Last month, I got a chance to hang out with my one (half
Sudanese) (half British) friend (the sister of the brother-sister pair), not to mention her
one (British) friend from grade school, who was visiting the city for like a week.
And, her one (British) friend was saying how much she’d like to
move here when her short-term consulting contract is up, if she can find
work.
“There is something about life in the U.S.,” my one (half
Sudanese) (half British) friend was like. “There’s just this motion and this optimism, people think that things can always be better, it’s the American Dream thing.”
And, at that her friend agreed.
Like a week later, too, I met my one (Italaphone) (Swiss) friend
for drinks, and when we were talking about the direction of the world, he said
that back when he originally came to the U.S., he expected to be here for one, maybe two years, and here he is 7
years later.
He said he’d never stay, though, since if you get cancer you
just go broke and die, and that’s no way to live, though he likes being here
for now.
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