Re: [OT] Completely off-topic re: travelling

On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 12:52:59 -0400, <sowerbyj@fiu.edu> wrote:

>> Europeans have the impression that the US is a place of gun-cracy
>> cowboys and inner-city gangs.
>
> That's the answer I got when I was telling people I was moving from
Germany to
> Miami... Never had a problem yet, EXCEPT for the insane drivers down
here...

I kept getting weird looks when people found out I'd moved from Toronto
to
Louisiana... but that was from the locals here in Louisiana! I did see
one
"gun-crazy cowboy". A neighbour walked by the other day with his rifle.
He
wanted to try out his new "toy". (I live in a small city in northeast
Louisiana, which is mostly rural. Lots of folks around here are into
hunting
big time.)

I had more problems in Toronto than here. I was physically accosted by
some
homeless folk a couple of times in Toronto. 

There are areas of the US where you do _not_ want to go. There are areas
of
this city where we don't drive through without the doors locked. Still,
there
are areas like that in any city in the world. 

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