As soon as the kids are out of the house (if they ever leave) there's a little place called Tsawwassen that has my name on it...just down the street from where Raymond Burr had a place.
Paraguay was a very popular "retirement" community for Nazi war criminals following WW2. Paraguay is not big on extradition treaty's. If your wanted for war crimes it sounds like a great place!
[quote][cite] Jimmytufish:[/cite]As soon as the kids are out of the house (if they ever leave) there's a little place called Tsawwassen that has my name on it...just down the street from where Raymond Burr had a place.[/quote]
Is that the place on Boundary Bay that you showed the snow picture of? If so, a lovely spot on the water. More sun and less rain there. You're wise to have purchased well in advance.
When I make it to retirement I'm heading back where I was born, kinda like the salmon swimming upstream to die where he was born. Home would be somewhere in the Pembina Hills, a tarpaper shack looking over the valley:)
[quote][cite] hbob:[/cite][quote][cite] Jimmytufish:[/cite]As soon as the kids are out of the house (if they ever leave) there's a little place called Tsawwassen that has my name on it...just down the street from where Raymond Burr had a place.[/quote]
Is that the place on Boundary Bay that you showed the snow picture of? If so, a lovely spot on the water. More sun and less rain there. You're wise to have purchased well in advance.[/quote]
[quote][cite] Shaynelle:[/cite]My husband knows a guy (drywaller actually) who bought land in Paraguay and is moving there at age 45 - early retirement![/quote] Is he a Mennonite? There are lots of them in Paraguay, and there seems to be a pretty solid connection between Paraguay and southern Manitoba.
[quote][cite] Vote_for_Pedro:[/cite]Is he a Mennonite? There are lots of them in Paraguay, and there seems to be a pretty solid connection between Paraguay and southern Manitoba.[/quote]
He's German, or at least of German ancestery and currently lives near Vancouver. He was telling us that there are quite a few Germans (as per skullster's post) there.
Interesting about Mennonites and Paraguay.... any clue what the connection is?
Mennonites from Canada (and other places) moved to Paraguay in the 20s, when Canada moved to enforce education standards on Mennnoite children. Within 50 years, many Mennonite families had relocated back to Canada, moving to areas like Niverville MB and Steinbach, as well as North Kildonan, which already had well established Mennonite communities.
I am one of those Mennonites with a South American type connection.My Grandparents on both sides left Gretna Manitoba by train bound for Chihuahua province in Mexico in 1925. The education standards that Northender mentioned is the exact reason, and the real kicker was that the government would not allow anymore lessons to be taught in our native German language. That migration by train must have been something to see, cattle,dogs,horses, chickens and kids all inclusive.