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Double_Dragon
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Lack
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| Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2015 9:51 am Post subject: |
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| Money is an issue, unfortunately. Can't volunteer. |
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Hod
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| Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2015 2:57 pm Post subject: |
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| So that's looking for places with spirit and a fat pay cheque. |
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Lack
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| Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2015 12:38 am Post subject: |
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| Hod wrote: |
| So that's looking for places with spirit and a fat pay cheque. |
Doesn't have to be fat, but it has to be. |
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scot47
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| Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2015 2:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Have you tried The Big Rock Candy Mountain ? Places that had "Spirit" were overrun a long time ago ! |
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spiral78
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| I think you've got to have some of your own spirit to contribute to a place. It's not a one-way street! Not that I'm a fan of strip malls and block stores either, but no place is perfect. |
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scot47
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| Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2015 3:55 pm Post subject: |
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| The Sioux and the Navajo used to live in places that had "Spirit". Look what happened ! Sic transit Spiritus Mundi. |
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Lack
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| Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2015 11:55 am Post subject: |
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| scot47 wrote: |
| Have you tried The Big Rock Candy Mountain ? Places that had "Spirit" were overrun a long time ago ! |
This is what I'm realizing and coming to terms with. The whole planet is more or less a dump these days, and it's on the fast track to fulfilling the movie (read: prophecy) of Idiocracy.
Nowhere to run. No way out. |
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scot47
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| Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2015 1:43 pm Post subject: |
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| A dangerous conclusion. If you really berlieve that, why go on ! Courage, mon brave ! |
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schwa
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| Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2015 7:30 am Post subject: |
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I've found a pocket of "spirit" that could use a couple more good teachers. Google "Yap." Its different.
US$10k/year + housing. PM me if interested. |
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scot47
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spanglish
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| Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2015 2:31 am Post subject: |
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| schwa wrote: |
I've found a pocket of "spirit" that could use a couple more good teachers. Google "Yap." Its different.
US$10k/year + housing. PM me if interested. |
Looks awesome! |
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Lack
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| Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2016 2:02 pm Post subject: |
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| scot47 wrote: |
| A dangerous conclusion. If you really berlieve that, why go on ! Courage, mon brave ! |
Maybe I should go back to the U.S. and become a 'progressive' so I can delude myself that we're living in a soon to be utopia. |
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scot47
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| Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2016 2:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Prepare for Armageddon. It will be with us soon. |
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Hod
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Maybe a compromise is in order. How about a place with just a bit of spirit, OK money, fast internet and semi-OK health care?
I don't know anyone who thinks we live in a utopia. Most people just get on with it. A small percentage of brave souls do something different, e.g. TEFLing, in hopefully nice but non-utopian places.
The saddest people I've met work in offices (where I too was sad) and say stuff like, "Wow, Berlin! I'd like to go there for a weekend one day. Can you get cheddar cheese?" These bores are doomed to life at a desk eating cheese for lunch (at their desk). They too probably planned to find a place with spirit, new job, new wife, new cheese, etc, but never quite got round to it.
I've never quite got round to writing a Dilbert sequel, but it would wipe the floor with Scott Adams' lightweight version. |
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