ytou run your own company (like I do), and need to work... how does that work out?!

Post by **Berikco** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 7:03 pm

Naaah, i like my second home to be here

http://hawaiianwebmaster.com/white01.jpg

Beach · Post by **Beach** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 7:06 pm

Me too! Unless that cloud around the mountain on the left is volcanic ash spewing out from the top!

Post by **Berikco** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 7:16 pm

Beach wrote:Me too! Unless that cloud around the mountain on the left is volcanic ash spewing out from the top!

Its not vulcanish ash....at the moment

its a nice site about the island where i like to live

http://hawaiianwebmaster.com/camiguin.html

Beach · Post by **Beach** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 7:33 pm

That place looks really nice. I'm thinking there is no broadband internet connection there - you are gonna need to install a satellite to get your net on.

Post by **Berikco** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 7:42 pm

Beach wrote:That place looks really nice. I'm thinking there is no broadband internet connection there - you are gonna need to install a satellite to get your net on.

There is a 256kbit line, and the local provider has only a C class for his ip's, so no more than 254 computers can access the internet on the island

akee · Post by **akee** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 7:51 pm

LarsG wrote:.. and what if ytou run your own company (like I do), and need to work... how does that work out?!

Then why not try investing in the MSC. I heard they have government sponsored packages for foreign investors. Microsoft and Intel have some interest in it. If you are a developer with a great idea, you might want to consider...

http://www.msc.com.my

You can then link to Penang's project to be the MSC extention.

http://mscdotcomm.mdc.com.my/msc.comm/M ... lights.htm

akee · Post by **akee** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 7:56 pm

Berikco wrote:Naaah, i like my second home to be here http://hawaiianwebmaster.com/white01.jpg

nice beach... i wish our waters were that clean...

the nearest clean beach with acceptable visibility would be langawi, 2 hours by boat from Penang. Anyway, once you have tasted the food here, you would feel like you're in paradise. if you love seafood, i would recommend the black-pepper crabs and buttered prawns.

Shannara · Post by **Shannara** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 9:39 pm

For the most part, I like hawaii

Though the natives can use some work

Doesn't help being mean to "outsiders".

Post by **Berikco** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 8:42 am

It's not Hawaii

just 5000 km more west

http://hawaiianwebmaster.com/camiguin.html

Camiguin is a small island province of the Philippines located in northern Mindanao