<div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Not fair....<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Italy</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> is a fine country in many ways...<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">there are certain peculiar problems, more to do with culture and the way we deal with situations than anything else....<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Yes, pay for scientists is
absurdly low, true...but do you know what?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I end up with zero dollars every month here in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region>...<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">and I make at least 3 times what scientists in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Italy</st1:country-region></st1:place> make...</SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I had to leave the USA and go to Italy for an important surgery because my expensive USA's medical insurance would not cover the latest type of treatment and I had to pay a crazily high co-pay.</SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">In Italy they had an even more advanced treatment and it was completely free !</SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:
Arial"></SPAN> </div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">and my brother shows me every day fantastic foods on the webcam....<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">he has nice meals with his family every day, genuine food, and the familiar ties and friendship there are amazing...<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">while I sit in my car eating Taco Bell<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">in many ways Italian life is so much better in terms of things that are important than here in the USA... if you want to do science, sure, USA is the place, more money, less bureaucracy, and so on...<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Amara explained it, for a foreigner is tough to live in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Italy</st1:country-region>, but Italians are not leaving easily
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Italy</st1:place></st1:country-region> and if they do they miss it to death....<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">They way to deal with bureaucracy in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Italy</st1:place></st1:country-region> is not to give it much credit at all...<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">we know that rule are meant to be broken and you survive with such an attitude...it is controlled chaos, and chaos is the matrix of creation, quite literally in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Italy</st1:country-region></st1:place>...<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">When I came here in the <st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region> I brought with me such a mentality and almost killed me, because while I was quite adept to survive in
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Italy</st1:place></st1:country-region>, my way of thinking and seeing things didn't work here at all.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I was astonished by the way people take seriously bureaucracy, authorities, and deadlines and so on. It was very stressful and depressing.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">People seemed cold and distant, I basically still don't have many American friends, mostly people I know or work with...<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Yes, I have a nice house, I would have to be a millionaire in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Italy</st1:place></st1:country-region> to afford it, and I can do my science without asking mom to cook my meals and give me a roof on my head, but....<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt;
FONT-FAMILY: Arial">and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Italy</st1:country-region></st1:place> as a scientific and technological country is not bad at all...<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">many space missions have important devices and components designed and built in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Italy</st1:country-region></st1:place>, <o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Even modules of the space station, the recent Cassini mission and so on...</SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maseratti..anybody ??</SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN> </div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">McLauren engineers had to steal stuff from Ferrari to be competitive and they got caught and right now they are in trouble...</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN> </div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">It is a very peculiar country...<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">It has always been....<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">and still many wonderful things were created there and still are created...<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">on the other hand in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Italy</st1:country-region> we have 5 times less homicide than in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">USA</st1:place></st1:country-region>,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">we don't have people suing you if you look them wrong and so on....<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">There are sidewalks in <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Italy</st1:place></st1:country-region>!!!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">And downtowns with people !!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Beauty everywhere !!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">so come on people ....<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div><BR><BR><B><I>John <desertpaths2003@yahoo.com></I></B> wrote:</div></div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">i am astonished about the state of modern italy. They sound like a third world nation (and something out of the classic film, brazil) . I wonder what their neighbors think of them. The ancient romans must be spinning in their graves! John
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