SunsetSteve
3/10/2017 17:26 EST
This may or may not be of interest to those who, like me, are in pre-emigrant status. It is my possibly relevant dream last night. Pass the quinoa? lol
So here you have the opportunity to slip into your Freud persona. I would be interested to know whether you think there is significance. :)m a passenger in a small 2-seater red sports car taxi, the driver is a 30-ish male with a strong Latino accent. We are rushing through traffic, dipsy-doodling around the other vehicles to the pint where I tell him to slow the f down, he is making me very nervous. He turns his head to reassure me about his skills.
We approach a high bridge curving to the right. As we enter onto the bridge, the driver makes a sudden turn to the left, sliding through an opening in the guardrail and sailing off into the air!
Surprisingly, the driver seems to be able to steer the swooping descent by turning the wheel - I ask him if he can control the steering of the glide with the direction of the wheels and he confirms, as we then smoothly glide to a stop beside a creek at the bottom of whatever it is we were descending. Dream ends.
I have my own ideas about this.
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Kee
3/10/2017 19:10 EST
Steve, interesting dream, but despite my psychology major (or maybe because of it) I firmly believe that Freud wasting a lot of time attempting to interpret dreams.
Interesting story: Freud let Carl Jung interpret his dreams for a few days and decided that was enough. It's much more comfortable being the master.
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SunsetSteve
3/10/2017 19:13 EST
Sure Kee, but it does feel as if my subconscious is messaging my conscious in a not-so-subtle way. :=)
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Kee
3/10/2017 20:11 EST
Steve, it's great to contemplate a dream and seek meaning, I do it myself. I just get skeptical when an "expert", whether it's Freud, Jung or whoever wants to ascribe a very specific meaning to someone else's dream.
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eltecnicoingenioso
3/11/2017 11:24 EST
As with all human interactions, its all too easy to project one's fears and fantasies onto others - -
If it were my dream, it suggests a situation over which I had little control was in fact benign
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SunsetSteve
3/11/2017 12:52 EST
That was also my take on it. The effect of it was in fact to give me a level of comfort.
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stevesawyer1895
3/13/2017 23:51 EST
If you are informed then you have the information that you can take action with to deal with the situation. The problem with living overseas is you probably don't have all the information you need locally or legally. It seems to change with every person you meet with and even with attorneys. There is no legal ruling that everyone is held to except how they want to treat depending on your situation.
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augieman
3/14/2017 09:55 EST
Steve
When you got back to the world were you not struck by the clean efficient airport?
Ease of retrieving luggage?
Not having to do battle with taxi over the fare?
Or yell at him to slow down drive safely?
Roads with no giant potholes?
All drivers stop at signs,take their place in easing into traffic?
No blaring salsa sounds?
Mail delivered ;appointments made and kept timely?
Internet with authentic high speed?
Power stays steady?
Cable is reliable; dental and medical care at hand?
911 answers instantaneously. and fire and police almost as quickly.
I wondered at the deep angst expressed by Colombians who had lived in El Norte.
Why would they NOT prefer that living to what Sur America has to offer.
Taxes are lower and so is cost of living but
nowhere does the phrase "you get what you pay for" have greater meaning.
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SunsetSteve
3/14/2017 11:22 EST
Augie - most of the benefits you describe are in fact NOT characteristics of where I live in rural Ontario - and those that are of of little interest to me. We have no public transportation nearby, and those that connect via the city are crazy expensive. We have no taxi service, municipal water or sewer, frequent power outages and internet blackouts due to falling trees. Decent shopping, dentists and hospitals are at least 45 minutes away. Only the main roads are paved, and many of them of the tar-and-gravel type. Property taxes are sky high because of the sparse population to share the load.
Nobody uses mail anymore anyway, and home delivery is fast becoming a thing of the past.
So to answer your question: no. Many aspects of daily life are better in Colombia, and cheaper to boot! Basic health care, however, is better (as in free) here, although wait times may be longer, I don't really know about that.
I recognize that my situation is far from typical, but at the same time I find living in a large Canadian city to be unbearable despite regular mail service, chain restaurants and fluoridated water at the tap.
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