Whoa now...I can't speak for my fellow dags, but last we talked, not only did I not deride you, I wished you luck with your move to the Philippines! To be precise, I said (7 Feb, thread - "Time to debunk the myth of the tax-free expat"):
"If you're planning to go expat, or already have, that's your business. I certainly wouldn't try to stop you, even if I knew you. Just pay your expat taxes (IOW, pull your share of the load) and don't insult the USA from your beach chair thousands of miles away, and we'll have no problem. I'll even wish you luck."
So what about that was "deriding" you? I don't disparage anyone for moving wherever they want to go, or marrying whomever they want to marry. What pi**es me off, and the rest of the dawgs well, about Alex, is that he bashes the nation that gave him everything he has, to include his precious Social Security, without which he apparently couldn't live. What pi**es us off is that he derides the USA, he derides we patriots who would no sooner leave our Republic than we would cut off our right arms, and he Monday morning quarterbacks our problems from the "safety" of his beach chair thousands of miles away. Personally speaking, he pi**es me off because he lied about me behind my back, and doesn't have the guts to come face me about it.
Which reminds me...where's the quote, Alex, you piece of lying crap? Still afraid to come out and face me like a man? Maybe it's because you're not a man, but a sniveling little maggot who has to hide behind his wife/human washing machine. Lying sack of swill...
But I digress. Now, I would expect the cowardly liar Alex to stretch the truth, misrepresent the truth, or however else you want to say "lie". Don't join him in that pit. I respect you, because you've not given me any reason not to. Please don't give me one.
Thanks for the heads up, AmGal.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
I hope you'll remain as steadfast a patriot as I've known you to be, and not slip into being the sort of beach chair critic who turns their nose up at stateside patriots, like a certain expat who's pinged to this post.
Good luck, and keep us posted on your adventure.
Windy
I thought I remembered you telling me something like
"good luck, good riddance and don't let the door hit you on your way out"
which, of course is nothing compared ...
And I went looking ... and I can't find that statement and I'm scratching my head trying to figure out where I got that idea.
I hope someday to feel free and comfortable, not giving my opus, but describing my last three years.