[AGL] Where to live, where to visit.

[Frances Morey]

My hostess during my August sabbatical who lives in Brooklyn stays and works in UK six weeks or so out of each year to enjoy British health coverage. She's a well credentialed actress with a convincing British accent even though she comes from El Paso, TX. Pretty ingenious solution to the health care vacuum in the US, I'd say.
  Atlanta is exciting and I'm enjoying my second visit in two weeks, never having been here before. Great quality time with grandson, Michael, and so much to do.
  This morning at 8:15 a.m. they imploded 615 Ponce de Leon, right next to the Ponce where I'm staying. It's been a rare treat to see the "set up," which unfolded right below my balcony vantage point. The complexity of it dissuades me that 911 might have been wired to explode. This is no small undertaking--certainly not something that would have gone un-noticed. (I caught some great shots--hope I can learn to web site them for the list). The building was a 14-story to be replaced by a 33-story designed by the same architect who did the God's Nail Clipper knock-off of the Chrysler building in NYC located in River City on Congress Ave. The firm has another building close to the site of the new one planned for here in Atlanta and the signature seems to be see-through lattice-work on the top of the building. One of the neighbors who I had a conversation with on the roof last night told me the name of the architect but it escapes me right now. If you google.un-earth it the
 address is 75 Ponce de Leon, Atlanta, GA 30308, and the now-missing-building is no doubt still on that web site. 
  Best,
  Frances

michelemason <coltrane at ev1.net> wrote:
  That would be lovely, since I have so many things to look-up. I may 
have found it on "citizen ,,,,info. Sorry—not so organized as I should 
be, but it was a government address. Thank-you ever so much. How are 
you? Michele

On Sep 29, 2006, at 9:56 PM, Wayne Johnson wrote:

> That IS interesting.
>
> Do you recall what it provided? Or better yet, what the URL listing 
> was? I can look up these things meself ya know.
>
> wgJ
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "michelemason" 
> To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s" 
> 
> Cc: "michelemason" 
> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 2:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [AGL] Where to live? Australia Junior
>
>
>> When I researched Ireland health care, I found one could buy private 
>> care for $20.00 mo. mm
>>
>> On Sep 28, 2006, at 10:50 PM, Wayne Johnson wrote:
>>
>>> It is my understanding that to get the so-called "free" drugs, one 
>>> pretty much has to be a "citizen". Otherwise...not qualified. If 
>>> one has money, then one can always get "private" care, just like 
>>> here, in all the Brit Commonwealth countries I believe. If one is 
>>> dependant on the public health plan (whatever it is called) one had 
>>> better have a healthy heart and/or a high tolerance for pain and 
>>> suffering. 18 months is a long time to wait for an emergency 
>>> appendectomy. Ahhh, I know, ranting again.
>>>
>>> What good are "free" drugs if the local "doctor" is consulting 
>>> chicken spleens or reading charts which tell them which banana is 
>>> active in which cabbage patch for that date. Or similar.
>>>
>>> We lost two friends to undiagnosed or unrecognized cancer who moved 
>>> to and lived in beautiful San Miguel, so my opinion of Mexican 
>>> medical diagnostic skills are rather on a par with my opinion of 
>>> Barbara Bush's sensitivity to social problems.
>>>
>>> France and Germany have good doctors and great facilities as do most 
>>> Scandanavian countries. Some of the worlds' best "eye doctors" work 
>>> in Portugal for reasons entirely beyond my ken.
>>>
>>> wgJ
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "michelemason" 
>>> To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s" 
>>> 
>>> Cc: "michelemason" 
>>> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 9:05 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [AGL] Where to live? Australia Junior
>>>
>>>
>>>> Remember dear, it has to be where meds are free, or nearly. mm
>>>>
>>>> On Sep 28, 2006, at 8:48 AM, Michael Eisenstadt wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> big prize for best recommendation of where to move to never
>>>>> having been there onself.
>>>>>
>>>>> I met a Kiwi once who swore he would never go back to NZ.
>>>>>
>>>>> I recommend Nova Scotia & San Diego
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: 
>>>>> To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s"
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 8:59 PM
>>>>> Subject: [AGL] Where to live? Australia Junior
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Had to put my two cents' worth in.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> From everything I've heard New Zealand is incomparable for the 
>>>>>>> type of
>>>>>> civilized, comfortable, environmentally-stable refuge you are 
>>>>>> talking
>>>>>> about.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Two grand islands with a total population of around three 
>>>>>> million, a
>>>>>> reasonably healthy if sluggish economy, and a welcoming people.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Square as Jehovah's Witlesses from what I am told but I have 
>>>>>> enjoyed my
>>>>>> contacts with Kiwis (Ozzies not so much).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Of course I've never been there (snicker). That would have spoilt 
>>>>>> my power
>>>>>> of recommendation.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Seriously though... Just don't go expecting to try to do business 
>>>>>> or make
>>>>>> money (the bane of energetic ambitious Canadian immigrants as 
>>>>>> well...)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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