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Subject: Re: [OM] Economics
From: Nathan Wajsman <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 07:46:36 +0100
Yes, we were Chris--we lived there from June 1987 to June 1990 (moved to New 
Jersey then).

Cheers,
Nathan

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On Dec 26, 2010, at 11:20 PM, Chris Barker wrote:

> It looks as if we were in Tampa at the same time, Nathan.  I'm not sure that 
> we have discussed this before.  We lived there 88-90, leaving just as Saddam 
> Hussein invaded Kuwait.
> 
> Chris
> 
> On 26 Dec 2010, at 17:54, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> 
>> You must be joking, Bill. Many things made America great, but the public 
>> school system is not one of them, unless you are fortunate enough to live in 
>> a place with good schools. My son was born in Tampa in 1989. The public 
>> schools there were so terrible that anyone who cared about their children's 
>> well being found a way to avoid them; the rich sent their kids to private 
>> schools, the others converted to Catholicism etc. so that they could send 
>> their offspring to good Catholic schools. We moved to New Jersey in 1990, 
>> and luckily enough we lived near Princeton. The good thing about college 
>> towns is that college professors are not paid enough to send their children 
>> to expensive private schools (we had one of those in our town) but since 
>> they care about education they get involved in the local school board etc., 
>> so the public schools in such places tend to be decent too. But those are 
>> the exceptions. The US has the world's best universities, but below that 
>> level it is the pits, 
 w
> it
>> h some rays of sunshine in places like Lawrenceville, NJ.
> 
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