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Strategies & Market Trends : Ride the Tiger with CD

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To: marcos who wrote (188053)5/27/2010 10:04:54 PM
From: dara  Read Replies (3) of 312481
 
I found his comments on lifestyles interesting:

... Mexicans have mostly fully-paid housing ... the house may be very modest, such that most Americans would not care to live that way, but ... it is paid for! Mortgages are not widespread; during recent years there was an increasing use of mortgages but on the whole, the Mexican population lives in housing that is paid for. ...

... People have different sets of values, you know. Not everyone everywhere wants to live in a suburban home with two cars, grass in the front yard, two kids that are going to go to college, etc. etc. Strange as it may seem, some people in this world ... and they are not a few ... prefer to live simple lives, working only when they have to and perhaps as little as possible. "Work" is not such a great thing everywhere. Some people like to be what we call, lazy. They like to take a nap in a hammock after lunch. ...
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