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3x the space for half the price

  That's 914 square feet. In the frum area in Minneapolis, you get 2,542 square feet, with a driveway and a yard for $350,000, half the price. That's nearly three times the space for half the price in a region where you salary is 3x that of Israel.  I don't have a photo of the apartment in Israel, but from experience I can tell you it will look something like this: Here's the home in Minneapolis: Additionally, there's no military conscription in the USA and in Minnesota people are much more polite than in Israel.  I ask you, have we lost are minds with this aliyah madness? 

Twice the price

 124,274 miles, $6,666 for 13 year old car In the USA, private party value typically ranges between $2,800 and $5,200. Mileage Impact: At over 120,000 miles, these vehicles are considered to have high mileage, placing them in the lower end of retail value. So figure $3,300 in the USA. Twice the price in Israel, while your salary is 1/4 that of the USA.

Benches are for people

Not saying that young men in chutz aren't capable of this, but in my experience, such a lack of consdieration is more common in Israel. The bench outside the bustop. This is supposed to be where people can sit while waiting for the bus, especially people with grey hair.  Here's the bench in the bus shelter, blocked by their electronic bicycle: I didn't take a photo of the yeshiva bochurim who loaded the bench with their stuff, as they stood chatting with one another. I stood near them for at least 15 minutes, but nobody made a move to clear a bench. 

two gods?

Some people speak as if there are two gods, a good one and a bad one. The bad one is the deity of antisemitism over which the good god has no power and our service to the good god is of no help. Our only hope to be saved from it, is the Israeli military, which unlike the armies of David, is faithless and sinful. Moreover, all the good people who try to serve the good god should subject themselves to the tyranny of the faithless and sinful to wage war against the bad god. This is Zoroastrianism in its polytheistic form, which is an ancient Iranian religion ironically. As with all idolatry, fears are exaggerated, and serve as an excuse for the lust of idolatry and the wild lifestyle that it engenders. The actual extent of antisemitism, even in the Mideast, is wildly exaggerated, well beyond facts or even logical proof, and made out to be its own entity, i.e. a pagan god of which we must be terrified. Even day in the Israeli press, which never mentions the real God, appear articles about ...

The same people

  https://x.com/i/status/2046137315106447536 A mother records hospital staff attempting to remove her son from life support to harvest his organs without her consent. "You're trying to take my son off of life support and take his organs." But Modern Orthodox rabbis, naive as usual, promote organ donation. The same people who tell you to move to Israel.

5 hour trip

They finally opened an MRI center near my apartment but I had to transport the disc to Hadassah hospital to ingest into the records system so the doctor there could read the results. Round trip took me five hours. 

3 bedrooms $700,000 and worse