Boomer Memories: America in the Dot-Com Age

Arrival

In early March 2000, I set foot on American soil.





It turned out to be very expensive, since a visa cost $ 500 in those days. Let me remind you that it was shortly after 1998, when the ruble fell three times. And I also had to pay for visas for my wife and son, who arrived later, when I had already rented an apartment.





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It is not worth writing the memoirs further - the events did not have time to 'infuse' for at least 15 years.








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