Letters to the Editor
bluedaisy
Published Letters: 3 Editor's Choice: 1
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expat life not such a big deal after all
[Read the article: Trading preschool for passports]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This past summer, my husband and I put our house on the market, put a bunch of furniture into storage, and moved our two preschoolers (2 and 4 at the time) from the US to Cairo, Egypt. We are barely middle class folks; this moved was funded by my now-employer, who also gives us furnished housing, six weeks of annual leave including airfare for the four of us back to the US, a generous number of paid holidays during the year that have allowed us to do some fascinating travel within Egypt, a salary that means we can afford a part-time housekeeper and for my husband to take some time off from working, and paid tuition for my kids at the nearby excellent American school. My kids currently attend a fantastic English language Montessori school that costs only a few hundred dollars a month. All this and I'm hardly a superstar in my field, just a regular working person only out of grad school a few years.
I can now say with confidence that moving abroad has been fantastic for all of us. My kids are thriving, especially because of the time they have with their dad. The working hours are better for me here too, so I have more time with them as well.
Cairo is huge, but life is a lot simpler here. There's not so much mindless shopping to do, though we can get all the American stuff we want (which isn't much, but we do like our peanut butter). There's a great produce stand and grocery store just down the street. We do have a great lifestyle. My kids are learning Arabic, and we are learning an awful lot about the world.
In the end, moving abroad has been life changing--today we were driving around for some errands and there in the distance were the Great Pyramids--but really not such a big deal after all.
Amanda's angst seems far more profound than needs to be for this. If you want to go, just go.
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Feel sorry for her?
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The NY Times said she was one of the people pushing him NOT to resign.
Mr. Spitzer’s family and his top assistants debated Monday morning at Mr. Spitzer’s apartment about whether he should step down, a person who spoke to the governor said. Silda Wall Spitzer, who was among them, told her husband that he should not resign in haste; as did Lloyd Constantine, a senior adviser and a longtime friend of the governor. But most of his others saw no way for him to survive.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/nyregion/11spitzer.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2&hp&oref=slogin
Sounds like she recovered pretty quickly.
In any case, my reaction is more to be disgusted with women who are standing by their cheating husbands. She didn't have to appear with him in public. Couldn't you argue she's really enabling this behavior? Hillary, Cindy McCain, and now Spitzer's wife... they're sure making it a lot easier for their husbands to get away with it all.
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republicans
[Read the article: Byrd endorses Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So it's Republicans who are found of pointing out that Byrd is former KKK?