Get Out Of My Country!

In My Humble Opinion
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I live in Ireland, the best place in the world to be if you’re not a big fan of hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunami, floods, tornados, thunderstorms, blizards, and other assorted natural disasters.

However, the weather here is pretty poor - it rains a lot, and it’s very damp, but the weather is so changeable it’s never dull - one moment the sky is cemented with depressing grey clouds, the next it’s golden with warm sunlight and baby-blue skies. The landscape is not the most stimulating - monotonous farmland mostly, dotted with small, ugly towns and cities. Still, some parts of the coast facing the Atlantic are quite nice…

Additionally, porn is effectively illegal here, and censorship of books, magazines & the movies - while not that common - is not as rare as I would like it to be.

Abortion is unavailable - women who wish to avail of it are forced to travel to the UK.

The Catholic Church, too, has yet to fully relax its grip on Irish cultural values and social mores, though it’s not as bad as it used be.

What I mean to say is that you wouldn’t have to physically chuck me into the Irish Sea in order to get me to leave the country.

But, if my perverse erotic predilections ever became public knowledge and I had to flee, where would I go? In no particular order -

The Netherlands - for the liberal-minded people and socially progressive society (and the porn and drugs)

Sweden, Denmark - ditto, except for the drugs bit.

Australia, New Zealand - for the fabulous weather, the stunning scenery, the exotic wildlife and the huge expanses of coastline.

USA & Canada - for the breathtaking variety of spectacular scenery, the weather (I would kill to see one of those huge thunderstorms), the Bill of Rights (in the USA), the huge diversity of people and cultures, and the sheer imensity of the land (and the porn and drugs and guns).

62

I would move to The USA from Sweden.

Why? Because my love Montfort lives there.
[sub]If every paper and so works fine, I’m going to move to US anyway.[/sub]

63

Can I just get a boat and hang out 12 miles off the coast?
no?
ok
…
I’d have to go to Brisbane, AU (went there and felt like I was in FLA) Mostly because every other moderately wealthy and free place looks way too cold for me. If it gets below 60F it is FREEZING!!!

64

I’ve noticed that quite a few of you have picked Australia. Does anyone know what the political climate is like Down Under?

65

Since I enjoy living in America, I guess Canada would be the next best thing. I already live just an hour away from the border, so I know what to expect.

I notice Australia is a popular choice, but I don’t want to go there. Not even on vacation. Thanks to watching the Crocodile Hunter, I would be too apprehensive about encountering poisonous spiders and snakes (moreso than the actual crocodiles) to enjoy the other aspects of the country. :slight_smile:

Britain may be an interesting place, but I suspect it would be rather annoying to be confronted with all the hoopla about the Royal Family. As it is I find many of the American celebrities overbearing and obnoxious.
No offense intended to anyone who likes these sorts of things. Just my opinion.

66

I would go to the Land of a Thousand Dances.

Or maybe all the way to Tide Country!

67

Canada. Vancouver, BC. A very secluded house in the suburbs. Mmmmmmm.

68

I live in New Zealand. I note that four WONDERFUL people have included my birth country in their list of places they’d go. Hey, people – you’ve all got class!!

Me: if some ratfink politician decided that Ice Wolf had to get the heck out, I’d go to England. Then I’d do something heinous over there, all to get deported BACK to New Zealand.

So there!

69

From: Singapore

To: the UK, specifically Cornwall. Beautiful, beautiful place. I’ll get my own little cottage on a cliff and not bother anyone. I promise.

70

I was on a plane once next to a guy who lived in the Cook Islands. He had a wife and kids but he only formally worked an hour a week. He fished and picked wild papayas and coconuts for food, caught rainwater in a cistern to drink, and the government of New Zealand provided the schooling and medical care. I thought, there’s a lifestyle I could get used to.

Of course, I might just get bored silly and join the gang of expatriate Dopers in New Zealand…

71

Since the Germans haven’t taken a notion to invade anyone else in over half a century (a record for them), I’d side with Bluesman, with the caveat that Essen and Rheinland-Pfalz are nice, too. Wiesbaden, Bad Kreuznach, Schweinfurt, Wurzburg, Heidelberg, Speyer and Bamberg were all great cities, and I could easily spend the rest of my non-American life in any one of them. I just wish that I’d had more time to get to know Munich better.

72

Definitely Sweden.

Peaceful and orderly! No poverty, no slums, no underclass, very little crime, clean streets, five-week paid vacations, excellent public transportation, an agreeable climate (plenty of snow in the winter, 18 hours of daylight in the summer, not hot enough to need air conditioning) . . . need I say more?

73

England, because I’m fascinated with their culture and because I would be used to their weather as it’s the most like where I live (the mid-west), which is always changing.

74

Wow,deported for free! Then deport my ketsu right back to Japan then! :smiley: It’s the natural second home of us “Blaquneese” anyway.

75

In Mexico

I know I’ll catch it for this but does anyone know of a place with no Canadians?

76

Hmmmm, it would have to be Toronto. If my family had to leave, we’d still be close to the in-laws in the Dakotas and Delaware. And if I was alone, it would let me sneak across to see my family.

If I was alone, however, it’d be no argument: London.

Er, the one in England, I mean.

77

Considering I live 5 minutes from Windsor, Ontario? In that case I’d have to say Mexico.

78

Well, my wife and I currently live in southern Ontario, in Canada.

But my wife is originally from the USA, so if we had to leave Canada, we’d probably end up in in the US. Most likely Colorado, since that’s where she spent most of her life. She’s taken me there before, and we both like the state.

If we were unable to settle in Canada or the US, we’d probably go to Australia. She spent a year there as a student, and I have been there a number of times (for both business and pleasure) over the past few years. Because I know Perth and environs best and she is most familiar with the Sydney area, we’d have a hard time choosing which of those would be our preference, but I’m sure we’d figure something out. Or we’d try someplace new to both of us.