M500

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M500,

Did he try to intervene with any of them?

M500,

In regard to following rules and making the “right” choice, he is the worst captain.

Of course he always wins, but sometimes he should just say, “This is too risky.” Or “This is completely against protocol.”

M500,

I’m not from this country so it’s foreign to me.

You could say you have a foreign friend, but does he stop being foreign once your friends or when he comes to visit? Or is he always a foreign friend?

M500,

Well I do refer to it as my neighborhood. But I do not speak the local language and I do not know all of the customs.

Even the style of speech in English is different than it is in America. I’ve been here for about 6 years, but you never really know a country and culture the way you know your own.

Just last week, my wife brought home a cheap snack from 7/11. OMG! It was so good, I’ve walked passed them for years only to discover they are my new favorite snack. I have been buying so many bags of them. This is the kind of stuff which makes me feel that this is a foreign country.

In addition to that, there are a number of things I am not able to do here that a citizen can. So in some ways, I can never fit in here. One example, is I cannot hold any professional positions, like lawyer, doctor, or any government position. I can also never own land here.

M500,

Yeah, my wife’s a citizen of this country. I just recently got residency, but those restrictions still apply.

I just don’t have to renew my tourist visa anymore and I don’t have to fly out and back into the country trying to every 3 years.

It also lets me get employed by a private company without the need of a work visa.

But I still can’t hold professional jobs. I actually was looking into going to med school at one point to be a doctor here.

School is cheap here, then I found out that even if I go to med school here I’m not allowed to practice medicine.

It’s actually a bit annoying, but now there is one less doctor in this country.

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