Mxsmanic wrote:
> Sjoerd writes:
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>> Similarly, I could ask the Americans that I know who moved here to Amsterdam
>> and took Dutch citizenship why they have done so, (mostly because of greater
>> freedom here), but I don't think the other 99.999% of Americans would
>> necessarily agree with them.
>
> Which freedoms did he find in the Netherlands that were missing in the
> U.S.? Usually the only domains where they might be found are . and
> drugs.
I am not Sjoerd, but ...
'freedoms' is a rather ambiguous term. It means different things to
different people, apparently also to you. For me for example, it also
includes how 'free'/easy/ I can live my life and hence
includes things like social environment, work environment, etc.. For
example work related: Because of the work environment, etc., I now am
'rich' in the sense that I have a good income. If I would have been in
the US, I would have been poor, at your social minimum, whatever that is
called. For me, that is a 'freedom', because it allows me to live my
life like I want (and have always done), allows me (funds) to travel (to
get back to the newsgroups and original subject), etc..
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