> non-reciprocal love Very true... same thing happened to me in Thailand -- 16 years there and finally got tired of the government's xenophobia and relentless

> non-reciprocal love Very true... same thing happened to me in Thailand -- 16 years there and finally got tired of the government's xenophobia and relentless efforts to push foreigners out of the country. I am an American citizen, and the more I think of it, that is one reason I left America too.... Best to embrace a personal identity as an expat. It's a tribe or sorts, but it's more a state of mind. You lived in America as an immigrant. Live there as an expat, the attitude will free you, safe in the knowledge that if things really get bad, you can always find another place that /will/ love you... until they don't :)