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On Tue, 11 Nov 2014 13:38:54 +0100, Martin wrote:


UK is a fraudsters and illegal immigrants paradise.

Not that I've noticed.

There's no requirement to own a passport but photo ID is now required
for many things such as opening a bank account.

On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Frank Hucklenbroich wrote:

In the UK some people don't even have a passport. Once you don't
travel abroad, you don't need one.

In Italy most people don't have a passport if they do not need to travel
outside the EU. For that an identity card suffices. And avoids/avoided
to have to pay the yearly stamp on the passport.

Erilar wrote:
Martin wrote:

Make your own bread and stay at home.

I do all of the former and a lot of the latter. When not doing the latter,
I've learned they have pretty good bread in Scandinavia generally.

Pastry, too! I grew up in Minnesota (with a large Scandinavian
population). I actually came to believe the talent for baking cakes and
pastries may be genetic. We'd be served have something wonderful when
visiting a friend of my mother's, she'd beg and receive the recipe, but
the results were never the same when she made it.

Martin wrote:
On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 19:50:41 +0000 (UTC), Erilar
wrote:

"JohnT" wrote:
"Erilar" wrote in message
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Martin wrote:
On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 20:15:34 +0000 (UTC), Erilar
wrote:

The election results are in. i really want to move to Germany. Politics
strike me as more rational there.

Only because you don't live in Germany.

Ah, but I follow events there and I HAVE lived there in the past. Besides,
they have the best bread in the world!

Some German bread is tolerably good. I assume that you are not familiar with Poilane.

In a year and I half there I kept finding new kinds and all were delicious.
Now I make my own to avoid the mixture of pallid flour, water, and
chemicals so popular in the US. Even non-white bread here has lists of
chemicals in it.

It's possible that the flour you use is from GM grain and has added chemicals
too, including pesticide residues.

Much of it is bought at health food stores where they generally have a
strong aversion to unnatural foods.
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Erilar, biblioholic medievalist with iPad

Martin wrote:
On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 19:50:40 +0000 (UTC), Erilar
wrote:

Martin wrote:
On Sat, 8 Nov 2014 19:15:18 +0000 (UTC), Erilar
wrote:

Martin wrote:
On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 20:15:34 +0000 (UTC), Erilar
wrote:

The election results are in. i really want to move to Germany. Politics
strike me as more rational there.

Only because you don't live in Germany.

Ah, but I follow events there and I HAVE lived there in the past.

Lived long term or just visited? Paid both German and US income tax at the same
time?

Besides,
they have the best bread in the world!

Make your own bread and stay at home.

I do all of the former and a lot of the latter. When not doing the latter,
I've learned they have pretty good bread in Scandinavia generally.

and in France too?

Not on the one trip when I was there.

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Erilar, biblioholic medievalist with iPad

Martin wrote:
On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 19:50:39 +0000 (UTC), Erilar
wrote:

Martin wrote:
On Sun, 09 Nov 2014 14:26:45 -0800, ALittleRockInTheCosmos wrote:

On 11/9/2014 12:57 AM, Martin wrote:

On Sat, 8 Nov 2014 19:15:18 +0000 (UTC), Erilar
wrote:

Ah, but I follow events there and I HAVE lived there in the past.

Lived long term or just visited? Paid both German and US income tax at the same
time?

As a US ex-pat, one only pays income taxes to both countries if one's
income exceeds a certain threshold. This year, that amount for the full
year is $99,200. I doubt Erilar's income exceeds that threshold.

Who knows? :-)

At the time I was a grad student on a fellowsip.

Nice word :-)

I couldn't even afford to
eat in restaurants 8-)

and now?

Since I don't get there as often or for as long, I DO eat in restaurants
most of the time there.
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Erilar, biblioholic medievalist with iPad

Frank Hucklenbroich wrote:
Am Mon, 10 Nov 2014 11:35:31 -0700 schrieb EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque):

Unfortunately, the only places I would WANT to live (Vienna, Brussels or
Paris) are too expensive for one with limited means. The same is true
for many places in the U.S., alas. Also, Medicare (and American brands
of medical insurance) do not cover me in Europe. That's a factor a
great many Americans don't realize until they need medical care abroad.

At least in Germany you have to have a medical-insurence that is valid for
Germany, otherwise you won't get a visa.

Yes, I had a very reasonably priced travel medical policy with American
Express when I was traveling - it covered everything, including
repatriation and even a travel companion in the event of REALLY serious
illness. However, it only covered a trip of six months or less.

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote:
Erilar wrote:
Martin wrote:

Make your own bread and stay at home.
I do all of the former and a lot of the latter. When not doing the latter,
I've learned they have pretty good bread in Scandinavia generally.

Pastry, too! I grew up in Minnesota (with a large Scandinavian
population). I actually came to believe the talent for baking cakes and
pastries may be genetic. We'd be served have something wonderful when
visiting a friend of my mother's, she'd beg and receive the recipe, but
the results were never the same when she made it.

When I was teaching German, I used to take some German Christmas cookies to
school for my students. Some of them wanted recipes, so I shared those,
too. I only knew one whose mother tried one, but he said they didn't taste
like mine. She hadn't had any marjoram, which those cookies needed. I know
there are some Scandinavian baked goods use that, too. Norwegian, I think,
because at least one I learned came from a family with Norwegian ancestry.
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Erilar, biblioholic medievalist with iPad

On 08.11.2014 21:38, JohnT wrote:

"Erilar" wrote in message
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Martin wrote:
On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 20:15:34 +0000 (UTC), Erilar

wrote:

The election results are in. i really want to move to Germany. Politics
strike me as more rational there.

Only because you don't live in Germany.

Ah, but I follow events there and I HAVE lived there in the past.
Besides,
they have the best bread in the world!

Some German bread is tolerably good. I assume that you are not familiar
with Poilane.

There is no such thing as "German" bread. Each region has different
kinds of bread. In Bavaria bread often contains a lot of caraway, an
acquired taste for me.

Tom P wrote:
On 08.11.2014 21:38, JohnT wrote:

"Erilar" wrote in message
...
Martin wrote:
On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 20:15:34 +0000 (UTC), Erilar

wrote:

The election results are in. i really want to move to Germany. Politics
strike me as more rational there.

Only because you don't live in Germany.

Ah, but I follow events there and I HAVE lived there in the past.
Besides,
they have the best bread in the world!

Some German bread is tolerably good. I assume that you are not familiar
with Poilane.

There is no such thing as "German" bread. Each region has different kinds
of bread. In Bavaria bread often contains a lot of caraway, an acquired taste for me.

No, there just many kinds that vary locally for my definition of "German"
8-)
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Erilar, biblioholic medievalist with iPad