I am 43, newly single again, no kids and will be moving to Hurghada on 31 January.
Many years ago I worked in the UK in the film and video business as Marketing Director for a company that released such movies as Terminator 2, Basic Instinct, Dances with Wolves, etc.
The company opened a division in Eastern Europe in 1992 and I went over there in order to set up offices in the major territories, and liked it so much I never went back to the UK. I started my own business with a local partner which was a medium-sized magazine publishing company in the Czech Republic.
After we got ripped off by our General Manager and the company went under, I got heavily into the Internet (which, 10 years later, I am addicted too as much as when I first got online in 1997) and set up a few different sites. In 2004 I moved from Prague to Riga, Latvia and got involved with more projects, one of which was a portal for investors in emerging markets real estate - Propertastic!
It was while making the research for the site that I discovered what a great deal Egypt is and, in October, I headed over there to do a market report for the site. I only meant to make an overview of the market, but I got a bit carried away and ended up writing a whole book about it by accident!
I got a few enquiries from the book for people asking for help in buying properties and this led to my forming a sales agency, Egypt Real at the start of December.
This in turn led to my realizing that there's a lot more happening in Hurghada at the moment than in Latvia, so I'd be better off living there. So I am just tying up loose ends at the moment before embarking on my new life on the Red Sea Riviera.
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