Right next door to Portugal.
Either the UK or one of the commonwealth countries.
Sweden. We have family there.
Australia - always wanted to go there anyway, and I hear the sailing is exciting in the southern waters…
England, Ireland, Canada depending on exact mood of the day.
Sweden, Italy, or Greece, in that order of preference.
Otherwise, someplace I speak the language. Euskadi would be cool.
The Cayman Islands
They have a higher standard of living than most Caribbean islands and they speak English there.
Iceland. Definitely Iceland.
Top five would be Sweden, Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Canada. (None of those Finns for me! They use too many k’s in their words. Hensirkka, hensirkka…)
Going FROM: Canada
Going TO:
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USA. Standard of living is high, lots of major league baseball, familiar culture. Don’t know where I’d live, though. Boston is nice but I hate the Red Sox.
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Australia. Slighty more foreign but similar to the US and Canada in terms of standard of living, culture, and space. Baseball is played there.
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England. Not really any more foreign than Australia, but more crowded and lower standard of living. Really expensive, too. Beautiful, though.
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Scotland. See “England.” Has added disadvantage of people not speaking English.
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Jamaica. Lower standard of living but they speak English and the weather cannot be beat. Commonwealth country so immigration would be easier.
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Bermuda. See “Jamaica.”
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Ireland. English-speaking country and decent standard of living but the weather is awful, and living in Canada, where “things Irish and Scottish kinda mixed together” have inexplicably been chosen as The Culture We’re Supposed To Embrace As Our Own, I’m already sick of Irish music and stepdancing.
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France. I speak passable French so can get along. High standard of living but, like England, crowded and expensive. And sort of, uh… odorous.
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Netherlands. I don’t speak Dutch but have friends there. Canadians popular. Grandfather was a war hero and fought with Dutch resistance so I can get free beers by telling his story. High standard of living. Crowded, though.
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New Zealand. English-speaking, decent standard of living, but what’s to DO there?
HONORABLE MENTIONS: Germany (rich but “let’s invade Poland!” is not my idea of fun) Italy (wealthy, don’t speak Italian though) Japan (neat place but VERY foreign) Hong Kong (neat place but VERY crowded), Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Belgium, Switzerland.
Well, since my SO lives in the UK, this is pretty much a no-brainer under the present circumstances.
If I weren’t happily partnered, however, I think I would need to take a long time considering such an important decision. There are, after all, many fine countries I have never visited, such as Canada, Australia, Sweden, Belgium, Uruguay, Japan, French Polynesia, and so forth … Yes, I think a few months in each would be about right, just so I don’t make any mistakes.
Of course, what with new countries coming into existence all the time, I might not live long enough to reach the end of the list and settle down, but I think that’s a risk I can accept
From: Melbourne, Australia.
To: Ontario, Canada. Seems rather similar to Melbourne - plus, I could nick over to the US whenever I wanted to.
- Canada
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- Somewhere Canadaesque
Or I’d just get me a sailboat and travel about 'til I found somewhere I liked (or would take me).
Australia, Japan (if I can afford it), and Canada, probably in that order.
Australia because the people there are almost as laid back as Southern Californians. 
Japan because there’s lots of cool gizmos everywhere you look.
Canada because it’s the 51st State.
New Zealand. After spending three weeks there, I tried to come up with ways I could telecommute to my office in NYC. Now that I have to move to that other planet (New Jersey), New Zealand is looking even better.
I’d go to one of those deserted islands in the Pacific and start my own damn country.
If I could afford it, Japan. It’s the whole Asian women thing. Plus, if you believe the stereotypes, I’d be tall. If I couldn’t afford that, Australia. I have a friend who got married to a girl from Melbourne, and moved down there. Whenever I talk to her, I fall in love with the accent.
Costa Rica, and you wouldn’t even have to deport me. I’m leaving as soon as I finish school. Its such a nice place, I can’t imagine wanting to live anywhere else unless you have an objection to speaking spanish.
My first choice: I resist deportation like a total madman. You’re gonna have to drag me on the plane kicking and screaming, after busting into my house the way they raided the house where Elian Gonzalez was staying. The difference is, I’m bigger than that Cuban half-pint, and I won’t mind putting up a fight to stay on American soil.
My second choice: OK, so I’ve been dragged kicking and screaming onto the plane. Where’s my first pick to go? The 51st state, of course, Canada. Why not? It’s close to the U.S. If I had my choice of provinces, I’d pick British Columbia, especially the Vancouver area, since I’m a Pacific Northwesterner, and I aim to do what I can to remain that way. Drawbacks: Taxes suck. Plus, I’ve never been able to look at Canadian bills without thinking of Monopoly money. And watching weather forecasts with the high and low temperatures given in Celsius would give me a headache after a while (you do use that measurement system up there, don’t you?).
My third choice: England. I’ve never been there, but everyone I’ve talked to who have been say that the country is nice. A lot of my ancestors come from there (and Ireland and Scotland, too), so I wouldn’t mind seeing what they left behind. Plus, they’re bound to have scotch eggs over there, a delicacy that I was woefully unaware of until Czarcasm introduced it to me at the Portland Dopefest. Drawbacks: AFAIK, they don’t have professional baseball over there, which sucks. The closest thing to it seems to be cricket, a game that I simply cannot comprehend despite multiple attempts at reading the rules of it in an encyclopedia. The taxes suck. It’s a hell of a long way from my beloved Oregon.
My fourth choice: Australia. Everything I’ve heard about this place makes me want to visit. Not sure I’d want to stay, since I’ve read somewhere that it’s supposed be the driest continent, and I kind of like the rain.
Greenland?? Uhh, no thanks. I’ll just go with you, Czarcasm. I’d follow you anywhere. <insert batting eyelashes here>