chosing the country you live in

[Axolotl]

Assuming that I could speak the language (and I'm bad bad with languages).
I would choose either Germany, the USA, Japan or Kazakhstan.

 

[Conqueror Kenny]

if i could anywhereeeee ... *thinks*

it'd probably somewhere like califorinia, new zealand/australia,

Australia is so much better the NZ. They do thing over there... with sheep.

Like the Welsh then.
I would love to live in Somalia i don't really know why maybe i am part Somalian or perhaps i just want to conquer it.

 

[ilves7]

*Slow burn...*

Speaking on behalf of the redneck cow rapists of the Midwest, it may interest you to know we regard California as a state where cults are widely accepted, immigration runs rampant, celebrity status is given freely to anyone no matter how terminally uninteresting, and not a single original idea for television or movies has been had since 1986. As such we wish all the smog, mudslides, and forest fires you can handle. Plus the occasional 9.6 earthquake.

That's actually just LA, and most things south of it. Central Valley (between LA and SF) and northern California are like different countries.

I grew up in California (half the in Santa Barbara, half near San Jose), born in Europe though, I like the San Francisco Bay Area and the central coast areas, but I hate LA... its an overcrowded spread out suburb with millions of people in it. You can't drive anywhere without it taking hours and even if you drive hours in one direction IT STILL LOOKS THE SAME.

Anyway, if I had to pick a place, with no language or cultural barrier (or finding a job even), I might have to go somewhere in the Mediterranean, Hawaii, back to Finland (born there), or maybe ireland... heard good things.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

That's more Quebec. Although its more like if France was combined with the world from 1984, or so I gather from an outside, pro-Commonwealth prospective. Take the recent tournament by Blizzard in their World of Warcraft arenas as a prime example: The French regions of Canada were not allowed to enter, due to the provisional government in those areas having a heavy hand when it even comes to light-hearted competitions which are not specifically pro-French; demanding some outrageous terms for entry to the competition, which Blizzard simply did not wish to put up with. Go look for the posts on the WoW forums for further information. Blizzard were wrongly blamed by the Quebec players for missing out, and suffered as a company because of the government's incompetence.

Ok, that was random.

yeah don't even get me started on quebec, the separatists are a bunch of wankers and that's being nice about it. quebec has some pretty nasty laws for language, such as if you have a english sign you must have a french one double the size, so futureshop/bestbuy have signs that are 3 feet in english and the 6 foot french version that is unreadable from inside the store, just to show how stupid they law is. 7-11 won't operate in quebec because they can't call themselves seven-eleven in spoken ads it must be sept-onze

tho we do have fun with my friend's dad, who is from france, we tell him how great we think quebec french is and he goes off on a long angry rant at how a dog in a blender sounds better than how they desecrate the beautiful french language in quebec

 

[number2301]

i personally like the dutch system where you get the amount of seats equal to the percentage of votes your party got, so if you got 40% of the vote, you'd get 40% of the seats

Proportional representation, makes perfect sense since in party politics people don't vote for candidates, they vote for parties. And its blatantly more fair. For some reason though the only 2 parties with any chance of being elected in the UK don't like it.

If I could choose a country live in other than the UK I'd go for the Netherlands (Holland is only part of the Netherlands), or at least the Netherlands of the past, them seem to be moving much more right wing now.

Why? Sensible policies on prostitution, pornography, drugs and the age of consent. The beautiful city of Amsterdam. But most of all the music. Only in the Netherlands can you buy Hardcore (Gabber) in a train station, only in the Netherlands could Hardcore ever become 'pop music'.

But I wouldn't leave the UK, no one does Football like we do and I know my way around a bit! Well, maybe if climate change carries on and we keep getting floods like we've had I might think about leaving, but not until then.

 

[Anarchemitis]

i live in england light, aka canuckistan or canada

Soviet Cancukistan. I could post a funny flag, but I won't.

Atlantis would be fun to live in.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

Proportional representation, makes perfect sense since in party politics people don't vote for candidates, they vote for parties. And its blatantly more fair. For some reason though the only 2 parties with any chance of being elected in the UK don't like it.
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Why? Sensible policies on prostitution, pornography, drugs and the age of consent. The beautiful city of Amsterdam. But most of all the music. Only in the Netherlands can you buy Hardcore (Gabber) in a train station, only in the Netherlands could Hardcore ever become 'pop music'.

