# Ask the "crazy" settler **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 15, 2010, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-crazy-settler/553889 "2010-09-15T21:10:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 30
**Author:** ![Shinna\_Minna\_Ma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@Shinna\_Minna\_Ma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shinna_Minna_Ma)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-crazy-settler/553889/30 "2010-09-16T14:42:48Z")
> [@Furious\_Marmot](#): > > I assume you were an American citizen and have now changed your citizenship or are in the process of doing so. We actually have dual citizenship. We vote in American elections as well as Israeli elections. > [@](#): > > Why move to another country if you could have had the same quality of life in the one where you already lived? Because as Orthodox Jews, we feel we belong in Israel. It felt hypocritical, to me, to pray every day about returning to Israel without doing it. This is where we belong. We feel the quality of life is better here. I can go by my Hebrew name, and everyone can pronounce it and knows what it means. We live by a Hebrew calendar here, so we don’t worry about working on Shabbat or holidays. My kids are bilingual, and have much more freedom here than the could have in the U.S. > [@](#): > > Isn’t the term ‘settler’ a little over-dramatic? It sounds like you guys are suburbanites. Half the people in my office live more than 25km outside of the city, on land that was farms or wilderness before they built housing developments there. Nobody would call them settlers. The media seems to have deemed everyone living over the green line a settler. This is just how it is. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-crazy-settler/553889)._