Move to the lucky country mate 🇦🇺 - heaps of whingers here who don't realise how good they've got it

If you really live in the UK, half your rellies are already here

Australia.

I'd totally move there if my fiance didn't think there were koalaspidersnakes around every corner.

There are, but that's the fun

All depends which area you live in. I love in the suburbs of Melbourne. Never seen a snake slithering about.

I keep telling her that Australia isn't just a murderfest, but she won't believe me. Maybe it's the idea of being on the same continent as psychopathic monsters that turns her off (and then we have our American government. The irony is lost on her.)

Lol! Apparently she prefers her snakes disguised.

Pitcairn isl. Tristan da Cunha New Zealand Ascension isl.

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Pitcairn island is a rapefest. Don't do it.

New Zealand is good, but still a microcosm of Western politics and culture. Kinda like you still have the flesh-eating virus on you, just not as much.

What's the deal with ascension island?

Many allegations/cover-ups of children being raped.

There are many YT documentaries on it.

That's why they are re-labelling it now:
http://www.elperiodico.cat/ca/noticias/extra/posicions-sexuals-dona-no-vol-sexe-polemica-6091887 (spanish, needs google translate (or a spanish speaker))

tl;dr: Magazine in Catalonia publishes sex positions for "when the man wants but the woman not"!

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Climate and population density wise New Zealand is good.Thats where the ultra rich are building their bug out bases.The other three are very much out of the way with low populations and good climate.

New Zealand sucks (piss off were full)

Born and raised in Germany, reasonably happy here - at least so, that I can't think of any country I'd like to move to soon. For political/quality of life reasons...

Amsterdam sucks balls

The flip side of being Europe's drug corner is a lot more apparent when you live with it everyday.

The one friend who moved to the UK and even started looking into buying a house complained a lot about the health care system. And moved back less than two years after...
Country and people are very nice, though, she said.

Someone close to me who moved here from a different country praises our health care, but keeps complaining about the people, the country in general, the food, and the weather.

So apparently we Germans are healthy but unhappy people in an ugly, rainy place. :-D

I live in Japan and am much happier than when I lived in the west.

In Osaka! It's a great city with an abundance of jobs and rent is a lot cheaper than in Tokyo. Also you're right by Kyoto and Nara and those are always fun to explore. I like that I'm always kept occupied (in a good way) here. There's always something to do and see. You should definitely visit if you can one day! If you have any other questions about living here, please don't be shy to ask. 👌

Nara park is fantastic! If you like deers. :)

And Kyoto is gorgeous.

If you haven't been overrun by robots, earthquakes, and/or Godzilla by the time my travel budget recovered, I might try Osaka, too.

Osaka is a lot of fun but you don't really need more than two or three days here. If you stay in Kansai you should definitely make a side trip to Miyajima if you haven't already! One of my favourite places in Japan. Also Teshima and Naoshima islands are great too.

book your flight a year i advance if you can. we paid around 450EUR per person (plus tax) (two legged flight, changover in beijing)
reasonably cheap hotels are easy, off season!

travelling by shinkansen is expensive...

Ah, ok. Then a 14h plane ride is indeed not recommended... :-/

Japan is one of the few island countries that is pretty strict on rabies. You will need a microchip, and rabies titer for the pup.

I did it, and it wasn't thousands, but it was hundreds including my time, and the local labs.

If you want to do it, check with your vet. They can get everything ready. It is extremely time sensitive.

It's pretty busy! My morning commute is my biggest nightmare but you get used to it over time. Luckily I escape to the mountains and countryside in Kansai on most weekends to relax and replenish my soul.

Good luck to you, my friend! I'm sure you'll make it here one day. 💪

How well does one fair in an environment where you don't speak the predominant language?

My husband can't speak it at all and he gets by fairly well somehow, hahah. It gets difficult if you have to sign up for certain things like health insurance or if you're trying to get a cellphone plan or internet. Japanese people tend to avoid speaking English like the plague but if you're lucky you'll find someone who's willing to use a few words here and there to make communication a little less challenging. As for day-to-day things, living here is completely doable without knowing any Japanese. You're also likely to eventually pick up some words and grammar so that you can order in restaurants and ask for directions and things. Most foreigners here teach and you're not required to know any Japanese for 90% of the teaching positions offered. If you're situated in Tokyo then you could probably live there for years without having used much Japanese at all.

Do non biological entities eat sushi?

On occasion and when it doesn't include raw fish. Some nonbiological entities' stomachs are stronger than others. Mine isn't one of those, lol.

But Sir....stomach are biological....

Sometimes they are.

I've always thought Hawaii was the ideal place to live. The people there look genuinely happy and kind-hearted.

Honeymoons and vacations are not the same as living there.

Hawaii is a night to live as a white person unless you're filthy rich. The Japanese own all of the real estate and the natives HATE whites.

A friend of mine moved there with his parents back in the 00's and lived there for four years. His father was a history teacher stateside and wanted to open a restaurant in Hawaii. He couldn't do it and couldn't get a job. My friend ended up working for minimum wage at an adult book store and the three of them scrapped by on his wages until they could move back to the mainland.

