What do other people think of where you live ?

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Last week a customer from Poland visited us here in County Mayo.He was very proud of his digital camera and showed us the pictures he has taken saying "I show my friends I have been to the end of the world ".Apparently the end of the world is populated by cows and rabbits sitting in the middle of the roads.

We took him to the West of Ireland coast & he said "I can sit on the sand and speak to my wife in Poland with my mobile phone .I tell her that if I had good glasses I could see America !

He ignored the beautiful scenery and the seals & just took a photo of the Atlantic pointing seawards towards the US.Now doesn't that give you all a fuzzy feeling !

-- Chris (sunny@ireland.ie), August 31, 2001

Answers

I live in the best place in the world. Mus8t be, otherwise the rest of the world would stop moving here.

-- Carlos (riffraff@cybertime.net), August 31, 2001.

Chris:

He was very proud of his digital camera If that is true then he is a sad case. The one that I use at work cost nearly $5000 US and the quality that it produces is worse than a $10 Fuji throwaway. It just does some things that I need done. I doubt that he has a $5000 Nikon.

Best Wishes,,,,,

Z

-- Z1X4Y7 (Z1X4Y7@aol.com), August 31, 2001.


Carlos:

Do talk to them. They keep moving here from California. At the last meeting I attended, someone asked the question. Turns out that 2/3 of the people had moved here from California in the last 5 years.

You folks are a biblical plague. :)

Best Wishes,,,

Z

-- Z1X4Y7 (Z1X4Y7@aol.com), August 31, 2001.


I visualize Poland as being cold and gray with polluted skies, polluted water, grim Soviet housing, women in Babushkas and a countryside full of pig farms and cruel ignorant peasants right out of Jersy Kosinski's Painted Bird. I have never been to Poland, this is my stereotypical view.

I visualize Ireland as being beautiful and ever-green with quaint winding roads, stone houses, cold damp weather, heavy sweaters and cute, cuddly, merry and slightly drunk Paddys. I have never been to Ireland, this is my stereotypical view.

As stereotypes go, Ireland wins.

Indiana stereotypes? The north is Poland, the south is Ireland.

-- Lars (lars@indy.net), August 31, 2001.


Better idea Z. Nonstop express cattle car trains from Tijuana to Portland. Just kidding but then again it's just a matter of time isn't it?

-- Carlos (riffraff@cybertime.net), August 31, 2001.


Z, We told them to move there, because they kept moving here! The rain drives some away, others sit here and complain about the noise the Blue Angels make during SeaFair! If they don't like it......

Can always tell one of "them", they are the ones who not only own, but use umbrellas.

-- Cherri (jessam6@home.com), August 31, 2001.


Carlos:

I wouldn't be talking about folks from Mexico. These would be folks who move here from Orange County or the bay area and pay $500,000 for a house worth $125,000. They are used to those prices. Saw it happen in Washington and it is happening here. Mostly they say that they want to get away from the congestion. Like Cherri said, they complain alot but we learn to ignore them.

Like I said; a biblical plague. :)

Best Wishes,,,,

Z

-- Z1X4Y7 (Z1X4Y7@aol.com), August 31, 2001.


You wern't listening Z. Was talking about tomorrow.

-- Carlos (riffraff@cybertime.net), August 31, 2001.

Don't care were he comes from, a total ass, wouldn't have them in my house.

-- jerk (troll@troll.com), September 01, 2001.

Chris--

Probably the guy was a lout. But for an Eastern European to see the western edge of Europe, whether in Ireland or Portugal might seem quite remarkable, even "end of the worldish".

-- Lars (lars@indy.net), September 01, 2001.



Yaw'll too?

We have the same problem here with the cal's and their inncessant bitching.

Nashville used to be a lil wannabe, wanted to be an important town/ city, soooo they started importing the cal music people here so that they could work their marketing magic on country music.And they have, to the point it has been castrated and sterilized, striped and left to languish...Music Row has lost its soul.

Now we have all these cal's griping that we don't have this or that and the wine is too expensive and that people are too slow or stupid and on and on and on......

But, as best I'm able I'm fixin this problem.Bought a house down in southwest Fla (Cape Coral), 10 mins from the boat dock........at least I have a huge backyard if the yankees get on my nerves, hehehehehe.

Oh, Z, when that old piece of shit digital camera gets cast aside for the next bestest model would ya want to donate it to me? I'm gettin a super quiet electric motor so I can take wildlife pics from the water side.I only have an Oly C-3040, struggling photographer I am.

-- capnfun (capnfun1@excite.com), September 01, 2001.


Capn, congrats on the new roost.

*sigh* remembering Florida IS the lightning capitol of the world.

snicker.

Btw, you just missed my sister, she moved back to California. heh.

-- sumer (I@aint.saying), September 01, 2001.


Thanks Sumer,

I'm definetly lookin forward to the new locale and the upgrade in digs.

You mean there are actually people who move back to Cal? ; )

-- capnfun (capnfun1@excite.com), September 01, 2001.


Yes my dear capn, there are those poor unfortunates who enjoy the cool breezes, gentle sunshine and no lightning....hee hee.

But, florida does have it hands down for the sunsets. :-)

-- sumer (I@aint.sayin), September 02, 2001.


They think it is an exit of the Turnpike.....

Damn. It is an exit off the turnpike...sigh

-- FutureShock (gray@matter.think), September 02, 2001.



excuse me...

ya gots yer california idiots, ya gots yer tenessee idiots, ya gots yer florida idiots, and so on and so forth

getting a little sick of the california bashing, thank you very much

-- (CA@born. n raised), September 02, 2001.


ps...Have you yet seen the sun setting atop and sinking into the pacific? talk about beautiful =)

-- (CA@born n. raised), September 02, 2001.

CA borne:

Nothing new. I remember when I lived in Colorado in the 1960's. If someone from CA broke down along the road, everyone would ignore them. I know that I stopped to help a couple on Loveland Pass [it was -40F at the time and they could have died]. They said that everyone had ignored them.

Then I remember in Montana: the front runner for governor announced that he had hired a firm from San Fran to run his campaign. He lost in a landslide.

Nothing new here. Just more of the same. Of course we could talk about Kansas. :)

Best Wishes,,,,,

Z

-- Z1X4Y7 (Z1X4Y7@aol.com), September 02, 2001.


CA@born. n raised,

Nothin personal meant, but the ones I've met in this neck of the woods are the ones who want to re-make their new town into EVERYTHING that we do not have,which is probably alot.I mean hey, if Cal is what they really want they should have stayed there.

-- capnfun (capnfun1@excite.com), September 02, 2001.


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