Why would anyone live in Indonesia?

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

Why would anyone live in Indonesia?

salesortonscom · Wise and Revered Master

I hear the diving is great!!!

Seriously though. I hear from people all the time when I go on business out of state that they wouldn't dream of living in California due to our earthquakes. I don't even think about it. Check out the map of the 339 or so earthquakes we've had in the last week. http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

There are plenty of other reasons why living in California is crazy talk... biggrin

bokbadok · Senior Bucketkeeper

A lot of people in indonesia aren't there by choice. It's their homeland and they are too poor to go anywhere else. Bummer.

lundbaek · Profuse Pontificator

And a lot of ex-pats are in Indonesia for the big $s to be made there. Some of my former colleagues spent years out there and loved it.

PollyAnna · Senior Bucketkeeper

salesortonscom wrote:
Check out the map of the 339 or so earthquakes we've had in the last week.

Wait a minute...???? You are a Farmer AND live in CA??? As my daddy would say... "I am beginning to worry about you son..."

salesortonscom · Wise and Revered Master

California is a huge farming state. Most people think it is all surfing and San Frangayo. Basically, there is farming in most areas between the Bay Area and the area in Southern California that people most associate with LA. Agriculture is the number 1 industry in California. If California were a separate country it would be somewhere between the 5th to the 7th largest economy in the world, a good portion of which comes from Ag. Ag exports are huge. About the only things not grown here are tobacco and soybeans.

Cocobeem · Keeper of the Holy Grail

A guy I graduated with has lived in Indonesia for the last decade or so. Just moved "back" earlier this year. Maybe we'll catch up at the 20 year (

) reunion and I'll ask him. I know it takes a lot less money to have a much higher standard of living there... sounds like his wife and he travelled to many interesting places, too... They were not close to the coast when the tsunami hit, btw.

Pt314 · Senior Member

salesortonscom wrote:

About the only things not grown here are tobacco and soybeans.

Iowa & Nebraska have the soybeans covered, as well as corn, so you don't have to worry about that.

(I served my mission in Iowa for those who didn't know.)

-- Edited by Pt314 at 11:59, 2007-05-30

fear of shiz · Profuse Pontificator

When were you in Iowa? Ever make it to Ottumwa?

Cocobeem · Keeper of the Holy Grail

Why would anyone live in Ottumwa?

PollyAnna · Senior Bucketkeeper

salesortonscom wrote:
California is a huge farming state. Most people think it is all surfing and San Frangayo.

Jase... I am amazed... not that you are a Framer in CA... but that you are a Farmer and still IN Cailfornia... I'm just funnin' with ya'. I think farmers are great... my daddy was a farmer, till the day he died... though he hadn't owned one for many many years!

BTW, I am quite familiar with the area of which you speak... From the age of 8 until the age of 19 I lived in San Jose at my parent's home (not far from Cupertino). I went to SJSU for 2 years after graduating HS early. HOWEVER... now just driving through CA is painful to me... TOO much growth and too much TRAFFIC!!! (Everywhere...) I admire you for sticking it out! There is a right place for everyone... For our family at this time it is AZ... smile

salesortonscom · Wise and Revered Master

Fortunately, my area hasn't seen the traffic go crazy yet although it has increased. The local indian casino is driving most of the traffic in my area. I can't stand the big cities although Fresno, Bakersfield, Visalia, Merced, Madera, and a few others aren't too bad yet.