would u study abroad in a country like that...?

Applying to College
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<p>pos:

  • beautiful parts of a country - mountains, historical buildings, with beatiful arichitecture, one of the cities is filled with all hostirical beautiful architectural buildings and old beautiful market square
  • you’ve got good solit education in secondary school
  • with higher it varies but in general good but not as good as in United States or United Kingdom, or Germany
  • people are in general friendly, you can make few a lot long-term friendships</p>

<p>Cons:

  • to go to elementary school your parent has to drive you, or you have to take bike or walk, even it is 2 or 3 miles away from you
  • it the weather is very difficult, you get no emergency broadcast systems or alerts, school is still in seesion and many roads stay covered with few inches of snow
  • the highway system is not well developed, the roads are curvy
    with holes
  • you’ve got access to most modern technology, but internet, telephone (landline and cell) services are very expensive
  • part of EU
  • food is delicious
    -public education and healthcare free</p>

<p>neutral (pros or cons):
-all people are religious or “religious in some sense”
-everybody has to go to church on sunday and take religion at public schools

  • corpus christi day is a national holiday and it is celebrated on streets
    (basically you have well dressed 80years old men with big crowds following them on streets,
    many people go with sad smile and it looks like a crowd of sheep, after marches you have
    left flowers on streets to be swept by few days
    -catholic church has a great share in political life
  • over %95 percent of population is homogenous and speak your language,has the same religion
  • it is very allied with the U.S
    12 minutes ago</p>

<p>cons:

  • most electronics are affordable but still expensive especially the one with good brand
    like Microsoft or Apple
  • no iTunes or Xbox live is supported in your country and so ps3 network
  • very few of your friends have xbox 360 or ps3
  • homosexuality is condemned and all of your friends are in closet, the only open relationships you know are straight
    few exceptions in biggest cities
  • some poeple are xenophobic, especially older - antisemitic or antiarabian
  • there are no many varieties of food
  • not to many restaurants especially in rural areas, not even in mid-large towns in provinces very distant from metropolies
  • most people do not eat out, many eat at home
  • the salaries are not too great comparing to western countries</p>

<p>final question - guess what country I am talking about</p>

<p>please also do not forgot to state if you would like to live in the country I described, and why?</p>

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<p>I don’t know what country it is, although I would assume eastern Europe since most western European countries are more modern than that.
I wouldn’t want to live there because I’m not religious, and I really like my internet and cell phone.</p>

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<p>Poland?</p>

<p>10 char</p>

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<p>You’d still be able to use the services as long as there’s an internet connection, except for iTunes which would still work since you have a US account.</p>

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<p>Croatia?</p>

<p>Portugal?</p>

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<p>I’m going to take a shot that it’s country with a long history with Catholicism.</p>

<p>Spain or Poland or Austria.</p>

<p>What’s the point of this? I would do it anyway. I lived in Israel where the country almost shuts down on Shabbat (Saturdays). We lived just fine- we used the opportunity to relax and explore the country. </p>

<p>You can’t see yourself without your video games? Good god, then don’t go abroad. You honestly don’t need tv or video games when there is so much to do and see!</p>

<p>If you think you’re going to be in too much of culture shock to do this, then don’t go though I’ll feel sorry that you’ll miss an opportunity to experience a culture so different from American.</p>

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<p>These are cons?</p>

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It’s still not part of EU (btw, LOVE your ID :D)</p>

<p>I’d go with Poland or Slovakia.</p>

<p>Like ticklemepink said, it may not be all pretty while you’re there, but it’s still an invaluable experience to see how people in less privileged countries live like (both materially and freedom-wise, such as openly declaring that you’re gay).</p>

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<p>Definately not Spain or Portugal, probably not Austria…</p>

<p>Baltic States or Eastern Europe… Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Lithuania, etc.</p>

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<p>OP@
Are we ever going to find out the answer?</p>

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<p>It’s def the Holy See (Vatican City)… they’re not part of the EU but people who live there don’t know that >.></p>

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<p>^^ I’m not sure if “many roads stay covered with few inches of snow” applies to Holy See</p>

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<p>NOT Bulgaria. I would know, I’ve lived here all my life. My bet is Romania.</p>

<p>Are we going to find out any time soon? It’s very intriguing.</p>

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<p>If you take a look at OP’s history of posts, you’ll see that Poland comes up several times so I think he meant Poland.</p>

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<p>seconding Poland</p>