Im no superstar, but Im in a pretty comfortable arrangement with a long time girlfriend. Shes happy to do the cooking, cleaning, entertaining of guests, and she feels more secure to let me handle the important decisions.

Its not perfect by any means. A stable income is rare unless it comes via the internet. The locals are hard to read, and the parents are up in arms for freeing their slave, but its better than the alternative.

Being a man isnt illegal here yet. Luckily the infrastructure and networks make centralized authority a non starter in the vast majority of places.

How you get along with your neighbor is done overwhelmingly through personal interaction, and first impressions are immensely important. Good relations can last not only lifetimes, but generations. Ditto for the bad.

Despite their faults, I like these people. You could do a lot worse for the Anglo diaspora. Either way, Id rather be a prince of a dirt pile than a slave of an ivory tower.

Plenty of room for more.. just saying