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Perhaps I should have never mentioned that affirmative action quotas got in the way of my finding employment in my first love - teaching. People not living in the US would not know what I meant. But the bottom line is that there are many things that I like about the Singaporean way. > No affirmative...

Affirmative action quotas blindly applied have strange effects. When I was getting my PhD in physics at Columbia I knew a lady graduating in elementary education from Teachers College. It turned out that in elementary education it was top heavy in females, and men were therefore deemed an under repr...

Re affirmative action hiring quotas - the most explicit example was when I first came to San Diego and visited the UCSD campus to learn about the job market in San Diego. I didn't even get to open my mouth. The administrator said don't bother to leave an application here. If you are not one of the p...

Thanks. This is a relief.

I did not see any power plants or evidence there of while visiting.

San Diego was blacked out Thursday for a full day. Someone in Arizona caused the 500K volt transmission line from Arizona to fail, and a domino effect took down all of San Diego, Baja (Mexico) to the south, the nuclear plants at San Onofre, and north in to much Orange County. Reminded me a bit of th...

Thank you to all the expats who shared their thoughts!

My final plans must still be “up in the air”

I am 63, making the imposed relocation requirements extra difficult for me. My wife is much younger- 41.But she is Chinese, and I think her finding work would be much easier for her in Singapore. I think hot humid imminent thunderstorm days in Manhattan were even more uncomfortable than my worst sum...

People who grew up in San Diego will like the fish tacos. I did not develop a taste for them, nor for spicy foods (Mexican or Chinese). As I said, I love the fish and chips at a pub on Boat Quay. I live near highway 5. In terms of having many hot dry Santa Anas it has not been hotter than usual this...

San Diego has the best weather in the US. But this summer all the south west has been roasting (Dallas consistently around 105 degrees F - roughly 40 degrees C). Have average temperatures for Singapore changed much since 2009 or are they still in the 26 to never much over 30 degrees C range? (I expe...

I visited in February and September of 2009, and fell in love with Singapore.Though I already live in a very desireable location - San Diego, CA. BTW - It would be nice to compete for jobs on a level playing field once, instead of always not being the preferred minority for government required hirin...