What country would you move to permanently?

[Peacewise]

Perhaps Australia is popular for a wide variety of reasons.
Climate. Reasonable economy. Religious freedom. Social Health services. Industralised. Informationised (did I just invent a word?). Multicultural. Wide choice of employment.

Sport keen. Policy of few guns. No enemies attacking us. The girls are prettier. The men can hold their liquor.

I look at my grass and think... hmm looks green enough to me.

 

[Troublemane]

probably some kind of virtual world, like in the matrix. that would be cool.

 

[Revoltingest]

Perhaps Australia is popular for a wide variety of reasons.
Climate. Reasonable economy. Religious freedom. Social Health services. Industralised. Informationised (did I just invent a word?). Multicultural. Wide choice of employment.

Sport keen. Policy of few guns. No enemies attacking us. The girls are prettier. The men can hold their liquor.

I look at my grass and think... hmm looks green enough to me.

That "few guns" stuff is a problem......that, & baby-eating dingos.

 

[Peacewise]

That "few guns" stuff is a problem......that, & baby-eating dingos.

Would you care to elaborate on why 'few guns' is a problem.
As for the baby-eating dingos, lol, the few dingo's I've seen were in the zoo. Poor Lindy Chamberlain was a young parent in a harsh outback and didn't understand that the Australian outback is a dangerous place... unlike the coasts, suburbia, and cities.

 

[KatNotKathy]

Would you care to elaborate on why 'few guns' is a problem.

Americans sort of have a revolution fetish. I mean, can't blame them given that it's such an integral part of our history and constitution, but the idea that gun ownership should be restricted in any way will be fiercely opposed around here.

 

[Rainbow Mage]

I certainly think less guns is a good thing, and I live in the south. Then again, maybe that's why I think that, LOL. Everyone around here is gun happy.

 

[Revoltingest]

Would you care to elaborate on why 'few guns' is a problem.

I like guns....& I believe in the reasoning behind the 2nd Amendment.

As for the baby-eating dingos, lol, the few dingo's I've seen were in the zoo. Poor Lindy Chamberlain was a young parent in a harsh outback and didn't understand that the Australian outback is a dangerous place... unlike the coasts, suburbia, and cities.

It's too late to explain it away. "A dingo ate my baby!" is now as quintessentially Australian as "Crikey!".

From the "Bart vs Australia" episode of the Simpsons:Bart's phone rings in the middle of the night.

Bart: Hello?
Bruno: Right! I'm calling all the way from Squatter's Crog, Australia
and I want to speak to, er, Dr. Bart Simpson right now.
Bart: Uh...[plugs nose] hold, please.
Bruno: All right, but I don't --
Bart: [low voice] Payroll, Bert Stanton speaking.
Bruno: Oy! I said "Bart Simpson". What kind of a company is this?
Bart: [high voice] Bart Simpson's office.
Bruno: Thank the great good Lord. Look, I was just say --
Bart: One moment please. [hums "Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head"]
Bruno: Who do they think I am, some stupid Aussie drongo? Bleedin'
yanks, I oughta --
Bart: This is Bart Simpson. Can I help you, ma'am?
Bruno: Yeah, er -- hey! My name is Bruno Drundridge, right? You owe me
$900, mate.
Bart: No, you owe _me_ $900!
Bruno: [stammers] I...you...ooh! You're just some punk kid, aren't you?
Ooh, you picked the wrong guy to tangle with here, mate.
Bart: [chuckles] I don't think so. You're all the way in Australia.
Hey! I think I hear a dingo eating your baby. [hangs up]

 

[Peacewise]

I like guns.

You would like the outback then, plenty of things to shoot and wide open spaces to do so. I went outback briefly on a few different holidays, met a kangaroo hunter just the once, 200 head shots a night was his standard. If they don't head shoot the roo they can't sell it.

Now before some person gets all uppity about this, consider how much cattle a single man kills in a slaughter house in a shift, or a chicken operator... or the Somme.

It's too late to explain it away. "A dingo ate my baby!" is now as quintessentially Australian as "Crikey!".

