Moving to NH

[Friday]

I went to Jubail Academy from '79 - '82.  Jubail was about a 2 hour drive from Dhahran, IIRC.   

[Dylboz]

Wow, cool. I was there from '81-'83, so it looks like we didn't overlap. My dad worked for King Faisal University. We went over to the ARAMCO compound a lot, it was a funny little desert subdivision, like so many right here in Tucson, with an American style mini-mall in the middle, but women could go around uncovered and you could buy pork and booze and stuff, which we'd have to sneak out, but I think it saved my mom's sanity. Did you ever go there? Why was your family there (if you don't mind me asking)?

Oh, yeah, I will say that growing up in these 3rd world hell-holes and seeing real dictatorship and essentially being second class citizens (my mother was once spit on in public by Libyan women after the U.S. embargoed their country), having to show papers at checkpoints and never being without a passport, seeing machine gun toting guards everywhere, and even then being aware of the corruption, knowing that some hard currency in the right hands could get you whatever you wanted, or get eyes turned the other way while you went about getting it, you know, that kind of stuff that we see going on here more and more, well that experience really made me so skeptical of government that I grew up to be an anarchist free marketeer, I think.

[srqrebel]

Welcome, Dylboz!

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Wow... is it just me, or is Keene rapidly pulling ahead of the competition (Manchester et al) as the place to be for true market anarchists? Not only is the Keene freedom community growing by leaps and bounds, but the ones being drawn here are very much the cream of the crop.

Cheers!!

[David]

I wish that were the case Srqrebel, but remember on this forum we are disproportianatley represented.  But hey, you could be right, and I hope you are.   

[Friday]

Oh yeah, we went to the ARAMCO compound many times.  My family used to participate in secret, underground Catholic services in people's homes (geez, it sounds almost exciting when you say it like that    ), but you could actually do it openly at ARAMCO, so we would make the pilgrimage there about once a month for the staples: Jesus and pork.     I actually had my confirmation (Catholic ceremony comparable to Jewish bar mitzvah) in the movie theater there.  Reason I lived there: my father worked for Bechtel.

Let me know when you get to NH. I brought my Jubail yearbooks with me, if you want to take a stroll down memory lane.  Also, if you're looking for a print shop job in NH, you might want to contact http://www.papergraphicsonline.com/ .  I don't know if they're hiring, but it's a pretty big shop.

I agree, the experience of living in a third world, non-Christian country, and going to school with kids from several different countries and cultures, was highly educational and, I think, allows you to view your own country and culture in a way that's difficult for many people.  I'm sure it helped make me the godless anarchist I am today.   

[J’raxis 270145]

Wow... is it just me, or is Keene rapidly pulling ahead of the competition (Manchester et al) as the place to be for true market anarchists? Not only is the Keene freedom community growing by leaps and bounds, but the ones being drawn here are very much the cream of the crop.

I'm glad to see people concentrating in a few towns, no matter what towns those are. (A few of us in each town accomplishes very little; all of us in one town will never free the entire state from the State.)

Manchester seems to be attracting a lot of the political types—either minarchists, who believe in the system, or anarchists, who want to simply use the system pragmatically—but I think the primary draw is that it's simply the biggest city in the state, and that's either what some people prefer, or what's necessary for their lifestyle. I'd prefer rural but picked Manchester because at the time I had no car, and I worked in Boston and needed a city on the bus routes that go there.

[Frisco06]

Dylboz,
Welcome to the forum! I live in Scottsdale.

[Barterer]

So, two people here have lived in Saudi. I ran into a guy on the internets once who went to my same private elementary school at the same time (but we were different ages, so we didn't know each other). Dhahran Academy. It was the ultimate "small world" scenario. Where and when were you folks there? I'm really curious...

I've never lived in Saudi, only my wife and some inlaws were there.  My wife was born in Dhahran in the mid-70s and her dad was an Aramco engineer for several years.  He still does semi-retired consulting gigs over there. He's a pretty ballsy old guy.  Besides the alcohol thing, he also was on the other end of a phone line when one of his colleagues was killed in a random shooting.. had the addresses been reversed, he'd probably be dead.  Yet he keeps going back, or at least finds that tax exemption on overseas earnings too sweet to pass up.  I'm an engineer too (not petroleum, unfortunately) and keep hearing vague advice that I should go work for Aramco. My wife teaches English as a second language, so together we could really clean up, and for both of us the Saudi option remains very intriguing.

[FTL_Ian]

Wow... is it just me, or is Keene rapidly pulling ahead of the competition (Manchester et al) as the place to be for true market anarchists? Not only is the Keene freedom community growing by leaps and bounds, but the ones being drawn here are very much the cream of the crop.

Cheers!!

Keene is the best!  Go Keene!   

[Dylboz]

Wow... is it just me, or is Keene rapidly pulling ahead of the competition (Manchester et al) as the place to be for true market anarchists? Not only is the Keene freedom community growing by leaps and bounds, but the ones being drawn here are very much the cream of the crop.

Cheers!!

Keene is the best!  Go Keene!   

Yeah, I wanna be close enough to the FTL crew that I may glimpse Mark without his shirt on. Also, and more honestly, I am angling for a shot on the radio, maybe even as an occasional guest host of FTL. This is a long shot, I know, but I have been told a million times that I have the perfect radio voice, I've done a little voice over, and I'm not shy on air (even on TV, which I've done recently). Perhaps if I weasel my way into your good graces, Ian (or maybe Gard's) I could make that dream come true, eh?

[Kat Kanning]

Yeah, I wanna be close enough to the FTL crew that I may glimpse Mark without his shirt on.

What Nevermind, I guess I don't really want to know.  Be sure and check out his ears while you're at it.

[Dylboz]

Yeah, I wanna be close enough to the FTL crew that I may glimpse Mark without his shirt on.

What Nevermind, I guess I don't really want to know.  Be sure and check out his ears while you're at it.

It's a running gag on the show, that's all. I am not really interested in a bare chested Mark Edge. I'm sure after a New Hampshire winter, the reflection would be blinding, even to a guy used to the bright Arizona sun.

[srqrebel]

If you had arrived home a couple of weeks sooner, you could have caught your coveted glimpse at the baby shower, after the illegal haircut. It was provided at no additional charge!

[Kat Kanning]

Apparently it was an event that stuck in Menno's mind.  I must have missed it.

[dalebert]

It's a running gag on the show, that's all. I am not really interested in a bare chested Mark Edge.

Seen it. He didn't have boobs tattooed to his back. It was very disappointing.