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Edited on Wed Apr-20-05 01:21 AM by UdoKier
... who knows what weapons he's got pointed at them...
They have a military and economic powerhouse, China, showing more hostility over political gestures and use of disputed territories, culminating with Chinese protesters attacking the Japanese embassy en masse the other day.
Relations with south Korea have cooled, and they are STILL essentially in a recession that began 15 years ago, and yet....
NONE of them is even remotely convinced that the world is about to end. Ain't that funny?
It is looking more and more likely that we will be moving back there within the next year. Someone needs to take care of my father-in-law, and SINCE THERE IS NO UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE IN THIS COUNTRY, it would be impractical for us to bring him over here. We could not afford decent basic care for him.
So I will have to re-adjust myself to hitting my head on the tops of doorframes, being ogled by EVERYONE, having "HARRO!" shouted at me everywhere I go, and dripping with sweat from June to September. I'll have to work MASSIVE uncompensated overtime, but at least...
my kids will get a great education, and there will be no worries about guns in the classroom or gangs
We'll all be fully covered by health insurance that costs less than $100/mo for a family of 4
The cost of living is less than half what it is here in San Francisco.
Nobody believes in mumbo-jumbo like the rapture.
Religion is generally about social custom and culture rather than fanaticism.
I will focus on making a good life for my family and leave the arguing and the politics up to the locals. It's their country to change.
I will miss San Francisco. I wish we could have afforded to stay longer. I really love this town. But to be perfectly honest, I don't much love what this country has become. I'm tired of it. There is a whole world full of sane people out there. Why continue to live in the world's looney bin?
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