OK, I feel a little better now

I will add that I do have a couple of (US expats) friends that live in Bangkok and run a buisness for Anderson Consulting who live like Mafia Kings while the general population seems to still be third world. My beloved Costa Rica has a 96% (or better) literacy rate and no armed forces, yet you still can tip a bartender $10 in the right town and make his month and kids run around barefooted because they don't have shoes, ect.........................