Poll
Question:
How much time have you spent in foreign countries?
Option 1: I've never been in a foreign country.
votes: 2
Option 2: Only been in foreign countries for short tourism stays.
votes: 28
Option 3: <6 months
votes: 8
Option 4: <1 year
votes: 6
Option 5: <2 years
votes: 8
Option 6: <3 years
votes: 4
Option 7: <5 years
votes: 5
Option 8: <10 years
votes: 5
Option 9: >10 years
votes: 5
Check the highest appropriate option. Use your own judgment what to count. I suggest not counting tourism stays of less than 1 month.
I expect Languish to be quite cosmopolitan.
I spent about 18 months in foreign countries for longer times (6 months in Australia, 2x 6 months in USA).
France in 1997 for two months and then in 1998 for five months.
I was also there for two weeks in 2000.
It's harder to be cosmopolitan when your country is really big and and surrounded by ocean.
5 months in Holland, 1 1/2 years in Sweden. Then just little holidays.
Though if you want to count Ireland add another two or maybe three (lots of long holidays) years onto that.
It's nigh on five years since I came to Austria (early March).
too many cooties on the outside.
A week in London, another skiing in Switzerland. I've always gone on holidays to other parts of Spain.
My biggest regret is not going on Erasmus when I had the chance. :Embarrass:
Nearly 10 years in Norway. But I'm not sure it really counts. :D
Quote from: Razgovory on January 11, 2010, 04:00:31 PM
It's harder to be cosmopolitan when your country is really big and and surrounded by ocean.
I don't think we have any Australians on the board. :outback:
The longest away from home was under a year backpacking through Europe. Since then I have spent over a month in Europe (mainly Italy and France) on three occasions. I have also spent a lot of time in the US if you add up the aggregate of time spent there but not one long stay.
And to give one to our Separatist friends I have also stayed a week in Quebec on two occasions once in Montreal and once in Quebec City.
Quebec seperatists :wub:
I've never left the South. I took a trip to Charleston in the summer, which was far and away the furthest i'd ever travelled. It was a wonderful place, and I could see enjoying living there.
Quote from: crazy canuck on January 11, 2010, 04:17:40 PM
The longest away from home was under a year backpacking through Europe. Since then I have spent over a month in Europe (mainly Italy and France) on three occasions. I have also spent a lot of time in the US if you add up the aggregate of time spent there but not one long stay.
And to give one to our Separatist friends I have also stayed a week in Quebec on two occasions once in Montreal and once in Quebec City.
A longish trip like that would be fucking awesome. The longest stretch I've ever pulled was 6 weeks and by that time I felt I had barely scratched the surface of what could've been a great adventure. :bowler:
10+ years. :ph34r:
I've been to almost all countries in western europe, and I've been several times to quite a few of them (been at least five times to Germany, for example, probably something like five times to Spain as well). Been to all the baltic countries. Three times to Turkey (I included Greece with western europe). Been to the US. I've been to nine asian countries: Sri Lanka, India, Mongolia, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, East Timor and China and some of them I've been to several times. Been staying at my fathers place in Jakarta months at a time. But I don't think I've been out of the country for more than two or three months or so at a time. I really have no idea how much I've been out of the country in total. I picked 1-2 years but I'm not sure if it's the right choice.
I work for a living.
Voted "only tourist trips".
Nearly 5 years since I moved to the US, but I don't really count it as foreign.
Should an EU citizen living in another EU country really count as a "foreign country"?
Quote from: Slargos on January 11, 2010, 05:05:48 PM
A longish trip like that would be fucking awesome.
It was really something. Made some life long friends along the way and it really changed the way I looked at life. Funny thing was I thought I would do it again some day. I had no real appreciation for how special that time was at the time.
Quote from: Barrister on January 11, 2010, 05:30:06 PM
Should an EU citizen living in another EU country really count as a "foreign country"?
Heh. Most of us can't even understand each other.
Quote from: Barrister on January 11, 2010, 05:19:30 PM
I work for a living.
Voted "only tourist trips".
Yeah, mister red-blooded working man, the lawyer. :rolleyes:
A week in Canada, an afternoon in Mexico. I don't like to travel.
Quote from: Lettow77 on January 11, 2010, 06:03:14 PM
Quote from: Barrister on January 11, 2010, 05:19:30 PM
I work for a living.
Voted "only tourist trips".
Yeah, mister red-blooded working man, the lawyer. :rolleyes:
Does working as a lawyer not qualify as "work"? :huh:
A funny attitude for someone who said he wanted to go to law school.
