Five Great Reasons Why To Invest In Real Estate In Phuket Thailand (investment properties)

August 30th, 2008 admin Posted in realestate |

By Scott Riefler

Investing in a foreign country can be very rewarding and exciting. If Images of a tropical deserted beach with only you and that special someone enjoying the warm sunshine, tropical breezes and azure blue water are something you long for, maybe Phuket is just the place for you. Here is a rundown of some great reasons to invest in Phuket Thailand.

The weather in Phuket Thailand is absolutely wonderful for about six months of the year. During the dry season of November through April the weather is filled with hit sunny days and sizzling nights. Cooling off is easy by enjoying an afternoon swim at one Phukets’ many beaches found around the island. Later in the day, you can enjoy a swim at one of the many great hotels or apartment projects on the island or sip a nice tropical fruit drink at a swim up pool bar or poolside cafe’s.

Sun worshipers won’t be disappointed either in Phuket because even in monsoon season or low season there are many hours of sunshine per day. Some days are known to have liquid sunshine but it stops shortly after it starts and the rest of the day becomes a great day to go outdoors with the cooler air the rains have bought. The rains bring on a cleaning to the land, air and add greenery to the tropical forest surroundings.

Phuket is known for fantastic nightlife in the west coast towns like kata, Karon and Patong Beach. Even Phuket Town has many lively nightspots like local pubs and discos. Places like the night plaza in Kata beach and Bangla road are a great place to enjoy local entertainment and cool down with your favorite brew. Many opportunities present themselves to meet friends as Thai people are very friendly to foreigners. After hours there are many late night establishments to ring in the dawn of a new day.

Phuket town has is the home to many festivals and street bazaars. Many night markets fill the streets on the weekends to buy local homemade and copied goods. Phuket is becoming known as a place where tourists can shop for western goods with the opening of Central and Jungceylon shopping centers. These malls have all the western stores you find if you were shopping retail in any big mall in the west. Shopping in Thailand can be a lot of fun when your Thai is good enough to haggle with the locals.

Phuket can not be written about if one doesn’t mention all the great water sports the island has to offer. Scuba diving has become very big on the island as the water off Phuket offer a diversity of life not found in other places. Many local shop and tours are here to show you what the island has to offer. Even if you like to enjoy parasailing, jet skiing, fishing, sailing or motor boating, the many marinas, piers, beaches and places to go on the island, one can never be bored with the endless choices to pass the time away.

Investing in Phuket is something everyone who visits here knows they must consider. The demand to stay in a place like this is so high and the cost of living is so low it remains South East Asia’s number one tourist location with almost five million visitors in 2008. Investing in Phuket is a natural choice with so many reasons to want to stay here and make Phuket your second home.

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The Roller Derby, Austin Style
By Ki Gray

Ten women go whizzing past wearing wild fishnet hoses. Their colorful get-ups also include helmets and kneepads and flying scarves and the skates on which they are racing around the oval track.

Elbows fly, legs lock, bodies go careening and sliding along the masonite track. Occasionally two shapely lovelies go at each other, swinging hard and fast, falling to the ground, rolling and grappling as the beer-soaked, capacity crowd roars in approval. It’s Sunday afternoon at the roller derby bout; roller derby with a Texas twist.

Austin, the city that likes to keep itself weird, has given birth to yet another entertainment craze that has gone national. All-girl roller derby, loosely fashioned after the co-ed roller derby teams of yesteryear, took root here in 2001 with the founding of the TXRD Lonestar Rollergirls. A couple of years later, most of the teams in the league spun off to form a second league, Texas Rollergirls, due to a difference of opinion about how the original league was managing things. In addition, the Texas Rollergirls play on a flat track, rather than the traditional banked track that the Lonestar Rollergirls prefer.

Volunteerism and inclusion are two of the philosophical and practical pillars of the success of this Austin-born movement. The women risk bodily injury for the thrill of extreme sport and the glory of winning; they don’t get paid. Proceeds go to local charities and to the expense of running the league. Texas Rollergirls, in particular, are fiercely committed to their slogan, a league for the skaters, by the skaters.

Both leagues boast an independent, tough-girl spirit and are proud of the way their movement grew from their own sweat and muscle to grow within a few short years into a national phenomenon as all-girl roller derby leagues have sprouted up all over the country. Several documentary films and one reality-style national TV show have helped propel the popularity of this fast-paced, contact sport for women. The leagues in different cities have begun to hold inter-city and inter-state competitions and a national tournament as well.

The sport has been hugely successful in Austin as both local leagues constantly draw sell-out crowds. Enthusiasts swill ice-cold cans of Lone Star and local bands fill the arena with loud, raucous Austin rock and roll. Fans of the flat track version of the sport love to sit in the first two or three rows where the chances are likely that they’ll become part of the painful action when some blocker or jammer gets knocked off the track-there are no rails or barriers-and goes sailing into someone’s lap.

Rough and tumble roller girls with names like Raquel Welts, Misty Meaner and Lucille Brawl plaster and pummel each other all through the four 20-minute periods of the game. By day, they are moms, special ed teachers, maternity nurses and art school graduates. On the track though, they assume their alter egos and put on a show that one of them, Melissa Joulwan (Melicious), describes in her book, Rollergirl: Totally True Tales from the Track, as a “dazzling carnival on wheels”a sport of speed-skating and brutal body checks, played out against a backdrop of head banging rock. The spectacle drives fans into a hormone-and-beer induced frenzy.

AE channel produced a 13-episode television program in 2005 called Rollergirls that was about the TXRD league, their skating and scrapping escapades, and their life off the rink with boyfriends and bosses. The website for the show describes the sport as raucous bouts that combine fierce competition with jaw-dropping outfits and crowd-pleasing personalities.

The rollergirls impact has even had an effect on the local Austin real estate market. Texas Rollergirls marketing director Rebecca Guitierrez (RadioActive) said that we’ve had many folks move here because of the derby movement.

That’s because it’s not just about the thrill, the sex-appeal and the colorful, carnivalesque atmosphere of the sport. It’s the community-based, locally controlled, creative and free-wheeling spirit of fun and competition that sets Austin apart from so many other cities in the country, that has been attracting people to come and settle here for decades.

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