There's Europeans everywhere!

[TomInTib]

For the last two weeks, our peninsula has been overrun with Europeans.

They are hunting for houses and properties they can buy with very cheap dollars. And they like it here, due to our area being so much like so many of the better parts of the Med.

http://www.vizzvox.com/stories/9Cx0QpltDHbft01fms

And I welcome them.

Their children exhibit much better behavior than the average American kids I encounter.

And I want to help them furnish their new homes.

[DAGDA56]

1. When you mentioned "our peninsula" I thought you meant Florida...

...the same could be said here. By the way, the slide show is cool, but the announcer's accent really gets on my nerves...sort of like a better-read Sarah Palin.

[TomInTib]

2. This old hippy-dippy chick did it.

The thing belongs to me, though, and I am going to do my own voice-over (and not use all that flowery language, either).

Thanks for the input, DAGDA (I twice typed DADGAD, a guitar tuning I use, trying to get your username right), that provides me the incentive and initiative to do what I should have done months ago.

[JustAnotherGen]

3. My dear friend

Has been coming here with his business partners for the past year buying vines. ;-) I believe it. Like it or not, it's a firehouse sale for a wealthy European right now.

[izquierdista]

4. What do they do if they get sick?

Could they afford it if they had to go to the hospital in the US?

[tjwash]

5. That's a damn good point.

We rented a room to Japanese college student a couple years ago. He broke his ankle on his skateboard, and did not have any insurance. He didn't even think about insurance because of the way health care in Japan is. We had to take him to the emergency room, and the final bill was 15000 dollars. His family had to cough it up, or he would have lost his student visa and been sent back. He ended up having to go back early because of that.