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tielan: (SG - JT hero)
Friday, March 8th, 2024 07:51 pm
1. If you had to move to another country, where would you go? Why there? (Assume you can afford it.) (from [personal profile] 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).
tielan: (don't mess with)
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011 10:14 pm
Okay, the reason I asked whether a ring was needed when a marriage proposal is made was because I was in a discussion the other day regarding proposals (don't ask me why the topic came up, the truth is I don't remember) and the other four or five people in the conversation were all "oh, he's totally got to have the ring when he asks."

And there I was, recalling that a whole slew of my RL friends didn't have the ring in hand when they got to discussing marriage. And I know that most of them went 'ring shopping' after the announcement of their engagement went out, so they didn't have the ring beforehand.

Of course, I do tend to have quirky RL friends. Or ones that kind of agree to get married before the actual proposal stuff happens, and then go off and do the picking together.

I was just wondering what other people's baseline experiences/opinions were, and whether I was just an outlier statistic, or possibly an oddity. :)
tielan: (H50 - Kono1)
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011 10:54 am
I'm kind of curious what people think.

Poll #8124 proposal with ring?
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 10


Should a marriage proposal be made with the ring already in hand?

View Answers

Yes.
2 (20.0%)

No.
8 (80.0%)



Thoughts? Questions? Anecdata?