March Memeness: relocation

[tielan]

1. If you had to move to another country, where would you go? Why there? (Assume you can afford it.) (from james)

If I had to move away from Australia? That's pretty easy. I'd go to New Zealand.

I mean, the climate is not ideal - a bit cooler than I like - and there's the earthquakes and volcanoes, but it's better on the freedom and happiness indexes than Australia, the accent isn't so far off, and I feel like I'd experience less overt racism the way I likely would in any of the Scandinavian countries - at least in the cities.

If you barred me from both Australia and New Zealand, then I'd probably go The Netherlands. My stepbrother and his fam are there, you can get to all over Europe from there, and they've got a solid setup for growing food (food and medical production capabilities are a big consideration in my view in the coming years).

Comments

[beatrice_otter]

Heh. For similar reasons, if I had to leave the US I'd pick Canada as my first choice of countries to emigrate to.

[lilysea]

I really like New Zealand, altho I worry about the cold weather

and also separately about all the steep hills not being very power wheelchair friendly

but its a beautiful country

with a gorgeous natural environment

and most of the people seem really nice and really friendly

(apart from the current right wing New Zealand politician dickheads and the people who voted for them)

[senmut]

Awesome to hear!

[james]

Ooh, New Zealand is definitely an awesome sounding choice. If I weren't opposed to being on an airplane for that many hours, it would be on my 'to visit' list.

[wpadmirer]

Wow. That's tough. I'd probably choose Canada. I hate the cold, but if money weren't a consideration, I could probably live in Vancouver and not hate it.