Yeah, I am going to go into law school, and i'll be a successful lawyer.
I have no missaprehensions that this entails an honest working man's trade, however..
I have seen law close enough to know that alot of it is scaring people into paying you more than you deserve by impressing upon them how much time they might do, and cutting deals out of court to minimize workloads.
Most lawyers I have seen do not work 8 hour days, and they are paid ludicrously more than the job merits, save that they patiently waited through the years to earn their license to steal.
I am unimpressed.
Edit: An Engineer, now, that's a real working man's job.
Only a hard day watching the negroes in the fields count.
Quote from: Lettow77 on January 11, 2010, 06:15:06 PM
Yeah, I am going to go into law school, and i'll be a successful lawyer.
I have no missaprehensions that this entails an honest working man's trade, however..
I have seen law close enough to know that alot of it is scaring people into paying you more than you deserve by impressing upon them how much time they might do, and cutting deals out of court to minimize workloads.
Most lawyers I have seen do not work 8 hour days, and they are paid ludicrously more than the job merits, save that they patiently waited through the years to earn their license to steal.
I am unimpressed.
Edit: An Engineer, now, that's a real working man's job.
Lawyers I've met work themselves pretty hard. I'm surprised more don't burn out and go insane.
Granted, I have seen lawyers who work hard. My father usually is not home, and he goes nowhere else but his office; he works as desperately as he can for people who absolutely do not deserve it, and at ludicrously low wages.
He is certaintly an exception to the rule, however.
I think alot of it is how much emotional investment you have in your client's lives. What happens to them is momentous stuff for them, but more successful lawyers seem to have a detatchment from their fates and more of an interest on the money to accrued.
As Viper used to keep in his sig, I'll simply state my usual line: I don't need to travel to see the world, because the world comes here and starts crime syndicates.
Quote from: Lettow77 on January 11, 2010, 06:15:06 PM
Yeah, I am going to go into law school, and i'll be a successful lawyer.
I have no missaprehensions that this entails an honest working man's trade, however..
I have seen law close enough to know that alot of it is scaring people into paying you more than you deserve by impressing upon them how much time they might do, and cutting deals out of court to minimize workloads.
Most lawyers I have seen do not work 8 hour days, and they are paid ludicrously more than the job merits, save that they patiently waited through the years to earn their license to steal.
I am unimpressed.
:rolleyes:
Yet you are impressed enough to go into it?
Quote from: CountDeMoney on January 11, 2010, 06:37:56 PM
As Viper used to keep in his sig, I'll simply state my usual line: I don't need to travel to see the world, because the world comes here and starts crime syndicates.
I agree with my esteemed brother from another mother.
Foreigners are hard enough to tolerate on business trips. So Disneyland will be my future "foreign" trips with kids. On non fag days.
I've only spent 6 years in my home country, 29 years in foreign lands.
Quote from: Viking on January 11, 2010, 07:29:04 PM
I've only spent 6 years in my home country, 29 years in foreign lands.
Adding up all the time you've spent out on off-shore rigs, how long do you think you have collectively on them?
Eh..four or five months total in Japan, a couple weeks here or there on various Pacific islands, a couple weeks in Australia (another island heh), several trips to Mexico before they started killing each other more than normal, about a month in Singapore (also an island I suppose), about a week in Korea....I think that's it.
2 weeks in Italy
1 week in Canada
1 week in the United Kingdom
1 week in Mexico
1 day in Switzerland
~8 hours in the Vatican
several hours in Germany
I live in the richest part of a big, rich country. Where would I go?
Quote from: Neil on January 11, 2010, 07:49:33 PM
I live in the richest part of a big, rich country. Where would I go?
Someplace you can swim in the ocean instead of skating on it.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on January 11, 2010, 09:26:31 PM
Quote from: Neil on January 11, 2010, 07:49:33 PM
I live in the richest part of a big, rich country. Where would I go?
Someplace you can swim in the ocean instead of skating on it.
Ethnic Alberta is landlocked. Oceans are only useful as something for dreadnoughts to float on.
"Only been in foreign countries for short tourism stays."
Much to my dismay. :(
Quote from: merithyn on January 11, 2010, 10:44:56 PM
"Only been in foreign countries for short tourism stays."
Much to my dismay. :(
You're not missing much.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on January 11, 2010, 10:45:48 PM
Quote from: merithyn on January 11, 2010, 10:44:56 PM
"Only been in foreign countries for short tourism stays."
