I arrived in Indonesia there are more than ten years, and then scarpered duly England. After a year of "flip you, gentlemen!", Inaccessible public transport on unkempt roads, corruption, blatant rubbish, tropical diseases and religious intolerance (people do not openly like me to stick to the side of someone a) and people always say that I looked fat with a smile, I'm sure I'd done enough to raise my status to a more rounded and worldly man.
Nobody cares what I had done that. And what was worse was how Indonesia had affected me. I could not adjust; the rules, the cameras of the street, political correctness, uptightness, ease of people were offended, how little appreciation there were self-entitlement, diluted sense of community, it was impossible to rehire not that I had never really given my cultivation birth anyway. So I tried another country, then another and another until I'm here, back in Indonesia, married with children and earning peanuts. But if I am such misery everywhere I go, why I chose to come back? It is quite revealing.
Therefore :.
- In the UK, you have to jump through countless hoops, sometimes three times, answering stupid questions and countless part with amounts of money just heartbreaking to qualify for driving a vehicle
- In Indo you pay a policeman.
- In the UK there are limits on who can drive a car with that when, where and how, and children must be strapped as Tutankhamun in his sarcophagus entire trip.
- In Indo you can take as in or on a vehicle can be crushed or stacked.
- In the UK, you can be stabbed outside a pub for offending someone's football team -. Just Crazy
- By Indo can receive death threats or worse to offend the religion of anyone -. Mild
- In the UK, you need to save half of the year to take your kids to a caravan park in Devon.
- By Indo there are countless opportunities for a quick stay and affordable range.
- In the UK my neighbors call the police on me if my hamster squeaked too hard at the wrong time of day.
- In Indo my neighbors are noisy, but in return, they do not give a rat what I do.
- In Indonesia people smile all the time, even when they are wrong or bad. He is happy.
- If you smiled like an Indonesian in the UK you would be engaged. The only people who frown as the British were committed in Indochina.
- People are worried and fixate on shit so westward.
- In Indonesia, it is really easy.
poor but fresh breaks a folder
Because I happen to be pressed along the colon of the rainy season, with glimpses of sunlight before, I realize that I could have been a little shot in previous articles, even culturally judgment, which is something I severely promised to steer clear. Yes, the traffic is bad and the education system before my daughter is lamentable and health care is a fraud and corruption is everywhere, but it is much better to eat that we support in Blighty (stuff fresh market and tropical fruit ripened in the sun, herbs and spices and almost no red meat), and we go out and about. We adventures, sun, jungle, coral reefs and opportunities no return poor saps in the recession have afflicted Europe. And I live in a place where, married or not, I get to hear the word nice towards me much. It is not true, of course. I'm pretty hideous. When I look in the mirror today, I see that my mother staring back with a shadow of five and baldness, but hearing only puts a smile on my face. Conversely, everyone who stops the wife and I to "goo goo goo" to our newborn think my wife is the maid.
There should be a new holiday marked on the calendar. It should be called Expat Day. Foreigners everywhere should hit the town and be glad not to be bombarded by weather conditions, economic hardship and health forms and security they would otherwise have to bear to return to their homelands. They should raise a pot at all public Yusuf and Mr. Poor-but Cools abound, and every single cultural stuff that feeds all their lives and gives them pause to wonder where they are. They should enjoy the warm buzz they get to look back over their shoulders and realize that they just missed a catastrophic freeway pileup -. Although they are living in Jakarta