[BlueSkyJaunte]

I'm not trying to start anything (although I'm sure it will look like I am).

But every time people complain (myself included) about life here in these United States, I stop and think about the time I spent on a job in Indonesia. And I remember what a cesspool that country is in comparison to, say, NYC, or LA, or SLC, or Phoenix, or even Columbus, Ohio.

And it's not just 3rd world countries that are like this. I've been to "industrialized" nations where as soon as you get out of "civilization" (i.e., downtown) you'd think you were walking amidst cavemen.

Not to mention the uplifting feeling you get of being the wrong color and religion and everyone around you hating you for that fact.

We really do have it good here.