Can confirm. Nothing but Japanese tourists, absurdly expensive, and they HATE white people or what they refer to us as "Howli's"

Confirmed ^

I lived there three years and they were the worst three years of my life. I'm still dealing with the fallout. Me moving to Hawaii was the worst mistake and greatest regret of my life.

Your nickname wouldn't happen to be O'Face, would it?

I have a friend that has an organic coffee farm in Hawaii. Talk about living the dream...

Heartland USA. Friendly people and cheap land.

America is a pretty great place to live; not everything is a big city with all of the drama portrayed on TV. We have nearly every climate and some really sparsley populated areas where you could probably literally go live with wolves and no one would know or care. The cultures of each state vary and there is basically something for everyone. Check out Live Free and Die (TV show, a lot is staged but some people literally live very similar to that). In America it is just a matter of finding what state aligns best with your ideology, then checking into which has the most laws/regulations that suit your feeling of freedom for the town you want to move to.

Here's a link to a site selling a book titled Prudent Places USA. The first edition came out in the early 2000s, they're up to their fourth edition in 2014. As the name implies, it focuses on the US. Thought you might like to look at the list of criteria for which they have collected data. Even though it's US-specific, it's food for the kind of thought you're having.

I'm not trying to sell the book, in fact I haven't bought it myself though I've thought about it since it came out. I just haven't had a use for it since I haven't relocated.

I live here and I'm repulsed by our federal government. It's a shame that that is what people have come to think of as "america." I've thought about leaving quite a bit. But then I'd be subject to the US's foreign policy which really does frighten me.

I will say this: I do not feel unsafe here except when in the presence of "authorities," primarily police. I'm curious what gives you the perception that America is unsafe? I'm a lifetime resident of the same small village and we still don't lock our doors when we leave the house. There's virtually no crime. (I don't count victimless crimes such as drug arrests as real crime. There is an opiate problem here.) We don't have a local police force.

Closest to feeling "unsafe" that I get is when I think about how much it costs to get sick or injured in this country. That certainly leaves me feeling at the very least, insecure.

I do hear you, can't argue with you about the US gov't undermining everyone's feelings of safety. I hope you find what you're looking for.

I live in the Netherlands. Its a good country.

It's good for a short stay if you got cash. But if you ever think its good to live here...

What country do you live in man?

Brazil. Land of Carnival Corruption.

Ah yeah fair enough. What's the current situation in Brazil? Last I heard people were protesting against the government there.

No, nothing changed.

The situation is in a downward spiral. With no sign of getting better. The common man is in a state between anger and depression.

The more the prosecutors dig into it, more they find. It's like a bottomless pit. And they barely touched the Country's Bank for Development. Petrobras is the tip of the Iceberg.

Ofc this country has never been known for having the best politicians. But in the last decade things became overboard.

Since the worker's party (whose leadership is basically composed of former commie guerrillas) rose to power, corruption became endemic. And the sums involved are insane.

Its no common corruption like we had in the past. Its not some guy taking a share of the public money to get rich. Its systematic pillage benefiting a power scheme that affects whole Latin America. The thing is massive. These guys are literally sucking the country dry.

And where is all that money going? Well, some of it, maybe the smaller part, is going to tax havens and some are going to their fellas: the dictatorship states of Cuba, Venezuela, etc..

We're FUBAR.

I am from small city in Latvia , Eastern Europe. We do not have a big deal here, unique nature, lot of farms around in country, if you really want some clean food with no poisons in it. ( of course not all farms make clean food). Country is very clean, you can check that up in internet, one of the cleanest in the world, air is very good because not very populated country and one part of country is forests. But politics here sucks, we do everything USA told us to do, and the salary's is fucked up. Lots of cheap alcohol and cigarettes, whats not so good too.

Switzerland...never went to war, never will (because of the topography it is located in/on), will have clean water even in a disaster scenario )(special methods bring mountain spring water to all fountains). But you will be not that far away from one of the upper echelons on the pyramid.

If you can manage it-that is the way to go! You will live like a boos there but your wallet will become razor thin...which is perfect because you can shave with it when you run out of cash for a gilette

I'd be happy just living in a primitive tribe of humble people with simple aspirations in life, in some desolate world with my simple tribal wife. I have no place in this society, it seems.

I live in Canada, I have never been robbed, discriminated or racially catagoried. I love my country.

I live in Norway, one of the coutries with the highest living standards in the world. Oh and we dont have chemtrails here, only contrails. And almost noone belives in conspiracy theories.

Can confirm. Nothing but Japanese tourists, absurdly expensive, and they HATE white people or what they refer to us as "Howli's"

Confirmed ^

I lived there three years and they were the worst three years of my life. I'm still dealing with the fallout. Me moving to Hawaii was the worst mistake and greatest regret of my life.

My husband can't speak it at all and he gets by fairly well somehow, hahah. It gets difficult if you have to sign up for certain things like health insurance or if you're trying to get a cellphone plan or internet. Japanese people tend to avoid speaking English like the plague but if you're lucky you'll find someone who's willing to use a few words here and there to make communication a little less challenging. As for day-to-day things, living here is completely doable without knowing any Japanese. You're also likely to eventually pick up some words and grammar so that you can order in restaurants and ask for directions and things. Most foreigners here teach and you're not required to know any Japanese for 90% of the teaching positions offered. If you're situated in Tokyo then you could probably live there for years without having used much Japanese at all.