I also find it funny that Maria derisively refers to Valentina&39; accounts of life in Europe as cute "anectdotes from girlfriends who got there from some crappy place, and were able to milk the system for a whole year", while sheherself frequently cites her husband's European doctor friends as authoritativesources.
If life in Europe was as bad as some here would like to lead us to believe, Europeans would be coming here in droves...