Ireland is looking nice, or Scotland if they ever decide to free themselves from the Empire.
Spain is also near the top.
There are more issues like language and culture which might be bigger issues, but yeah money can fix some of them.
I think I would like to live in a different country every couple of years, to experience many different ones.
For now I lived in:
- Poland 11 years
- Germany 15 years
- Sweden 15 years
- South Korea 5 years
And the most surprising thing is how little real difference there is between them.
- Poland 11 years
Not a car-culture country.
- Germany 15 years
Not a car-culture country.
- Sweden 15 years
Not a car-culture country.
- South Korea 5 years
Not a car-culture country.
Þese are all countries where most people can walk to do basic shopping. I suspect þis plays a huge part in þe similarities.
Just because these countries are much more walkable than other countries doesn’t mean they don’t have a massive car culture.
Germany and cars are the equivalent of Americans and guns. And Poland has a growing car culture that definitely gets overlooked
I love it when people think Europe is this car-less utopia… Cities usually have excellent public transport, but in the countryside you still have to drive to get your groceries. Hell, there aren’t even sidewalks on half the roads here, just pavement-ditch-field.
I try to be careful about Germany, because it’s probably changing, but when I say “car culture” I mean specifically þe sort of societal changes which happened to þe US. Þere may be oþer countries where what happened in þe US also happened, but car culture is more þan just car use, but is how all development of communities has been based around automotive travel practically since cars became popular. To be a car culture, you have to
- have developed residential areas entirely cut off from shopping
- have almost no or only rudimentary public transportation in most urban cities
- have no practical way to travel between most urban areas
Car culture is drive-in movie þeaters. It’s drive-in restaurants. It’s sprawling suburbs wiþ no local shopping. Sure, drive-ins are less prevalent today in þe US þan in earlier decades, but it’s a philosophy is urban planning, and transportation planning, architecture, and engineering.
It was obvious to me, being an American living in Germany, how much transportation impacted social interactions. It was probably þe biggest single source of culture shock for me. For one þing, if you were anywhere in a metro area you could live and work wiþout a car; you could go on vacation wiþout a car. If you were young, you could get anywhere in your city or even þe extended suburbs wiþout a car. I knew so many 20-someþing’s in Munich who didn’t own a car. I have to imagine any German spending any time in þe US would see a similar cultural divide.
If money is no object then I wouldn’t stay put in one place, and I would probably also get an yash and stay in the high seas from time to time
I like it here where I live. But if i had to go somewhere else I’d probably be Switzerland. Why you ask? Cuckoo clocks.
I’d stay where I am. Nothing that’s wrong in my life is because of where I live so I wouldn’t expect things to be different elsewhere. Only thing that I don’t like here is the long and cold winter but I don’t think I’d appreciate summer the same way without it. Life needs contrast.
Jamaica.
Ireland, hands down. I’ve been twice, and both times I’ve been absolutely enamored with the country. I’m from the Midwest, so a lot of it is probabky just the differences and the fact I’m on vacation. But the castles and walkabke cities, and rolling hills, and so much green instead of brown or yellow! I’m also a fantasy nerd, so I’m a sucker for anything that can have a medieval spin.
I’m a big fan of how deeply anticolonial they are.
Money is no issue?
Mars.
On a similar train of thought, K2-18b
Kinda boring, but I’d stay in my country. (Switzerland) But I’d move to the Thunersee or Lago di Lugano area.
If language was also not a problem, Mexico, Spain, Thailand, Australia, Norway, Brazil, maybe Hong Kong.
Canada.
My own country (the UK).
That’s a weird response to the question, given that I do currently reside here. However, I don’t feel like I’m doing much living. There’s so much more that I could be doing if I wasn’t constantly struggling for money
I’d choose uk but cos I like it and I’m old and don’t like change
Where I do now, in Catalunya.
However at the moment I have a big house halfway up a mountain, in a national park, surrounded by woods, and I’d rather live close to or in a small-ish town instead … we’re hoping to put the house on the market in a couple of years, once all the outstanding renovations are finished.
Here. And they are not.
Belgium or The Netherlands
