Life in Other Countries

never lived in another country then the one i was born in. unlike you lucky people in other parts of the world, especially europe, where visiting another country is no more then having a passport, then popping across state lines in the u.s. only two other countries that aren''t too far for me to get to, and i've only ever visited one of them, and that for no more then a couple of days that one time.

so yes, this is a great idea for a thread.

everything i know or imagine about other countries comes from looking at pictures on the internet. mostly pictures about trains. or tiny off grid cabins, alternative life styles, and artistic fantasies about the worlds writers and authors create in their own heads.

but i do feel what life is like anywhere, has more to do with how people treat each other, and how they choose or would wish, to treat their surrounding environment.
i am fascinated by how infrastructures, and especially their technologies, had evolved diversely in different places, before the semi-homoginiety, of our shrunken world.

 

This is a great point.

 

World's most expensive city: Israel's coastal paradise of Tel Aviv

 

people who like being around water might try life in otter countries.

 

In a measure of quality of life of ordinary people (not the oligarchs, which use the Stock Market as a dipstick), the UN recently ranked the U.S. 41st; not on par with Cuba, but better than Bulgaria.
Better than Bulgaria but not as nice as Cuba: how did the US become such an awful place to live? | Arwa Mahdawi

 

I suppose at the end of the day.
Life is what you make it.