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[QUOTE=Sprite13]And would like our American friends in here to comment and give their views on the points raised there:
[url]http://americathegrimtruth. Wordpress.com/[/url][/QUOTE]As soon as I started to read this article I also started to laugh.
It was obvious from the very beginning that the guy writing this is in love with nanny state type big government. He thinks other people should pay for his health care and that the government should force his employer to give him as much time off as he wants because he hates or hated his jobs (and was paid poorly) and doesn't have the stones to go out and make it on his own. He hates free enterprise and capitalism.
America isn't perfect. But what makes America great is the individual, not the government. It's the entrepreneurial spirit (American Dream). It is still alive and well. You can be a bum in the street one day and rich the next or vice versa. Yes, it takes some cash to live well here. As it does in most developed countries. The happy people from other parts of the world he speaks of I bet are well off too.
I used to work for a large international consulting company and had the benefit of living and traveling internationally for years. They are a lot of wonderful countries, people and cultures out there. Some may do SOME things better than the USA all have pluses and minuses. Including the USA
But at the end of the day I am not trading my passport in for one from another country. And I would go "all in" on the USA before I would any other country.
This guy is a bitter loser.
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[QUOTE=Nyc Expat]Bilko.
My son, now four was born in Brazil. Excellent pre-post-natal care by all involved. Within three months, he became an American citizen at the US Embassy in Rio. Two weeks later he, his Mom and I arrived in the U.S. Save ALL documents. Even airline seating stubs.
You'll find the most attractive Brazilian women in the southern states f.ex. Santa Catarina or Rio Grande do Sul with white European ancestry. In some parts of Parana state also where I met my wife.
Here in the US now we've met other Brazilian women married to American men and the children are beautiful especially the girls. There are thousands of single Brazilian women already here you can try to meet.
BTW, I lived in Europe for half my life. If you want to live in Europe, your European wife will have to prove to the authorities she can support you before you get a residency and work permit. Europe is becoming a closed continent for foreigners as there are too many foreigners now seeking permanent residency. Then there is the language barrier. Many Euro women have become Americanized concerning materialistic items. Latina women are better in bed and respect men as the family provider and leader. They know there place in the family.[/QUOTE]
I agree with you, just a few things I want to know, maybe more like statements.
Children born to US Male citizens have to be registered as citizens at the US Embassy? Somehow I thought this was automatic when you signed the birth certificates.
I've only met one Brazilian locally and she wasn't bad looking, just chubby. This may be more of a immigration question, but did you use a lawyer for all your K-1 paperwork or did you marry locally in Brazil and did one of the two or three ways you can file for your wife to become a legal resident?
I know to gain residency in Europe you have to have proof you can earn an income locally and they don't mean being the local dish washer :) I recently learned that Brussels was officially a bi-lingual city and the local bureaucracy is geared towards speakers of English and Flemish. But to be honest I had no troubles in Sweden, Norway or Netherlands.
What's wrong with Luxembourg? As a City/State it seems okay to me, its where Rich Europeans (and others) launder their money...
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[QUOTE=Dickhead]Never been there but what I hear and read about it does not make me want to go there, and I don't find the women visually attractive (in general). A couple of my friends moved there, though, and they like it. Too fucken hot for me for one thing. The only way I could live in the tropics would be at altitude, like Quito or Chachapoyas or something. I want a mild, four-season climate with lots of sunshine. Still haven't really found it though. Buenos Aires I have to get the fuck out of there for two months a year because it's too hot.[/QUOTE]
Cost of Living makes it difficult to stay in California but weather wise it can't be any more perfect. A similar climate in Europe means Spain, Portugal or at the very least Southern France. My problem with more tropical climates is it seems it can rain at any given moment and it tends to flood more, especially in places where the infrastructure hasn't caught up to 1st Nation status. Seems the richer Asian countries have done more to prevent widespread flooding.
P.I doesn't interest me that much either, plenty of them already in the LA area. A majority of them are dark and short. This can be good, but generally its bad. One of my good friends is Thai and I tend to share his preferences for Asian women. There are few Eurasians (and Afro-Asians) running around those, so one never knows.
