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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
I've given thought to moving outside the U.S., but my wife won't hear of it. There are many places in the world where we could live quite comfortably, but we'd rarely or never get so see the family.
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That was something I heard a lot from family and friends when I first moved away... "But, it's so far!" Well, we needed to take a plane from Vermont to Florida. Not much difference there. We just get on the plane in a different airport.
Then, once we left, we often heard, especially from friends; "Gee! When are you going to come and visit?" Looking at the map I discovered, much to my friends' surprise, that it was the same distance from Asia to the US as from the US to Asia... So I said "Gee! When are you going to come and visit?"
But Americans don't visit Asia. They go to the Bahamas, Virgin Islands, Cabo, and sometimes Europe. Asia is 'too far away.' I don't think it's a case of 'too far.' I think it's a case of 'too different....'
Stitchawl