Much to my dismay. :(
You're not missing much.
How the fuck would you know?
As strange and wonderous as it is, ohio isn't a different country.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on January 11, 2010, 10:45:48 PM
You're not missing much.
I would let my ex raise my children for a year for an opportunity to spend that year in Europe. That's how badly I want to live somewhere other than here for a bit.
Quote from: katmai on January 11, 2010, 10:47:46 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on January 11, 2010, 10:45:48 PM
Quote from: merithyn on January 11, 2010, 10:44:56 PM
"Only been in foreign countries for short tourism stays."
Much to my dismay. :(
You're not missing much.
How the fuck would you know?
As strange and wonderous as it is, ohio isn't a different country.
It's the heart of it all, bitch.
And besides, where the hell else would I find someplace as wonderful like Schmidt's Sausage Haus? Germany? PFFT YEAH RIGHT
Quote from: CountDeMoney on January 11, 2010, 11:03:35 PM
And besides, where the hell else would I find someplace as wonderful like Schmidt's Sausage Haus? Germany? PFFT YEAH RIGHT
:lol:
I have spent a handful of long weekends in Mexico. :ccr
Somewhere between 5 and 10 years. Hong Kong and Singapore for a couple of years each back in the 1960s and Germany on several occasions throughout the period 1958-74.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on January 11, 2010, 11:03:35 PM
And besides, where the hell else would I find someplace as wonderful like Schmidt's Sausage Haus? Germany? PFFT YEAH RIGHT
:lol:
14 months in Iraq, 1 month in Kuwait. :frusty:
Hoping to branch out and do the euro trip next summer. :bowler:
14+ years, lived in 6 countries besides the one I was born in
kevin
Quote from: CountDeMoney on January 11, 2010, 07:30:27 PM
Quote from: Viking on January 11, 2010, 07:29:04 PM
I've only spent 6 years in my home country, 29 years in foreign lands.
Adding up all the time you've spent out on off-shore rigs, how long do you think you have collectively on them?
On site? ehh.. I'd have to guess 10 - 12 months in total.
Somewhat over 6 months in Brussels. Since I can't count less-than-one-month stays that's it.
About 3.5 years.
>2 years: Italy
<1 year: Greece
<6 months: Germany, France
<2 months: Ukraine, Romania, Belgium
<1 month: Canada, USA, UK, Russia, Czech Rep., Hungary, Denmark, Austria
<2 weeks: Malta, Cyprus, Vatican, Luxembourg
<1 week: San Marino, Spain, Switzerland
Total 1 month.
2 - 1 Week trip to Cuba
1 - 1 Week trip to England
1 - 3 day trip to Boston
1 - 3 day trip to Connecticut
2 1/2 months in UK, Spain, France, Italy (spread across 3 trips)
1 month in Costa Rica
Several weeks in "ethnic Alberta"
A few days in Canada
I've also visited several countries in the Caribbean, but I don't think they really count since it was on a cruise.
6 weeks of internships in both the UK and Spain.
I have been living for a year in Germany. However, I return regularly to Paris for the weekend.
Time spent in France and Portugal obviously not included.
19 years in Korea
4 months in France
3 weeks in Japan
2 1/2 weeks in Jamaica
1 1/2 weeks in Germany
6 days in Canada
4 days in Italy
4 days in Holland
1 day in Hungary
1 day in Denmark
1 day in Switzerland
2 hours in Sweden
about a year in total, later this year that might change, again <_<
Oh, a fair amount, but not as much as I would prefer.
Quote from: AnchorClanker on January 12, 2010, 03:09:01 PM
Oh, a fair amount, but not as much as I would prefer.
Redacted version.
Quote from: AnchorClanker on January 12, 2010, 03:09:01 PM
Oh, a fair amount, but not as much as I would prefer.
Christ, you're such a self-loathing America-Hater.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/12/AR2010011201976.html?hpid=moreheadlines
Quote from: Admiral Yi on January 12, 2010, 01:45:38 PM
19 years in Korea
No shit? Were you born and raised there?
Quote from: Pitiful Pathos on January 12, 2010, 09:34:57 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on January 12, 2010, 01:45:38 PM
19 years in Korea
No shit? Were you born and raised there?
And how long have you been a Languishinian? Don't you know the Yi Story?
