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Originally Posted by GspotProductions
not sure where you hear these stories...
seems propaganda.
exactly this  |
I hear them from family members as well as people who visit yearly. I didn't say the entire country was despondent. Some areas are so far out that modern conveniences aren't there yet. I talk daily to people from The Azores, Madeira and Teceria. Most of the immigrants are hard workers. Read their newspaper published in New Bedford and Fall River. You'll read the stories of poverty and efforts to improve anything they can.
Then you have the gang-rape on a pool table boys at Big Dan's...
Many come to this country never having seen a dentist. Many didn't see a doctor until they had to fly here. One woman who visits has been in a wheelchair her whole life. Born with 9" legs and arms ending at the elbow, she never saw a doctor until she came here. If she were younger, they could have given her artificial limbs. She sky dived, she drives, she's married and a disability advocate.
It has areas with poverty and despair. It has areas of wealth. Unfortunately, people who come here generally start broke but many end up owning factories or Portuguese restaurants. Portuguese families tend to take their children's paycheck, from full-time jobs to babysitting. They quit school to work. But, at age 18 they're given a new car. When they marry, parents buy them a two-family house so they get rent income to offset taxes.
It's a different way of life.