But I wouldn't leave the UK, no one does Football like we do and I know my way around a bit! Well, maybe if climate change carries on and we keep getting floods like we've had I might think about leaving, but not until then.

so it sounds like canada is a happy mix of netherlands and england

we were going to adopt the scotish system but luckily it was badly marketed and didn't pass

as for parties yeah we have 3 major ones but only 2 will ever be elected into power. bob rae saw to that in ontario. and we've got sensible age of consent, more tolerant laws on pot, reasonable drinking age and our banned movie (mostly porn) list appears on the smoking gun

as for football, we got 2 types here and aren't as crazy as the brits, still don't know what a good soccer riot is, but there's always room for improvement

 

[Cousin_IT]

I thought it might be nice to live in Spain, even though I cant speak Spanish. Then I went to Spain & the British ex-pats there are all a bunch of smug rich pricks, or yobbish c**ts depending where you go. Gibralter wasnt bad though (no its not part of Spain)

Ireland is a nice place, but the ROI gets really boring really fast. Unless your a bit too fond of rambling that is.

I think im happy being a British person living in England. Theres lots that bad about this place but no doubt if I did leave it id just start complaining about wherever I ended up.

 

[Strafe Mcgee]

I want to be...

Soooomewhere, over the rainbow...!

 

[Shieldsy]

I don't think I'd be able to live out the rest of my years in another one country. I love my home country and wouldn't trade it. I could live away for a few years, but in the end I'd come back to the land down under. It's home, always has been always will be.

Cheers

Shieldsy

 

[Anarchemitis]

In a fantastic land of beauty and art, made of entirely storyline, comedy and slick style; a world of vector graphics:
A webcomic.

 

[the monopoly guy]

So you wish the world to know that you were born in England rather than.... Wales? Get over yourself. It is ONE ISLAND! That is like distinguishing betweenThe Dominican Republic and Haiti! Who cares? It is a tropical island! So you live on an island in the North Atlantic, one of the few remaining legitimate empires, and you want to complain about that?

So what if he wants people to know he's from england not Whales or Scotland (thats UK right? I'm never sure about that one). They may be on one island but they're seperate countries with seperate identities, cultures, and even accents.

As for me I would like to live in either Ireland or New Zealend...because they're awsome thats why

 

[bluemarsman]

I plan on moving to Estonia in a few years.

 

[Larenxis]

The moon!
Or London, probably. Oh wait, they have that weird security camera thing, so not there.
Switzerland?

 

[Nugoo]

yeah don't even get me started on quebec, the separatists are a bunch of wankers and that's being nice about it. quebec has some pretty nasty laws for language, such as if you have a english sign you must have a french one double the size, so futureshop/bestbuy have signs that are 3 feet in english and the 6 foot french version that is unreadable from inside the store, just to show how stupid they law is. 7-11 won't operate in quebec because they can't call themselves seven-eleven in spoken ads it must be sept-onze

tho we do have fun with my friend's dad, who is from france, we tell him how great we think quebec french is and he goes off on a long angry rant at how a dog in a blender sounds better than how they desecrate the beautiful french language in quebec

There are some good things about it, too. It has the lowest post-secondary education fees in North America, plus some of the best labour laws in that same region.

Anyway, I'd choose Canada ('cause I like it here), Japan ('cause of the video games, anime, and ridiculous Internet connections), or a Scandinavian country ('cause their governments do awesome things with their tax dollars).

 

[tthor]

well, its kinda hard to choose, since the only countrys ive ever been in are the USA and Canada.

i guess i might pick norway. ive heard a lot of good things about it (except that it rains constantly) from my sis, after she spent a year at school there.

 

[tthor]

Okay, real life problem.. Life is going to be hell if Hillary Clinton takes office, so I swore I was leaving the country if she was President... Now I hear that she has been offered the position as VP? Is that true? If so, we are TRULY FUCKED... This question is serious, Where should I move to if Hillary becomes Vice President or even President? I always thought it would be cool to live in Russia... I love the language...

ya, i think your right.
Obama might do an ok, but Hillary doesnt seem to have really ANY actually good or ideas plans to help america, and instead spent most of the campaign trying to discredit Obama (and did a bad job at it).

 

[Fury-Genesis]

I'm moving from Norway to England this summer. Going to scool in Middlesburough (Computer Games Art, wooo! \0/). So hopefully I'll learn a bit about the English culture. All I know so far is that Middlesburough is like the boringesesesest football team of all time, and I can never allow anyone there to figure out I like Arsenal, lest I be stabbed, repeatedly. If I can avoid that, I might get away from my stay in England with only getting stabbed once, like all british people get, I am told.

As for places I'd like to live:

Japan, simply because I <3 the culture. They embrace weird nerdy things, and weird perverted things, it's like the place was made for me.

USA - Los Angeles, simply because it would greatly benefit my ongoing stalking of Jessica Alba.

Also, both of those because it's not a bad place to start for an aspiring game designer.

Italy - Sicily, I'd like to retire there.