To help me make my decision about where to live next year, I made a pro/con list. For your enjoyment, here it is:
AMERICA Pro
- No visa problems
- Friends and Family
- Lots of peanut butter
- Don't have to try to figure out European-sized clothing
- Will no longer have to pretend to understand Celsius
- JOBLESS DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION PART II
- No health insurance
- No apartment
- Being poor and starting over
- Job search
Pro
- Improve Spanish
- Financial security
- Socialized medicine
- Jamón serrano (HAM)
- Cheap grad school programs
- Drinking is socially acceptable before 12 PM
- CHEAP rent
- Cheap and good olive oil
- Ex-pat status makes you cooler
- Strong Euro (well...before)
- Traveling is really fun
- It's not that cold
- Really, there's only teaching jobs
- Delaying the inevitable of going back?
- Being lonely
- Figuring out the giant bureaucratic nightmare of the Spanish higher education system
- My bank charged me 15 euros for not being Spanish?!?!?!
- All my clothes smell like smoke after a night out
- VISA DRAMA
- Movies are dubbed.
- Can't touch the fruit before I buy it.
- Desert-like conditions in the summer.
- Preschoolers.
1 comentario:
I can't tell you how proud I am that you actually had jamon in the reasons to stay category. You've come such a long way, btw are you in spain through the summer?
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