Chile Forum

suprisingly, I have gotten a whole mess of messages from people that were in the process of moving to Chile or buying properties say they still intend to do it.

Actually, as of this morning all of our clients in Chile are accounted for, and most are fine, have generators or whatever or were not in the effected area.

Anyone move to Concepcion recently that's still upbeat about the move?
Re the codes, I saw a lot of new buildings under construction in Las Condes back in 07 that had glaring defects during concrete pours. After stucco it all looked great. I was wondering, as I sat in my camioneta listening to am radio from Mendoza on Sat am, how they held up.

We were supposed to move to Villarrica today, so you can imagine how terrifying was to watch the news.
I was awake for 36 hours keeping track and filtering the news. The good news is that our friends from Araucania are fine.
The kids were to start the classes in 2 days and everything was already packed. We were ready for the new house.
We are going to keep our plans and move as soon as possible, our life is already planned so no changes. We are sure we can be of more help to my Chilean friends if we were around them in this though times but we are postponing as much as we can. We believe its better this way, people wanting to go back to Chile to meet their families can have some more places available at the airplanes.

Marcelo

A funny moment today. Someone actually called me and wanted to buy a house today in Southern Chile. They are in Southern Chile. It is not like they did not know what was going on. Told them I would get back to them next week when we know how the banks and everything else in the country is working.

admin wrote:Actually, as of this morning all of our clients in Chile are accounted for, and most are fine, have generators or whatever or were not in the effected area.

I had a bit of a chuckle when I read this. When that gringo bought the generator the locals were problem thinging "What a crazy Gringo".

We were scheduled to fly out Thursday afternoon, final destination Concon. Delta is giving until the 8th to make a decision to reschedule or cancel for a refund.

It sounds like Concon wasn't hit to bad. I've talked to our landlord several times and they received no substantial damage. They've kept utilities through out the ordeal.

We're completely packed, just sitting in a holding pattern. Although we've spent thousands of dollars, countless hours and many battles to get on that plane Thursday we have a big problem with the idea of taking a roof that could be used by someone in need.

Concon is fine (I live there), I have seen very little damage, unlike in Viña and Valpo just south.

I just had a look at some of my other email I have not had time to check. I have like three people wanting to buy property this morning. Obviously it is all outside the disaster area, but hay there might be life in the economy after this. It really is the best way to help Chile to recover.

We're completely packed, just sitting in a holding pattern. Although we've spent thousands of dollars, countless hours and many battles to get on that plane Thursday we have a big problem with the idea of taking a roof that could be used by someone in need.

Yes, the same thoughts here. After a lot of planning and expenses, we still prefer to let Chileans meet their families before us.
We are at this moment postponing our flights to at least next Monday and will probably do that again for one more week if the classes are postponed again.

Marcelo

admin wrote:I just had a look at some of my other email I have not had time to check. I have like three people wanting to buy property this morning. Obviously it is all outside the disaster area, but hay there might be life in the economy after this. It really is the best way to help Chile to recover.

Charles,
I`m so proud of the Chile resilience and structure as well as the people. That only confirms my move to this wonderful Country.
The damage is terrible but the Chilean economy will somehow benefit from the chaos. Infrastructure recovering means billions of spending but lots of jobs and investment too.
Tell me if you need some ftp, hosting, space or what else I can help.

Marcelo

Price4 - La Dehesa is fine, come on over! A small portion of the mall (Portal La Dehesa) is damaged, but all our friends in La Dehesa reported only minor damage, if any. Our daughter's school is in La Dehesa and the had one part of a ceiling fall in and other than that a few computers that fell of desks and so on.

Charles - we did some bank transactions today at Santander and were told that it's business as usual.

I'll be moving to Arica in August from NYC. Obviously, it's months away and way up north but regardless: NO plan changes!

For the last few days everybody's asking me about my plans now, some kind of maliciously (probably those who are jealous). Well, it's not like I didn't know that Chile is shaky and there are risks of tsunamis. I grew up in the Balkans and in the 70s and 80s we lived though the shakes from the Armenian and other serious earthquakes. Now, I never endured any looting and water shortages. But I have to say it, weird as it sounds, I have some very fond memories of togetherness, the whole city being out on the streets at midnight and all. So, on the flip side of death, destruction and suffering, there is just as much personal growth and good things that will come out this. My thoughts are with the Chilenos.

So I'll see you in Norte Grande, spending my dollars, helping local economy.