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money where your mouth is

Posted on 2004.11.03 at 18:38
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renouncing US citizenship

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i've considered the idea; definite pluses are that i'd escape the driving and credit records i established during my (many) youthful indiscretions. & now that i've established a more healthy pattern of illicit drug use, i'd pretty much fly under the radar where that's concerned.

but it's just too cold up there.

so if anyone needs me if/when the ship goes down in flames, i'll be on the poop deck with a cherry coke, my bong, a big bag of popcorn, and the usual s***-eating cynical smirk on my face.

i'm always at my best when the water starts licking my toes anyhow.
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Little Etoile
littleetoile at 2004-11-04 03:14 (UTC) (Link)
...but it's just too cold up there.

I'm cracking up right now because that is the *one* reason that I (and *every* single person I've talked to) won't ever do it.

But hell, with global warming the way it is, it's only a matter of time, right? ; D
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Generation Y's Howard Beale
dk at 2004-11-04 03:17 (UTC) (Link)
But hell, with global warming the way it is, it's only a matter of time, right? ; D

*laff* no kidding... i'll just follow the desert north until i start shivering and stop there
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Colonel Angus
scosol at 2004-11-04 22:34 (UTC) (Link)
i dunno- i think that's a big myth- how many people saying that have actually been there?
Vancouver is 100% fabulously beautiful.
Summertime is like San Jose (better than SF)-
Wintertime it just rains a little more, but it only snows a couple days a year.
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Generation Y's Howard Beale
dk at 2004-11-05 00:42 (UTC) (Link)
when i went to oregon in february it was absolutely fucking freezing and i got to practice snow-drifting.

vancouver is a couple hundred miles farther north, is it not?

also see zv's comment.
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Colonel Angus
scosol at 2004-11-05 00:50 (UTC) (Link)
being on the coast has something to do with it as well- i dunno- all i can tell you is what i saw when i was there and what i was told by people who live there hahah
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ex_zv898 at 2004-11-04 03:29 (UTC) (Link)
freezing cold... im very close to canada right now. so nice in the summer, but fall & spring are the season 90% of the year.

this is best a temporary thing.
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Generation Y's Howard Beale
dk at 2004-11-04 06:03 (UTC) (Link)
hey, even if you don't dig it that much, at least you did it so you don't have to wish/wonder anymore.

it took me _way_ too long to get to AZ.
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Becca
amazondyve at 2004-11-04 03:40 (UTC) (Link)
Make it a vodka-redbull and a bar of chocolate and I'll be sitting right next to you.

:-)
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betternewthings at 2004-11-04 03:40 (UTC) (Link)
I like you and all, so if you leave, you can be the recipient of my hundred dollar pledge.

But, you have to spend a hundred bucks of your own to help some Mexican migrant worker get a green card. I think he'll appreciate this place. Some of them have fought desert and mountain to come here, and I'm proud and honored to share my home with them.
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Generation Y's Howard Beale
dk at 2004-11-04 03:51 (UTC) (Link)
honestly, the only way i can think of it actually happening is if some fantastic position opened up at UoP's vancouver campus and they saw fit to relocate me for it.

i'm enrolled and committed now, and if i quit i have to start actually _paying_ for school, so i'll most likely still be in AZ during the next election, presuming one of my vices doesn't cause me to fall to the wrath of Arpaio (who also got re-elected, goddamnit).

finally, i personally think that the "desert and mountain" tribulation speaks more to how much mexico sucks than how much the states don't.
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sarahtonin
sarahtonin at 2004-11-04 04:47 (UTC) (Link)
hehehe... I've been wanting to move to Canada for awhile, but thought that Kerry would be elected and I'd have some time.

It is fucking cold, but my ass isn't going to sit through four year of no-face-saving-for-re-election-purposes Bush.

How is it that this country is so fucked?
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