What is your ideal country for living?
 

Hi All. What is your ideal country for working and living.
Im now living in the Philippines and im thinking of Canada as my ideal country for working and living. I always heard some good things about it and good government too i think.

Whats yours?

the one in which I'm in. :glugglug

Switzerland.

There's a trade-off to living in any country. Some have great climate, some have low taxes, some have hot chicks, some have cheap living or a great, politically stable society. No country has everything you could ever wish. Choose the one closest to your heart, the rest you'll learn to deal with.

Canada or Alaska

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Good choices for "countries" :1orglaugh

"For the fourth year in a row, the United Nations has ranked Norway as having the highest standard of living in the world. Sweden, Australia and Canada are next in line, while the United States is further down the scale."

I'm happy where I am.. high taxes and not great weather around the year though

Can't stand those fucking Scandinavian socialistic governments... :mad:

When I was about 13-14 I travelled to Holland and totally fell in love with the country.
I also liked Austria a lot but for me Holland ruled.I`ve always wanted to go back.

Of course,living right in front of the caribbean I`ve always thought that if I had to leave my country I would have to do it for another tropical one.

NL (where I currently live), Switzerland & Austria.

Thailand for me is

i dont know i only lived and worked here ;)
the thing i can tell is that living here is too expensive in my opinion... everything is expensive, everything

Stay away from Canada..no room left

Yeah, if you get within 200 miles of a polar bear, you might get killed. :1orglaugh

Somewhere in the Caribbean, not sure which one yet.

How bad are the taxes in Norway?

Its socialist, so they're going to be out of control, especially in the upper income brackets.

taxes aren't that bad in norway actually.. Tax Misery Index from Forbes shows different numbers after how much you earn and if you're married or not, but they have something called Overall Tax Burden that we might be able to take a look at.

Norway ends up with an average of about 45%.. sweden tops the chart with around 53% while Canada has around 35% and the US has around 29%.. UK clocks in around 37% (this is the total taxes imposed at all levels).

Link to list?

I'd be curious as to where its lowest.

check it out at http://www.forbes.com/home/global/20...30chart_2.html .. only OECD member countries though .. lowest is mexico with around 18%

there is a lot of different numbers for different situations so might be seriously different for some groups than what I posted above

For living?

Australia. Hands down.

Czech Republic (Prague)

They seem to do well though.. norway #1 and sweden #2 on the UN Human Development Index.. don't think we can complain :Oh crap

United Kingdom

One where I can bang girls with reckless abandon, have cheaper living but a higher quality of life.

Thailand and Brazil come to mind. But there are visa issues with Brazil.

Canadaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

thailand sucks for the general population.. ranked 76th along countries like Oman and Kazakhstan.. brazil isn't much better at 72nd..

Ukraine.
Life is a real challenge there. Life without all the frills.If you can tough it. And the women...oh the women

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UK $$$ man!

I bet that's calculated by the quality of 'free' healthcare, welfare people's quality of life etc.. doesn't mean *I* have it any better in scandinavia than I'd have anywhere else. I use private doctors, I don't take any sort of welfare and I pay shitload of taxes.


That being said, I'd like to move somewhere south (warm) with slightly more reasonable taxes.

I wonder how many people replying to this thread have never been out of their own country.

Before you can jusge which country is the best to live in, you need to see a few different ones.

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I haven't :(
I plan to go to estonia one day, it's only 20 minutes away by helicopter.

Costa Rica. Leaving Canada for there next month.

You were in Amsterdam... The Netherlands is a different country.

You watched Labret and I eat bags and bags of magic mushrooms.

Switzerland is awesome but the cost of living is insane. Rio de Janeiro in Brazil has the best weather of any city I can find. Sort of Miami without the hurricanes.

Are you sure? I might have me confused with someone else then.

Still the USA lots of good things here that still outweigh the bad

How many countries you been to?

The good ole USA

I'd love to live there for a while, I have some relatives that do and they say it's great...

Other countries that are high on my possible 'move to' list when I'm semi-retired in the next 5 years is Chile, Crete (greece), Croatia, Costa Rica, Canada or China...

yeh, I got a thing for "C" countries...although I would have to include Italy and Spain on my A list of possibilities...


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Hey Joe, what part of AU are you from? Where in the US have you stayed?

New Zealand and Italy

New Zealand does actually interest me a bit...love the accent, and sheep are ok in my book

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I live in Australia. I like it here. Ideally, i want to be in Ireland. Other places i would consider living would be Canada and Switzerland (but only if i were quite wealthy).

I'm from Brisbane.

In the U.S. I've been to N.Y.C, L.A, Vegas and up and down the coast of Florida.

My point exactly, that's why I hate the fuckers. They make it so easy for the "less fortunate ones" to stay less fortunate. The welfare system is a fucking joke, it's so easy to abuse it's not even a challenge anymore. If you're willing to work a lot and prepared to put in time, skill and effort to get ahead financially, Scandinavian countries are shit for living. Not to mention that the "solidarity preachers", meaning those who never had the brains to do more than work in a factory, will look down on you and treat you like an enemy. :disgust

I'd say move to South America, your money will buy any respect you need, plus the best living and healthcare in the world.

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fo shizzle

:rasta