>Just curious, why are you here?
Market. Despite being what I am, and running a successful company, I couldn't feed my family. We had customers, wrote good software, but the customers couldn't pay.
>Our country and its government have many faults, but we continue to try to improve upon it. We may be one of the youngest nations, but we are the oldest democracy. I have been all over Europe and Central America, and while there are many great countries in our World today, personally, for me, there is not any other country I would rather live in or be a citizen of. However, I was born in this country, so I am partial to it of course and believe in trying to improve it as much as possible. Your reason for choosing to live in our country while you continously deride it is?
I did the same with my own country, for years. I wouldn't consider it friendly if I knew my friend is doing something wrong, and I kept the knowledge to myself. IMO, it's better to speak openly, maybe step on a few toes and get a few slaps on the wrist, than to keep my mouth shut. And I know how to accept it if I'm proven wrong. My opinions are not carved in stone.
>Are you trying to improve it without voting rights?
Good description, I like it.
> Or do you have the right to vote now?
No, unless I travel home. The current laws at home have no provisions for voting in embassies.
> I don't mean to sound derisive myself, because I still believe in allowing people of other nations emigrate to the U.S. (it is how we came be be afterall and was built as a melting-pot and the more customs here the better IMHO) but you do appear to denegrate the U.S. in many of your posts
>yet you elect to live here so I am curious as to why if you feel our country is so terrible? Or is not so terrible in comparison?
I didn't say the country is terrible - it's just that some aspects of its foreign policy are wrong and damaging in the long run. And the backing this foreign policy has at home comes from self-perception of the country.
So this is not actually derisive - it's more like telling a friend his shoelace is untied.
The things I find great here are impossible to explain to someone who hasn't lived in Serbia - like having a tax return, having good roads, having good communications network, having shortage of practically nothing. Things you take for granted. I would gladly write about that, but who would want to read it?
