Re: Awfully quiet in here...

On Sun, 10 Nov 2024, William Hyde wrote:

D wrote:

  On Sat, 9 Nov 2024, Cryptoengineer wrote:
 

On 11/9/2024 4:04 PM, D wrote:

  On Sat, 9 Nov 2024, Paul S Person wrote:
 

So if not having a lot of people around is a good thing, Wyoming would
probably work.

 Do you think I would be allowed to wear a cowboy hat and walk around
with a gun in Wyoming? That would be a strong incentive!

 For citizens who meet the other requirements for firearms possession,
yes. You don't even need a permit. I'm not sure about green card
holders.
 pt
 

 Hooray! =D Yet another dream that the US would make come true! It truly is the land of the free compared with shitty old europe which I passionately hate so much!

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Some years ago Duke University ran a job search for a senior scientist.
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An American scientist resident in Denmark was flown in and gave an exceptionally good talk.  At dinner the conversation turned to his life in Denmark, and he seemed very happy with it.
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So told him that, while I was not myself on the search committee, I thought it was almost certain that he'd be offered the job and asked if he would take it.
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"Absolutely not!" he said, puzzled that I would even ask.
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So opinions differ.

This is the truth! Americans who reside in europe tend to be socialists. I know one, and although he is a nice guy, we are infinitely far apart on pretty much any political question, and as such, it is only natural that he (or the guy) would never want to move home.
And on the other side of the equation, some of the best and brightest people I know have left sweden for low tax countries, since they felt like slaves having to fund arabians with 60+% taxes. That's in their (and mine) opinion a vile and revolting society where productive people become slaves to improductive people like public sector workers and arabian immigrants.

Duke is in Durham, NC, possibly too warm for your wife.  And it has lots of sidewalks to attract liberals, though as I found in an October walk, ankle-destroying breaks in the sidewalk can be obscured by colourful autumn leaves.

Leaves are dangerous! Avoid at all costs! Well, except in the forest perhaps.