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Post by Admin on Jan 13, 2006 5:20:56 GMT 10
Or would you move to another country if you had the chance?
Me, I love the USA, I am a die-hard American and think there can't possibly be a better place to live.
I went once into Tijauna (sp) Mexico and I have to tell you when I came back across the border I wanted to bend down and kiss the USA soil.
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Post by ellise on Jan 13, 2006 5:24:34 GMT 10
Nah I'm a true blue American. I'd give my life for the red white & blue!
I'd like to visit other countries again but not to live.
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Post by lynn on Jan 13, 2006 5:47:50 GMT 10
Nope, proud flag flying Americans here. I went to Canada for several weeks when I was a teenager with a youth group. Was nice, but boy oh boy was I glad to get back home.
The only country I would truly like to visit is Italy. It looks so beautiful to me. But that would require flying and that ain't happenin'. When they build a bridge, I'll be the first one across, but until then.....
My dh has always wanted to visit Australia. No way! Too many snakes for me!
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Post by braided-rug on Jan 13, 2006 7:02:10 GMT 10
Do you watch Steve Irwin Lynn?
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Post by braided-rug on Jan 13, 2006 7:42:21 GMT 10
The way you described you dh yesterday Lynn, he sounds like he would get along very well with other Aussie blokes, especially in the country.
My dh says that Australia is probably the safest country in the world to live in re. violence etc. However, when I lived in my hometown or the town nearest were I grew up, I thought it the only place you could live. There were heaps of other places just as nice I found out. Then I found out America and Canada were both nice, most Australians think NY etc. are very scary, but mostly dh found it fine, but his friend was a little cautious about Memphis.
I think I would like to live in Ontario for a little while but not in winter dh says, he doesn't think I could take it. Then maybe NY state.
When New Zealand was described to me I thought it would be OK too, maybe Hamilton it is so like our hometown but closer to the beach.
My son loves China is doing his best to go back there to live for a little while with work or something.
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Post by lynn on Jan 13, 2006 7:57:23 GMT 10
No offense meant on my part, BR. I'm sure you love your country, just as I love mine. But visiting there would require 2 things:
overcoming my fear of flying
overcoming my fear of snakes
Noooooo!!! Don't watch Steve Irwin either. I think he has some loose *****s somewhere! Sorry if that offends, but I just don't do snakes....dead or alive. And if I watched that stuff, I would never sleep a wink.
I am a definite homebody and have no plans to live anywhere else.
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Post by Deed on Jan 13, 2006 9:57:26 GMT 10
I really don't know if I could or not. I love living in the US and hope to travel to Europe someday, but to live there  I have only ever been to Canada, and no I wouldn't want to live there although Montreal is a gorgeous old city. |
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Post by braided-rug on Jan 13, 2006 10:07:00 GMT 10
Our dd8 saw a snake on her holiday with her Nana only days ago. I admit if you were really scared of them it would be traumatic. I am cautious in our yard taking out scraps etc. but so far so good. Our hometown had no snakes in the yards we had there, but I did grow up with snakes on the farm and did see one a little down the road at our rental property two years ago.
I did fly a couple of years ago, the noise of the engines was hard to take. Felt alot better on the way back with travel sickness tablets.
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Post by violet on Jan 13, 2006 19:40:02 GMT 10
Oh, Lynn, you gorgeous thing, I've lived here 30 years and seen......exactly 1 snake! That was at my parent's beach house down on the Mornington Peninsula, which is not so densely populated as the city, where we live. We left LA in the early 1970's and travelled to Australia by SHIP (my Mom hates flying too!) for three weeks - we stopped at Honolulu, Tonga, Tokyo, New Zealand, Fiji (not in that order lol), and they all had their beautiful points. In Australia, we've lived mostly in Melbourne, apart from a year in Brisbane, Queensland (too hot, humid, and they have roaches, ugh) and two years in Adelaide, South Australia (even hotter, but a dry heat, very parochial but pretty). We've travelled a lot around Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland, and I have to say that you could be happy anywhere in the world. Someone once told me that once you've been away from your home town for 2 to 3 years, anywhere can be home. I suppose, being human, home is where we feel most comfortable, and that's usually where we are surrounded not just by the people we love, but by the familiar.  |
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Post by violet on Jan 13, 2006 19:41:51 GMT 10
Which, by the way, doesn't take away from your patriotism, just gives you a different perspective. Although I've lived over 30 years in Australia, I'm still a US citizen.
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Post by Admin on Jan 14, 2006 0:06:09 GMT 10
Miss Violet...I didn't realize you were American. Learn something new daily. I love your perspective.
I was born in Maryland but went to Michigan with my family for my dad to find a job when I was less than 3 years old. I lived in Michigan until I was 48 years old, so Michigan was my home sweet home. Dh was raised in KY and wanted to live there when he retired, so here we are. He thought he was coming *home* but soon realized that you can never truly go home. Home just isn't the same for him even though he has family here.
We have been here almost 10 years now and I don't refer to this as home. I still long to be back in Michigan but I know if I went back that wouldn't be the same either.
Home is where your heart is and so....knowing that I guess I feel home inside of my house with my dh or where my children and grandchildren reside.
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Post by lynn on Jan 14, 2006 3:52:51 GMT 10
Well, BR and MV, please correct me if I am wrong.....but isn't Australia home to more than 140 species of land snakes with about 100 of those being venomous? ?? Sounds like alot snakes to me!!!!! And yes, we do have snakes in our region here, but only 3 or 4 venomous. I have online friend, who lives in Victoria. She shares beautiful pics of landscapes and fauna. Sent some of some native birds and even kangaroos once. They were beautiful. I would agree, that the familiar, makes it home. That wraps it up in a nutshell for me. |
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Post by violet on Jan 14, 2006 12:05:45 GMT 10
Oh, yes, Lynn, there are a heap of poisonous snakes, also horrid spiders, sharks and those tiny jellyfish whose sting can - and does - kill. Plus the sun in the northern parts of Australia is so strong that we have the highest incidence of skin cancer in the world. BUT most of the creepy stuff lives in the beautiful outback, or the exquisite tropical areas of Australia, they're not usually seen in the city areas. Although we did have fruit bats living in one of our trees until last year, and there are feral foxes up at the local reserve.... Lol, I was brought up in the wilds of LA with a father who wore long sleeved shirts, long pants and shoes to the beach in the days before people dropped syringes there, I hate anything creepy! I promise that the more settled parts of this country are no more bug- or snake- infested than any city anywhere else. However, once you leave the city....  |
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Post by braided-rug on Jan 14, 2006 18:36:13 GMT 10
Which part of Victoria does your friend live in Lynn?
I live in the North East.
The snakes that are the most feared are the Tigers. Here there are tigers, copperheads I think and Red Bellied Blacks.
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Post by braided-rug on Jan 14, 2006 23:02:20 GMT 10
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