yea, yuck. went nowhere near turkeys or chickens

A good site to follow expat life in Argentina (especially BA) is www.baexpats.org.

A great deal of information on specific topics can be found using the search feature.

I post as steveinbsas.

Dad detassled and warned me never to do it!

I pulled corn from soybean fields in central Illinos when I was a youth.

I loaded live turkeys into semi-trailers one cold November day for four hours near Cedar Falls.

That was the worst job I ever had.

well quad city gulcher, I grew up in Mt pleasant, near Burlington

well then. probably you detassled:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K028J7AFJ...
me, small town Baja

hi, I grew up in Rock Island (IL) with strong family ties to Iowa. I even attended UNI for one semester before transferring to Illinois State.

I was in Sayulita, (Nayarit) Mexico from Nov 2000 to May 2006.

oh, forgot to ask- where in the midwest? I grew up in Iowa

well thanks, shrugin. You dusted off an old post. look forward to you posting the letter. We are currently in Mexico, however, looking for farther south. I am so much happier since we left the US. I also, will not yet give up citizenship. We have much more time to devote to the war of ideas. I do respect my friends in the Gulch and the US who firmly believe in staying in the US and fighting the good fight. For each of us, the path is different. Argentina is on my radar.

I've been scanning your posts for the past hour and want to say that your contributions to this site are most admirable.

As you know, I've already gone Galt.

At this time I can't say that I "love my country" but I do love the Constitution of the UNited States and I love those who feel the same way I feel (and think).

I have not renounced my US citizenship and, although could also have citizenship in Argentina, I choose not to acquire it. But I am freer here now than I would be in the United States.

Regarding Revolution, I was a college student in the late 60's and early 70's. I saw what was at stake then and I stood up to the student revolutionaries of the day: the SDS.

I went Galt on them and my "radio broadcast" was in the form of a letter to the editor of the student newspaper. The letter was picked up by the AP and reprinted in a number of "mainstream" newspapers...at least in the Midwest.

Of course one letter was not enough to stop those who were leading the revolution. Neither was anything Ayn Rand (among many others) wrote. The SDS (and their cronies) are in power today.

I hadn't seen the letter I wrote in over 40 years and could only remember parts of it verbatim. In February (2013) I asked a friend who was living in the same town as the university to see if he could get a copy from the archives of the student newspaper.

He did and I plan to post it in the Gulch this week. I actually shrugged in 1970 when I decided to open a retail business and not go to law school or pursue a political career.

I believe the one person in the media who speaks best in defense of the Constitution today is Mark Levin and he's the one I enjoy listening to more than all of the other radio "talk show" hosts.

PS: When I moved to Mexico in 2000 I was not going Galt. Nor was I when I moved to Buenos Aires in 2006, but when I moved from BA to my present location in 2010 that is precisely what I was doing.

I'm in South America to stay. Others can join me here or they can start the revolution without me. I can only invite a few like-minded individuals to join me. I am not trying to create a self sufficient gulch or an expat community of any kind. I have assimilated into the Argentine community that already existed. I did not move to this area to tell anyone here how to live their lives. My Argentine neighbors cherish liberty as much as I ever have or will.

Both. Then choose the better result.

Democracy - 21st century serfdom