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I am currently interviewing for a job as a potatoe farmer in Missouri and everything thing is going well but when I think about living in Missouri I have a very big I was looking at some photos on the "net" and it looks rather flat, dry and ugly. I hope I am wrong, potatoe farming is fab, I would like to move there but I am not willing to give up trees, birds and rivers.

Any thoughts?

MercyMe wrote:Any thoughts?

g~j have at least one thought to offer...
some esteemed allchileans may seriously question your sanity?
(btw - our own sanity has been questioned often enough to understand these things...)

Sanity what is that?

MercyMe wrote:I am currently interviewing for a job as a potatoe farmer in Missouri and everything thing is going well but when I think about living in Missouri I have a very big I was looking at some photos on the "net" and it looks rather flat, dry and ugly. I hope I am wrong, potatoe farming is fab, I would like to move there but I am not willing to give up trees, birds and rivers.

Any thoughts?

I am not sure what part of Missouri you are considering. I have vacationed in Branson in the southern part of Missouri. It has mountains, lakes, and interesting wildlife.

TP

greg~judy wrote:

MercyMe wrote:Any thoughts?

g~j have at least one thought to offer...
some esteemed allchileans may seriously question your sanity?
(btw - our own sanity has been questioned often enough to understand these things...)

My dear J~G... sanity has been seriously over-rated As it happens, in this regard, I received an exemplary lesson in humility in my very first summer job while I was at college... the guy sweeping the floors in the changing rooms with an absent expression, whistling and singing, making irrelevant comments... after about a week I asked my supervisor about him and he said "Frank, think about this: he's the only one of us with a certificate of sanity".

Anyway, reminiscences aside... what Mercy needs is a balance-sheet. Birds, trees, rivers go on one side. Money on the other. Big fat potatoes that one cannot take pride in may go as a negative on the money side. Other circumstances and necessities go on the debit and credit side and eventually a logical answer will emerge. Which may not be what Mercy wants, and then she can really, really make her mind up.

Even if your stay in the US is going to be transitory there is a downside as well as an upside. The upside is mainly a headline salary figure, the downside is composed of taxes, deductions, and various costs like health care, car, apartment rental, etc. For me, I've been offered serious money to take contracts in the US but in the end it really doesn't add up.

MercyMe wrote:I am currently interviewing for a job as a potatoe farmer in Missouri and everything thing is going well but when I think about living in Missouri I have a very big I was looking at some photos on the "net" and it looks rather flat, dry and ugly. I hope I am wrong, potatoe farming is fab, I would like to move there but I am not willing to give up trees, birds and rivers.

Any thoughts?

I would do some reading here
http://enenews.com/
before considering leaving Chile for anywhere north of the ITCZ. I've read that there are people in Missouri who have detected a significant amount of fallout. Not to mention the weather can be pretty awful. Very hot and humid. And last year they had one of the worst tornadoes I've ever heard about.

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I am not sure what part of Missouri you are considering. I have vacationed in Branson in the southern part of Missouri. It has mountains, lakes, and interesting wildlife.

TP[/quote]

And some very well preserved country and western entertainers (formaldehyde, I believe).

thisisreallycomplicated wrote:... north of the ITCZ

The Inter-Turbulential Continence Zone, should you by any chance have been wondering.

The city is AJ Byrd on the border with Arkansas. I read somewhere that the area is 85% white and baptist which will make my children foreigners with their spanish accent and dark skin Frank, you are absolutely right the decision between earning a decent wage and living a healthy life, gringos vs latinos, being scheduled in for everything vs doing everything on "the fly", Chile and USA are very different countries but I would like to keep my move rural with birds and bees and the USA must still have some of that, I guess

I would like to help you because I grew up in northeast Oklahoma and spend a lot of time in Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas. I cannot find that city on the map however and am unfamiliar with it. Can you say if it is southeastern, southwestern, or central?

Dumbest thread ever.

potatoe… potatoe…

I didn’t know Dan Quayle was a member of this forum.