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Monthly Archives: June 2012
Public Spaces
New England is so crowded by American – and Kiwi – standards that I have trouble believing sometimes that Massachusetts really is the ridiculous percentage forest that it is, although it’s helped somewhat by the American habit of building houses … Continue reading
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Culture and the Car
After a bit more mucking around last week, we did end up taking possession of the car we couldn’t get the lease on, mostly because the dealership was sufficiently apologetic and the maths on buying it was sufficiently similar (assuming … Continue reading
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The Computer Says No
I know I’ve blogged a few times about the thoroughly unintuitive and frustrating way that access to credit dominates life in America, but I think this past week’s experience, for us, takes the cake. It went something like this: MIKE: … Continue reading
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