Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!gcd.org!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!news-out1.nntp.be!propagator2-sterling!propagator3-cogent!news-in.nuthinbutnews.com!cycny01.gnilink.net!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!nwrddc02.gnilink.net.POSTED!05c4ec6b!not-for-mail From: Kevin Wayne Williams User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: ja, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan,sci.lang.japan Subject: Re: Job thingee References: <40978607.4090202@hotmail.com> <40978A08.3010807@hotmail.com> <409798B7.9060106@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <409798B7.9060106@yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 22 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 15:15:33 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.130.93.146 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrddc02.gnilink.net 1083683733 68.130.93.146 (Tue, 04 May 2004 11:15:33 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 11:15:33 EDT Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:13742 John W. wrote: > Declan Murphy wrote: >> For every "can you recommend someone in Dallas/Seattle/Dogpatch" I get >> at least a dozen for Hyderabad or Bangalore. Are you tempted? >> > I am. Anywhere, just about anything, but particularly tech-related. If you are willing to put up with living in India, Americans can make a relatively good living there. Of course, I had real problems with the idea of filling my fresh water tank to the brim during the hour a day I was allowed to get drinking water from the city supply, driving 7 vehicles wide on three lane roads, and covering all my food with fiery spice so that no one could determine its actual condition. The people are fine, but it will be many years before they have upgraded their living environment to the point I could tolerate it on any long term basis. Just think: after my last trip to Mumbai, I welcomed the three day stop-over in the wide open, uncongested city of Tokyo. KWW