Where do you live and which country would you like to live in?

Grew up in the Bronx and Queens, have been in NJ the last 15 years. Love it here and wouldn't change a thing. Close enough to my parents and siblings to visit but live in a beautiful area.

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Pacific Northwest city. I love the nature, mountains, and water but hate the drug camps and pretentious locals. I guess Thailand because they have nice back massages and punish people for destroying their body while being annoying.
 
beboh16 said:
Pacific Northwest city. I love the nature, mountains, and water but hate the drug camps and pretentious locals. I guess Thailand because they have nice back massages and punish people for destroying their body while being annoying.
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Have you been to Winthrop, WA? I would definitely live there. My wife says no though :(
 
Live: UK - Cambridgeshire (also birthplace)

Ethnic background is Indian and I spent some time there as a child.
Lived for several years in Nagasaki Japan and travelled a lot around Asia (South Korea, Vietnam, Taiwan)
Ex was from the US and so spent a small amount of time there.
Current partner is South Korean.

From these exposures to other countries, I'd say East Asia was very nice in terms of nature, safety and infastructure (excluding China which is an automatic no-no because of the CCP), Taiwan in particular was awesome and very fun as it wasn't as uptight as Japan and SK.

But I'm at a stage in life where I plan on getting married and having kids over the next few years and also want to hunker down with a mortage and a house, so I see my base camp and future being in the UK.

The UK is obviously not perfect and I'll avoid living in the cities like Birmingham or London (not safe and overpriced), but in general the countryside and small towns amongst the nicer parts of the country are pretty solid places to build and live out your life. It's chill, quiet and no ones in your face (hopefully stays that way). Which is the opposite of SE Asia. Also compared to SE Asia you can live in a small but reasonable sized house which has a garden which is preferable to being couped up in a shoebox apartment.

In the UK you can get a pretty decent work/life balance compared to most parts of SE Asia (and perhaps also compared to North America?) with decent annual leave and workers rights. You also don't have to deal with apocolyptic natural disasters and crime whilst rising is still lower and feels a lot safer to me than the US, which I think has considerably higher rates of violent crime.

So for now it's staying put in formerly Great but kinda okay Britain and perhaps in 10-20 years life will take me East again. :pie_thinking:
 
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p_xavier said:
I know there are two other threads but they are nearly a decade old.

I currently live in a small town on a lake in Ontario Canada. I absolutely love the people here and there's so much to do it's incredible. I'm happy to live in my town but currently hate the state of my country.

Where I would like to live.

I applied for my Australian visa a year ago but my English wasn't good enough to get the immigration points required. It sucks because I was really looking forward to it. If I could move to a country it would probably be South Korea. Absolutely loved my time there. Here are a few pics I took.
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Just out of curiosity was it a spoken text? Your written English is great, but I guess you could use translation software. At any rate, I could not tell you didn't speak English as a first language based on your written posts!
 
Hookshot said:
Sometimes in the winter I think it must be nice to be closer to the Equator but I wouldn't leave the UK.

It sucks when its dark by 4pm though, never take a holiday here between November and February.
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It has been sunny and warm for weeks here, and here's you still moaning about the winter conditions🤦🏻‍♂️
 
I live in West Cornwall, UK and wouldn't want to live anywhere else, they're aren't even many places I'd like to visit. I wouldn't mind going to Japan to see some of the gardens but that's about it. I'd travel to watch motogp, but for the racing, not the culture or scenery.
 
DirtInUrEye said:
It has been sunny and warm for weeks here, and here's you still moaning about the winter conditions🤦🏻‍♂️
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The thread isn't about "what is the weather today".

Now I have 2 possible reasons to leave, the short hours of daylight in winter and the chance of bumping into a moron like you.
 
TheUnicornGuy said:
I live in West Cornwall, UK and wouldn't want to live anywhere else, they're aren't even many places I'd like to visit. I wouldn't mind going to Japan to see some of the gardens but that's about it. I'd travel to watch motogp, but for the racing, not the culture or scenery.
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To be fair yeah, Cornwall is special. If you can put up with all those second home lot hoovering up the properties then even better.
 
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Usa.

I'd live in Scotland. Really pretty, close to all the other European countries, and gets forgot on the world stage alot (this being a good thing in this exercise)
 
I'm in Glasgow, Scotland and I like where I live. It's a decent-sized city, the street I live on is pretty quiet and peaceful but I'm also not far from a decent selection of restaurants, pubs, cafes, concert venues, parks, cinemas, theatres etc.

There are other places in the world that I've enjoyed visiting or would love to visit in the future. But a lot of my friends and immediate family are here. So I'm pretty happy where I am.
 
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Lunarorbit said:
Usa.

I'd live in Scotland. Really pretty, close to all the other European countries, and gets forgot on the world stage alot (this being a good thing in this exercise)
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Scotland has an annoying secret

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Mosquitoes in Scotland as far north as Shetland

The extent of Scotland's mosquito population is being understood thanks to a successful citizen science project.
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20 different biting insects all present from May to September
 
Sweden.

