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We just celebrated our regaining independence day. 25 years. British newspaper did this piece on Latvia. Perhaps you`ll learn something new.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/latvia/amazing-facts-about-latvia/
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Chu 8/22/2016 12:48pm
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10 mins of my life lost.
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lostboy819 8/22/2016 1:14pm
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I learned that I am fortunate that I dont live in Latvia.Pinch
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kongols 8/22/2016 1:16pm
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Chu wrote:
10 mins of my life lost.
Sorry to widen your horizons. Keep on living in a barrel.
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MR. X 8/22/2016 1:19pm
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I liked the voluntary prison Laughing

Is hunting popular in Latvia ?

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kongols 8/22/2016 1:21pm
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MR. X wrote:
I liked the voluntary prison Laughing

Is hunting popular in Latvia ?
Yes. Very.
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Falcon 8/22/2016 2:02pm
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Nice. My grandmother's family was from Latvia. I'm not sure when they came to the USA, though.
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HenryA 8/22/2016 3:12pm
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Great read, lot's of stuff that didn't expect.
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The Rock 8/22/2016 3:14pm
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I'm glad the MXoN was there. Good value for your money, friendly people and mind blowing fast Internet speeds.

Incredible architecture too.
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mark1960 8/22/2016 4:43pm
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Falcon wrote:
Nice. My grandmother's family was from Latvia. I'm not sure when they came to the USA, though.
How can you not know your own family history, My ancestries go way back to Sparta!


Great read, max summer temperature 20c, no thanks, crocodile dundee can to Australia to avoid the cold no doubt!

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agn5009 8/22/2016 5:09pm
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Cool read Kongols. I've always been interested in Latvia, mainly because of the women Woohoo how is the crime there? Have you ever been to the USA?
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kongols 8/22/2016 5:12pm
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agn5009 wrote:
Cool read Kongols. I've always been interested in Latvia, mainly because of the women :woohoo: how is the crime there? Have you ever been to the...
Cool read Kongols. I've always been interested in Latvia, mainly because of the women Woohoo how is the crime there? Have you ever been to the USA?
I feel safe. Not much crime here.
I lived in USA for 3 years.
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agn5009 8/22/2016 5:14pm
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Cool read Kongols. I've always been interested in Latvia, mainly because of the women :woohoo: how is the crime there? Have you ever been to the...
Cool read Kongols. I've always been interested in Latvia, mainly because of the women Woohoo how is the crime there? Have you ever been to the USA?
kongols wrote:
I feel safe. Not much crime here.
I lived in USA for 3 years.
How would you compare Latvia to the USA?
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kongols 8/22/2016 5:18pm
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agn5009 wrote:
Cool read Kongols. I've always been interested in Latvia, mainly because of the women :woohoo: how is the crime there? Have you ever been to the...
Cool read Kongols. I've always been interested in Latvia, mainly because of the women Woohoo how is the crime there? Have you ever been to the USA?
kongols wrote:
I feel safe. Not much crime here.
I lived in USA for 3 years.
agn5009 wrote:
How would you compare Latvia to the USA?
Phoenix was sketchy. I lived near neighborhood with multiple shootings every night.
Other than that I felt just as safe.
For 2.5 years I lived in Nantucket. We didn't even lock doors at night.
Mainland was no different, I felt safe during my trips. Never once had any problems.
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CDswinehart 8/22/2016 5:27pm
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Possible you Courlanders could get Tobago back? Haven't been gone for too long, relatively speaking.
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kongols 8/22/2016 5:28pm
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If you want me compare countries, there is no comparison. It was long time ago. At the time Latvia was a total shithole. We didn't have much after fall of USSR.
I remember like today the day I came back. It was the end of November, rainy and dark day. Everything seemed dark and gray. Quite a shock. Now Latvia is nothing like it was bask then. Everything is 1000 times better now and I don't regret my decision to come back.
I could stay in USA, had an awesome job in Nantucket. My boss begged me to not leave, but I was too home sick.
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seth505 8/22/2016 5:29pm
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kongols wrote:
Phoenix was sketchy. I lived near neighborhood with multiple shootings every night. Other than that I felt just as safe. For 2.5 years I lived in...
Phoenix was sketchy. I lived near neighborhood with multiple shootings every night.
Other than that I felt just as safe.
For 2.5 years I lived in Nantucket. We didn't even lock doors at night.
Mainland was no different, I felt safe during my trips. Never once had any problems.
Damn, in most of Nantucket you could sleep in your front yard with your credit cards next to you and be fine all nightGrinning
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CDswinehart 8/22/2016 5:37pm
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You folks of the Baltics have done a great job of rebuilding your homelands after the mess the Soviets left. A much better recovery than some of the other Iron Curtain unfortunates.

