>Assuming you and your are here legally... :)

I am and they are.

>Are you a US citizen? - aren't you still protected by the same basic laws that protects me?

Not a citizen, a legal alien. You've heard of H-1B, haven't you?

>Concerning your wife. Does living here entitle you to a job?

The other way around. Having a job entitles me to live here.

> Maybe she needs a work visa? - I really don't know the law.

Ever heard of H-4 visa? It's just bad.

>Airline security... after 911 everyone is (especially foreigners) subject to more scrutiny. Can't say that I blame them.

If i was a terrorist, I'd try to look like Al Capone - smooth shave, necktie, suit etc. I surely wouldn't wear a beard and have a strange namy on my driver's license. Their profiling is so shortsighted. One of the reasons it's much better for me to take a red-eye bus from here to NY (350 miles) than to fly.

>>...And there's a curfew here in Virginia Beach for anyone below 18 after 11pm, according to the bulletin of city's public schools.
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>The curfew is for EVERYONE under 18. I like that. :)

In my language there's no word for curfew. There's only an expression "police hour". The last police which enforced it there was German, occupational. Maybe it ticks me off because of such connotations.

Still, makes me wonder - the teenagers (16 and up) are trusted to drive two-ton SUVs, with 200+ HP under their command, but aren't trusted to be out on the street between 11pm and 5am? When I was that age, I regularly went home around midnight. My girlfriend lived on the other side of town (3 miles) so I walked quite often... the dance would be over by ten or eleven, so it's 1.5 miles to her, and 3 miles home. Never had a problem, even when police (yes, the communist police) stopped me and asked for an ID. And even when I didn't have one - as long as I blurted my address without hesitation.

>Barbara Boxer? Even worse... :)

Good. She scored one here.

>Wheather you agree or not, US is the most stable country in the world.

I didn't say anything to the contrary. Actually, it's stable to the point where change is nearly impossible.