Yep, nothing like the tv media to drum up a story. Be more realistically concerned with snakes and spiders than dingo's, but hey that doesn't make the media, instead slipping into the various first aid courses country wide... unlike how to treat a dingo victim. lol.

 

[Revoltingest]

You would like the outback then, plenty of things to shoot and wide open spaces to do so. I went outback briefly on a few different holidays, met a kangaroo hunter just the once, 200 head shots a night was his standard. If they don't head shoot the roo they can't sell it.

I've never been big on killing critters....nothing against it when it makes sense though.
The outback does look interesting though, being all Quigly Down Under & such.

 

[Tiapan]

You would like the outback then, plenty of things to shoot and wide open spaces to do so. I went outback briefly on a few different holidays, met a kangaroo hunter just the once, 200 head shots a night was his standard. If they don't head shoot the roo they can't sell it.

If we sent some roos to africa we could save many from famine starvation because of their drought resistance.

BTW Stop telling people how good Oz is we don't need anymore bloody tourists, and especially do not tell them about Flinders Island NE of Tasmania. (my heaven on earth).

Cheers

 

[KatNotKathy]

Australia is a death world. Everything is either trying to kill you or looks like it might be (I'm looking at you weta).

 

[Peacewise]

If it doesn't want to kill you, you then you'd better eat it quick smart before it's pacifism draws a predator nearby.

 

[KatNotKathy]

"We've run into scorpions the size of battle tanks, three men died from Eyerot last week. I've sweat enough to fill a lake, my boots got sucked into a sink-swamp and the trees are so thick in places, you can't squeeze between them. Emperor help me, I love this place! It's just like home!"
The only thing more hardcore than Australians are space Australians.

 

[Tiapan]

Australia is a death world. Everything is either trying to kill you or looks like it might be (I'm looking at you weta).

Oz is the same size as continental USA but only 22 million people. If we super impose one on the other, Tasmania would be in Canada and Cape York (QLD) in Panama, As we have such a huge range of climate from Equatorial tropical to antarctic tundra we do have a variety of interesting critters, eg crocs in the north like the usa has alligators in the south, we do have snakes but so does the US eg rattlesnakes, White pointers are found in California as well as South Australia, Redback spiders are the same as a black widow, funnelwebs only live in a small area near Sydney. But to say we are full of deadly creatures is a little misleading. Its just that they all tend to be the most lethal on the planet. Most of these dangerous creatures are timid and retreat rather than attack, and most can be dispatched with a swift stomp of the boot or a blunt stick.

Cheers

 

[Kathryn]

I wouldn't move from the US permanently if given the choice.

However, if I HAD to move from the US to another country, I'd probably pick either Australia or Ireland. I like Germany and England a lot too.

My husband loves Malaysia and China, so those would be two other options. I've never been to either of them, but if he likes them, I probably would too.

 

[KatNotKathy]

Oz is the same size as continental USA but only 22 million people. If we super impose one on the other, Tasmania would be in Canada and Cape York (QLD) in Panama, As we have such a huge range of climate from Equatorial tropical to antarctic tundra we do have a variety of interesting critters, eg crocs in the north like the usa has alligators in the south, we do have snakes but so does the US eg rattlesnakes, White pointers are found in California as well as South Australia, Redback spiders are the same as a black widow, funnelwebs only live in a small area near Sydney. But to say we are full of deadly creatures is a little misleading. Its just that they all tend to be the most lethal on the planet. Most of these dangerous creatures are timid and retreat rather than attack, and most can be dispatched with a swift stomp of the boot or a blunt stick.

Cheers

Yeah, but I'd much rather choose to believe that Australians only eat vegemite to temper their venom-rich blood.

 

[KatNotKathy]

Also I used to have a thing for this really hot Australian dude that worked at the deli.

 

[Father Heathen]

That "few guns" stuff is a problem......that, & baby-eating dingos.

What? The baby-eating dingos are what sold me on Australia.

 

[Kathryn]

"Ay DANG go ate may BAY- BAY!"

 

[Rainbow Mage]

I'd pick Japan or China. The rest of the world is pretty much doomed...