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kzizok 8/22/2016 6:32pm
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Sounds awesome. Not necessarily the landscape but just overall environment reminds me of the feeling of Prague (Czech republic) just a couple of years post communism. Great architecture, inexpensive and great history.

Only surprising thing there was the iron curtain looking security in the subways. Still had fully automatic weapons and randomly checked for tickets. Yes, I was chosen. A little nerve wracking to say the least. Similar to crossing into East Germany in a night coach on the trains. One year post communism and they still looked and sounded like the SS. Full on Alsatians, guns, and loud voices. Intimidating.
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ToolMaker 8/23/2016 6:50am
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It appears that Latvia wants to the folks out, well, other than the 250 a year they agreed to.
Good on you guys for turning your country around in such a short time.

Latvian MEP Artis Pabriks said her country was not "opposed" to the reception of refugees, but plans are underway to build a huge barbed fence along its border with Russia to stop illegal immigrants from gaining entry.
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kongols 8/23/2016 6:55am
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ToolMaker wrote:
It appears that Latvia wants to the folks out, well, other than the 250 a year they agreed to. Good on you guys for turning your...
It appears that Latvia wants to the folks out, well, other than the 250 a year they agreed to.
Good on you guys for turning your country around in such a short time.

Latvian MEP Artis Pabriks said her country was not "opposed" to the reception of refugees, but plans are underway to build a huge barbed fence along its border with Russia to stop illegal immigrants from gaining entry.
The fence is mostly for Vietnamese, Chinese refugees that Russian smugglers are running across the border. None of them stay here, they go straight to Germany, Sweden etc. We don`t pay them enough for them to stay. We give them around $4.50 a day.
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Falcon 8/23/2016 4:07pm
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Falcon wrote:
Nice. My grandmother's family was from Latvia. I'm not sure when they came to the USA, though.
mark1960 wrote:
How can you not know your own family history, My ancestries go way back to Sparta! Great read, max summer temperature 20c, no thanks, crocodile dundee...
How can you not know your own family history, My ancestries go way back to Sparta!


Great read, max summer temperature 20c, no thanks, crocodile dundee can to Australia to avoid the cold no doubt!

I bet I know more about my family's history than most Americans do. As for that part of the family, my Grandma was actually raised by her aunt and uncle. I'm not sure why there was a problem with her parents, but I bet there's a good story that I'm not getting from my mom. Or maybe she doesn't even know.
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tp4 8/23/2016 5:32pm
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that was interesting...I'd go!
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MR. X 8/23/2016 6:14pm
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After doing some internet reading ,it seems like really good hunting there .
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motogrady 8/23/2016 7:50pm
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My grandfather, on my moms side, was born in Latvia.
Late 1800s, at 12 years old, killed his father in a fist fight.
Said he just had gotten tired if being put to work, having his money taken and then being beat by his dad.
Got a job as a cabin boy to beat the law, in a place called Rega or Riga, sailed the seas for the next 30 years.
On a call to the port of Baltimore, he met my grandmother, who's family had a tradition of giving a portion
of the farm to the siblings that married and wanted to stick around.

He jumped on it, built a house by hand, and lived large, fishing and crabbing the Chesapeake, for the next 35 years.

Used to think, as a kid, mainly because of his accent, he wasn't the smartest guy on the block.
But looking back, especially seeing what he came from, shoot, he was the smartest guy on the block.
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vetmxr 8/23/2016 7:59pm
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It still seems a little weird to me that I can talk to Kongols on here just the same as a guy down the street from me. I really have trouble comprehending just how many miles separate us and how different our realities are.....but at the end of the day......just two dudes bench racin........Smile Happy Independence Day Kongols ....

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