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ls650
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It beats working at Starbucks.  |
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Guy Courchesne
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| Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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| ls650 wrote: |
| It beats working at Starbucks. |
Maybe not. I hear they offer great benefits at Starbucks in the US. Here I get the odd slap on the back and a handshake. |
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Gregor
Joined: 06 Jan 2005
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Location: Jakarta, Indonesia
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| Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 7:19 am Post subject: |
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| Maybe not. I hear they offer great benefits at Starbucks in the US. |
HA! I may just find out all about that. My wife has her visa in her hot little hands, so we're going back to the U.S. come Hell or high water. YOU try to talk someone - anyone - offered a Green Card NOT to go to the U.S.
I have three ESL schools showing interest in me where I'll be going back to but nothing concrete yet. Knock on wood... |
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Brooks
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Location: Sagamihara
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| Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 8:59 am Post subject: |
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In fact I know a Polish woman that entered the green card lottery, won a green card, and decided not to go.
She spent a summer in Detroit previously and decided she didn`t like the US.
Her brother got residency in Canada (he is a physical therapist) so maybe she will go there. Or not. She could easy go to the UK, since Poles don`t need visas.
Her brother had to take the IELTS to get his visa. Much harder than the TOEFL he tolde me. |
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Gregor
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| Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 1:23 pm Post subject: |
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Huh. Interesting.
I was actually thinking in terms of someone who has never been there before, though. A LOT of people visit the U.S. and decide they don't like it there. That comes as no surprise. It's impossible for sny place to live up to the press and propaganda the U.S. gives itself - and others give it.
It's a sterotype, the people who line up for the Green Card and bash American politics and cultural imperialism at the same bloody time.
Still, for people who have never been there, it would be hard to resist, wouldn't it? I mean, even for Brits or Australians, maybe even Canadians. Just, having the Green Card give you license to move around freely in the U.S. and that more or less means that you can more or less move around freely in North America. PLUS your country of origin. Man.
I'd take a British Green Card, if such a thing existed. I wouldn't give it a second thought.
Now that I think of it, I'm a little surprised that your Polish friend didn't take the opportunity. I mean, Canada is RIGHT THERE. Just because she didn't like Detroit? Weird. She could have gone to the U.S. bordering Canada and worked on it. As a U.S. Green Card holder, seems she turned down a really good opportunity, even if she didn't like the U.S. She may have even got out of the IELTS requirement. Who knows? And that is a MUCH tougher test than the TOEFL.
A bit off the topic - you know someone who won that lottery?? Man. Do you have any idea what the ODDS are against that? That's cool. |
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Brooks
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| Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 12:37 am Post subject: |
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the funny thing is, her brother lives in Windsor, Ontario.
A lot of Poles are happy to be in Poland. Poland is a part of the EU, and they have an optimistic future and they can work in Britain and in a few other countries (like Sweden).
Britain is a lot closer to Poland, too. |
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Cdaniels
Joined: 21 Mar 2005
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Location: Dunwich, Massachusetts
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| Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 4:54 pm Post subject: Foreign Workers |
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| Now that I think of it, I'm a little surprised that your Polish friend didn't take the opportunity. I mean, Canada is RIGHT THERE. Just because she didn't like Detroit? Weird. |
I don't think you've been to Detroit recently, have you? 
Actually a substantial number (perhaps even a majority) of immigrants to the US return to their home country, and we never hear about their stories here. BTW I recently saw many foreign workers at the big casinos in Conneticut; Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun (and hardly any Native Americans, although there was an Indian from India  ) A Polish woman there told me it was her "working vacaton." Apparently few or none of them intended on settling there permanently.
I thought the OP was refering to his own personal life when he talked about years of weirdness. Wasn't he? |
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