If you had to live in another country, where would you go?

[shubla]

I live in Finland and I can say that it is a good place to live.

If you dont want to work, you get lots of money from the state.
People are nice, by which I mean that everyone minds their own business, as it should be.
Weather is nice. Summer is short, but beautiful
You can get cheap booze easily from estonia if you're into that. We call it viinaralli (which means literally boozerally)

I dont see any negative sides.

Travelling around is quite cheap and there are direct flights to many places because airport at Helsinki is growing to be a bigger hub day by day. So you can go spend your holidays in some cool places around the world and stuff if it gets too cold or something.

Food is good and cheap, you can get pizza for 5 euros in some places.

We have a good president, unlike some other counteries. Today he got elected for a second term.

(Not the dog, but the man left from him)

Fast speed internet is thing that everyone has in Finland. Data plans never have datacaps or such and you can get 100/100 wired connection or even 1000/1000 in some places for 20-30 euros a month.
Except if you live in the sticks. Then you might not have fast internet. But some states that are located in remote locations pay money if you make babies. They want more young people living in their areas so they pay you 10 000€ if you have a baby and move there (or live there). Some even pay you just if you buy a house from that state and move there.

Finnish as a language is beautiful and easy to learn. You pronounce it exactly as you write it and so on.

Nature is beautiful and summer cottages are cheap.

Health care is free as it should be, though you might have to wait for some time if you have something non-urgent to be fixed. I have not had any issues with public side healthcare, but some others have vastly different opinions.

Education was good, its not that good anymore. But hey, at least it is almost free.

The capital city has cool metro line. It was recently expanded after many, many delays. (And cancellation of the plan to automate the metro system)

[NOOBY93]

I live in Finland and I can say it is a good place to live.

If you dont want to work, you get lots of money from the state.
People are nice, by which I mean that everyone minds their own business, as it should be.
Weather is nice, for the few months when its summer.
You can get cheap booze from estonia if you're into that.

I dont see any negative sides.

Travelling around is quite cheap and there are direct flights to many places because airport at Helsinki is growing to be a bigger hub day by day. So you can go to holidays and stuff if it gets too cold or something.

-I do want to work so the first point is moot (personally)
-Same in Scandinavia as well
-Same in Scandinavia as well
-Not really into alcohol

I feel like you're a bit biased on the subject. Sure, there's no real negative sides to living in Finland, but when you're comparing $50 and $100 your argument for $50 can't be "well, you can buy things with it, there's no negative sides!"

[shubla]

Sweden is totally not a good place to move into. Except if you want to learn how to speak arabic.
Norway has too many mountains.
Finland is thus the best.
All other countries are bad.

[dafels]

Norway has too many mountains.

lul such a reason to not move there

[NOOBY93]

Sweden is totally not a good place to move into. Except if you want to learn how to speak arabic.
Norway has too many mountains.
Finland is thus the best.
All other countries are bad.

Shit, I haven't considered the mountains. Cancelling all my plans, hold my Quran, I'm coming to Finland!

[MagicManICT]

Norway has too many mountains.

lul such a reason to not move there

Guess if you like outdoor activities in alpine zones, it would be a bonus. They say you live longer if you live at a higher elevation.

Note: within reason, of course... don't think you're going to live very long at 10k m

[ricky]

It'd probably have to be another English speaking country, just to ease my transition. Most likely Canada, maybe aus or NZ.

Although I have heard you can live like a king in Costa Rica for ~$300/mo...

Finland is thus the best.
All other countries are bad.

I have a friend. He hates Scandinavians.
I say "friend, why must you be so hateful to these people?"
He replies: "Scandinavians are the first to boast about their 'perfect utopia' of tolerance and kindness, yet they're always the first to disparage other countries and cultures"

In my heart I know he's wrong. I think of the wonderful swedish gentleman who work hard to create an amazing game with an amazing community. Always generous and very accepting of new ideas and players to their tiny world.

But in the back of my mind I can hear it, that voice. There's that person who carelessly tarnishes the reputation of the two swedish gentlemen. With his rantings of hatred and self reassurance. Of course, I say, he's only one of many. Certainly not all of them act like this. Certainly only a few just behave this way!

I'd never tell my friend about this person I know, it would only serve to validate his argument.

[NOOBY93]

It'd probably have to be another English speaking country, just to ease my transition. Most likely Canada, maybe aus or NZ.

Although I have heard you can live like a king in Costa Rica for ~$300/mo...

Finland is thus the best.
All other countries are bad.

I have a friend. He hates Scandinavians.
I say "friend, why must you be so hateful to these people?"
He replies: "Scandinavians are the first to boast about their 'perfect utopia' of tolerance and kindness, yet they're always the first to disparage other countries and cultures"

In my heart I know he's wrong. I think of the wonderful swedish gentleman who work hard to create an amazing game with an amazing community. Always generous and very accepting of new ideas and players to their tiny world.

But in the back of my mind I can hear it, that voice. There's that person who carelessly tarnishes the reputation of the two swedish gentlemen. With his rantings of hatred and self reassurance. Of course, I say, he's only one of many. Certainly not all of them act like this. Certainly only a few just behave this way!

I'd never tell my friend about this person I know, it would only serve to validate his argument.

It's almost as if different people are different. There's douchebags identifying themselves with their country and then boasting about their country to stroke their self worth everywhere.

[shubla]

Accepting the fact that you have born in inferior country is sometimes hard to accept.

It's not like I would want foreign people to come in Finland.
I'd rather not have any immigrants, and many Finns share this opinion.
Even though they might not publicly say so, due to the fear of being called a racist or something!

But if you are hard-working highly educated white willing to completely adapt to finnish culture... Welcome!

[yozzik111]

...the fear of being called a racist...

But if you are hard-working highly educated white willing to completely adapt to finnish culture... Welcome!

How about hard-working highly educated black\not-so-black\yellow? Your position could be funny, but it is terrifying actually.