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gaijinpunch wrote:Link goes to page 2...
EDIT: LMAO -- so true.
McTojo wrote:I have absolutely nothing meaningful or worthwile to add to this thread.
Marked Trail wrote:Six Reasons Your Plans to Move Abroad Might Not Work Out
Cracked.com | August 15, 2011
If you hang around Internet message boards, about once a month or so somebody will announce they're fed up with America and want to move abroad. The reasons vary: they want to escape to Canada to get away from the corrupt corporations, or they fear a President Bachmann. Maybe they want to go to Japan and get a job as President of Anime...
Moar!...
chokonen888 wrote:Escape to Canada eh?
The suddenly want to follow manly sports and become lumberjacks? Or maybe its all the pristine green....and I'm not talking about the scenery.
Coligny wrote:Poutine dood... th3 poutine...
The absolute worst thing about poutine is that I will probably love it when I try it.Mike Oxlong wrote:[SIZE="4"]Montré]
"ça va faire une maudite poutine"
http://www.montrealpoutine.com/reviews.html
Tsuru wrote:The absolute worst thing about poutine is that I will probably love when I try it.
Marked Trail wrote:Six Reasons Your Plans to Move Abroad Might Not Work Out
Cracked.com | August 15, 2011
If you hang around Internet message boards, about once a month or so somebody will announce they're fed up with America and want to move abroad. The reasons vary: they want to escape to Canada to get away from the corrupt corporations, or they fear a President Bachmann. Maybe they want to go to Japan and get a job as President of Anime...
Moar!...
Coligny wrote:aww dear... I went back for a week 3 year after landing there... I was not exactly happy with the landscape... I think now after 8-9 years I shall not even try to consider it 'coming back' but more like every other tourism vacation, preferably in a tour bus full of obaachans...
Samurai_Jerk wrote:I felt uncomfortable moving back the the US after only 3 years in Japan. I stayedin the States for 4 but never really felt settled in. I've been back in Japan for 6 years now.
Yokohammer wrote:I'd like to add that for us old-timers (say, 30~40 years or more in Japan),
damn name wrote:Paris is a wonderful city. It's the people that really suck.
Yokohammer wrote:I'm surprised to hear that you've been "assimilated" after only 8~9 years. I figured it'd take a bit longer.
Unless, of course, Paris really sucks these days.
Greji wrote:Hammer, you fucking Nooby's just have to get adjusted to the time change.....
Yokohammer wrote:Interesting. Most people who've been out of their home country for a while figure it'll be easy to go back and fit right in whenever they please, and I think that "I can leave anytime I want" attitude can make being an expat easier. But it also leads to complacency about repatriating that can in turn lead to a nasty surprise. That's one good reason to visit "home" from time to time, to keep perspective and prevent the rose-colored tint from setting in too much.
Yokohammer wrote:Hey, I was only talking about us "normal" old-timers, not guys who crawled out of the primordial slime of Yamanakako.
Greji wrote:That was pretty low, if I do say so myself. Besides that it was Biwako. BTW, you shouldn't forget Cranky in your slams. I think he was in the mast for Noah when they dropped off a couple of Nihonzaru.....
CrankyBastard wrote:Yep, Noah was a snotty midshipman under my command.
I remember asking him onetime how long he'd been at sea, "Two years before the mast, Capn ." he replied.
"Nonsense, boy!" I said. "That fuckin mast has always been there!"
CrankyBastard wrote:Yep, Noah was a snotty midshipman under my command.
I remember asking him onetime how long he'd been at sea, "Two years before the mast, Capn ." he replied.
"Nonsense, boy!" I said. "That fuckin mast has always been there!"
Yokohammer wrote: That's one good reason to visit "home" from time to time, to keep perspective and prevent the rose-colored tint from setting in too much.
Complex, innit.
Ganma wrote:It get's hard to talk to some of them because they suddenly become defenders of everything Japanese!
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