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>>>According to US TV there are only 3 professions in the whole country: Lawyers, doctors and realtors :-)
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>>rofl - oh and one more - fast food server. :)
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>Aye but that's a job as opposed to a profession. Oh there are 3 jobs as well: Server, cop or construction worker :-)
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>Incidentally, I get the impression that a realtor is a respected profession in the US; their UK equivalent, estate agents, are considered vermin, one step above paramecia. You'd never get a TV play or movie where the main protagonist is an estate agent; the only TV we have involving them is in the form of fly-on-the-wall, but we're all waiting for them to be given enough rope to hang themselves.
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>They never talk English either:
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>"I would consider that, in the cuyrrent market, this property would be able to command a price in the region of £200,000"
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>rather than:
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>"The house could fetch about £200,000 at the moment"

Realtors are far from a respected profession in the U.S. beyond envy of the money some of them make. You prove again your ignorance of the U.S. Why don't you stick to subjects you actually know something about?