Sometimes I really miss home

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I miss home for my family & friends that are there. It is super rural, small town, one stop sign. LOL!

I am in Texas, and it just isn't home. I am Southern, but not to the max. I like guns, but also like for women to have a say in stuff...I am a fence rider. LOL!

Being this far South, on the border, is not for me. I need green trees, and the ocean.

[meltoine]

Around the corner from our apartment in Cairo was the best Mexican restaurant I've ever been to. The guy who owned it was born in Mexico, lived in Texas for a while, then fell in love with an Egyptian woman and moved to Cairo. The menu was limited because of lack of available ingredients, but what he did have was amazing. Best chips ever. And if you brought an avocado from the commissary to the restaurant with you, he'd make you guacamole.

[brandienee]

Jan 22, 2015 22:56:30 GMT -5 audette said:

Jan 22, 2015 22:21:08 GMT -5 brandienee said:

I love kimchi, is this a weird thing?

When I was little our Korean neighbor would babysit us and feed us rice and kimchi for lunch. Those were good days.

Perhaps unusual for someone (assuming you don't have a Korean background yourself). But not weird. Some of the Americans we meet here love the stuff.

The good news is that you can probably buy it somewhere near any army base in the US. Not sure I've seen one without a moderate Korean community nearby.

I've always been able to find it in an Asian supermarket.

I would love to learn how to make it, because the store version is probably loaded with MSG, but I haven't been able to find the courage.

[killercupcake]

Jan 23, 2015 11:32:56 GMT -5 meltoine said:

Around the corner from our apartment in Cairo was the best Mexican restaurant I've ever been to. The guy who owned it was born in Mexico, lived in Texas for a while, then fell in love with an Egyptian woman and moved to Cairo. The menu was limited because of lack of available ingredients, but what he did have was amazing. Best chips ever. And if you brought an avocado from the commissary to the restaurant with you, he'd make you guacamole.

No joke, the best Chinese food I ever had was in Northern Ireland. lol

[meltoine]

Jan 23, 2015 16:00:33 GMT -5 killercupcake said:

Jan 23, 2015 11:32:56 GMT -5 meltoine said:

Around the corner from our apartment in Cairo was the best Mexican restaurant I've ever been to. The guy who owned it was born in Mexico, lived in Texas for a while, then fell in love with an Egyptian woman and moved to Cairo. The menu was limited because of lack of available ingredients, but what he did have was amazing. Best chips ever. And if you brought an avocado from the commissary to the restaurant with you, he'd make you guacamole.

No joke, the best Chinese food I ever had was in Northern Ireland. lol

Mine was in Rome!

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Jan 22, 2015 22:57:24 GMT -5 audette said:

Jan 22, 2015 22:05:57 GMT -5 Stan said:

amaristella, there is no good Mexican food except in Southern Cal and Baja. Even in Texas (Dallas and El Paso) it's not right. I accept that Mexico is a large country and like the US, food will not be the same everywhere, and as such, people who immigrate here will not all make it the same. But it's sad. And it was so cheap at home.

You guys don't want to know how expensive (and difficult) it is to get something approximating Mexican food here...

Yeah, I was going to say how hard it was to find Mexican food in England (where there are no mexicans).  First stop every trip back to the states was for TACOS.

[kpol]

Korean society is all about fitting in. You should see the girls with plastic surgery; they all look identical. Cars are all silver, white, or black and similar in design. The only thing that sets my Hyundai apart from the rest of society is my "Ready for Hillary" sticker on the back window!

[brandienee]

Jan 23, 2015 7:17:29 GMT -5 nsl said:

"Home" for me is one of the most conservative cities/states in the country. I'm a lifelong liberal, and never felt like I fit in politically or religiously with the majority culture there. All of H's assignments since we've been married (over 11 years now) have been to places that are largely politically liberal, which has pretty much cemented my decision to never again live in my hometown.

As far as Mexican food is concerned, I'll just say that it's nearly impossible to find real Tex-Mex in El Paso. Our Mexican food is the real deal, albeit the real deal viewed through the lens of Juarez and Chihuahua.

Where is your "home"? If you don't mind sharing. 

My hometown is similar, and there is no way I could go back unless I lived in one of the hippy suburbs. I miss my state, but not my hometown. 

[audette]

Jan 23, 2015 15:52:39 GMT -5 brandienee said:

Jan 22, 2015 22:56:30 GMT -5 audette said:

Perhaps unusual for someone (assuming you don't have a Korean background yourself). But not weird. Some of the Americans we meet here love the stuff.

