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shawner88 · Joined: 01 Feb 2003

With Christmas here, I started to miss home and my family this week, as I usually do this time of the year. That got me thinking about things I don't miss:

1. dating American girls (not saying they're all bad _ just don't miss it)

2. paying for a car (car itself, insurance, gas, maintenance)

3. paying rent

4. excessive commercials

5. going to work early in the morning

d503 · Joined: 16 Oct 2004 Location: Daecheong, Seoul

I shall continue
1. Filthy el and busses--not that Seoul��s are spotless, but they lack that smell of urine and filth.
2. paying arms and legs for taxes, health insurance, utilities, cable, internet
3. buying cigarettes (I toyed with the idea of sending cartons home for Christmas, there was just another tax hike)
4. People yelling at me in a language I know--I am far less irritated by people yelling things at me in Korean cause I can blissfully ignore them.

tomato · Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2004 4:06 pm Post subject:

hoodlums hollering insults at me on the street
Sad

sexual abuse hysteria
Sad

inadequate public transportation
Sad

the religious Right
Sad

spending half my time job-hunting

casey's moon · Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Location: Daejeon

Aww, as soon as I saw this heading I wanted to say "Greyhound," but I guess it's been covered.

SuperHero · Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Location: Superhero Hideout

I don't miss:
mosquitoes the size of hummingbirds
-35C
family gatherings
the necessity of having a car
rent
inability to save any money
understanding conversations of people around me - I cannot sit in a starbucks back home and read a book because of all the surrounding conversations.. I can do it here

Cedar · Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2004 5:12 pm Post subject:

People freaking out and thinking you're a pervert or a snatcher if you don't just ignore their children.
People locking everything and staring at every customer as though they plan to steal everything that's not nailed down.
Being worried to pass by or through large groups of teenagers.
I don't miss never having really had to experience the post 9/11 weirdness of America (only been back for one short visit since then) that all my friends and family tell me about.

osangrl · Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Location: osan

Im back in Canada for the holidays... and the feeling is just better here around this time of year.

In Korea its just another day.... this morning i went for a jog in the park, and everyone who passed by was so smiley and cheerful "Merry Christmas" they would say. It just felt good. I miss that friendliness when im in Korea.... much better than the "aaiiieeeesh".

I don't miss.... dating the typical boys here..... blah.

(sorry had to mr.kimchi clit)

crazylemongirl · Joined: 23 Mar 2003 Location: almost there...

I'm in New Zealand at the moment and these are things I don't miss.

No freaking summer. I'm sitting here in jenas and a sweatshirt!

People talking in english everywhere. I wish they would shut the hell up. I don't know want to know what you want to buy john for christmas.

The lack of people. The place seems deserted. Went to the main shopping mall today for the 'boxing day rush'.' I've seen far worse on your average sunday at emart.

That everything is so bloody queit. Walking around the supermarket it seemed like a morgue with no one yelling kimchi prices at me.

No Bali Bali syndrome. Sales transactions seem to take forever between this chit chat and packagaing. I had to get out of the habit of putting small items straight in my bag and walking out the door after I pay for them! I call it getting moving. They call it shoplifting Embarassed

Terrible Coustmer service. You an I have to wait more than 5 minutes for my food? Evil or Very Mad

That in the stores and resturants no one bows to me, yet I'm still bowing to them. How the hell do you turn that off?

Daechidong Waygookin · Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2004 11:26 pm Post subject:

fat people taking no responsibility for their health and then mooching off the health insurance driving up costs and taxes.
taxes.
crappy public transportation
plastic suburbs
cold temperatures
expwnsive everything
paying 700bucks rent for a craphole apartment
car insurance

I dont miss anything really.

mithridates · Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2004 11:52 pm Post subject:

Yes to pretty much everything you said.

I'm here for Christmas and it's -20 and blowing snow. Oh well. First Christmas here in four years so I don't mind.

One thing I don't miss is the technophobic personality most people have. My phone works fine, why would I need a cell? My car's fine, it gets me from point a to b. I don't like seeing cell phone commercials with models that came out in Korea and Japan somewhere around the year 2000...

funplanet · Joined: 20 Jun 2003 Location: The new Bucheon!

a real broom...have looked all over this God forsaken land and can't find one...any suggestions?

dutchman · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: My backyard

fruitcake · Joined: 18 Apr 2004 Location: shinchon

tip jars
bitter white chicks
rednecks
minimum wage
suburbia
fox TV

harixseldon · Joined: 27 Nov 2004 Location: Anseong

Paying $10+ for a decent meal out.

Daechidong Waygookin · Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2004 8:56 pm Post subject: