Question by : I’m chinese living overseas, i’m homesick to death, how can i cure this?
expats in china, you must know how i feel, how do you cure homesickness? tips?

all the helpful nice people, please!!! Frank S, ricomon, crafty, longlive, WNL, cultural insight, etc…
”Chinatown” in USA are 90% cantonese speaking, and a high % out of those 90% are vietnamese,cambodian,laotian who know how to speak cantonese. everyone in chinatown dress like farmers, they eat fish and vegetables and rice everyday,they do tax and go to bank in places they only speak cantonese. occasionaly you see few taiwanese old men playing chinese chess but they are probably either buddhists or christian, i’m neither. the rest is pink hair salons which are full of horse.
see what i’m saying? how can i live there? i avoid even going there.

i don’t speak cantonese,i feel very foreign being in chinatown, and the food there is just nasty, the nastiest thing i’ve eaten in my whole life is in one chinatown. every time i go to chinatown, i feel i’m somewhere in the guangdong countryside several decades ago.
and then you see a fortune cookie factory? what the hell is a fortune cookie? that’s not even chinese!
then you sit down in a restaurant and order a rangoon?capital of Burma?
Crafty,
if i go to little taiwan, they support taiwan independence, and i don’t, they will kick me, i think going to Little Taiwan is not a good idea. i already know how people online can be, pretty scary.

and have lived in guangdong doesn’t automatically make me able to speak cantonese, i simply don’t want to learn it since it sounds pretty ugly. and i don’t like to swallow consonants.

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Answer by Andrew Milano
Go back to China. Or go and live in Chinatown in the city that you live.

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Question by : A person plans to retire 20 years from now. To finance this retirement a series of 4 deposits of ,000 at 6%?
To finance the retirement a series of 4 deposits of 10,000 each will be placed into an account that will accumulate at 6% per year. Deposits are made every 5 years with the first one made five years from today and the last one made on the date of retirement. How much will be in this account on the date of retirement?

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Answer by captain
Look in your textbook. That’s where you find homework answers. Not much future in faking an education.

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Question by cautiouscautious2005: If an American, living, working overseas, wins the lottery..will the United States demand part of this lottery?
Having lived and worked overseas, I had a sad/frustrating conversation with a group of Americans, currently working overseas who heard……(rumor, not sure) that if an American (example) lives in Italy, or France, or England, or Holland or Germany, etc, etc, and wins the Euro Millions lottery (Europea lottery), that the USA government has claim to a percentage of that lottery..(which as far as I am concerned is none of that g…….d………..business). Does anyone know current law on this and if not….can someone direct me to a website, info site…that would know? thank you….most appreciative of any knowledgable, well founded answers.

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Answer by LegFuJohnson
The tax laws don’t change. If they normally pay taxes to the US on their income, then they’ll pay taxes on this income.

But it’s really not worth getting worked up over. Neither you nor your friends are going to win.

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Question by just julie: This question is for teachers. I am new to this profession and I am curious about retirement planning?
I am in my second year of teaching. I know that teachers have a retirement plan, as it comes out of our checks.

Many companies visit our school trying to sell insurance, other plans, etc. I am interested in knowing whether or not I need to do an additional 401k plan. I was approached last year by a person at out school offering 403 plans. This year it was 401K. Do I need to take part in these plans? What do teachers really need? I have heard from retired teachers that their retirement was enough without these types of plans, but I know that times have changed. Any input would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

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Answer by Kiki
It really depends on the type of lifestyle you hope to have when you retire. Many teachers that I know have said that between the pension and social security, it is enough to live on comfortably, except for the health insurance. These teachers often continue to work part-time jobs or substitute teach (in order to pay premiums) until they are old enough to receive medicare (that’s the one for senior citizens, right?)

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Question by david d: Help please with this matter?
have been with my boyfriend/partner for 1 year. I truly love him unconditionally however when we started to date he had told me that he was coming out of 8 year old relationship with someone a lot older than him, to be exact he is 34 and the other guy is 65 and I’m 26 so you got the picture. Because I love and loved him a lot I told him that’s fine I understand and respect the fact that he is coming out of a relationship and it also gave me a confidence that he is capable of having long term relationships” that’s what I’m looking for” and that’s why I continued my dating with him and then it went into more intense and deep relationship. We had our ups and downs in the past 1 year however I was always understanding towards him and very patient. It came a to a point and time when he told me that he couldn’t see me every day and he could see me only 1-2 a week because the other man was giving him hard time and he was too scared of something might happen with the old guy. I know most of you would ask me why did I put up with him and the only answer I have is because I loved and still love him with my entire heart and I’ve told him that several times and also told him that his happens is my priority and if he is happy than I’m happy. To make the long story short over the Memorial Day weekend I had a planed a small trip to Carmel CA and he knew about this well in advance. That week I saw him on Thursday and he told me that he’ll be going to Vegas with the older man because older guy had surprised him with Vegas trip. It was extremely difficult for me to accept it but I was still understanding about the situation because I didn’t want anything bad to happen with the old man. I had told my boyfriend to text when he gets there safe and sound and he did. I didn’t talk with because he turned his cell phone off; him until he came back from Vegas on Tuesday. After he came back we had a conversation he told me that he wants to be best friends with me and nothing will change in our relationship but we are not going to be intimately active with each other aka relationship without sex. I asked him what’s going to happen with the old man and his response was “Babe I have to be with him to take care of him because he is old and I’m scared something will happen, and when I’m with you I know I’m killing him slowly so lets just be best friends have the same “relationship” but no sex and maybe when older man retires and possible leaves country we’ll be together because we both are young and smart”. Like I said in the begging I love him a lot and I’m a type of a person that when I love someone I’ll give my everything but what he is asking from me is to scarifies my happiness for a 65 year old man. After that conversation I kept myself away from him and he started texting me telling me that he missed me and loves me no matter what and wants to see me for the last time before I leave him, because he wants to give me something. I told him that I need my own time and space and I’m not leaving him and we are going to be just friends as he wanted. His text messages are all about how lucky he is that he has me in his life and knows me and that he’ll be really happy if I never leave him for rest of his life, so I’m so confused about this situation and don’t know what else to do, however meantime he is spending time with this 65 year old guy. He asked me a few times to see me and I responded that I need time to digest all of this before I’m able to meet up with him however we spoke on the phone for a few times but that’s it. Please help me what do you guys think I should do. Thanks

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now he is not calling or texting so not sure what’s going on with me or is he trying to give me time for me to get over the entire situation and then get in touch with me? Should i call him or try to meet up with me because he had asked me to meet with him a few times but i didn’t really give me a firm answer just told him we’ll meet soon and that’s all. Thanks

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Answer by Mathilda Kirkpatrick
i get that good points in fairness

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