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Bicoastal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-14-08 12:06 PM
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Poll question: If you had to choose ONE English-speaking nation to emigrate to, where would it be?
Edited on Fri Mar-14-08 12:07 PM by Bicoastal
Oh, and let's assume that travel costs and moving problems were not an issue.
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BarenakedLady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-14-08 12:08 PM
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1. That's a hard one
I'd love to live in England, Wales, or Ireland. Hard to pick ONE.
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Bicoastal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-14-08 12:10 PM
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4. Iffe you ligghivede innnhe Waylles...
..yooudde haaavgghve to geeghht uuyuused to peoughple wriehting likkghke THIGHGIHYS.
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BarenakedLady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-14-08 12:15 PM
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6. I named my first born a very Welsh name
I would adapt. :D
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Ellen Forradalom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-14-08 02:52 PM
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20. And you have to learn LLAP-GOCH
the Secret Welsh ART of SELF DEFENCE that requires NO INTELLIGENCE, STRENGTH or PHYSICAL courage.



www.llapgoch.org.uk/
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-14-08 12:08 PM
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2. USA! USA!
Paul Rodgrigues on an elevator with a bunch of Japanese business men. As he is getting off on his floor he turns around and says, "This is America dammit! Speak Spanish!"
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ceile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-14-08 12:09 PM
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3. Ireland. n/t
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bikebloke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-14-08 12:14 PM
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5. Kiwiland
I wish I had overstayed illegally.

With Aussie as second choice.
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Bicoastal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-14-08 12:18 PM
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8. I couldn't live in a country with no native mammals.
I know it sounds strange, but it's true. I need to be surrounded by squirrels, bunnies, deer, bears, and elk...

...or failing that, kangaroos, koalas, dingos, platypi, and tasmanian devils.
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bikebloke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-14-08 02:58 PM
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22. They have a possum problem.
Someone brought possums over from Australia and now they're killing the trees. And there are herds of four-legged sweaters.
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MorningGlow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-14-08 12:17 PM
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7. Tough call
I voted for England, because I'm such a friggin' anglophile. But I've heard Wales, Scotland, and Ireland are lovely--also New Zealand--I just haven't been to those places to be able to make a fair assessment. So I think I need some all-expenses-paid scouting trips before I say where I'd live for sure.
:rofl:
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charlie and algernon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-14-08 12:22 PM
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9. somewhere in the north of the Republic of Ireland
where it's nice and green, and close enough for plenty of visits to Belfast and Derry.
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-14-08 12:23 PM
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10. Ireland or England
I'd like Scotland too, but I hear it's expensive to live there.
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lightningandsnow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-14-08 12:30 PM
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11. Other - I'm Canadian,
And I'd love to live in the Northeastern U.S. - either New York, or Boston. I am totally in love with both cities.
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youthere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-14-08 12:36 PM
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12. Give me tropical...Jamaica MON.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-14-08 12:39 PM
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13. Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Canada
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NoGOPZone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-14-08 12:50 PM
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14. Guyana nt
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-14-08 06:03 PM
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28. My best friend is from Guyana
Moved here about 20 years ago....
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ziggysane Donating Member (38 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-14-08 01:04 PM
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15. The Netherlands, yo.
"Well the Dutch speak 4 languages and smoke marijuana."
Yes but they're cheating.

--Eddie Izzard

One of those four languages is English.
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devilgrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-14-08 01:08 PM
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16. A toss up between Canada and New Zealand
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grace0418 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-14-08 01:36 PM
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18. Me too! Although NZ has an edge because it is further away from America when all
the really bad shit starts going down. And it's the birthplace of Neil Finn. :loveya:
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-14-08 01:20 PM
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17. Somewhere in the British Isles
I know they all have a lot of problems of their own, but those countries are my kind of place in a way that the U.S. isn't.
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laconicsax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-14-08 02:25 PM
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19. Netherlands
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DeposeTheBoyKing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-14-08 02:54 PM
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21. Ireland or England
We just loved both. Scotland's nice, too. I hear England is starving for psychiatrists, so Mr. DTBK could easily get a job over there. Right now I'm having a hard time just getting him to move to California!
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GCP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-14-08 03:12 PM
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23. Back to Jolly Old Blighty for me
It's where I came from in the first place.
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-14-08 03:55 PM
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24. Tough decision, but ultimately had to pick England.
I'd like to live in Londontown, I do believe.
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-14-08 03:57 PM
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25. England
I'd probably never shift out of London, followed very closely by NZ and Oz.
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Auggie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-14-08 04:04 PM
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26. New Zealand -- as close to the Cook Islands as possible
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timtom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-14-08 06:01 PM
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27. I chose Republic of Ireland
because of my intense love of Irish wit and music.

But ya never know how things are going to work in real life.

As the immortal Irish Bard, Fats Waller once said, "One never know, do one?"
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-14-08 06:04 PM
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29. Australia!!!
I love Aussies! Not only are they the nicest most down to earth people I've ever met but they have the COOLEST wildlife...
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