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[periwinkle]

* My hometown has freight trains running through all the time. They wake me up in the middle of the night, even though my mom lives 3/4 of a mile from the tracks. Sometimes I like the trains, but when you're in a hurry, it really sucks to get stopped by a freight train passing through.

* Needing a doctor's prescription to buy contacts.

* Needing a prescription to buy birth control pills.

* Telemarketers

*Deer leaping across the road when you're going 65 mph. It's freaky.

Can't think of much else, just curious of what others will say. =)

[desultude]

I don't miss U.S. CNN, and the general media hysteria. It doesn't seem to be news there unless the anchor is expressing some extreme emotion- rage, indignation, heartbreak, etc.

I also don't miss the cost of medical care. From everyone I know, from every economic strata, there are nightmare stories of insurance and medical costs.

I DO miss the Sunday New York Times. Maybe some other world capital newspaper is as comprehensive, but I haven't seen it. A lazy Sunday afternoon spent at an outdoor cafe, under the palm trees (in Miami ) with the Sunday Times is my idea of a perfect day.

[peppermint]

walls of snow in winter, buses that run once an hour, the high price of produce ( I live on an island, and most of it has to be trucked over)

[jaganath69]

Don't miss driving in peak hour, only 4 weeks of vacation, ludicrously high income taxes, closing time at pubs and the nanny state mentality.

[Ya-ta Boy]

I don't miss the freezing rain storms in Nov followed by four months of cold and snow.

I don't miss the hot humid weather from May to Sept.

I'm glad no one demands that I come home for every holiday.

[Qinella]

I don't miss

- the parking lots that take up more space than the buildings they serve

- the rednecks droning on in their southern accents everywhere I go

- the 16-year-old gangsta wannabes driving around in Escalades

- the eyesore fast food signs everywhere you look

- hearing about Gawd every day

- people looking at me like I'm a freak when I tell them one of my hobbies is studying

- exorbitant hospital and dentist fees

[ilovebdt]

I DON'T miss my old job

I DON'T miss exhorbitant dentist and doctor's fees

I DON'T miss Tony "I am Bush's siamese twin" Blair

[ucfvgirl]

Well, I don't miss the drive by shootings every week. I don't miss the inconsiderate E. Indian Drivers who value their own lives more than their children's lives (no seatbelts: Drives me insane.). I don't miss the teenage attitude 'Whatever'. I don't miss the 40 days of rain. I don't miss the high price for transit or the high price of 'everyday living'

I do miss some things though: Tim Hortons, my friends, the teacher's stores, my car, my pillow, cheaper fruit prices, the frequency of garbage cans, and dill pickles instead of sweet pickles.

[xingyiman]

1. 150 - 300.00 First time patient fees at doclors everytime you are referred to a specialist that you probably will never visit again in your life or simply if you just have to change doctors.

2. High, high, high taxes.

3. Rent payments that take 1/2 of each paycheck.

4. Car and insurance payments that take 1/3 of each paycheck.

5. Utility payments that take the rest of each paycheck.

6. Having to own a car to get anywhere.

7. Having to own a really nice car to get a date with anyone you really want to date.

8. Bald, fat guys with go'tis that think they're bad arses because they're bald, fat, and have go'tis.

9. Worthless losers with 1 1/2' mullets that walk around and try to pick fights.

10. Women that think that they are God's gft to the human race because they are women.

11. Men who think they are God's gift to the human race because mommy and daddy have money.

12. People who don't bathe and never wear deoderant.

13. People who claim hatred and contempt against the very society that allows them to freely feel and act that way without imprisonment and retribution.

14. Insurance companies.

15. Telemarketers.

16. Having to flip through endless pages of Spanish in reference manulas to find the English instructions.

17. Bilingual menus Spanish/English at Mcdonalds and eventually every other restaurant.

18. Femenism.

19. Having to drive two days to get to anywhere cool and interesting.

20. Really nice looking women with low self esteem that date drug addicted losers.

21. Having to watch my back everytime I went into a bar or club.

22. Having to carry a weapon in my car and sometimes on my person.

[SPINOZA]

constant gray skies and drizzle

crap restaurants

rude people in shops and other services

banks. I hate banks so much.

nit-picky media, discussing the same issues every day for weeks on end. This time around it's Iran I bet. What's new today then folks? Don't tell me, let me take a wild guess...."Iran and US at loggerheads over WMD?" "Reached a deadlock"? "Stalemate"? How did I guess? Because you were saying the exact same couple of sentences three weeks ago and did the same with Iraq for a whole year in 2002/3.

poor public transport

high taxes; being squeezed of every last penny and then some

stupid job interview questions

my former job

vandalism of public phones and bus stops

disgusting people - chavs, slappers etc etc

economy-draining, professional couch potatos taking up 4 seats on a busy train with all their shopping bags full of crap for their 10 kids all to different fathers

hatefully-ludicrous property prices and high rip-off rent by scumsucking maggot landlords

being driven to near-madness by all of the above

[ajgeddes]

Just curious, but what are you complaining about here? That 40 is too much, or not enough?

[periwinkle]

[xingyiman]

[Yu_Bum_suk]

[coffeeman]

The harsh agism you get from younger people if you're over 35. When I went back home, I was called "uncool" by 20 year olds. Also faced job discrimination at job interviews "Ah, you're starting a new career later in life" (I'm in my mid 30's).

The range of women I can date is much narrower. Even though I look much younger than my actual age, women reject me if there's a greater age difference than 4 years.

Most women back home dump me as soon as they hear that I am an English teacher. They don't consider my character and values, just how much money I am making.

Also tired of the people back home that jump on me for saying my opinions which are not always politiaclly correct. I was once taken aside and lectured by a teacher at my TESL school for calling another student "lovely".