The good news is that you can probably buy it somewhere near any army base in the US. Not sure I've seen one without a moderate Korean community nearby.

I've always been able to find it in an Asian supermarket.

I would love to learn how to make it, because the store version is probably loaded with MSG, but I haven't been able to find the courage.

I'm not sure the store version necessarily has MSG, but it's not hard to make, from what I've heard.  Just a bit tiresome to prep the veggies.  I've seen English language cookbooks here with recipes (bought one for a coworker as a gift on one trip back to the US, actually).

[audette]

Jan 23, 2015 20:21:29 GMT -5 kpol said:

Korean society is all about fitting in. You should see the girls with plastic surgery; they all look identical. Cars are all silver, white, or black and similar in design. The only thing that sets my Hyundai apart from the rest of society is my "Ready for Hillary" sticker on the back window!

On my last trip back to the US I was looking at new cars on behalf of DH. Invariably, every salesperson that spoke with me asked "what colour would you want?", and I'd always explain that it had to be colourful - about 99%+ of the cars here are black, grey, or white, and it's _boring_.

We brought a _bright_ _red_ car over with us. It stood out a wee bit...

[nsl]

Jan 23, 2015 21:48:33 GMT -5 brandienee said:

Jan 23, 2015 7:17:29 GMT -5 nsl said:

"Home" for me is one of the most conservative cities/states in the country. I'm a lifelong liberal, and never felt like I fit in politically or religiously with the majority culture there. All of H's assignments since we've been married (over 11 years now) have been to places that are largely politically liberal, which has pretty much cemented my decision to never again live in my hometown.

As far as Mexican food is concerned, I'll just say that it's nearly impossible to find real Tex-Mex in El Paso. Our Mexican food is the real deal, albeit the real deal viewed through the lens of Juarez and Chihuahua.

Where is your "home"? If you don't mind sharing. 

My hometown is similar, and there is no way I could go back unless I lived in one of the hippy suburbs. I miss my state, but not my hometown. 

Salt Lake City.  It's gotten more liberal in the 11+ years since I left, but will never get as left-leaning as I'd like it to be.

[amaristella]

Jan 23, 2015 22:04:41 GMT -5 nsl said:

Jan 23, 2015 21:48:33 GMT -5 brandienee said:

Where is your "home"? If you don't mind sharing. 

My hometown is similar, and there is no way I could go back unless I lived in one of the hippy suburbs. I miss my state, but not my hometown. 

Salt Lake City.  It's gotten more liberal in the 11+ years since I left, but will never get as left-leaning as I'd like it to be.

I have to say that Salt Lake City was one of the few that DH and I got a really good vibe from after being there for maybe only 24 hours. But then again we'd been on the road for days and stopped driving slightly early that day to check in to the hotel (which was a very nice hotel!) and then got to watch Despicable Me 2 at the theater.

[Dumbledork]

Girl, we have been at Ft. Bragg for seven and a half long years. 

I'm a bi, agnostic feminist that hates football, NASCAR, HL, and CFA. Oh, and I don't spank my kid and I refuse to allow guns in our house.

I gave up on having friends here a long time ago. I can't say I miss my hometown though. I don't fit in there much better than I do here. I used to get really depressed and end up crying nonstop because I always felt so freaking alone here, but it wasn't like going 'home' was any better. I'd end up begging DH to please, please, please find a way for us to PCS to somewhere, anywhere else. And, yet, we're still here. I feel almost numb to it now. 

I hate it.

[amaristella]

Jan 24, 2015 21:54:43 GMT -5 Dumbledork said:

Girl, we have been at Ft. Bragg for seven and a half long years. 

I'm a bi, agnostic feminist that hates football, NASCAR, HL, and CFA. Oh, and I don't spank my kid and I refuse to allow guns in our house.

I gave up on having friends here a long time ago. I can't say I miss my hometown though. I don't fit in there much better than I do here. I used to get really depressed and end up crying nonstop because I always felt so freaking alone here, but it wasn't like going 'home' was any better. I'd end up begging DH to please, please, please find a way for us to PCS to somewhere, anywhere else. And, yet, we're still here. I feel almost numb to it now. 

I hate it.

*Hugs* I'm so sorry. Come here and talk with us whenever you need to. I also dislike CFA all the way around. HL I just dislike the opinions and politics of their management.