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Originally Posted by Tsuwabuki
This post, along with the others elsewhere you have posted, seem to have a very emotional tone. I won't characterise it, yet, as angry, but I am reading this with a fair amount of hostility. Am I wrong?
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I don't get angry .. I get mad.
Whatever man... the difference is your taking the child out of their element into a foreign environment that puts them right in the spot light for them to be discrimated against. Take that with having to trust a new stranger as their single parent would never be allowed by any American adoption agency. Your bringing a child into a country that is not his or her own be raised in that country would always be a foreigner there. This is childish dream I should of never responded to.
Do read on the US state and federal requirements ; before one would make a fool of themselves in front of the adoption board. Your plan / concept is silly even in a couple of years (based on first post of this thread)... Maybe by then you'll understand that any U.S. Adoption agency wouldn't allow you to adopt based on the *first post* of this thread alone. US Adoption agencies need guarentees that the child is well cared for. A single US citizen father in a foriegn country on a work (I assume work) visa wanting to take a child over to a foreign country would never be allowed for all the reasons I stated and much much more.
Reverse culture shock is a term made up by international study phds with too much time on their hands... ^_^
Oh boy...now we are off topic:
Yes yes...Japan has great public Transportation (but not cheap)... but you won't ever see true public transportation in all of the US... why?? Think about it... thats right... Japan is the size of California... Urban sprawl. It doesn't work in the land of this size. Seattle just spend 2.8 billion on a light rail system that runs 14 miles and is EMPTY during their rush hour. Gas is cheap and DAMN cars are cheap now. With Obama and friends HANDING out $4500 to buy a new car that only gets 4 more MPG than the used car. Why would America change? He is not the answer....he, like more government, is the problem.
Yes Nationalized health care works wonders in the UK and Canada... enjoy your 24 hour wait in the ER or 1 month wait for a scan or 3 months to start cancer treatment. US has one of the BEST system in the world. The 15% of citizens not insured and the illegals getting free medical care are the cause of why health care and health insurance is sky high for the individual.
Japan's health insurance system is nice, but it just wont work with the complexities and size of the American population... Plus it doesn't hurt to say that over 50 percent of Japanese hospitals are in financial deficit now.
I do appreciate those who do move abroad that don't care for what is offerred here.
As the old saying goes... "If you don't like it here, why don't you move to another country"... and so he did... until things happened their ^^/
There is a happy median there somewhere..