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- On 23 Aug 2006
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The metaphysical housing market,
nomadtoons said:
Well.. I guess I will have to claim ignorance when it comes to knowing as much about Australia as I'd like to. It doesn't help that a big movie when I was younger was " Crocadile Dundee" with Paul Hogan. I remember years ago when I helped run a film festival. We had this film submitted by this one guy. We got it via email. It was funny as hell. Anyhow, the guy was from Australia and had mimicked an American accent so well that we thought he was from here. I asked him how the hell he did such a good job. " I watched a lot of American TV when I was a kid." that's sort of embaressing if you think about it. Australians probably think we're stupid by watching the crap Hollywood spews out. My parents said they saw "American Chopper" T-shirts in London. Oh boy!- another role model to live up to.
I plan on going to Australia someday along with a lot of other countries so I can make better judgement calls when it comes to what places are like Versus what I see on TV or hear from other people. - On 23 Aug 2006
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The metaphysical housing market,
nomadtoons said:
Austingal,
Your Aunt seriusly thinks people should buy in MA right now? that market has been tanking for almost a year now. Perhaps she has convinced herself into believing what she says. I recall years ago when Ryobi tool company paid for some of us salesmen to come out and spend 3 days at a hotel looking at their tools. We would do things like drop the tools off of a ladder, take them apart, drive screws, cut boards, discuss motor windings- all as an effort to sell us on their tool's superior quality. The thing is that we all knew they make crappy products. That said, when we came back, I could tell you anything you wanted to know about their products, and found myself trying to get people to but them simply because someone else had told me all the info I coul possibly want to know about them. A RE agent who's job is to get people to buy is just the same. - On 23 Aug 2006
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The metaphysical housing market,
nomadtoons said:
Astrid,
hmmm.. Well that must be awful then if your whole country is like that. I can't imagine the US being totally unaffordable. I've never been to Australia but my wife has family there, so we might be able to go perhaps in a few years. Some of my Australian friends have told me that people in Sydney are actually WORSE than people in San Fran in terms of snobbish attitudes. he equates them more to Parisians than anything else. Again- I've never been there but I'd sure love to see what it is like. heard it is a stunning place.
Sort of a funny story.. years ago we had some friends from the UK come and visit. They were an older couple in their 60's. He claimed that when he was younger, he figured the entire US was deserts with big cities here and there and that cowboys were all over the place. he got a big surprise when he came here ans saw that virtually every state was diffrent.
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