What Country Would You Rather Live In?

Discussion in 'Politics & Current Events' started by Dammit!, Nov 30, 2004.

  1. Nico Limmat

    Nico Limmat Member+

    Oct 24, 1999
    Dubai, UAE
    Club:
    Grasshopper Club Zürich
    Nat'l Team:
    Switzerland
    Hey, as long as you guys come with your campers and spend your money here I don't care... ;)

    Just out of curiousity, what do you think about Austria?
     
  2. johan neeskens

    Jan 14, 2004
    How about cuckoo clocks?
     
  3. Caesar

    Caesar Moderator
    Staff Member

    Mar 3, 2004
    Oztraya
    Not so much.
     
  4. johan neeskens

    Jan 14, 2004
    God knows your apres ski huts charge us tourists enough!

    I've always thought of Austria as a bit dodgy (politically) but also as more gemütlich than Switzerland if you know what I mean. The Austrians seem a bit more extraverted than the Swiss.
     
  5. Nico Limmat

    Nico Limmat Member+

    Oct 24, 1999
    Dubai, UAE
    Club:
    Grasshopper Club Zürich
    Nat'l Team:
    Switzerland
    I always love how some stingy Dutch drive around Switzerland because they don't want to pay to use our highways... :D
    Yes, I agree. The Austrians are a bit more relaxed... (we and Germany call it slow)

    However, you are forgetting about the Suisse Romande and canton Ticino. They are also a lot more gemütlich than us Deutsch-Schweizer.
     
  6. johan neeskens

    Jan 14, 2004
    I'm hardly an expert on all things Swiss so I trust your every word! I was just referring to the difference in how Americans perceive Switzerland and how the Europeans do (whereas everybody thinks the Dutch are drug abusing liberal luvvies who kill of their babies if they're less than perfect, so as a Swiss man you've got far less to worry about reputation-wise)
     
  7. Nico Limmat

    Nico Limmat Member+

    Oct 24, 1999
    Dubai, UAE
    Club:
    Grasshopper Club Zürich
    Nat'l Team:
    Switzerland
  8. Nico Limmat

    Nico Limmat Member+

    Oct 24, 1999
    Dubai, UAE
    Club:
    Grasshopper Club Zürich
    Nat'l Team:
    Switzerland
    I know, it's just that when most talk about Switzerland they think about the Deutsch-Schweiz (including ourselves). Not really fair to our fellow French and Italian speaking citizens...

    PS: We've got some of the most liberal gun laws in the world, no wonder the Americans love us. ;)
     
  9. The Lieutenant

    Dec 29, 1999
    Lupburg, Bayern
    There is no country I would rather live in.

    Lots of countries that I love to visit, but I aint leavin here, as long as we all still have the right to vote, drink beer, go to church, and throw beers at Pacers (well maybe not that one).
     
  10. Caesar

    Caesar Moderator
    Staff Member

    Mar 3, 2004
    Oztraya
    [David Moulton]

    Well, if you can call that beer.

    [/David Moulton]
     
  11. The Lieutenant

    Dec 29, 1999
    Lupburg, Bayern

    Not American beer, well maybe Samuel Adams, that aint bad.
     
  12. Nico Limmat

    Nico Limmat Member+

    Oct 24, 1999
    Dubai, UAE
    Club:
    Grasshopper Club Zürich
    Nat'l Team:
    Switzerland
    Nope. New Belgium Brewery also makes some decent beers...
     
  13. johan neeskens

    Jan 14, 2004
    Ha! Fair point. But surely most people know about the French and Italian population in Switzerland? The other day, btw, in a thread on Dutch euthanasia I tried to make clear to Americans slagging off the Dutch that the Swiss probably have more liberal euthanasia laws than us but they simply weren't interested! The Swiss tourism board is doing an excellent job in the US it has to be said.
     
  14. The Lieutenant

    Dec 29, 1999
    Lupburg, Bayern
    Thought about this one a little more after reading more of the previous posts.

    I would own houses/apartments in the following locations. Some of which are outside America.

    1. Seal Beach, California (Condo over a bar on Main St, base residence)
    2. Pupukea Beach, Oahu Hawaii (Surf HQ for the winter)
    3. Fort Collins, Colorado (Hiking HQ for the summer)
    4. Savannah, Georgia (Apartment on an old Square for St Patty's day)
    5. London, UK (Near Highbury, need I say more)
    6. Washington DC (Need a place to sleep while visiting old college buddies)
    7. Baghdad, Iraq (Place to crash while I visit friends, and help set up schools)
    8. Tazar, Hungary (haven't been there, but I hear it is wild)
     
  15. The Lieutenant

    Dec 29, 1999
    Lupburg, Bayern
    Have had one, was pretty dam good. Really expensive if I remember right.
     
  16. Nico Limmat

    Nico Limmat Member+

    Oct 24, 1999
    Dubai, UAE
    Club:
    Grasshopper Club Zürich
    Nat'l Team:
    Switzerland
    Honestly, in seven years of Texas I found that the Netherlands have a pretty good reputation in the US. So don't listen to McCrackhead, In the Net etc...

    (then again, I might have hung around too many potheads in my college days)
     
  17. Nico Limmat

    Nico Limmat Member+

    Oct 24, 1999
    Dubai, UAE
    Club:
    Grasshopper Club Zürich
    Nat'l Team:
    Switzerland
    Their famous one is Fat Tire. My personal favorite is Sunshine Wheat...

    http://www.newbelgium.com
     
  18. johan neeskens

    Jan 14, 2004
    I know, I was half-joking. It's just that Holland is the obvious punchbag for conservative christians.
     
  19. Gordon EF

    Gordon EF Moderator
    Staff Member

    Jan 15, 2004
    Edinburgh
    That or Belgium.:D
     
  20. johan neeskens

    Jan 14, 2004
    Mr. Dutroux has changed their reputation somewhat surely!
     
  21. Nico Limmat

    Nico Limmat Member+

    Oct 24, 1999
    Dubai, UAE
    Club:
    Grasshopper Club Zürich
    Nat'l Team:
    Switzerland
    I thought Scots don't travel, being even more stingy than the Dutch and all... ;)
     
  22. dreamer

    dreamer Member

    Aug 4, 2004
    I loved Holland ever since I was a kid, because of their soccer team and the fact that the name sounds very very beautiful after being translated into Chinese.

    But now I've been to both Holland and Switzerland. If I have to pick a place to live between the two, I'd pick Switzerland. But then again I'm just a boring guy. :)
     
  23. Gordon EF

    Gordon EF Moderator
    Staff Member

    Jan 15, 2004
    Edinburgh
    A an assesment which is incredibley wide of the mark. More Scots (1st and 2nd generation I assume) live outwith Scotland than in it.

    Scots get themselves all over the place. I'm not extensively travelled myself but I have been to Belgium, I wouldn't call it boring but it does have that reputation over here and frankly, all the "Super-cool" Euro nightclubs in the world won't change that.;)

    As for being stingy, if only, maybe if I was, I wouldn't have had to go to the bank to get an over-draft this morning.:)
     
  24. demon_dave

    demon_dave New Member

    Nov 30, 2004
    Melbourne, Australia
    boring? you gotta be kidding, there's nothing boring down here
     
  25. demon_dave

    demon_dave New Member

    Nov 30, 2004
    Melbourne, Australia
    If i had the money would live in London, lived there for 5 years in the late eighties but expensive
     

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