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in reply to Lisa Stranger

Fuck. I'm moving to the Netherlands!
Maybe Norway or Sweden, because out of four ain't bad at all.
in reply to Lisa Stranger

If I was much younger, I would have the option to be an immigrant in another country.

With my luck, the billionaires would buy their politicians and enforce borders and anti immigrant policy and livestock the population there too

in reply to Lisa Stranger

I suspect those ratings were compiled before the situation in Hong Kong changed.
in reply to Lisa Stranger

I've only lived and worked in two countries (USA and Japan), and only visited two others (UK and Canada), Canada for a total of less than 5 days.

Health care in Japan is better in every way than in the USA.

In Japan, I taught kids from ages 6 to 15. I think Japan was better for children, overall.

Japan seemed safer than the USA.

"Quality of Life"? That's just too vague to be useful.

In the 1990s, in both Japan and the USA, Japanese students preferred US universities.

Nordic countries certainly have a good reputation. Still, Gunhild Carling moved from her native Sweden to the USA. She is a jazz musician, and this is the birthplace of jazz, so that might have a lot to do with that.

in reply to Lisa Stranger

I remember watching some video about the different homes of successful musicians. A Danish pop star, after being shown some American star's sprawling mansion voiced something like "Why would I want that?"
She had a nice apartment and a cat, and took out her own trash.
That'd be me, too.
in reply to Lisa Stranger

Perhaps it should be more about the philosophy of life.
in reply to Lisa Stranger

they need to be in gated/exclusive communities to keep the nuts at bay

what came firstβ€”the gates, or the nuts?

in reply to Lisa Stranger

Well, the US is a fucking racist/capitalist Hellhole, so...
in reply to Lisa Stranger

Parable of the Sower.....Octavia warned us!
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