"a hard pill to swallow" Top 5 Page for this destination United States of America Favorite Tip by richiecdisc

Fondest memory: Three months were all they would write and so we began a series of trips to third world countries where we could spend the needed time together to see if what we had found was real. It was but coming back to reality together was not any easier than when we had left it. Living in Germany proved what we felt was economically stifling so we married in hopes of making the United States our home. This proved costlier and more time consuming than we could have ever imagined but five years and a similar number of thousand dollars later and she was indeed a US citizen. The only problem: The American Dream was fading and not just for us.

A recession spun of greed and deceit enveloped a once uncontainable country. The pride that made this country great seemed to have turned to little more than hot air fanning wars against enemies more invisible than the terrorist monikers given them. The idea that the United States was no longer the top world power became more than a catch phrase for a new book. That distinct possibility was becoming a reality and its citizens were having a hard time swallowing the pill of their country's increasingly insurmountable debt. Were we bailing from the sinking ship just to escape? No, we just weren't making enough money to make ends meet so we looked for other options and Germany seemed as good as any. My wife had an in. She was, after all, still German too. I had spent one extended time there and knew that their red tape was a lot less complicated and costly than ours. (concluded below in Fondest Memory)