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Chip00
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I know there was some talk awhile back about the expat community creating "action" groups to make a difference in their community/urbanizacion/barrio or but I was wondering if that was because the expats feel like the locals won't accept them or some other reason.
I went to our local junta de vecinos meeting and they have some pretty good goals which they think they can obtain becasue of the credentials the juntas have. For example, they were able to meet with the Corasaan Engineers to have them fix a damaged water line - whci was no small feat given the general irresponsiveness of the gov't. here.
Our goals we will be working on soon are meeting with Edenorte to put more transformers in our area and to quit sending us the "low voltage" power that causes damage to equipment, Ayuntamiento to be more prompt with the trash collection, Police for more patrols, etc.
Heck, they even want me to go along to the Edenorte meeting. I'm really looking forward to it because those sob's are a real piece of work in my opinion. I can't wait until they tell me that our sector is important to them to then ask them why it took 20 days to come fix a downed power line!
Anyway, I would like to recommend that people attend the local junta meetings if at all possible and if there aren't any to form one - even if they are mostly expats - because apparently that's one effective way to cause change where one lives.
I went to our local junta de vecinos meeting and they have some pretty good goals which they think they can obtain becasue of the credentials the juntas have. For example, they were able to meet with the Corasaan Engineers to have them fix a damaged water line - whci was no small feat given the general irresponsiveness of the gov't. here.
Our goals we will be working on soon are meeting with Edenorte to put more transformers in our area and to quit sending us the "low voltage" power that causes damage to equipment, Ayuntamiento to be more prompt with the trash collection, Police for more patrols, etc.
Heck, they even want me to go along to the Edenorte meeting. I'm really looking forward to it because those sob's are a real piece of work in my opinion. I can't wait until they tell me that our sector is important to them to then ask them why it took 20 days to come fix a downed power line!
Anyway, I would like to recommend that people attend the local junta meetings if at all possible and if there aren't any to form one - even if they are mostly expats - because apparently that's one effective way to cause change where one lives.