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SJStone's avatar

I’m in India this week and next, and I wonder what it would be like to never go home.

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Gregory Garretson's avatar

I really liked this, Kimberly Anne! I can only echo what you say about the contrast between the American lifestyle and that of... well, pretty much everywhere else. Money isn't all that it's cracked up to be, and it sure as heck can't buy you love.

One note on Portugal: I don't know whether you have noticed this, but I believe that the Portuguese do tend to fetishize their cars. There are supposedly lots of people who live in a crummy apartment but drive a fancy car, because that gives them a visible social status. There's even this: when I started thinking about dating again, my Portuguese friends warned me that women might not like the car that I drive. Like I care! So status is an issue everywhere, but I agree that it's not the driver (no pun intended) that it is in the USA.

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