Re: To Live and Die in Starlight on Sci-Fi (US) Ju
<blockquote><font class="small">Quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Jade Jaguar:
<font color=yellow>People you know here who came from there got out, and were probably better off than average, or certainly better off than the poorest, in their countries. I have been to Colombia, Venezuela, most of Central America, Mexico, and Iran. In all those places, in cities and the countryside, many or usually most people are very poor, have very little. I lived in Maracaibo, Vene. for two years. There was a whole section of town with no running water, or sewers, built of cardboard and junk, and all had to be rebuilt after the rainy season. This is the norm in Latin America. The majority of the people in Mexico City live that way. I have toured Mexico many times by bicycle, through the country side. People have a hardscrabble life. They work hard for everything. Just hauling water can take hours. In the US, Canada, and Europe, few of us have it as bad as the norm in much of the third world. I'm not trying to make you feel guilty, I just want you to appreciate what you have.</font color=yellow><hr></blockquote>
Sorry Sol, but I believe Jade and CO. are correct. You have many countries Central America, most of Africa, many Islamic countries, that have very few major cities (the best shot at working for better wages).
And those who do try and move to them to "better themselves" find them UNBELIEVABLY overcrowded and end up in situations similar to their living conditions when they lived in the coutryside.
And no I'm not talking like "oh lovely Italy" kind of countryside, I am talking rather baron, or swampish, with few if any solid structures and even fewer ways to earn money or even any place to spend it if they had it.
We need to try to keep open to the possibilities of life else where on this planet, ..... it can be tricky when all a person has known is a fridge full of food, a store down the street, and yours or a friends car to take you where you want to go.
I have it pretty good myself, considering my family has always been somewhere between poor to middle-middle class. But we are all one bad combination of events from being that dude standing on the side of the road with a grungy backpack and considering where we'll be sleeping tonight, forget about tommorrow.
Whoh, heavy. So, yah. /ubbthreads/images/icons/tongue.gif
On Leg. of the Rangers tonight, I had a reoccurance of "the old wound" as soon as Dylan said the words "we don't die stupidly", ohhhhhhhh, nails on chalkboard kind of stuff!!
But I am appreciative of a chance to see it again, get a proper recording of it, and pehaps take special interest in the weapons officer this time.....hehe.