Lived in a few different countries, but moved back home to Sweden.

It's just a wonderfull place, outside of the major cities.
 
I live in the US, near DC. I love the USA, but it's been less enjoyable living here over the last 10 or so years. Still, I don't think there's anywhere else I'd want to live long term.

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Canada is boring as hell unless you're an outdoorsy person. But it's the type of place if you grew up here it's safe, not a lot of stupid shit happens (get your fill watching US news for that! Lol) and living in the big metro cities it's nice you get a lot of culture as there's tons of different people, restaurants and shops. But still boring.

If I had to move it looks like Nashville looks like a great place to be. And old coworkers said it was awesome when they did a sales trip there.

Other places that look cool are Vietnam (there's that YT white guy who does food videos).

And places like panama or Costa Rica are supposed to be good retirement places.

When I retire I'll probably just move away from the core a few hours away where it's cheaper. And when I need to see friends or fam I'll just drive in.
 
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Lived in Michigan, US my whole life. Would prefer to move one of the states with more tolerable winters, as I detest the cold, but otherwise I love this country and wouldn't rather live anywhere else in spite of the many loonies.
 
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And I suspect the immigration requirements are STEEP.

The US seems to be one of the few countries that is supposed to just let anyone come in.
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Our border should be hermetically sealed.

I live in NYC, born and raised. Our recent golden age was between 2005 and 2016.

Now I would love to move away. It's a shame really.
 
I'm from the Netherlands

I would love a country where the sky is gray and it rains or storms most of the time, probably somewhere like Scotland?
 
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Born in New York, grew up between New York and Florida back and forth, then went to drown in LA for 20 years. Now i live in Tokyo, and plan to never leave. I live in the most beautiful, gigantic, clean, safe city in the world with incredible architecture....and within one hour i can be in a beautiful forest.

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Grew up in the Carolinas, lived in NYC for a number of years, and now living in Texas. I'd move my family to Tokyo tomorrow if our life was structured in a way which made it feasible. I've been several times now and it appeals to my sensibilities in a pretty dramatic way. I'm a chronic rule follower who (for some reason) loves being in cities. The infrastructure is unmatched, most things are extremely accessible, it's relatively cheap (aside from a few key areas), and personal/property safety is the last things most people have to worry about.
 
I'm near Montreal, QC. Once I retire I want to go live down south in the U.S. The cold is killing me here as I grow older, I'm so sick of it
 
Lived in the same place my whole damn life, the Netherlands. If I would move, id probably go to our German neighbors or Austria.

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Miyazaki's Slave said:
Just out of curiosity was it a spoken text? Your written English is great, but I guess you could use translation software. At any rate, I could not tell you didn't speak English as a first language based on your written posts!
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Well thanks for that. No AI haha. I've been on gaf/neogaf for more than 30 years so got used to it. This is my native tongue:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brayon_(langue) My real last name is De NORSEMAN, my dad was an orphan and I found out his lineage two years ago. People call me Techno Viking and I have norse gods tattoos so it was fun to know that I actually descend from that.

This one is translated cause laziness. Brayon is a variety of the Norman language spoken in the Bray region of Seine-Maritime, Normandy. Still very present in the 19th century (although Abbot Jean-Eugène Decorde noted in 1852 in his Dictionnaire du patois brayon that it was not as lively as the surrounding Picardy dialects), it is today a variety of Norman in danger of disappearing and its number of speakers is particularly low.
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I live in Edinburgh Scotland and it's a lovely city. I like it here. If I was to move somewhere else then it would probably be in New Zealand. A stunning country. Up there with Scotland!
 
UK but moved to Japan years ago because of a silly dream. Now I can't stand city living, selfish city people, all the annoying expats, and the terrible weather each year especially in summer time. The countryside is so much more pleasant and the people are much nicer and friendlier but it is just not feasible to live out there unless you really have some weird desire to completely shut yourself out from society. Might as well just live in the countryside in Scotland or wherever.
 
I've lived in the southern part of the United States most of my life(specifically in the boring suburbs). I'm fine with it staying that way.
 
Durien said:
The more I see regarding Switzerland, the more I think I want to live there. So beautiful!
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It's expensive though, very. And no matter how nice the scenery, you get used to it eventually. So if you move, move becaue of people and job, not scenery.

Swiss is extremely nice though. Was driving though it on a business trip last year and it's soooo nice. Walensee looked exactly like the stock photos here.

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Probably Singapore.
Not Japan anymore, way too many foreigners, ironically, so I don't think Japan's wonder will last and it (major cities) will just be like NY and London, messy, annoying and not at all like the utopia people move there for (and residents complaining already about this).

China and gulf/middle east are options. CCP is a negative, but the place is generally very good. Middle east is safe but lacks nature that isn't sand.

But I'd only move to these places for a better job.

Europe is also chill with jobs. Usually. Don't want to follow silly rules like unable to leave before the boss leaves.
 
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