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What’s Your World View?
All real estate is local. Every state, and even counties have particular laws and practices governing transactions, and one state doesn’t always agree with another. What’s interesting about Weltanshuung is that we are all provincial. 
I lived in Manhattan for over 20 years, in South America for 8 and back to Minnesota. Each place has a very different view of life. New York is tolerant, diverse, but in your face. It has no time for slackers. And in their defense, where else do you have people from all over the world, most of whom don’t speak English, talk with their hands, and yet make it work?
South America is full of 3rd world contradictions. What you see is not what is going on, you have to learn to decode fact from fantasy. Government disfunction is a given, and yet people are generous and hopeful. 
Here in Minnesota, often referred to as God’s frozen people, culture dictates to be polite and play by the rules, but be remote. (You can’t really blame them for being chilly in subzero weather for months at a time.) They won’t say ‘No,’ but will roll their eyes. While cable TV in Peru provided channels from Italy, Germany, MTV, Chile, ... more

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