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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can’t stand threads like these. Please believe me, I have lived all of the world serving in the foreign service. 1. The difference in weight for people I work with is no different whether they are at home or overseas. Not a single person has remarked a difference in weight due to a move to Europe or somewhere else. We all stay stable or there is weight gain due to lifestyle choices/age. 2. Anyone who has lived in those countries (visiting for a few weeks doesn’t count) knows that these people have nothing to be smug about. [b]Every government has their serious drawbacks[/b] and their populace is ballooning in weight just like the US.  I see it everywhere I go. They have plenty of stressors, usually financial. Take off your rose colored glasses please. You have it pretty good in America.[/quote]

While I’m not convinced living in a different country with the foreign service (or military or other situation where you primarily work and interact with people of your own country) is necessarily the same as people who live there as members of the community full time, I think the boldes is really really true.  There’s problems everywhere and it’s easy to visit another country and see how they do things better than your country.  It’s also easy to move to another country only to realize later the things your home country does well that you hadn’t even thought of until you didn’t have them.[/quote]

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