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I am considering moving to the Azores in the near future .I am traveling to the Azores in early march and would like to meet with UK expats who may be able to introduce me to in Azores!!

graham wheeler

  • graham wheeler

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    Hi Shea,
    I'm not much of a technophite so you may well get a number of messages from a variety of channels .
    Since december last when i posted my enquiry i have heard ....nothing! i thought that the islands could just be dream bait and not realy exist.Anyway you found my post ...(isnt it , amazing all this electro litter sitting in the ether)
    Many thanks for your reply.
    I see from your profile that you have lived in the Azores ,Could you tell me when ,why and what you thought of it??? And why you have a desire to return there inparticular rather than any of the other places you have lived or traveled through.??

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    ... whew! That was a LONG post! So sorry... lol

    jipsi

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    Hi, Graham (or anyone else who might be able to help),

    I may be on the other side of the Big Pond (Illinois, USA), but we hve this much in common: I, too, am looking to move to one of the Azores islands in the near future.
    At first, I was pragmatic, and looked at traveling there on a vacation, first, taking a week to look around, get my bearings, find a small place for myself (I'm disabled, so my needs are pretty specific, 1 to 2 bedroom ground floor apartment or house with a few metres of ground onhand to plant a few roses and such, get some daily sun and ocean breezes, etc.). BUT, after six months of scouring travel agencies and flight deals, I've come to the conclusion that the $5,000+ it would cost me to "visit" for a week or two (it's almost $3000 just for the roundtrip air fare alone!!! yipes!) would be better-spent if I were to just one-way it there, and put some money down on a bungalow or cottage and just MOVE (take the leap, you know).

    I was wondering how your info-search is going, since you posted a few months ago?
    I have considered finding another like-minded soul, whom I can talk to, share info with, etc., even possibly 'roomie' with a few initial months... Have you had any luck in finding other expats already IN the Azores to talk to?
    I need to find answers, myself, pretty fast, as the home I am renting right now will soon be going in to foreclosure (the owner can't keep it up anymore as he is getting too old) and I simply don't want to buy it from him (can't afford the price and upkeep for this huge Victorian two-family house, anyway!) and end up stuck HERE forever!

    Anyway... would like to be friends with you, as well, to keep up with YOUR progress in your move...

    jipsi

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