Where do you live?

[Chrystal]

Welkom is a mining town and we have lots of foreign people that work here. Some mines closed down, but others are up and running. We have 3 hospitals - 2 privately owned ones and 1 government (or regional) one. We have 2 traffic lights and they are outside of town on the way in - few stop streets and mostly traffic circles which work fine when one knows how to navigate them. There is no public bus service, but have what we call "taxis" - that is mini bus/combivan types that transport people to and fro for a price - the non white folks catch these mainly. (I'm not racist, but was told when I first came NOT to catch them b'cos its not safe for us). The mines have what they call a megabus to transport the miners to and fro. We have a library that doesn't get many new books, some shopping centres, some fabric shops, a toy shop. A shop that sells wool - don't think you are going to get that very thin wool here - oh no - we are lucky if we see 3 ply wool (and that is usually baby wool)! I get quite fustrated at times.

Healthwise - lots of miners suffer from TB and most are HIV +ve as well due to their promiscuity. Its so sad. Other miners have the other lung diseases like ptysis (not sure how spelled), emphysema etc. Unfortunately, a patient does not have to inform anyone that he/she is HIV+ve and if the doctor wants an HIV blood test, they or family must give consent and they are councelled prior to blood test. One usually knows when they are on antiretroviral treatment.

[Threewinds96]

I live in Xenia, Ohio

[catshem]

in South, New Jersey of USA. I wont get anymore specific outside of a pm ^_~ Very interested in knowing that we've got someone from Africa! Never met anyone from Africa before.. actually that's partially true. Back in school there was a boy whose family used to live in Africa and then moved to the States, but I wasn't like best friends with the guy.

And oh sweet Jegus NO. No one here is like that god awful MTV show. >_< At least not on the South side, I don't have a clue what the North is like and I'd rather not find out.

[Vetinari]

6 months of the year central Cambridge, UK. Dodgy student accomodation, v.hard work (put it this way in my 1st year, a 1/4 of my course was taken up with Physics. People I know who took pure Physics at other unis only caught up towards the end of their 2nd year... )

6 months of the year, one of the extremely dodgy north-eastern boroughs of London (yeah we've got gangs etc ).

But when at Cambridge I only have v.basic amenities so it's hard to say which location I prefer. That and out of necessity
most of my dolliehs get left in London.