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We have a house

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We had a zoom call with our PNG Country Manager (Margaret) yesterday and she gave us information about our house.  You can see the compound (HBS Village) by pasting these coordinates (-6.65709, 146.91040) into Apple Maps, Google Maps etc.  It is a couple of km from work and about 16 km from downtown Lae.  There are small houses, apartments and motel units.  The compound also has a restaurant/bar, pool, gym and bucketloads of security.  You can see a video of the Village here ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7Hn1yGIycQ&t=8s ) and a drone view here ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQgVslfi0rY ).   The house is furnished so we can get settled quickly without having to buy much.  Not sure what the internet situation will be.  Lots of bush around but minimal vegetation in the compound itself - I guess for security.  Will it be worth putting out water for birds when it rains nearly every day? We also received our flight tickets yesterday. ...