Every time we leave the US—the cozy San Francisco Peninsula, with its silicone valley, superb internet connections, acres and acres of shopping options filled with all imaginable life’s necessities such as computer parts and other bits and pieces of infrastructure—we begin to appreciate what the country has to offer: efficient transportation, good roads, emergency services, electricity 99% of the time, and a fairly scenic nature to boot. It’s rather easy to become pampered and take all this...

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