Word: expats
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...that supports a massive bronze bell. For those in need of a jolt of the real world, there will be no objections if you bring your own coffee. For more information call (82-2) 3672-5945 or e-mail kilsangsa@yahoo.co.kr. More information can also be had from Seoul's expat Buddhist community: call the Lotus Lantern Buddhist Center...
...what's an expat who wants to go back to do? Very little, I suspect--unless the housing market crashes completely, which is unlikely. What's more, in the interest of full disclosure, I must confess that my story, like San Francisco's, has changed. I have also grown up and, in spite of my youthful protestations, acquired a taste for a more comfortable life. Even if by magic I could return to San Francisco and live on a pittance in a ramshackle flat--even one with a fabulous "vu"--I'm not so sure I would jump...
...Planning Council urged officials to use all available means to increase Iowa's population. "We've got to fire every bullet," says council chairman David Oman. And so in hopes of adding 310,000 new residents to the population over the next nine years, Vilsack is trying to lure expat Iowans back home. He is hosting receptions around the country for Iowa university alumni. But so far, only about 300 families have returned...
...Foreign Devils is at its best when it allows the missionaries who have made Hong Kong their calling or the Eurasians who have climbed the social ladder to tell their own stories. One glaring omission: despite Holdsworth mentioning that Filipinos are by far Hong Kong's largest expat group, she doesn't include a word from them...
...when Holdsworth finds subjects whose lives were changed by Hong Kong, such as Stacy Mosher, an American who arrived "during that golden period when Hong Kong was no longer a colony and not yet an SAR," changed from teacher to journalist and married a Chinese political publisher. Not every expat was as galvanized by Hong Kong as Mosher, but there were enough to make Foreign Devils more than mere nostalgia...