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...in very short time frame. PM me if you want to stay in touch.

Not sure what is coming down the pike here in the US, but I know that I don't want to stay and find out.

This last deal I was in just closed today--and you know it is bad when your investment banker is acting like Indiana Jones and trying to get out of the Temple of Doom with you before whomever just bought a few million dollars of bonds from you realizes that they are already losing 2 points per year to inflation!

I'll take my chances outside the borders of the US.



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I wish the best of luck to you dog! I also wish I could follow suit :(

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Where? :dontknow:

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Dog, my husband just got offered a job as a bond trader. We were hoping there was enough time to make some cash before we bailed, maybe not huh?

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Dog - best of luck wherever you end up - whatever you do!!

Cheers!

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i think it will go on for awhile yet, i'm just stopping while i am ahead. who knows what will happen next. if he does take the job, just try and limit your downside (ie, no new house, car, trip, etc.) I might be wrong and the US finance world might keep on ticking...or not.

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Actually, I would take the trip, but avoid the house and car.

I'd love to stay in touch as you make your way as an expatriot.

pharaoh89@aol.com

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let us know what it's like over there. good luck.

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Good Luck! You know you can post on GIM from another country? Ok, do it by proxy...give us a clue that it's you and let us know how you are doing. Will miss your humor. Take care.

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I find that if I turn off the blogs WHILE I am out of the US my outlook on life improves dramatically AND my effectiveness increases so regrettably I will not be going to the forums while abroad.

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Good luck and take care. We enjoyed having you here. Woof!

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Good luck Dog. It seems you have let the doom and gloom talk get to you. I think of all the world is ending July you fill in the year posts I have read on this and some other sites and just laugh my ass off. You think its bad now? This period is a freakin' walk in the park compared to the way it was before indoor plumbing. If it improves your mental well being not to read the negative bullshit good for you.

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God Speed ..........and Happy Trails:D

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Adios Amigo, Until we meet again..................Arf

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Take care my friend. Enjoyed your posts and thoughts. Good luck in whatever comes your way and watch your six.:coolbeer:

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May the force be with you, DF!

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An old Celtic prayer, some credit to Saint Patrick:

May the road rise to meet you, may the wind be always at your back, may the sun shine warm upon your face, and the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of His hand.

God's Peace
TLM

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Not trying to be a vulture picking over your dead remains, but can I have your avatar????

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sorry DF
you're turning tail and running
when the time comes to fight for something you believe in

CONSTITUTION / BILL OF RIGHTS / FREEDOM

what are you going to tell people where ever you're going ?

i'll go back when the fighting's over and it's safe

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Peace Out & Good Luck!!
Fair The Well
~Prag

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Best of luck and much happiness Dog

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Good luck, hope you make it back some day.

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See ya DF. - Always enjoyed your posts.

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Good luck, Dog. I hope you change your mind about not posting here, because your experiences could be a very valuable lesson for those of us that will be back here holding down the fort for your return. Keep your ID here and go on a "GIM diet" if it helps your productivity, but don't stop eating altogether!

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I will miss your funny posts.

A farewell tiding: May the other dogs always be sniffing your butt .... and not the other way around.

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Best, wishes and be safe!

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Be a good Dog! Good luck.

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Adios Pero... buena suerta.... vaya con Dios.

See ya...... good luck..... go with God.

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I'll assume you'll still be posting, as I am out of the U.S. you mean.

keep in touch.

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DF,
I do understand the 'not posting' thing.

BUT BE WARNED. GIM is like a drug addiction you can't kick.

I know. I tried. Left for three months. Got my head back on and then started up again.

Like I said, it's an addiction.

Good luck. I fear though that where ever in EU you are going, it' won't be any better there.

I've got a buddy of mine who's been in Germany for three years. He's coming home before the end of the year. HE SAID exactly the same thing about over there as YOU'VE SAID about over here.

At least we have the RTKABA here. At least for a while anyway.

As I said, good luck. Keep your tail a waggin.

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May your life be filled with Milkbone biscuits! :D

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I think that you might find that to be the case wherever you're at, if you tune out the world and the interwebs your productivity goes up. You're changing two variables at one time...
I wish that you'd reconsider posting here as it would be very interesting to follow along with an expat's experiences in a new land. Good luck to you in whatever you do.