I don't know it either. I fail as forum historian. :Embarrass:
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on January 12, 2010, 09:52:37 PM
I don't know it either. I fail as forum historian. :Embarrass:
:yes:
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on January 12, 2010, 09:52:37 PM
I don't know it either. I fail as forum historian. :Embarrass:
Same
You're all illiterate douchebags.
Yi was born after his father, a 7th Day Adventist missionary in Seoul who had trouble converting modernized Koreans, went to the countryside to a small struggling village whose name, loosely translated, meant "village of granite farming". He met Yi's Mom, who, after a short courtship and teaching her Psalms in English, purchased her from her family with a Whirlpool washer-dryer set, despite not having any electrical service, after US tanks knocked over the village's only telephone pole during maneuvers two years earlier. The newlyweds spent their first spring together bringing the Good News of the Lord to countryside Koreans who farmed dirt and counseling Korean orphanages on the 5 Levels of Nutrition until they had to hunker down when Mother Yi got preggers. Still an infant, Yi was pulled around on his parents' travois as his parents travelled the Korean countryside preaching the Lord, meanwhile earning a small living dealing in furs and buffalo meat with French trappers.
I mean, fuck, people. Don't any of you ever fucking pay attention to posts?
:lmfao:
3 Years as Imperial Governor of Japan. other than that, short trips of a week or less, to various points in the U.S. of .A
Quote from: Admiral Yi on January 12, 2010, 10:16:05 PM
Quote from: Pitiful Pathos on January 12, 2010, 09:34:57 PM
No shit? Were you born and raised there?
Si.
Yi, when I was in college one of my suitemates my senior year was a Korean exchange student in Boston to learn English. He was a veteran of the ROK navy, and before he left when the year ended he gave me the belt from his dress uniform. I thought it was kinda weird but a nice gesture so I bowed to him and he laughed at me and then patted my shoulder.
Is giving people your belt some sort of Korean ritual or was he just gay for me? :)
@ CdM :lol:
- Up into Canada(British Columbia) several times as a lad on my dad's sailboat.
- Three-week trip to Europe (England/Wales, Germany, Netherlands).
- 9-ish days in Canada transiting to Alaska.
- A bit over 2 years in Texas.
Hope to do a multi-week trip to Japan this Spring(since I can easily fly there free on Space-A from here), but I doubt I'll be able to take as much leave as I would want/need to, to make it viable.
Quote from: Caliga on January 13, 2010, 07:44:46 AM
Is giving people your belt some sort of Korean ritual or was he just gay for me? :)
Definitely gay. Or maybe you're blood brothers now. I forget which.
For the life of me I can't remember the guy's real name now, but he went by John. He told me everybody in Korea goes by an English name as well as their Korean name. I think his real name may have been "Jun" or something that sounds like John.
Lets see...
About 3 weeks in Norway...
14 days in Sweden + alot of short day trips...
Countless number of day trips to Germany, yes if nothing else just to bring home cheap beer and vine from the border shop...
6 days in Holland
5 days in Ireland
2 days in England, as part of the 50th anniversary of the D-day landings...
4 days in France, 50th anniversary of the D-day continued...
14 days in Yugoslavia
6 months in Australia
over 6 months in Mexico
a few weeks in HK
not to mention all the time spent slumming through Canada
4 years in Canada. 4 months in Berkeley. Some trips. Voted less than 5 years.
Half my life.
Humm....Half-Life?
Am I the REAL Gordon Freeman?
Quote from: lustindarkness on January 12, 2010, 01:55:10 PM
about a year in total, later this year that might change, again <_<
Now, if I consider the US as a foreign country (since I was born in Puerto Rico) I guess it would be over 12 years.
Maybe the US-Rome comparisons aren't so far off...
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on January 14, 2010, 02:20:28 PM
Maybe the US-Rome comparisons aren't so far off...
There are barbarous Gauls on our northern frontier. :o
Quote from: Savonarola on January 14, 2010, 02:25:06 PM
There are barbarous Gauls on our northern frontier. :o
Some have managed to set up camp within the Imperium. :ph34r:
Quote from: Siege on January 14, 2010, 01:06:56 PM
Half my life.
Humm....Half-Life?
Am I the REAL Gordon Freeman?
He's quieter, better educated, and has gotten way more kills.
Quote from: Razgovory on January 14, 2010, 03:33:47 PM
Quote from: Siege on January 14, 2010, 01:06:56 PM
Half my life.
Humm....Half-Life?
Am I the REAL Gordon Freeman?
He's quieter, better educated, and has gotten way more kills.
True.