Poll: Do you love your home country?

[thylasos]

I've got a deep connection to it, but whether I love it is a different matter, which would require me to explain over a series of paragraphs exactly what I hate about Britain.

 

[Astoria]

I love Australia. Yeah our government is full of idiots and our weather suffers from bi polar but I can't think of anywhere more peaceful and beautiful to live.

 

[jackpipsam]

Australia, wouldn't want to be anywhere else

 

[Jonluw]

I love it here, I guess.
Michael Moore agrees.

[sub]I like watching that clip once in a while. Makes me all giggly and blushing. "Teehee, I bet you say those things to all the countries"[/sub]​

It's nice. We've got warm summers and snowy winters, beautiful nature and great social conditions.
[sub]/self flattering[/sub]

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

It's just a landmass I live on. Nothing special here.

 

[Declaro]

I have gone through a lot of feelings about the US since I moved to Sweden two years ago. I had a period where I seriously just foamed at the mouth thinking about anything other than my friends or family, I hated the US so much. I mean, not in a suicide-bomber kind of way, but I just felt like everything people said about it being the Land of Opportunity and The Greatest Country On Earth was such bullshit and I was completely done with it all. Even my excitement about Obama being elected was crushed by the idiot right-wing racists that never keep their mouths shut.

All of these complaints are still valid, but I've calmed down a lot. I don't want to live there again long-term anytime soon, but I recognize that things are changing, some for the better. On the other hand, my anger sort of flared up about it again when bin Laden died. The cheering was disgusting and really pissed me off.

 

[siddif]

I live in Northern Ireland, I like this. It allows me to embrace my Irish background while having the benefits of the UK such as health care and subsidised education (things that arent done so well in the Republic of Ireland)

I may be one of the minority of people who both love being Irish and a UK citizen =P

 

[Gigano]

Not particularly, though in the grand scope of things I've got reason to be fairly content with it.

Nationalism just doesn't seem too appealing to me. It has quite a poor track record, especially as far as European history is concerned. So many wars...

 

[Wutaiflea]

There's an awful lot wrong with the UK, but really, there are plenty of worse places to be.

Driving through the peak district the other week certainly made me appreciative of this place.

 

[Pjotr84]

Yeah I love it, Holland is a very tolerant and rational country. Still it's not the best (I'm looking at you Geert Wilders voters). I'd say the best countries are Canada and the scandinavian countries.

Really, you think this country is tolerant? I'd sooner call it indifferent than tolerant. But I'm with you on the Wilders voters... morons.

 

[F'Angus]

England's pretty good tbh...though it's not the best. But is anywhere perfect?

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

America? Yeah, I like this place. Food's good, technology is great, the weather's... tolerable, and the people have their ups and downs.

 

[pyramid head grape]

I like living here (UK), if that's what you mean. If you mean "are you a patriot?" then no, I am not. Why the hell would I be a patriot; I didn't pick where I was born.

This is quite true.