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You'll be back :wink:

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WISHING YOU THE BEST, BOWSER!


J6P

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bye bye DF

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Dog you always sounded just like you looked. Stay wise. :applause_

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GL Dog, you will be missed and best wishes for whatever you persue!!!

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To each his own path. Fare Well Dog.

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I hope that when all is said and done - you come back and throw out a detailed story of this experience. This is an idea many of us share - we just don't/can't do it for a variety of reasons.

I hope you are going somewhere with cold beer and spicy women.

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Are you taking your dogs with you?

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I find it funny that people associate freedom with a land mass. Freedom resides in your head. You either choose to be free, and act accordingly, or you make excuses as to why you're not free.

Sure, America was supposed to be a bold experiment in human history, the idea of individual liberty. Now, we sure talk about it a lot, but the reality is much different. In some other countries, you don't hear so much TALK about freedom, but in PRACTICE, they often are MORE free in many respects.

Individual liberty is something each person must seize for themselves. Voting will not make you free. Writing letters to parasites begging them not to do stupid legislative stuff will not make you free.

I would rather move myself and my family somewhere where they are more free in ACTUALITY, than stay somewhere where we are more free in THEORY.

The bottom line for me? I have ZERO interest in seeing my family die at the hands of thugs, ANYWHERE. And I really don't want to have to participate in a gun battle with ANYONE. Given the choice and the means, I would rather remove my family from harms way, than stand my ground against overwhelming odds, and watch my loved ones possibly die, for an IDEA. Yeah, it sounds really great to boast about putting a bullet in the head of government thugs on an internet forum, and it also makes great fiction reading. You will most likely end up as fertilizer this way.

Having said this, I don't see myself moving from Oregon to another country. But I'd certainly like the option, and I will do it, if things get too weird.

I don't know much about Canada, but what are you doing for your freedom there?

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AHHHHH! to be back in my dirt floored thatched roof hut in Livingston near nakid cooking free clams from the beach on my kerosine stove

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The crooks took over the government here long before I was born. That said, I'm an American and I'm not going anywhere.

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Good luck, Dog Farm. I do hope you post here again, because your experience in this could be valuable. I've found very few expats who are doing it for survival; most are in it for cheap living and a house full of servants.

Maybe you could start a blog.

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can someone still be an American patriot while fleeing the country ?

after the second American Revolution(?) is over
the Americans who stayed and fought
maybe they lost family members and/or friends
maybe they were seriously wounded/injured themselves
what would they say to the ones who left the country until it was safe to come back ?

maybe i'm reaching here, ( second American revolution )
but some people believe in fighting for their freedoms
instead of trying to find them in another country

whatever i do to retain my freedoms, i'll be doing it in Canada

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Good luck DF. Will miss your posts. Come back after awhile.

May the road rise up to meet you. May the sun shine gently on your face and may the wind at your back be your own! Till we meet again.

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So this calls for a poll - when will the lost dog come back to the farm?
here doggie doggie doggie:wink:

good luck, have fun, see ya when ya get back.

cg

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Some people are more interested in being free individuals, than being an "American patriot".

You're assuming they'll want to come back. There's a whole wide world out there to live in. America was once a unique and promising country. Now it's mostly a has-been, overrun with killers, thieves, and liars (government and corporate cronies).

Some people believe in BEING free, rather than FIGHTING to be free.

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hi guys, thanks for the PMs. I am getting a new email set up and soon as I have it up and running I will get back to all of you.

no, i don't plan on logging in from abroad. too many bread crumbs back to me and i really can't handle the doom and gloom.

i truly believe that i am having the great fortune to step of the titanic in ireland (where it docked once on it's way out of england).

so PM me and I will add you to my hushmail address book.

DF

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Anybody that likes/loves dogs is AOK in my book. Good Luck!

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Good luck DogFarm. I hope your new dog house will be free of all pestilence and contain ample Beggin' Strip supplies.

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good luck to you DF.

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I left years ago.

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Go on, take the money and run ...

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Oh hell don't worry Canadian Gorilla! I will step in and take three times the load my self, than the boys will take care of a good portion of the fight( they just wond lay down and quit), les we forget the girls they know those iron sights damd well