06-05-2005 09:46									#31
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quote: Originally posted by Bosh I don't know about owning property, but its a very big pain in the ass for a foreigner to get a business liscense in Korea, same for a lot of Korean companies to give foreigners work visas, they have to prove that no Korean can fill the job or somesuch (except with us English teachers, we're a separate visa category).

Korea is a very odd case. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that foreigners ccan't own property there (or at least have to jump through an inordinate number of hoops).

	06-05-2005 09:49									#32
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quote: Any in particular?

An aquaintance of mine wanted to open an Italian restaurant here, but couldn't get a business license as a foreigner. He would've had to register the business under his Japanese wife's name, but decided not to in the end.

As for the use of the word "some" in my previous post, I was just trying to leave myself some wriggle room. I don't enough about the issue to state definitively that foreigners can't own any businesses in Japan; I just know it is very difficult based on anecdotal evidence.

	06-05-2005 09:51									#33
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Is he a permanent resident?

	06-05-2005 09:52									#34
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You want I should be serious about this?

OK. Well there's a good thesis that 4/5 of the world is being held back by hinderances to ownership of resources by its own people, let alone foreigners. This could be anything from onerous red tape to outright theft sanctioned by the government. It seems to me that this stuff is the much bigger question than that of foreign ownership.

	06-05-2005 09:53									#35
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quote: Is he a permanent resident?

I'm not sure. I think he was in the process of becoming one and would have to have become one in order to stay in the country.

	06-05-2005 10:38									#36
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quote: Originally posted by DanS You want I should be serious about this? OK. Well there's a good thesis that 4/5 of the world is being held back by hinderances to ownership of resources by its own people, let alone foreigners.

I don't know about the rest of the world. Only talking about the places of which I have some (though not necessarily a good) idea...

	06-05-2005 10:39									#37
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Anyhow, my original issue was with the overly dramatic statement by whoha...

I know you were kidding dude, just using you to restate my objection...

I found it especially strange, given that 90+% of the people who post here are in aread which do allow ownership of property by foreigners. It's not like this is a trait peculiar to the US which the non-Americans here find overly permissive or something...

	06-05-2005 11:27									#38
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quote: Originally posted by Lancer So in China the government owns everything? Sounds very communist! I thought they were becoming capitalist... "In the other nations, can foreign corporations own land?" A good question. Otherwise why would anyone build a factory they can't own?

Well in China at least instead of buying land, people buy 99-year leases from the government, perhaps with the expectation that the government will allow land ownership sometime before the 99 years are up.

	06-05-2005 11:42									#39
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quote: Originally posted by KrazyHorse You don't think that the existence of Western Europe is notable?

There is something on the order of 2.5 trillion in foreign owned property in the US.

	06-05-2005 12:33									#40
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quote: Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat I think it's a good idea for the Phillipines - the downside is that there's a limit to what some owners can make, but the upside is you limit the opportunities for cash rich foreign speculators to come in, buy all the desirable property and distort the market for everyone else, if not create a bubble that screws the market (and the locals) for years.

But that won't help me buy my discount vacation home in Cabo!

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, Yes, 99 year leases are a good long time. I wonder if its the same as Hong Kongs old lease for a reason?

	06-05-2005 12:42									#42
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I think thereis a law which limits the periods of the lease to less then a century. Thus 99 years it is.

	06-05-2005 12:48									#43
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quote: Originally posted by Whoha There is something on the order of 2.5 trillion in foreign owned property in the US.

It's not the rest of the world's fault that the US can't learn to live within its means.

	06-05-2005 17:04									#44
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quote: Originally posted by Lancer This is interesting. A friend of Dolores's already has duel citizenship....

Duel citizenship, that's an interesting idea. For desperate would be immigrants, pair 'em off and have them fight to the death in the Octagon on national TV. Winner gets a green card, loser is buried at sea.

	06-05-2005 18:52									#45
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quote: Originally posted by Lancer why would anyone build a factory they can't own?

To make money, why else?

	06-05-2005 19:25									#46
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quote: Originally posted by Sikander Winner gets a green card, loser is buried at sea.

Not when there's organ banks going begging and plastic surgeons wanting cadaveric skin.


In fact it can only be a matter of time before Florida or Texas brings in a law swapping disassembly of body parts for the death sentence.


All those Miama Beach matrons and golfers needing new kidneys, or livers, or pancreases, or skin grafts....

	06-05-2005 19:39									#47
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Skin grafts, especially brown skin.

	10-05-2005 17:59									#48
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quote: Originally posted by chegitz guevara Skin grafts, especially brown skin.

I might need a skin graft for my penis one day, it never seems to get a rest. I wonder if it would look larger with browner skin?

	10-05-2005 18:02									#49
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quote: Originally posted by Whoha how so KH? Do you mean that I could actually own land in say... Zimbabwe? Or do you mean that we in the US don't allow foreign ownership of property?

If you have the dough, you can buy anything, if it is for sale.

That is basic.

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	10-05-2005 18:35									#50
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China does. Else I'd be buying real estate here like it was valuable and relatively easy to obtain.

	10-05-2005 18:57									#51
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In Papua New Guinea you can't own land unless you are papuan or marry local. You can run a buisness though, not sure how owning property works in this respect though?

	10-05-2005 19:46									#52
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Why not just follow an old {a[ua tradition? Kill and eat the current land owner then shrink his head and displaying outside to discourage other people from trying to do the same to you.

	10-05-2005 20:47									#53
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nah they are good christians these days, except for the puri-puri men who might be up for that kinda thing, but they are small in number.

	10-05-2005 21:58									#54
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Whereas the white europeans of old would stick your head on a pike, or whack it off in a fancy machine, or boil you in oil, burn you alive at the stake...

	12-05-2005 21:31									#55
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Hmmm, what if a couple of wiley foreigners formed the Zriblance Land Company, a Philippine Corporation . . . and the corporation owned the land. Does that tiptoe around the law?

	12-05-2005 22:59									#56
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The Lancebbler corp might get caught and screwed out of its holdings though..

The ahh, name needed some small erm 'reworking'...

Actually the plan might work, but I dunno.

	12-05-2005 23:04									#57
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Zkrincer?

	12-05-2005 23:16									#58
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Zancer Corp

	12-05-2005 23:29									#59
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"Zancer Corp"

Almost perfect.

ZLancer Corp

Ahhh, perfection.