Quote: (04-15-2015 07:10 AM)BBinger Wrote:
I apologize if drunk post took a bit of a paranoid turn. I indeed spent way too long in the academic bubble, but I got to see the decline of the American University over 8 years and three campuses. I've been out nearly three years now.
Watching what happened through 8 years of Bush II and 8 years of Obama... The prospect of Hillary Clitler in the White House... Leaving forever might be extreme, but leaving for an indefinite period of time is on the table.
I am in agreement with the poster who pointed out more stuff WORKS in the USA than in almost anywhere else except Germanic or other European countries or Japan.
The only big GOTCHA that I see is the women are extremely demanding and picky which can make it a sexual hell hole if you're not in the desired demographic.
Other thing is when someone says "permanent" or "forever" there really is no such thing, until AFTER the fact. I've said the same thing, I'm never going back etc....Others here the same. After one two five ten years, you may change your mind no matter what you say now.
Only the MOST pissed off, paranoid, alienated, malcontented guy, who is constantly on about govt plots etc, I know-- who never held down a job long and has alienated his whole family by repeatedly bumming money off them with no intent of paying them off has left and I believe genuinely never will go back.
Even his own mother has told him she doesn't want him around.
I'm not saying every perm expat is anti-social like that, but there is a lot that works in the USA.
Ironically, the high standards that make us outraged about any malfeasance or incompetence in the USA are perhaps themselves a product the standards developed as one grows up where things basically work.
But at the same time, I've made out with more girls in the Philippines in the last 6 months than the whole other 40 years of my life post-puberty in the USA.
And the MIT professor who you don't like-- his last name is spelled "Chomsky".
And an "ark" is a water vessel mentioned in the Bible. I believe the word you were looking for is "arc".