>>>>IOW, fat chance. Instead, we're doing our family reunions here. The sons-in-law (or was it son-in-laws?) like it here, specially the food, and there's zero trouble at the border. No visa needed.
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>>>Well, if you are happy where you are (food is good, fresh air, no big corporations <g>), no reason to look elsewhere.
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>>Except that part about big corporations. Media are almost all owned by foreign international corporations, and Walmart-like chains started appearing. There are several local chains, though, but even they have started selling industrial crap instead of food - water pumped meat products which go all sticky in three days, bread without everything but bare white spongy stuff and water, completely skimmed milk where the fat is then replenished with margarine etc. Good stuff can still easily be found - there still are small shops everywhere, private butchers and even some bakers who still care.
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>>And for the rest - beer is real beer, good bread can still be found, and the brandy, fruit, tomatoes and other garden stuff we make our own. And we have no TV, no radio. Web suffices.
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>Funny but I think the trend in this country now is in the opposite direction. More and more people turn to Organic foods (even though they are at least 30% more expensive). My family started doing groceries shopping in one of those "natural/organic" super stores. To be honest I can't tell the difference in taste between non-organic and organic but supposedly organic foods will help me to live longer or better (who knows). I think our diets are like fashions; new is well forgotten old.

The farmer in me loves organics for one reason, that farmers can charge a premium for their hard work that the general public is happy to pay. The resurgance in farming that has resulted pleases me greatly.

That said, I do not eat organics as I find their taste, to be no better than non-organics and obviously not worth the premium.

...and then there's disturbing issues that keep popping up. Here's the latest example from just a couple weeks ago.
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/news/articles/2012/02/16/arsenic-might-lurk-in-some-organic-foods-study