Berkeley Paradox by Bob Michaelson
By Bob Michaelson
Intro - I have lived in many diverse places: now in SW Florida, moved from Maui, Hawaii. Also lived and/or worked in Alaska - Kodiak Island and Akutan for seafood processing gigs, NorCal - Santa Rosa and Berkeley (and SF as a youth), Seattle, NE China - Harbin 哈尔滨,
BA - Cal Berkeley
MBA - Seattle Univ.
Co-Founder and President - SinoMetrics International, Inc.
Founder - MGI
Berkeley Paradox by Bob MichaelsonJun 03, 2022
Thinking of Moving to Florida?
Florida, esp. SW Florida, Fort Myers, Cape Coral area, the good, the bad and the beautiful.
We were living on Maui and decided to cut our monthly costs (a nice way to say running low on SAVINGS $) 1/2 JOKE
Online searches and/or in person in 6 or 7 states - list AND OUTSIDE THESE CITIES
SC CHARLESTON AND MYRTLE BEACH
VA FREDRICKSBURG AND UPPER NECK
TN NASHVILLE resovoir VIEW 2 hours outside the city
GA SAVANNA
FL Jacksonville, Port St Lucie, palm coast, Trip 3 Cape Coral
WA lived there 20 years, checked out Edmonds, Kingston etc.
HI lived there 7 years, bought land...
TX Didn’t make it outside of D
Inflation and Prof Janet Yellen by Bob Michaelson
3 Intros (for testing purposes)
Chinese Intro then Spanish and finally a wacko Russian guy.
Teaching English in China - Is it worth it financially, educationally, romantically...?
Background – China “opened up” to the US in 1979 and our educational group went in 1984, a very short time afterward.
I was part of a great group called Intervarsity / IVCF and started studying Chinese my senior year at Cal Berkeley. My neighbor and friend Kris Koketsu encouraged me to hang in and not drop the class after 2 weeks – learning pinyin and 4 tones was tough at first!
I only took 1 semester because the start of the 2nd semester it seemed that everyone was way ahead of me. Not a good feeling!
Then I was recruited to join English Language Institute - China / ELIC, to teach in China. My church, family & friends supported me to the tune of $300 per month stipend (room and board provided by the host college) and part of the donation pool went to the org that sent us and other expenses (airfare!)
A few highlights / unusual stories – Note: mostly mishaps here but actually a very good experience overall and almost everyone was very kind to us (and curious about us). Some incidents were annoying but funny looking back at them.
A Serving of Poli-Econ Meat