What country or countries would you want to live in or visit

Lessee... Ireland, to explore my roots. Scotland, just to see the Highlands. Germany, well for obvious reasons, which would also include several areas in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Holland! Finland, to see where Nord fought. Back to Austria. Silesia just out of curiosity. Various areas in Ukraine and Belarus.

That ought to pretty much cover it!

 

I wouldn't mind visiting Prague again (when the temperature is above -10C this time though please :lol: ), or living in France, somewhere in the south.
The continental lifestyle is so much more sensible than in England.

 

Ireland is good, though my wife wants to live in Norway.

 

well, this can be a sulution: you can spend winters in ireland and summers in norway (why winters in ireland? you don't want te become an ice cube in norway until spring arrives :lol: )

 

Ohio must be nice.

 

Che are you sure you want to move to the states ?

A ununiversal health care system , where you have to hand up the $$$$ before you can recieve treatment.

High Crime Rates

Poor education system, if you were to have kids.

sheer overkill on the amount of guns

etc etc etc

 

wow, i thought every one hated america
Che you made my day

 

hey YOu can move to charles city iowa hehehehehehe, small town alot of fun and ud meet me and E.Rommel

 

A girl in my History class is flying to Jamaica next week, my favorite place in the world. I had to tell her "When in Jamaica, do as Jamaicans do yeah mon?" :smok:

 

loooooool, Stereotypes

I think there are also nice locations in the USA without a high crime rate(like Charles city /Iowa) and the USA were better in PISA then Germany.


Best wishes

Che.

 

These aren't stereotypes man , thats all facts.

 

CSP, without ever have lived in the States, those are stereotypes. You are going to piss alot of people off trying to convince people these are all true, no matter which part of the US you live in.

America's education system is the same, if not a tad bit better, than Canada's.

I lived in Winnipeg Mb, we have very high crime rates. I remember my neighbor blew his uncle's head off one day and then shot himself.

I too love socialist health care, but if you don't notice, the whole system is tied down with drunks, drug addicts, idiots, etc. And we do pay for the health care in our taxes. So in reality, we pay for health care even when we don't need it.

 

What does he do in Iowa ?

 

Zhukov , there murder rate by guns is 100 times higher than canada , when a school does poorly grades wise they cut funding to that school , and our healthcare system may not be "glorious" but its still better than the american healthcare system.

How is the american education system better ? , besides the fact that they need metal detectors, and their badly underfunded.

Health care shouldn't be a business.

Why the hell is there a gun for like evry 5-12 people ?

Zhukov , how long have you lived in the states ?

 

CSP, it is all fact, but facts can be misleading. The high crime rates, poor education and poor helath care are almost all concentrated in poor, primarily urban, areas of the US. There aren't running gun battles every day on every street, people aren't dying in the streets, and most can read and actully have a decent idea of geography. I'd be glad for a cut in my taxes and the right to look after my own health care a la American. The medicare system here in Montreal is overloaded and substandard (especially if you're English speaking, but that's non-PC and unCanadian to say).
I think the murder rate and prison popualtion in the US are a shame, but I think the country has much more good going for it.
And just to irritate some of the forum members living in the US, let me say I think the 2nd amendment is authorization for the states National Guard (militia), and does not give everyone the right to own an arsenal.
Now let's hear from someone living in the USA.

 

I am planning a Stockholm & Tallin trip..

I always enjoy London..

I like living here, I can easily visit the north south east and west without changing currency, language or passport. We have the artic and tropical, (everything in between), climates all in one country.

Deserts, rainforrest, coral reefs, mountains, steppe, Great Lakes and snowpack etc.

oh and a few crummy towns like Newark or ...?

 

Yes, this is very true. Something like 400 to 12000 , but you have to factor in the US's larger population (California has more people than Canada) and the lax gun laws. Its all relative.

I took a year of high school in the US, and I don't remember people selling crack in every hallway of the school, I didn't have to kick beer bottles out of my way, and I needed more than a 50% to pass (65% in the US). Don't get me wrong, I loved my school in Canada, but overall the emphasis put on education in the American school was actually present.

Of course not, but drunken, overdosed fools shouldn't clog up the heath care either.

Much longer than you have.

 

Britain wins eight places in world list of 50 best universities
By Tony Halpin



OXFORD and Cambridge are among the world's top ten universities, according to a new global ranking published today.



They were fifth and sixth respectively in the league table of the world's 200 best universities. Harvard, which boasts an endowment of nearly $23billion (£12.7billion), was first in the list produced by The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES).

American institutions occupied seven of the top ten places, with Oxbridge the highest-ranked outside the United States.

London's position as a centre of global educational significance was confirmed with four institutions in the top 50. The London School of Economics was 11th, Imperial College 14th, University College London 34th, and the School of Oriental and African Studies 44th.

The only European university outside Britain in the top 20 was the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland, in tenth place.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, however, can lay claim to being the world's most intellectual city, as home to Harvard and to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which was ranked at No3.

California also scored highly, with the University of California, Berkeley, in second place, the California Institute of Technology, fourth, and Stanford seventh.

Tokyo University, in Japan, ranked at No12, was the highest-ranked institution in Asia, followed by Beijing University at No17.



CSP , Somehow Canada was not even mentioned..

Mc Dill is not top 25 IIRC

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1343642,00.html

Other surveys are similar..

 

>A ununiversal health care system , where you have to hand up the $$$$ before you can recieve treatment.



We have crappy government health care - It s called "Medicare/ Medicaide" - I hear it is not as 'good' as Canada's government healthcare.

LOL

I personally, have the private platinum premium top drawer extra good stuff. I like it. It costs my company $267.00 a month.

 

Well canadas population is 10 times smaller than that of the USA , so mathematically if you were have as many people in canada then in the states , there gun murder rate would still be 10 times higher , In canada I think the government has made an effort to stop crime were it begins , so you don't end up throwing too many people into overcrowded prisons.

In canada most of the gun murders take place in toronto and vancouver in the "ghetto" were most politicians and police are afriad to eevn go near/

As for the universal healthcare you end up with a lot of hemaphiliacs in there(thank god for placebos !), while we lose a lot of our doctors and healthcare personel to the states. So in contrast canada has longer waits , but Usa has to hand over the $$$ before treatment , which would suck if you have lower income and need a heart surgeory, but in canada if you are sick you gotta wait in a line for like 40 minutes to an hour before you a doctor, and while waiting you'll probably pick up another bug :lol: , I think if more of an effort was made by the government to stop smoking companies and take fat out of food there would be less people in there in the future(like thats ever gonna happen , it s also unrealistic at the time)

So each system has its pros and cons , but I would still rather have universal healthcare.