cost of living in Lapland?

[opebo]

To be fair, Tweed, I am not really certain if people here are capable of 'abstract thought'.  I mean, of course some are, but one can never tell for sure if they're pretending, or just 'going through the motions' without really feeling it. 

I suppose Eastern Europe is famous for such things - the Slavic Soul.  If that's your cup of tea.  How do you suppose they are on the issue of hygeine though?

Anyway, I envy you your youth, your high expections, and most of all your potential inheritance.  I have long anticipated something in that vein, but the longer I wait, the more I doubt.  Tweed, let me ask you this -  have you ever seen the movie Strangers on a Train?

[Gustaf]

To be fair, Tweed, I am not really certain if people here are capable of 'abstract thought'.  I mean, of course some are, but one can never tell for sure if they're pretending, or just 'going through the motions' without really feeling it. 

I suppose Eastern Europe is famous for such things - the Slavic Soul.  If that's your cup of tea.  How do you suppose they are on the issue of hygeine though?

Anyway, I envy you your youth, your high expections, and most of all your potential inheritance.  I have long anticipated something in that vein, but the longer I wait, the more I doubt.  Tweed, let me ask you this -  have you ever seen the movie Strangers on a Train?

The Slavic Soul sounds like an inherent contradiction.

Opebo, given your implied proposal a more apt question might be whether YOU have actually seen Stranger on a Train all the way to the end?

[minionofmidas]

Better off going to Thailand.

Eastern Europe, better -- the fantasy of taking the 16 year old peasant girl straight off the farm.

how do you get her to lose the restraint?  a frightening number of heterosexual relationships are not partnerships between equals, I learn this every day canvassing, and the nature of this particular fantasy would only serve to exacerbate the effect.

say everything works out: I get my $1m, hide it sufficently to keep it from governments and whoever else, and 'acquire' a reverse-mail-order bride, call her Alicja.  she's a virgin, of course, or at least that is what I am sold and I make no move to falsify it.  everything goes well, I'm in backwoods Poland, cheap vodka reigns, the world-weary bearded Tweed and Alicja, who went from 100-hour weeks of backbreaking labor to this strange life of leisure in no-time.

...I see her as timid, avoiding my glance, blushing furiously.  so anxiety-ridden she can't boil pasta correctly.  always willing to give in to my advances, but never daring to initiate any of her own... what I would do, for just that once!  for Alicia, to desire me, not to need me, but to desire me!  and to draw her ire in a matter!  when I cross her, for her to call me on it!  for her to be FURIOUS at me, the man who saved her from a life of anonymous ruin!  and then to cuddle with her after we've made-up, to see a tired, satisfied, knowing and calm gleam emanating from her eyes, knowing she has something on me, too...

That is... beautifully written.

[Boris]

Better off going to Thailand.

Eastern Europe, better -- the fantasy of taking the 16 year old peasant girl straight off the farm.

Have you seen a photos of Sami girls (indigenous to Northern Scandinavia?). Their eyes are beautiful!

[Gustaf]

I want to add this as a comment on Opebo's scheme: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LPtaWfF2W0

[Filuwaúrdjan]

If that's your cup of tea.

Thought tea came in glasses out that way?

[opebo]

The Slavic Soul sounds like an inherent contradiction.

You hear about that all the time, I've never seen it myself.

Opebo, given your implied proposal a more apt question might be whether YOU have actually seen Stranger on a Train all the way to the end?

No, never did.  But whatever the ending was, it couldn't have been worse than living in poverty and having to work.

[Ban my account ffs!]

Minnesota would be a bad choice for Tweed.  Sure, the land is cheap and the fish and game plentiful (and we have excellent medical for America)... but the girls around here are 3 generations and one boat ride away from a husky 6 foot blond named Brunhild who is ready to drag you through a pine forest by your balls because "you vus lookin at Mrs. Gustafson vit dem longing eyes".

I have a feeling Tweed wouldn't be the same if he were to be nut-hobbled by a handsome giant blond chick called Ashley.

[opebo]

I have a feeling Tweed wouldn't be the same if he were to be nut-hobbled...

I have a feeling that is precisely what he's into.

[justfollowingtheelections]

If I had an 800k inheritance I would move to Portland, Oregon.  Low cost of living, great, friendly people, mild weather (as long as you don't mind a little rain).  What else could one possible need?
Hell, the moment I don't have a job (or find a job in Portland that pays close to what I'm making now), I'm gone!
I would probably spend some time every summer in Montreal though.

[LastVoter]

If I had an 800k inheritance I would move to Portland, Oregon.  Low cost of living, great, friendly people, mild weather (as long as you don't mind a little rain).  What else could one possible need?
Hell, the moment I don't have a job (or find a job in Portland that pays close to what I'm making now), I'm gone!
I would probably spend some time every summer in Montreal though.

Lol.

[justfollowingtheelections]

If I had an 800k inheritance I would move to Portland, Oregon.  Low cost of living, great, friendly people, mild weather (as long as you don't mind a little rain).  What else could one possible need?
Hell, the moment I don't have a job (or find a job in Portland that pays close to what I'm making now), I'm gone!
I would probably spend some time every summer in Montreal though.

Lol.

umm... have you ever been to Hawaii?