Leaving Armenia: What I'll miss, what I won't

[TomServo]

Interesting piece by an erstwhile and possibly future repatriate.

For the first time in quite a while, I’m leaving Armenia for a non-trivial period of time. I’ll be back in a few months, but am seriously reconsidering my previous inertia toward longer-term residence. I haven’t fully made up my mind. There’s some novel personal reasons that enter into the deliberation lately, including a very short-lived and spectacularly failed marriage here, but I’m not letting a bad marriage ruin Armenia for me, and I’m not here to talk about that. I wanted to share some more general parting thoughts and observations.

Read the rest here: http://www.likewise.am/2014/01/leavi...s-what-i-wont/

[Haykakan]

Re: Leaving Armenia: What I'll miss, what I won't

Everything he says is spot on. Good writing and accurate but i will say that after the war and including the situation now and possible restart ofwar, and historic events all contribute to the hatred of the Turk and understandibly so.

Interesting piece by an erstwhile and possibly future repatriate.

For the first time in quite a while, I’m leaving Armenia for a non-trivial period of time. I’ll be back in a few months, but am seriously reconsidering my previous inertia toward longer-term residence. I haven’t fully made up my mind. There’s some novel personal reasons that enter into the deliberation lately, including a very short-lived and spectacularly failed marriage here, but I’m not letting a bad marriage ruin Armenia for me, and I’m not here to talk about that. I wanted to share some more general parting thoughts and observations.

Read the rest here: http://www.likewise.am/2014/01/leavi...s-what-i-wont/

[Siggie]

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Thanks Tom, that was a good read.

[UrMistake]

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Thanks Tom jan . Found something good to look on

[bell-the-cat]

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"The dark age of the village has dawned".

Author means he doesn't need to go to an Armenian village to see village life attitudes - he sees it everywhere in Yerevan, in the majority of the population, those that are not "classical Yerevanians". But you don't need to even go to Armenia to see dark age Armenian village life attitudes - you see it everywhere here on this forum. So I have to question if Haykakan has actually read everything in the article if he thinks "Everything he says is spot on".

[Siggie]

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"The dark age of the village has dawned".

Author means he doesn't need to go to an Armenian village to see village life attitudes - he sees it everywhere in Yerevan, in the majority of the population. But you don't need to even go to Armenia to see dark age Armenian village life attitudes - you see it everywhere here on this forum. So I have to question if Haykakan has actually read everything in the article if he thinks "Everything he says is spot on".

I think Haykakan tends to be one of the few who isn't decades behind in his views regarding social and family structure.

[Haykakan]

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Heh i feel special the cat has singled me out so like yeh i agree with most things he said so what of it? Ill go even further and say its all over the diaspora to - just visit L.A. and see. I will say that the disconnect between Armenia and diaspora is not just because of this. It takes two to tango and the diasporans have their own pile of poo that stinks.

"The dark age of the village has dawned".

Author means he doesn't need to go to an Armenian village to see village life attitudes - he sees it everywhere in Yerevan, in the majority of the population, those that are not "classical Yerevanians". But you don't need to even go to Armenia to see dark age Armenian village life attitudes - you see it everywhere here on this forum. So I have to question if Haykakan has actually read everything in the article if he thinks "Everything he says is spot on".

[Hakob]

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