On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 15:45:06 +0100, Rolf Mantel
wrote:

Am 28.10.2020 um 14:38 schrieb AMuzi:
On 10/28/2020 5:31 AM, Rolf Mantel wrote:

"you can only live happily in the
burbs when your bigot neighbors accept you as equal."

??? have you ever visited my country?* That's absolutely untrue.

If you only speak for Wisconsin, no but I guess Wisconsin is not that
much different from Minnesota.

I know suburbia very well in Germany, in the UK and in Minnesota.
I have suffered bigot neighbors in Germny in my youth.
My then girl-friend had suffered bigot neighbors in UK during her childhood.
I have seen in 1995 how non-"normal" people were treated both in
downtown Minneapolis (positively) and in the burbs 20 miles out (not
so). I was happily living downtown myself.
I saw what happened to a friend when he moved out of the city into
suburbia with his black wife in 2005.

I can't comment on Europe but I've been a foreigner and initially
viewed with disdain by the neighbors for most of my life and have
lived successfully in Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia and
Singapore. In some cases my "female companion" was a native of the
country in which I was living and sometimes she, also, was a
foreigner.
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Cheers,

John B.