• Boingboing_r@lemmy.world
    5·
    3 days ago

    Sweden. Specifically, Gotland. Started in England. Ended up here eventually. Wouldnt change it for anything. Love it here.

  • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish
    6·
    4 days ago

    I live in Canada.

    It’s fine, I guess. But my biggest regret is that I didn’t register my dual citizenship (child of portuguese citizens) so that I could explore the E.U. and settle down somewhere in Europe. Now, I’m 50, with too many bills to pay.

    Grab opportunities when you’re young, kids. If you don’t, then before you realize it, you’ll be to stuck in the bullshit mundanity of daily life to do it later.

  • SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    24·
    5 days ago

    Spain and … Spain.

    I’ve been around enough countries to know that nowhere is perfect, but living in the scruffy bit of the EU that has sexy dancing and short shorts is the right place for me

  • HairyTeeth@lemmy.zip
    20·
    5 days ago

    Not telling, but I would choose not to live in any country.

    I wish to live in the depths of a nameless, unpopulated ocean of body temperature gel which both nurtures and protects me as I float through it in a perpetual sleep.

  • MintyFresh@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 days ago

    I live in the US. Currently applying for a Canadian passport. The US has so much to offer, and so many cool places. But between the politics and the crushing capitalism it’s rough.

    If I could go anywhere? The Nordic countries+Germany seem to have their shit in a pile.

  • Fondots@lemmy.world
    182·
    5 days ago

    US

    Ideally I’d really like to live in an alternate history version of the US where we got our shit together at some point. I overall really like this country, there’s a lot of cool things and places here, and while a lot of the bad stereotypes about us are based in truth, I do find my countrymen to be overall friendly (it should maybe be noted that I’m a cis straight white guy)

    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      3 days ago

      How about an alternate universe where Lincoln wasn’t shot and was actually able to follow through on Reconstruction? Hell, I’d take the alternate universe where 2000 wasn’t stolen from Gore and we actually took climate change seriously.

    • AskewLord@piefed.socialEnglish
      4·
      5 days ago

      I’d like to live in a country that isn’t so obsessed with class and money. Where people only treat you well if they think you are rich.

      I am working-class coded guy, and where I live it means people hate you and openly talk about how people like me are all shitty and awful and should be ‘fixed’. But when I leave the city people are way nicer to me, because they are working-class and don’t think the way I dress is ‘offensive’.

      And of course, if I mention I went to harvard they go from thinking I’m scum of the earth to wanting to suck my dick… and the country people go from thinking i’m normal to thinking i’m a pretentious rich douchebag…

      funny how this place works.

  • daggermoon@piefed.worldEnglish
    3·
    4 days ago

    I live in the US. I can’t think of a country without problems but if I had to pick it would probably be Finland, Spain, Germany, or Ireland. However, as Mark Burgess says, “A Person Isn’t Safe Anywhere These Days”.

  • Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.orgEnglish
    11·
    5 days ago

    Estonia, still would live here if I’d have a choice.

    I’m already used to living here, built my life up here and there isn’t a serious enough reason to leave, for now.

  • snoons@lemmy.caEnglish
    10·
    5 days ago

    Canada. I would like to live in the Netherlands mainly because the infrastructure there is amazing. I like to BMW (Bike, Metro, Walk) anywhere I go and in Canada, most of the world actually, that’s not always an option and is sometimes incredibly dangerous.

    Also, AFAIK, the Netherlands is the only country in the world to have truly car-free neighbourhoods. *Which is amazing because it seems no matter where I go in Canada there’s always one or several jackasses that decided the only way to get themselves to work in the morning is to burn gasoline in the loudest way possible.

    • Thymos@discuss.tchncs.de
      2·
      4 days ago

      I live there. Car-free neighbourhoods are very rare here. I live in a big city and there isn’t a single one. So don’t get your hopes up.

      Also, the Netherlands is very densely populated. It’s hard to really get away from society and even in national parks it’s hard to find a place where you don’t hear the constant background noise of traffic. And it’s only getting worse.

      • snoons@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        Yes, I always suspect I’m looking at things through rose tinted glasses Not Just Bikes tinted glasses, and national parks is really one thing I might not miss because I never really go anyway (knock on wood or what have you).

    • BougieBirdie@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      6·
      5 days ago

      Also from Canada. I feel like we’re US-lite and moving in that direction every day. If I could find the means to do so I’d probably move somewhere in Europe too. The Netherlands sound pretty dope, I like me some stroopwafel.

      Sometimes I see people rolling coal in their lifted pavement princesses, with political stickers like the Blue Lives Matter flag. It makes me wonder what the fuck is wrong with my neighbours.