[PRCo] Re: Europa

[Fred Schneider]

Yes, Jim, but remember how many times I isolated San Francisco, New  
York and Chicago city proper from the rest of the United States.

Jim, my heart is in many places.   I'm a citizen of the world.   My  
news comes from Deutschewelle, the Mancester Guardian on line, the  
local news services, friends around the world.   I'm simply not an  
isolationist who lives only in Manheim Township, Lancaster County,  
Pennsylvania and ignores the rest of the world.   I love the Swiss  
Alps, I find it fabulous to enjoy a day in the Canadian Rockies or  
driving across Nevada.   Southern Utah is enough to make you believe  
there is perhaps a being greater than you are.   It's inspiring.    
It's not hard for me to enjoy a day walking along the Seine in Paris  
or an afternoon in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London looking  
at John Constable paintings.   And my granddaughter and great  
grandchild are both here.   I've found in my separation from my wife  
that I've got some fabulous friends everywhere from Pittsburgh or  
North Carolina to Munich.   But why move?   You can always visit.

But if I'm lucky I might just find a companion whose cup is half full  
instead of half empty ...   someone like me who can enjoy wandering,  
likes people of all persuasions and races, and food from  
everywhere.   Wasn't sure where I was going tonight for dinner.   I  
thought there was either a bowl of Pho in the Vietnamese restaurant  
or a plate of Cajun blackened catfish with my name on it.   Instead I  
wound up eating sushi and sashini and seaweed soup tonight.

It's a big world and I've not found any of it yet that I didn't like  
except perhaps there is some reluctance to go back to Russia.   But  
maybe I'd like to go look at the small towns in Russia.

Fred Schneider


On Nov 7, 2007, at 4:49 PM, Jim Holland wrote:

>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:  Fred Schneider
>>
>> We've decentralized ourselves onto 1/2 acre building lots and left  
>> our
>> cities as hollow shells in which the welfare recipients and drug
>> culture live.
>>
>> And some of you probably wonder why I like the European culture ...
>> maybe it is because they still have cities where people live, work,
>> eat, shop, worship and are entertained.     They don't have hollow
>> shells.    As Josh Coran, who was with us remarked, you don't need a
>> shopping center in Vienna ... the whole city is a shopping center.
>> Right ... same applies to Munich, Graz, Linz and every place else we
>> were.      Seems strange seeing elementary school kids on the
>> streetcars by themselves.      Says something about the safety in
>> their culture.     And Munich ... the S-Bahn (commuter rail) is
>> running at capacity, not like ours at 50% of capacity in  
>> Philadelphia,
>> but at strangulation ... at the point where you really can't put more
>> people
>> on it.
>>
>> fws
> .
> We have  Alimentary school kids All Over Our Transit  --  """Once A  
> Day,
> Every Day, All Day Long(~!~!);"""  Is That Banned in the East~?~!~?
> What Is Your Secret;  maybe we could do the same?     But this is the
> Left Coast so it might not work here because we are, well,...
> Left~!~!~!     DARN~!~!
> .
> .
> You are at a Crossroad in your life, Fred  --  why not make a
> change~?~?     This is a Golden Opportunity  -- move to Europe  --   
> Your
> Heart is already there~!~!     Find some place where the exchange rate
> works in your favor  --  CZ comes to mind  --  25.1 in recent  
> years  --
> you would live like Getty over there~!~!~!     It is easy to come up
> with a Million or more  *eggscuses*  for not so doing so push them  
> aside
> and   *"""Just_Do_It~!~!~!"""*     Fraulein Helga is waiting to Greet
> You  --  Maybe More~!~!~!
> .
> .
> You and Boris could then collaborate on writing PCC books~!~!~!~!
> .
> .
> .
>>
>> On Nov 6, 2007, at 4:19 PM, Jim Holland wrote:
>>
>>> This will get them writing Matt~!~!~!~!
>>>
>>>
>>> Barry, Matthew R wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Here is a page out of the University of Pittsburgh's 1963 Owl
>>>> yearbook with a photo of inside PCC 1673, and a description of
>>>> riding the cars that year by, apparently one of the editors of the
>>>> yearbook.
> http://lists.dementia.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/image001.jpg
>