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Author Topic: Moving to Nebraska Richard Hamilton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1341 From: Evansville, Indiana Registered: Jan 2000 posted 10-05-2004 01:11 AM                     After many months of waiting, I have finally spent my first official weekend and first day at the "office" here in Omaha. I have been in China for a few months for an install, and my wife had already moved here 3 months ago while I was gone. Before any of the hurricanes hit, we decided that we needed a change in the weather. Who needs sunshine everyday when you can have snowy subzero temperatures Actually I decided to move when the company that I worked for decided to shut down Rick  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 10-05-2004 05:06 AM                        I was in Omaha in August for a Strong seminar, and it proved to be quite a fun place... We had a lot of fun there with Don Sneed and a few other people from Universal Cinema Services... Maybe he can contribute more. I would maybe not recommend you to go to "Maxx's - the hottest gay dance club in the midwest" though. I think Don liked it. We others decided to take off anyway.  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-05-2004 06:45 AM                        Man, Neberaska will eat you alive.  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 10-05-2004 07:07 AM                     quote: Richard Hamilton I have been in China for a few months for an install Where were you, and what did you think of it? It's somewhere that I'd really like to go. I did go and talk to an offical China tourist place in London, and the prices were out of this world. They quoted everything in U.S. Dollars, and hotel prices were more than twice what I would expect to pay in London, which is supposed to be the second most expensive city in the world, after Tokyo. Flights were just impossibly expensive. I know someone who's been out there on business several times, and it doesn't cost him anything like that amount; I think they just screw foreign tourists for every penny they can get out of them.  |  IP: Logged Dick Vaughan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1032 From: Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK Registered: Jul 2000 posted 10-05-2004 08:23 AM                        Stephen this is moving way off topic but Expedia list city centre hotels in Shanghai ,for example, at £40 up.  |  IP: Logged Richard Hamilton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1341 From: Evansville, Indiana Registered: Jan 2000 posted 10-05-2004 08:31 AM                     I was in Changchun. I had a good time there. I was staying in a 5 star hotel which cost about 100 USD a day. If you ate the local food the price was very cheap. 6 of us ate more than we could handle and drank a few local beers each and the total cost was about 10 USD. The hotel food was about 12 bucks for a steak and buffet. The plane tickets were about $1700. It helps if you have a local interpreter to get you the right prices. If I tried to buy something by myself, I would be charged double what a local would pay. Unless I was at the local Wal-Mart.  |  IP: Logged Ron Yost Master Film Handler Posts: 344 From: Paso Robles, CA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 10-05-2004 03:21 PM                     Does a Chinese Wal*Mart mostly sell imported products made in the U.S.?? Ron Yost  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 10-05-2004 04:01 PM                  quote: Michael Schaffer I would maybe not recommend you to go to "Maxx's - the hottest gay dance club in the midwest" though. Oh PULEEZE, Mike! Next time you come up to see me... NO MORE Sushi bar! I ***WILL*** take you to the BEST ***places*** Hollywood has to offer! BUT! ONLY IF you can stand the ***HEAT***! BTW: You GOTTA get your own motel room... you just aren't *MY TYPE*! >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 10-05-2004 04:26 PM                     The China toutist place was talking about 400-600 US $ per night. Sounds like I was right, they're trying to screw whatever they can out of tourists.  |  IP: Logged

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