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In Brazil a child born in country is a citizen of the mother if I remember correctly. For Americans, if you want your child to become a US citizen by birthright to an American parent you must apply for citizenship. It is not just a question of registration.
The Brazilian birth certificate has to be translated to English. You will need proof of residency in the United States plus other documents. The mother must also provide documents of residency, her birth certificate and more. There is a charge of several hundred dollars at time of personal appearance at the Embassy. The citizenship certificate is issued within 30 minutes if all documents are accepted and approved. What a great accomplishment and satisfaction I experienced when we left the Embassy with my American son’s documents. His US passport arrived at our Brazilian home within 10 days. July 2006 was good.
Procedures may vary and further documentation may be necessary now as they are always making changes. Check the various websites and countries of interest for more information.
As for Europe I found Denmark to be the most favorable European country for Americans to live in as Danes generally have a positive attitude towards our country. Danes enjoy speaking English. Rebild Bakker in western Denmark is the only country outside of The U.S.A. that has an Independence Day Celebration with many US dignitaries, Danish Royalty, Danish-Americans in attendance with military bands stationed in Germany as entertainment. You’ll enjoy 6 weeks vacation annually with your employer paying you to take vacation. Minimum wage is equivalent to about US$16-17 hourly. The negative about Denmark is high taxation, high v.a.t. but there is cradle to grave health care. I must re-confirm you buy one car but pay for three through 160% excise tax on vehicles for private use. Trade-in values are the highest on the planet. After two years of driving a BMW I got 86% of the new car price trading in.
Most Danish girls and women are naturally blonde or platinum blonde being physically fit. Unfortunately some are getting heavier now because of diet.
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[QUOTE=DJ FourMoney]Cost of Living makes it difficult to stay in California but weather wise it can't be any more perfect. A similar climate in Europe means Spain, Portugal or at the very least Southern France. My problem with more tropical climates is it seems it can rain at any given moment and it tends to flood more, especially in places where the infrastructure hasn't caught up to 1st Nation status. Seems the richer Asian countries have done more to prevent widespread flooding.
P.I doesn't interest me that much either, plenty of them already in the LA area. A majority of them are dark and short. This can be good, but generally its bad. One of my good friends is Thai and I tend to share his preferences for Asian women. There are few Eurasians (and Afro-Asians) running around those, so one never knows.[/QUOTE]Having spent a month in Europe, I now understand what some European expats in Australia feel about Europe, quality of life in Australia is way better by a long margin. The east coast of Australia is a lot of like California when it was a good place to live. I know some Californians who think Oz reminds them of California in a better time. European women are not as attractive as they used to be, women are getting fatter as the diets of people get worse.
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[QUOTE=Prefer Anal]As soon as I started to read this article I also started to laugh.
It was obvious from the very beginning that the guy writing this is in love with nanny state type big government. He thinks other people should pay for his health care and that the government should force his employer to give him as much time off as he wants because he hates or hated his jobs (and was paid poorly) and doesn't have the stones to go out and make it on his own. He hates free enterprise and capitalism.
America isn't perfect. But what makes America great is the individual, not the government. It's the entrepreneurial spirit (American Dream). It is still alive and well. You can be a bum in the street one day and rich the next or vice versa. Yes, it takes some cash to live well here. As it does in most developed countries. The happy people from other parts of the world he speaks of I bet are well off too.
I used to work for a large international consulting company and had the benefit of living and traveling internationally for years. They are a lot of wonderful countries, people and cultures out there. Some may do SOME things better than the USA all have pluses and minuses. Including the USA
But at the end of the day I am not trading my passport in for one from another country. And I would go "all in" on the USA before I would any other country.
