Since I was a kid, I’ve had episodes of wishing I were British.
The accent, for one thing! And they have the best slang. Even the words that are different from ours are frequently better—I can’t exactly go around referring to an outdoor trash can as a “wheelie bin” or the trunk of a car as the “boot” without sounding like an a-hole.
Yeah, it was just a dumb joke I deleted. By the time I noticed I’d left your quote in it was too late. Sorry, Kyla. 
Compared with England there’s so much more space in America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand… I’d love to be part of a country where you can drive for a day and not see anyone. In England you’re never more than 550 miles from any other part of the country, and it just feels so crowded and hemmed in.
We have a population density of 1,023/sq mi, whereas Oregon (which is bigger than the UK) has a density of 35.6/sq mi… I’d love to have that much space to breathe.
The Highlands have a population density less than Oregon. It’s a bit smaller obviously, but closer.
If I may stretch the meaning of the OP and include another ethnicity…years ago I went with a couple of buddies to see the Bus Boys in concert. We were the only white folk there. During the entire show, I felt as though I were black.
And I was digging the feeling.
mmm
It seems I am behind the times. This changed three years ago upon enactment of the 2007 constitution. That changed the situation to allow naturalized citizens the right to vote, but not until they’ve been citizens for five years. (Monks still cannot vote. They’re supposed to be above politics.)
Still would not want to be a Thai citizen, though. Just because a place is nice to hang out in, doesn’t mean I’m going to pledge myself to it.
That’s not just Aussies, we do that to everyone! 
I think you meant to write “is still part of the UK” - unless by “now” you mean prior to the last 800 years… Though technically, rather than pragmatically, it’s been part of the UK since 1801.
Me, I wish I was from Hong Kong. I just love everything about the place and would love to be able just to rock up and get a job there like I did when we still owned it.
As a South African citizen, I’ve often wished I held another country’s passport, for the convenience of visa-free travel. I’ve never actually wished that I had been born in another country, though.
Not exactly what the OP asks, but to bring up another point:
Unless the laws have changed that I don’t know about, the problem is, if you are already a US citizen, you cannot have dual citizenship with another country.
For instance, I could easily become a German citizen, but would have to give up the US citizenship - and the thought of having to get a visa to visit family and friends here in the US made it complicated and not worth doing.
People from other countries do not have to give up their citizenship when getting a US citizenship, which is why they can have dual citizenship. Always found that kind of unfair, but one of the major reasons that many US ex-pats I knew in Europe never became citizens of countries there.
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This effectively means that you have to come out and say “I want to give up my American citizenship” in order to actually lose it.
Oh, also I’m Exhibit A, as I hold dual citizenship (US and Israel)
I feel like I hit the motherlode-due to my parents’ wanderlust I have both American and Canadian citizenship even though I was born overseas (I’ve also lived in Japan, England and Australia briefly). I could also easily get that Indian Person of Origin certificate if I wanted it since that’s where I was born. As far as nationalities go, Canadian/US is pretty convenient, so I don’t long for an EU passport or anything.
I feel very, very American because to me the whole quasi-second generation immigrant thing is a pretty (North) American situation. I have a lot of friends from various parts of Europe and Asia that have the same issues that I do even though they’re not Indian, just have first generation super-cultural parents.
But like Anaamika said, there have been plenty of times that I wished I was white growing up, but these days I’m 100% fine with my ethnicity, especially since my “people” have flooded the United States to the extent that I am no longer The Indian Kid in class and whatnot. Hell, when I lived in California I felt downright ethnically anonymous, which was pretty relaxing.
From our perspective, we were not officially a part until we were left behind in 1922.
As pointed out above, that isn’t true for everyone. The U.S. doesn’t like its citizens from having dual citizenship but it can’t stop it either. There are plenty of people that have dual U.S. and (other country) citizenships. That doesn’t mean that it is risk free however and the U.S. doesn’t want its citizens to collect citizenships on a whim like trading cards. If there was ever a real conflict between the two countries that involved something like a draft, it could put everyone in a bind. It could also create a problem if the person ever got into serious problems with a third country while traveling. In short, the U.S. won’t just strip you of your citizenship if another country offers you another one but it isn’t too hot on the idea.
They do their best to occupy most of it, though. The metropolitan area of Miami has the population of the city of Barcelona (not of its metropolitan area) but it’s all spread out in little-boxes type of houses, taking up about as much space as Spain’s biggest province. It’s kind’a scary…
Of course if you are from Northern Ireland, you can have both a British and an Irish Passport, although there wouldn’t be much point in having both.
Hell, sometimes I’d like to be part of a country where you can drive for a day, period.
Sometimes I wish I was Belgian (I’m French), since I feel they are more socially advanced than here, and that the government is less to the right, but I would feel totally foreign living there.
I’ve visited a handful of times and never felt “at home”, like I feel in France, wherever I am.
Well, some days, when the traffic is really backed up… 
I think he meant with the car moving at a speed above “one handspan per hour”, Nooner.
AKA “A furlong per fortnight” 
See, now this is what’s called “Strong Dependence on Initial Conditions.” Or, as it is sometimes (far more appropriate to Israeli traffic…) popularly called: “Chaos.”
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