It's an election year!
Feb. 11th, 2004 12:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conuly(And a leap year... I just now realized that. Smart, ain't I?)
So I've been thinking. If the shrub-boy gets elected (won't say re, I refuse to concede the point!), I really don't think I want to stay here much longer... not until things change a bit. So I'm looking into overseas programs... even if the shrubboy doesn't make it, I still want to go a-travelling at some point, and if I can do it while attending school, so much the better. This time, I'm doing it right and focusing on linguistics programs.
[Poll #246930]
Please explain WHY you picked whatever you did.
As for myself, I'd most prefer to be in a country where you don't have to drive, people are fairly tolerant, and the cost of school/living isn't too high. Oh, and I could get a job. Strict requirements, I know.
So I've been thinking. If the shrub-boy gets elected (won't say re, I refuse to concede the point!), I really don't think I want to stay here much longer... not until things change a bit. So I'm looking into overseas programs... even if the shrubboy doesn't make it, I still want to go a-travelling at some point, and if I can do it while attending school, so much the better. This time, I'm doing it right and focusing on linguistics programs.
[Poll #246930]
Please explain WHY you picked whatever you did.
As for myself, I'd most prefer to be in a country where you don't have to drive, people are fairly tolerant, and the cost of school/living isn't too high. Oh, and I could get a job. Strict requirements, I know.
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Date: 2004-02-11 09:20 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2004-02-11 04:08 pm (UTC)I expect you'll find in much of Northern Europe that the Johnny Foreigner speaks English as well as you or I. Better sometimes. They even have American accents a lot thanks to the influence of TV ;0) Obviously I'm not saying you have to go to somewhere where English isn't the first language, but don't be too quick to discount places like the Netherlands (no one else speaks their language so they speak everyone else's.) Heck, when you land in Schipol airport you could conceivably not have left America - the signs, announcements and adverts are in English *above* the Dutch.
"All the history, for one thing. We've got an 800 year old church and a castle about that age within three miles of my house, for example." - Jazzy
Lol, yes. Apparently York has 20 surviving Medieval churches (Henry VIII destroyed as many again) including, of course, the Minster (which is visible from my campus, the body of which is a rather young 150 years old.) You literally trip over history in this country, it's fantastic isn't it? Then again, I'm living in a city that's seen continuous occupation for well over 2000 years, so I would find that ;0) (I know that the campus of Lampeter University has a bronze age burial ground in it.)
Yuh, come to England if you like history :0)
Plus the British Isles is like a microcosm of larger places - we cram in as many cultural changes and stuff into a much smaller place, making it more accessible. You can get from anywhere to anywhere and back within a weekend (though you might have some long train journeys) or three days on the outside. Without flying.
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