This guy is a bitter loser.[/QUOTE]I completely disagree, America used to be a free country with boundless opportunity but over the past decade its become an oligarchy, the most glaring evidence is the Wall Street bailouts, the Federal government of the US gave billions to bail out the very companies that caused the financial crisis, many of the employees and execs walked away scott free and got their big bonuses, middle America meanwhile collapsed and suffered for these rich elites, many people have lost their jobs and homes. The American middle class is being roasted on the BBQ. That is not the America I remember, it used to be a country where honest hard work would get you rich, but today it crony capitalism. Australia today is a lot like the US when it was good, people are optimistic, open to new ideas and immigrants are generally seen as a good thing, and the average person has a chance at a good life if she or he works for it. America is no longer like that, Europe is slowly going in that direction as well but Europe is still nowhere near as bad as the USA for the everyday fella.
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Awesome. Agree with a lot that he said but some for different reasons. Most Americans don't know the wool is being pulled over their eyes because they never had the chance to leave and live somewhere else for more than 5 days.
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Luxembourg to me is more like a very irrelevant state such as North Dakota or Delaware. It doesn't really make the grade as a country. Name one person from Luxembourg. Just one. How can I take a country seriously when I go through it 15 times on the train without ever even meeting anyone who was from there? I was in the bar car on the Thalys train and I asked everyone in there if they were from Luxembourg while we were going through there. No. In fact I was ready to conclude the country was purely imaginary until finally I got off the train, walked around and had a beer, and got on the next train 45 minutes late. So I guess it exists, but that is all that it does. It exists.
Supposedly it has the highest per capita income in the world but so what? Has anybody fucked a hooker from Luxembourg? I mean, I have fucked hookers from Nevis and Antigua and Moldova and Malawi and all kinds of places but never Luxembourg.
I think that country is just a rumor.
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[QUOTE=Prefer Anal]As soon as I started to read this article I also started to laugh.
It was obvious from the very beginning that the guy writing this is in love with nanny state type big government. He thinks other people should pay for his health care and that the government should force his employer to give him as much time off as he wants because he hates or hated his jobs (and was paid poorly) and doesn't have the stones to go out and make it on his own. He hates free enterprise and capitalism.
America isn't perfect. But what makes America great is the individual, not the government. It's the entrepreneurial spirit (American Dream). It is still alive and well. You can be a bum in the street one day and rich the next or vice versa. Yes, it takes some cash to live well here. As it does in most developed countries. The happy people from other parts of the world he speaks of I bet are well off too.
I used to work for a large international consulting company and had the benefit of living and traveling internationally for years. They are a lot of wonderful countries, people and cultures out there. Some may do SOME things better than the USA all have pluses and minuses. Including the USA
But at the end of the day I am not trading my passport in for one from another country. And I would go "all in" on the USA before I would any other country.
This guy is a bitter loser.[/QUOTE]
This is no longer true. If you're a bum in America NOW there is NO WAY you're gonna get rich. You will probably stay a bum for life. If there ever was a time where this was true, it's certainly not the case now.
The REAL money in America has always been in a few closely guarded industries here, oil and steel and a couple others. All the rest of us are just getting the crumbs that fall from the table. But at least back in the day they let enough money get out of the little circle and into the middle and lower classes.
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Yeah, you look at your modern day Horatio Algers such as Bill Gates and Michael Dell and they are from rich families and grew up with all the advantages thereof. For every Bill Gates there are 100,000 Marcus Washington broke dick mutha fuckas out there just trying to get by. At least in my current country you have a constitutional right to sleep in the doorway of a closed business, and there aren't little dickheads running around setting you on fire for kicks and shit.
Not to change the subject, but I mentioned I have to go back (soon) to the Bad Place for a while to clock some presidents. And, I have been gone a long time. Yesterday a friend from the states told me that there is a glut of (good) marijuana in the Bad Place now and that prices are dropping. Is this true or is he jerking my chain?
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Has anybody fucked a hooker from Luxembourg? I mean, I have fucked hookers from Nevis and Antigua and Moldova and Malawi and all kinds of places but never Luxembourg.[/QUOTE]
Has anybody ever fucked or even met a female from Liechtenstein?
