Nah, we're totally going anyway. Boston now. This place is fucking incredible. I've only been here a day and it might even top the bay area. And I loved the bay area.
I've been to Germany, Sweden, Spain, Norway, Italy, Russia, Denmark, Finland. But America is much less shitty than everyone makes it out to be. As long as you don't get sick and dont need a job, that is.
Yeah, the US is a great place to visit and holiday in. But fuck if I'd want to live there for the long term. I find the UK is the opposite. It's probably shitty to visit here but it's a good place to live in the long term.
The US is awesome. Someone give me a green card right now. Only thing I don't like is the tv, or as I like to call it, adverts about headache pills that make you impotent, or impotence pills that give you headaches, or gaviscon that kills you.
Many progressive Americans don't even watch tv. There's a "cord-cutting" movement concerning the replacement of cable tv with stuff like Netflix, iTunes or Amazon Instant. For the Americans that do watch tv, DVRs are popular. Skipping the ads of recorded shows is all but an American ritual. Dish even has a Hopper DVR that intelligently "hops" past commercials in recorded tv, much to the chagrin of tv broadcasters. At the moment, I don't even own a tv. If I did, I would just use an antenna to get essential sports channels for free and avoid expensive cable tv bills.
Or he's just wealthy and/or wasteful. You can travel when you're retired. It's hard to have a career while you're roaming the earth. The later you start it, the latter you can expect to end it.
Travel broadens the mind, you should do it as often as possible. These days it isn't that hard to have a career and still travel, in fact lots of decent jobs demand you travel. I really wanna visit the far east
I keep my tv on Cartoon Network mostly the entire time unless I am bored and then I go to the movie channels my tenants graciously supplied us with.
I've done a fuck tonne of travelling but I still want to do far, far more. I also think that I visited too many countries too young, certainly not old enough to appreciate them like I will now, so revisiting places is going to be like visiting them for the first time for me, so I look forward to really getting out there. If by some miracle the bitcoin markets have a run and I actually make some substantial money, I'll probably drive across Europe this summer and meet a load of emp fags. But at the moment that isn't looking likely.