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It's kind of stupid for you to be suggesting that people where I live out in suburbia ditch their cars and start walking everywhere. It would be fabulous if I were living in an urban area, but out here there's no public transportation, and to get to the freaking stores it's about five miles each way. Great, I'd still be able to walk or bike that distance on a nice day perhaps, but what about commuting to your job, for chrissake? That's the problem with suburbia. Without even trying to exercise, I've been much leaner in the past when I lived in cities (though I still work hard to get exercise). Please try to use some logic and refrain from the stupid statements. And I still think that as a guest here, you are a rigid-minded person with not particularly intelligent ideas about fixing the problems you see around, I'm not particularly impressed with the fact that you pay taxes here (I used to live abroad too--it didn't lead me to feel I had the right to make flippant, unhelpful remarks about the local society), and I tend to doubt that you are out in the fields working with the other immigrants, who really do perform a useful function here. So most of the immigrants can stay. The invitation for you to leave is still open.
