Re: Awfully quiet in here...

On 11/24/2024 4:08 PM, D wrote:

  On Sat, 23 Nov 2024, The Horny Goat wrote:
 

On Mon, 11 Nov 2024 07:58:50 -0800, Paul S Person
<psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
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This seems to be a reasonable (but not optimal, perhaps) place to
point out that the very areas you are most attracted to may not be as
accepting of "furriners" (and even less so of "immigrants") as you
might like.
>
Of course, if you look like a Northern European and speak English
without a foreign accent ("foreign" possibly including the Northeast)
and don't wave your green card in their faces they may never catch on.

>
Maybe I should start driving south - I don't have a green card but
accent-wise could probably pass.
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But then my daughter has lived in the UK for 10 years and no one would
ever confuse her with a Brit when she speaks.
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(Nor physically despite the fact she is descended from seven different
European nationalities no further back than her great great
grandparents)
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 7!?! How is that even possible? ;)

Assuming no inbreeding, you have 16 great-great grandparents.
Its perfectly possible for them to come from 7 different
countries.
pt