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2020-01-07 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.
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Posted by Besoeker 2020-01-07 02:58|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ]  Top

#1 I've met a bunch of expats. Many of them are professional sneerers, looking down on whatever host culture they find themselves in. Others are complainers who love being miserable, and relish always having something to bitch about.
Posted by Herb McCoy 2020-01-07 05:20||   2020-01-07 05:20|| Front Page Top

#2 *shrug* Sounds sensible. Dreadfully romantic as ideas, but who would want to have to deal every day with Mayor De Blasio’s cleverness in NYC, the results of the homeless on the streets of San Francisco, or the Moslem colonists on the streets of Paris?

Posted by trailing wife 2020-01-07 06:36||   2020-01-07 06:36|| Front Page Top

#3 To identify the best and worst cities for expats

The problem starts with the word 'city'. This writes itself.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-01-07 07:12||   2020-01-07 07:12|| Front Page Top

#4 complainers who love being miserable, and relish always having something to bitch about.

So you fit right in, eh?
Posted by Skidmark 2020-01-07 07:34||   2020-01-07 07:34|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ Right in the eye at 600 yards.
Posted by Dron66046 2020-01-07 09:00||   2020-01-07 09:00|| Front Page Top

#6 Better than Rome, New York. Suburb town, run down village.
Posted by Woodrow 2020-01-07 09:18||   2020-01-07 09:18|| Front Page Top

#7 ...and in U.S. cities like New York and San Francisco, they cite affordability and housing as main issues...

Not to mention the smell.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-01-07 11:45||   2020-01-07 11:45|| Front Page Top

#8 Rome? Really? You'd have to be congenitally dissatisfied to be unhappy in Rome, methinks
Posted by Lex 2020-01-07 12:13||   2020-01-07 12:13|| Front Page Top

#9 Heh, heh, heh. The ad hominem again. You've got nothing. Make a real argument and we'll talk. Until then, you're just little kids playing in the playground.
Posted by Herb McCoy 2020-01-07 14:33||   2020-01-07 14:33|| Front Page Top

#10 Pyramid? PYRAMID?!

Compromise, 'Erb the Coy, is the Hypotenuse of the Conjoined Triangles of Success!

Posted by Lex 2020-01-07 15:33||   2020-01-07 15:33|| Front Page Top

#11 'Twas midnight, but one Organismus
Wuz stirring on Orthodox Christmas...

Stuck I am. Whatcha got, smarty?
Posted by Harry Lover of the Gepids1344 2020-01-07 15:36||   2020-01-07 15:36|| Front Page Top

#12 BS in some respects.Most US expats living abroad and working for a US based company get uplift compensation plus living beenies. Maybe the Argentine living in Manchester has to make it on its own. Though.

I loved every billet, BA, London, Antwerp, Reykavlick, and Jeddah/Al-Khobar/Riyahd. You either adapt or you die from boredom.
Posted by Tarzan Elmeretch9587 2020-01-07 16:57||   2020-01-07 16:57|| Front Page Top

#13 Yeah, the critique was from the kid living in his mom's basement in Austin.
Posted by Skidmark 2020-01-07 17:19||   2020-01-07 17:19|| Front Page Top

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