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My parents are Russian so I'm Russian but born and raised in Cali.

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Is there any aspect of your life that matches stereotypes about Jewish people? I.e. hardcore penny-pincher extraordinaire.

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Is there any more divisive food?

Personally I love to slice them up and serve them sauteed in butter and garlic with a steak. I like white, portabello, crimini or shitake. As a side dish they work with a keto diet. A nice tenderloin with a side of sauteed shitake and maybe.

Many people hate them though. I'm not sure if it's the texture.... I actually had a girlfriend that was so grossed out by them that she wouldn't kiss me after I ate them.

Do you eat mushrooms?

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This is a bout a million dollar house in the Atlanta city limit. You can get the same house for about $300,000 in the outer suburbs. Yes, more than one-third the cost, but with metro Atlanta traffic, the commute sucks. But most people do that.

Home ownership is good for the mental health. But you do have a lot of homeowner costs for maintenance and property taxes. And it is ridiculous that something costs $1,000,000 while a 40 minute drive away virtually the same house would cost $300,000 and you'd also pay much less in yearly property taxes. Of course that adds to fossil fuel usage and pollution to the environment, because most people will opt for the better economical deal and drive the longer commute to work.

In the Atlanta suburbs, your average lower to middlemanagement job or with jobs like plumbers or electricians, you can afford homes considered mansions in places like San Francisco or Los Angeles.

And famous professional athleyes and celebrities can afford truly amazing mansions ongolf courses, with their own swimming pools and famous neighbors out at The Country Club for The South in the northern 'burbs. It is shocking how many celebrities and famous ball players (from teams across the USA) live in the Atlanta metro.

Home ownership costs are ridiculous in parts of the USA, and connected to the homeless problem. And the US approach to government housing has created huge crime breeding communities. Gvernment housing could easily be done differently, designed to create nice livable communities with individual homes, set up with a very low cost rent-to-own system. But NO, we have always built enormous ugly box development-tenaments, perfect for breaking down the family structure and breeding lots of crime and drug uasge.

Investment-wise, in my part of the country, owning your own home or any real estate is almost always an excellent financial investment. Sometimes patience might be required for it to reach maximum potential, depending upon location, and as they say, "location, location, location." That IS very important.

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This is a major issue in the US.

The main issue is the fact the the US treats healthcare as a commodity and not an essential service. Hospitals and Insurance companies negotiate for process. Unlike in other commodities, competition makes costs go down. But with health care competition just make costs go up.

Preventative care is minimized in the current system, in place of treatment based care witch yields a higher profit.

Doctors perform lots of unnecessary surgeries because it consts more money.

The US is ranked less in the developed world while costing the most. Insurance companies and pharma companies make billions, while Americans get the worst quality health care in the developed world.

The US pays more than any other nation in medication costs.

How can Americans continue to support a system that is so expensive yet has the lowest standards of any developed nation?

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That may have been me. And l know a lot of doctors aren't getting rich. Some are barely keeping their heads above financial water after paying their outrageous malpractice insurance premiums and business and clinic expenses.

I do know some doctors getting filthy rich, and their attitude to their careers, it seems to me, is it's just a means to great money.

Thanks to all the doctors like you, that do all the volunteer work and serve the people in most need. It shows when someone does it because they love it.