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[QUOTE=Dickhead]Luxembourg to me is more like a very irrelevant state such as North Dakota or Delaware. It doesn't really make the grade as a country. Name one person from Luxembourg. Just one. How can I take a country seriously when I go through it 15 times on the train without ever even meeting anyone who was from there? I was in the bar car on the Thalys train and I asked everyone in there if they were from Luxembourg while we were going through there. No. In fact I was ready to conclude the country was purely imaginary until finally I got off the train, walked around and had a beer, and got on the next train 45 minutes late. So I guess it exists, but that is all that it does. It exists.
Supposedly it has the highest per capita income in the world but so what? Has anybody fucked a hooker from Luxembourg? I mean, I have fucked hookers from Nevis and Antigua and Moldova and Malawi and all kinds of places but never Luxembourg.
I think that country is just a rumor.[/QUOTE]Countries like Luxembourg and Norway have a high per capita income but have tiny populations. If you look at Qatar and the UAE, their per capita incomes are off the charts, especially compared to their neighbors.
Lichtenstein has less than 40,000 people but is considered to have the highest per capita income, higher than Luxembourg.
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That being said I think America of all the developed nations has the worst quality of life and standard of living for the masses. Its only the wealthy upper percentile that is better off in America. I am not saying this out of my ass either, I actually lived in the US for nearly a decade from the 1990s to 2002, visited several times on occasion only to see things go from bad to worse. While Australia is not perfect either, I have to say I am happy as heck that I live in Oz. Although I disagree with that blog, Canada, I think is only slightly better than the US, and really only Quebec, the rest of Canada is a sex prison like the USA, brothels and other things are completely illegal, Anglo Canadian women are just as cold as their American counterparts. Aussie women can be bad too but still a lot better than what North America is stuck with these days and anyhow the last several years have seen a huge influx of immigrants so its easy for me to avoid Aussies.
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[QUOTE=Prefer Anal]As soon as I started to read this article I also started to laugh.
It was obvious from the very beginning that the guy writing this is in love with nanny state type big government. He thinks other people should pay for his health care and that the government should force his employer to give him as much time off as he wants because he hates or hated his jobs (and was paid poorly) and doesn't have the stones to go out and make it on his own. He hates free enterprise and capitalism.
America isn't perfect. But what makes America great is the individual, not the government. It's the entrepreneurial spirit (American Dream). It is still alive and well. You can be a bum in the street one day and rich the next or vice versa. Yes, it takes some cash to live well here. As it does in most developed countries. The happy people from other parts of the world he speaks of I bet are well off too.
I used to work for a large international consulting company and had the benefit of living and traveling internationally for years. They are a lot of wonderful countries, people and cultures out there. Some may do SOME things better than the USA all have pluses and minuses. Including the USA
But at the end of the day I am not trading my passport in for one from another country. And I would go "all in" on the USA before I would any other country.
This guy is a bitter loser.[/QUOTE]
I guess that makes me a bit of a looser then I guess. Then I have the double wammie of being Black.
Not everybody in Europe is well-off and happy. There are plenty making a decent amount even struggling to a point and generally happy. America is screwed up socially and people with your attitude believe that people should earn everything they get which is fine if there wasn't Crony Capitalism and a Corporate Welfare State.
You can't have it both ways. You also just attacked the guy's blog post without identifying that we are continuing to: reduce manufacturing, rising debt, outsourcing war making, unpopular wars, spiraling health care cost (impacting small businesses the most), mass unemployment, overpopulation, job outsourcing, technological giveaways, lax regulation and quasi-police state with an unstable racial divide.
Oh yeah America is great
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[QUOTE=Australiasucks]Having spent a month in Europe, I now understand what some European expats in Australia feel about Europe, quality of life in Australia is way better by a long margin. The east coast of Australia is a lot of like California when it was a good place to live. I know some Californians who think Oz reminds them of California in a better time. European women are not as attractive as they used to be, women are getting fatter as the diets of people get worse.[/QUOTE]
Yeah they are getting fatter, but differences in society and culture makes them better to deal with IMHO. I've just had better success and I'm constantly running into the same argument with AW - How much are you worth and can you afford me?