Reply #189: living here in st. lucia for

[laruemtt]

the last four months, i'm appalled everytime i see bits and pieces of the american "culture" on the "news." the stuff your face contests, the melees at the walmarts on black friday, the gross consumerism. i hated it when i lived there and it just seems like a caricature of itself now from here.

i know we might have to go back some day when dh's medical training reaches its next landmark, but we've been talking lately of either staying here in the caribbean (far east caribbean - away from the crass commercialism of some of the western caribbean isles) or maybe even some farmland in ontario. at 53 now, my soul cries for what's happened to the u.s. and i hurt for my family and friends back "home." and since it is "home," i often get homesick. but i cannot imagine living in what it has become again.