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- From: fester@island.COM (Mike Fester)
- Subject: Re: US as No. 1 (3 data books)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.162536.2438@island.COM>
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- References: <1993Jan26.120132.21873@cas.org> <1993Jan26.172037.2804@adobe.com> <1993Jan26.194557.16426@cas.org>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 16:25:36 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.194557.16426@cas.org> jac54@cas.org () writes:
- >In article <1993Jan26.172037.2804@adobe.com> cjackson@adobe.com (Curtis Jackson) writes:
- >>In article <1993Jan26.120132.21873@cas.org> jac54@cas.org () writes:
- >
- > This is exactly what I was getting at. Life is good for some
- > Americans in some parts of the country. What about the poor
- > counties of Mississippi, what about the areas where the life
- > expectancy of African-American men is lower that of the
- > average Bangladeshi male?
-
- Could you post those counties and their life expectancies. I have Bangladesh
- listed as 54 years expected for males, US as 70+ for black males. (World
- Almanac, 1993)
-
- > There are of course, no decent butchers, bakers, or brewers
- > anywhere else. Why can't one get a decent French loaf anywhere
- > in the U.S.? Simple enough, you can't get the right grain. I
-
- There are a couple of bakeries in SF that make excellent French bread,
- according to our next-door neighbors (French, one from Calais, one from
- Marseille).
-
- > used to live round the corner from a Thai grocery in Berlin
- > and about a block from the nearest Vietnamese restaurant. I
- > also had access to a cheese counter offering over 1500 kinds
- > of cheese. We didn't have the many Japanese in town now that
- > I think of it...
-
- You should be careful here to compare metropolitan areas with metropolitan
- areas. If you are comparing Berlin with San Francisco, in our little
- 10 block stretch of Clement, we have Korean, Chinese, French, Vietnamese,
- German, Persian, etc, restuarants, groceries, etc, along with the book shops,
- coffee shops, etc.
-
- >>And, yes, Iowa is horrible, but America is so huge and diverse (despite
- >>the raging on-slaught of generic television and fast food franchises)
- >>that one can choose to live in some place almost, but not quite,
- >>completely unlike Iowa, yet remain in the same country.
- >
- > To put it another way, life is good, provided you can go where
- > the good life is.
-
- Same is true in Europe.
-
- Mike
- --
- Disclaimer - These opinions are not so much opinions, as pearls of wisdom. Any-
- one disagreeing is obviously either a) a snivelling, whining, mentally-
- deficient, weak-willed, inconsequential, namby-pamby tool of some vague but
- conveniently defined conspiracy, or b) my wife.
-