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		lastat06513
 
 
  Joined: 18 Mar 2003 Location: Sensus amo Caesar , etiamnunc victus amo uni plebian
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				 Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 11:36 pm    Post subject: Top 5 things you DON'T miss... | 
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				This is to counter the other "top-5" list.
 
 
What are the top-5 things you don't miss or can do without while being in Korea or just being abroad in general. | 
			 
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		SPINOZA
 
 
  Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Location: $eoul
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				 Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 11:47 pm    Post subject:  | 
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				chavs
 
Pretty much anyone I'm unfortunate enough to come across
 
lack of babes
 
rain
 
the job scene - by Christ I hate that
 
The effin' media
 
expense (totally ludicrous property prices)
 
crap restaurants | 
			 
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		Mashimaro
 
  
  Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Location: location, location
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				 Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 12:32 am    Post subject:  | 
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				| I don't miss Richie Benaud.. he is cool, but my heart strings don't really twang for the old boy | 
			 
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		Hater Depot
 
 
  Joined: 29 Mar 2005
 
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				 Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 12:38 am    Post subject:  | 
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				| The difficulty of finding Korean restaurants.. nobody to speak Korean with.. and most definitely the crap excuses for media, politics, and race relations that we have. | 
			 
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		Newbie
 
  
  Joined: 07 Feb 2003
 
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				 Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 12:55 am    Post subject:  | 
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				1. working for more than 4 hours a day
 
 
2. people trying too hard to be cool
 
 
3. girls trying to look hot and failing
 
 
4. expesnive food
 
 
5. January and February in Toronto | 
			 
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		RACETRAITOR
 
 
  Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea
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				 Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 1:26 am    Post subject:  | 
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				1. being randomly attacked by people for the way I look
 
 
2. Canadian politics (boring as christ)
 
 
3. unemployment
 
 
4. having someone randomly apologise to me every five minutes
 
 
5. lack of public transportation | 
			 
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		paperbag princess
 
  
  Joined: 07 Mar 2004 Location: veggie hell
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				 Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 2:15 am    Post subject:  | 
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				| lots of fat american tourists. | 
			 
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		flakfizer
 
  
  Joined: 12 Nov 2004 Location: scaling the Cliffs of Insanity with a frayed rope.
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				 Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 2:34 am    Post subject:  | 
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				that's easy.
 
 
1.  paying real taxes.
 
2.  paying a lot for health insurance or paying a ton for medical expenses if you don't have it.
 
3. seeing fat, middle-aged men with their shirts off.
 
4. reality TV shows (but $%^@ if they aren't all making their way over here now.
 
5. MLS | 
			 
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		tomato
 
  
  Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Location: I get so little foreign language experience,  I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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				 Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 3:15 am    Post subject:  | 
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				�� hoodlums hollering at me on the street
 
�� sexual abuse hysteria
 
�� job-hunting
 
�� lack of public transportation
 
�� filing income tax returns | 
			 
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		sheba
 
 
  Joined: 16 May 2005 Location: Here there and everywhere!
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				 Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 3:32 am    Post subject:  | 
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				1.  boguns
 
 
2.  slappers
 
 
3.  Unavailability of jobs
 
 
4.  Prices
 
 
4.  My ex | 
			 
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		Kimchieluver
 
  
  Joined: 02 Mar 2005
 
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				 Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 3:37 am    Post subject:  | 
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				1.  Crack users
 
 
2.  Heroin addicts
 
 
3.  Morphine junkies
 
 
4.  REAL  gangsters
 
 
5.  Derreck | 
			 
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		The Kung Fu Hustle
 
 
  Joined: 30 Jan 2005 Location: Incheon
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				 Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 3:43 am    Post subject:  | 
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				Those people who you run across the street to avoid meeting.
 
 
The wind (from Wellington, NZ) | 
			 
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		Homer Guest
 
 
 
 
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				 Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 3:49 am    Post subject:  | 
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				Winter.
 
 
Canadian parents (I was a HS teacher in Ontario).
 
 
Taxes.
 
 
Crime rates (TO)
 
 
Anti-american canadians who are so just  because they search for an identity (I am Canadian as well by the way).
 
 
Maple Leafs fans    | 
			 
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		mindmetoo
 
 
  Joined: 02 Feb 2004
 
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				 Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 5:47 am    Post subject:  | 
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				Toronto don't miss:
 
 
1. Lousy, expensive public transit
 
2. Being paid a lot of money to do almost no work
 
3. The terminally hip, people who think T.O. is the center of the universe
 
4. Street food vendors who start and end with hot dogs
 
5. Not being able to get Letterman and Leno back to back on one convenient channel | 
			 
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		Neil
 
 
  Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Location: Tokyo
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				 Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 6:17 am    Post subject:  | 
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				Trains always being late.
 
Expensive beer and tabs.
 
Pubs closing at 11pm.
 
High crime rates.
 
Overpriced rent. | 
			 
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