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#1 If you could move abroad, would you?
01-09-2013, 10:01 AM
Another moronic bail thread...
Tue Jan 8, 2013, 08:11 PM
Brigid
If you could move abroad, would you?
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I have often thought lately that if a good opportunity came along, I would leave without regret. We can't seem to get anything done anymore in this country, we still don't have universal health care, our educational system is nothing but a political football, privacy is a quaint concept, our infrastructure is crumbling, there are guns everywhere, our politicians are for the most part clowns, we spend far too much money on the military, and Larry the Cable Guy is what passes for entertainment. Obama reminds me of one of those few capable emperors in the waning decades of the Roman Empire who tried to halt the decline of the empire but in the end couldn't do it. Why is it I watch "House Hunters International" and fantasize?
Response to Brigid (Original post)
Tue Jan 8, 2013, 08:13 PM
CaliforniaPeggy
1. Actually, my dear Brigid, I would not. Why?
My husband and I are too old, we no longer work, and most countries don't want people like us.
Our families are here, our children and grandchildren.
We built our home, and we don't want to live anywhere else.
Those are our reasons.
I do hear ya, though. Some days, I wish we could...May the FORCE be with you!
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01-09-2013, 11:23 AM
I've lived in other countries...and was VERY glad my HOME was here in the US!
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence...they just don't know it's poisoned grass growing.They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
—Benjamin Franklin
Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
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01-09-2013, 11:58 AM
The American Left: Where everything is politics and politics is everything.
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01-09-2013, 12:07 PM
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
—Benjamin Franklin
Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
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01-09-2013, 12:56 PM
Considering how it irritated me to be unarmed in Oakland California, then no, I would not live abroad.
While you were hanging yourself , on someone else's words
Dying to believe in what you heard
I was staring straight into the shining sun
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01-09-2013, 01:15 PM
Step outside of the bounds of the US, or Canada for that matter, and you're in a whole different world. Mexico and Laos taught me that.
Four boxes keep us free: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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01-09-2013, 03:46 PM
I could happily live in Paris for a few years, but that has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with Paris. :)
"Today, [the American voter] chooses his rulers as he buys bootleg whiskey, never knowing precisely what he is getting, only certain that it is not what it pretends to be." - H.L. Mencken
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01-09-2013, 05:56 PM
There are a lot of places I'd like to visit-Prague, London, the Angor Wat in Cambodia, the child I sponsor in Kenya. But I want to come home when I'm done visiting.
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01-09-2013, 06:19 PM
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;
Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes
And clever in their own sight! Isaiah 5:20-21 NASB
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01-09-2013, 06:47 PM
I lived in Germany for almost 15 years. Loved it. Didn't want to come back, but events pretty much forced that to occur.
I'm not sorry. I don't believe I'd have half the lifestyle Mrs E and I enjoy had I stayed.U.S. Army, Retired
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