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kenberg, on 2013-August-19, 08:20, said:
Maybe we can work out a trade. I can think of a couple of players that I would be willing to let go.
That may be true, but would they be more valuable to us than Helene? I don't think so.
Rik
What do you dislike about your country?
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Posted 2013-August-19, 09:05
That may be true, but would they be more valuable to us than Helene? I don't think so.
Rik
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Posted 2013-August-19, 09:15
What I don't like about the UK is the lack of bicycle paths and public transportation (OK they do have something that could euphemistically be called trains and busses but it's not comparable to what they have on the continent). This is something that affects me a lot since I don't drive.
There are probably other things that suck (the electoral system for example) but not anything that influences my daily life, I think.
Based on personal experience I would say that UK is an immigrant-friendly country, more so than Denmark and the Netherlands. It is easy to get things like health insurance, work and housing sorted. Applying for a mortgage without having a long British credit history is a bit problematic, but far from impossible. And that's the only discrimination I have felt as a foreigner so far.
There are probably other things that suck (the electoral system for example) but not anything that influences my daily life, I think.
Based on personal experience I would say that UK is an immigrant-friendly country, more so than Denmark and the Netherlands. It is easy to get things like health insurance, work and housing sorted. Applying for a mortgage without having a long British credit history is a bit problematic, but far from impossible. And that's the only discrimination I have felt as a foreigner so far.
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Posted 2013-August-19, 09:49
When I m moved some years back I did not adequately check out the neighborhood first. Ot's of Republicans and very few bike or hiking paths. I hav e come to think that maybe these characteristics go together.
About coming to America. I was amused some years ago watching a documentary on Norwegian immigration. They were interviewing some folks living in Norway, asking them about friends who had emigrated. They always spoke of them not as having left to go to the U.S.A. but as having moved to Minnesota. Maybe it's just my Norwegian genes and my Minnesota upbringing, but I got a kick out of this outlook on emigration.
About coming to America. I was amused some years ago watching a documentary on Norwegian immigration. They were interviewing some folks living in Norway, asking them about friends who had emigrated. They always spoke of them not as having left to go to the U.S.A. but as having moved to Minnesota. Maybe it's just my Norwegian genes and my Minnesota upbringing, but I got a kick out of this outlook on emigration.
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Posted 2013-August-19, 14:22
Some of your ideas seem mutually incompatible, Jon.
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