aman2192
Fade To Black
Ummm Nepal or Venezuela
one place in the world you DONT want to go
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jeps
Arcadefire
I dont have just one place, so Ill divide it up.
USofA - East St. Louis, Illnois; Opa-locka, Florida; Detroit, Michigan; Pretty much the entire state of Michigan at that; Oakland, California; Random Hick Xenophobic towns in the south.
Canada - Alert, Old Crow, and Hamilton (which unfortunately I DO go to every so often, never willingly)
OTHER - Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, any other nation where I would be killed for being a pro-Israeli (generally, not on everything) Jew, Mogidashu, Khartoum, Abuja, Uganda, Rwanda, and a few other places, including Antarctica and Siberia.
EDIT: and just saw the jew debate. thought I'd add my $0.02 in.
One CAN convert to Judaism. It is a long and arduous process, devoted to weeding out the 'Madonna' type converts who dont actually care. You are generally rejected thrice before converting, and at which point you become Baal Tshuva. (Owner of repentence). There is some discrimination against converts in Orthodox Judaism, but not so much in conservative Judaism. Lots of times the Baal Tshuva is "more jewish than the jew".
You are jewish if your mother is jewish religiously, but ethnicly to be Jewish you have to be either Ashkenazi, Sephardic, or Mizrahi.
USofA - East St. Louis, Illnois; Opa-locka, Florida; Detroit, Michigan; Pretty much the entire state of Michigan at that; Oakland, California; Random Hick Xenophobic towns in the south.
Canada - Alert, Old Crow, and Hamilton (which unfortunately I DO go to every so often, never willingly)
OTHER - Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, any other nation where I would be killed for being a pro-Israeli (generally, not on everything) Jew, Mogidashu, Khartoum, Abuja, Uganda, Rwanda, and a few other places, including Antarctica and Siberia.
EDIT: and just saw the jew debate. thought I'd add my $0.02 in.
One CAN convert to Judaism. It is a long and arduous process, devoted to weeding out the 'Madonna' type converts who dont actually care. You are generally rejected thrice before converting, and at which point you become Baal Tshuva. (Owner of repentence). There is some discrimination against converts in Orthodox Judaism, but not so much in conservative Judaism. Lots of times the Baal Tshuva is "more jewish than the jew".
You are jewish if your mother is jewish religiously, but ethnicly to be Jewish you have to be either Ashkenazi, Sephardic, or Mizrahi.
Koelle
King of Kings
USA and Middle East
I think having any currency would probably be a give-away...
Hehehe, you're right.
Though they do have some kind of money. I think there's Blue Won and Red Won, and foreigners staying there get one of them (Red I think, ironically). I think you can only use them in specific places though, which makes them more like gift vouchers than money.
Swedishguy
Deity
I'm glad that we're agreed on something.
Worse for you, perhaps - we may well have different standards of 'worse'. I assume you've lived in a variety of different places in the US. I certainly have, with at least a couple years each in NY, Maryland, Hawaii, Alaska, and New England. At least another month each in Florida, California, and other bits of New England, and more than a drive-through in several more (including Arkansas). Perhaps my view is biased by the specific chunk of Arkansas (Polk County, on the Oklahoma border) that I spent time in (and still have step-relatives living in), but a combination of superficial bible-beltishness (dry county? in 2007?), generation-to-generation procession of children that get pregnant out of high school and doom themselves to min-wage careers until their children in turn have and likewise spurn the opportunity to escape the gravitational field of pathos, and most of all the sense that (unlike say, Alaska, where civilization hasn't reached the outliers yet) civilization stopped by, and decided to press on to Oklahoma. I have an extreme, visceral, and not entirely logical but nevertheless reasonably informed dislike of the state. So sue me.
Mirc
Not mIRC!!!
I'm glad that we're agreed on something.
Maybe I'm just blind this time not to see yours, but did you notice my sarcasm?
aronnax
Let your spirit be free
Neverland
The cities of extreme Poverty and Dirt of China
Pakistan Right Now
Moldova
The cities of extreme Poverty and Dirt of China
Pakistan Right Now
Moldova
Jawz II
Oh Dear
I gave this some thought and I can say, theres nowhere I wouldn't go.
MobBoss
Off-Topic Overlord
Worse for you, perhaps - we may well have different standards of 'worse'. I assume you've lived in a variety of different places in the US. I certainly have, with at least a couple years each in NY, Maryland, Hawaii, Alaska, and New England. At least another month each in Florida, California, and other bits of New England, and more than a drive-through in several more (including Arkansas). Perhaps my view is biased by the specific chunk of Arkansas (Polk County, on the Oklahoma border) that I spent time in (and still have step-relatives living in), but a combination of superficial bible-beltishness (dry county? in 2007?), generation-to-generation procession of children that get pregnant out of high school and doom themselves to min-wage careers until their children in turn have and likewise spurn the opportunity to escape the gravitational field of pathos, and most of all the sense that (unlike say, Alaska, where civilization hasn't reached the outliers yet) civilization stopped by, and decided to press on to Oklahoma. I have an extreme, visceral, and not entirely logical but nevertheless reasonably informed dislike of the state. So sue me.
Ok, now take all that bad stuff that you didnt like about Arkansas...and realize that a place like Louisiana has it double.
Anyway, its all give and take. When I first moved up to the NW I loved it compared to Arkansas....and then we had a winter in which we had over 50 days straight of cold drizzle......since then Arkansas didnt seem so bad anymore. I actually miss hot weather, thunder storms, and having 4 defined seasons. Things were a lot cheaper in Arkansas and there was a lot less crime.
