Hillbilly country - appropriate xress

[HappyStroller]

I understand your point, Sir.

Come to think of it, I used to watch an old cowboy TV series Ponderosa, which, if I recall correctly, involved the Cartwright family living in West Virginia. So, similarly, I would not expect to see lots of horses and cowboys shooting it out in a salon stocked with glamorous ladies all looking like Marilyn Monroe.

I enjoyed Bertolucci's "The Last Emperor" a lot, but never hoped to find the same atmosphere when visiting the Forbidden City. In fact everything looked freshly painted, as if finished the day before...

My only impression of hill-billy country comes from Clint Eastwood's
Easy Rider.

[HappyStroller]

Actually, I'm thinking of settling down in a hill-billy state.

As you may be aware, real estate prices in Shanghai and the rest of urban Asia are getting astronomical.

A large detached home with a respectably large land area of an acre in suburban Shanghai may cost a minimum of a hundred million Yuan, about 5 million U.S. Dollars.

A good class (i.e., at least a third of an acre=43,560 sq. ft.) bungalow in urban Singapore would cost maybe 8 million U. S. Dollars.

I understand houses are even more costly in places like Bombay, Peking, Hong Kong and Tokyo.

While watching CNN, I learned that the size of President Bush's ranch in Texas is about 1,600 acres.

This week, while watching the progress of Mrs. Clinton's campaigning in West Virginia, I learned that West Virginia is a very poor place. My hope to find a place as large as the current U.S. president's ranch at a much, much cheaper price seems fulfillable in a place like West Virginia.

My ultimate purpose is to settle down in a nice place, so the time of visiting is not that important. The only kind of climate I abhor is one with a temperature above 35 degrees Centigrade (95 degrees Fahrenheit). So I will definitely be avoiding the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games. Can't understand why it can be held in August this year!

At what time of year shall you be going?

[HappyStroller]

Sir, I hope my most recent post (about visiting hill-billy country; forget about the weaponry part) satisfies your query.

. . . . Is it safe for a Chinaman to travel alone in those places? Should one carry a pistol or have a rifle ready in one's car?

Are you serious?

[oscarsfan]

Sir, I hope my most recent post (about visiting hill-billy country; forget about the weaponry part) satisfies your query.

. . . . Is it safe for a Chinaman to travel alone in those places? Should one carry a pistol or have a rifle ready in one's car?

Are you serious?

Another alternative to ensuring safety is to put a "First Iraq, then France" bumper sticker and the same message on a button on one's lapel.

May it win you many friends in the "red" states. (Red does not mean communist here)

[HappyStroller]

Thanks for the tip, Oscar Fan, but can't risk it, Sir. One in five voters there are probably non-Reds.

[HappyStroller]

Thank you, Sir. Glad this option is available, but what colour scheme for cowboy wear should be adopted or avoided in a hill-billy state?

The cowboy option may be feasible, I can recall a few examples of such attire being sported by the locals while I was there.