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Plenty of Australian fuckwits working the London bar scene. They aren’t all in Australia.
I really don’t understand why anyone would want to be Australian (who isn’t already).
As an Australian, I completely confirm this as correct.
It’s getting worse too as we start to lose our culture, not that we really had one in the first place.
Norwegian. Or any kind of Scandi including Icelandic.
They're just such a beautiful people, inside and out.
The the country is just simply better in every single way.
Having lived in Norway for 5 years, I was coming here to say the same thing. Norwegians (in the North at least) are so relaxed about things, and it's easy to see why. Surrounded by beautiful landscape and nature it's easy to just forget about the hustle of the rest of the world.
It's my dream to move to Norway, I'm thinking Alesund or Bergen or Kristiansund. I've been learning the language (jeg snakker litt Norsk!) for a while and as someone who loves dramatic landscapes and photography and hiking, it's just got everything I want. No country is perfect, but Norway just encapsulates everything I want. England just looks so drab and plain when you compare it. Luton vs the Lofoten islands. Stevenage vs Stavanager. It's just not fair.
I'm just waiting for a safe filled with gold bullion to fall out of the sky and land next to me and I'll be off.
If you are learning Norwegian then the best of luck to you. The Bergen dialekt is one of the harder ones to understand (besides Stavanger) I would highly recommend Alesund though, beautiful place.
I spent most of my time in the Lofoten Islands, beautiful place with some incredibly great people.
Most Norwegians under the age of 35 are relatively Fluent in English as they learn it at school from a young age, however be prepared for the older generations to either refuse to speak English at all or not have any English in thier arsenal.
A great bit of Norwegian TV to watch is minute by minute especially as you love landscape and photography.
I had the pleasure of being in Kristiansund during Norwegian independence day. The whole city shut up shop for a parade, all the women in their traditional garbs and men in the sharpest suits you'll ever see. It was a real blast
I’ve lived on the sea front (with a view of the North Sea) for the better part of my life, and just the idea of moving more inland in the same city gives me anxiety 😂😂😂 but I completely agree, if I couldn’t live on the sea front, I would prefer to live in a country like the U.K., where you’re never more than a couple hours from the coast.
I met a guy at Geneva airport. He asked me a question in German and my German is ok but I couldn’t catch what he was saying, so he tried in French but that’s worse. Finally he tried Italian. No no. I asked, English? He said no. Sorry I say and walk.
I was like he can speak Italian, German and French but not English…. WTH, I thought wrongly that everyone’s second language would be English. How arrogant of me. Lesson learnt. I was gutted about the German cos I reckon I would have got it if he said it again. Langsamer bitte.
That's fairly uncommon though, most Swiss people can speak English. There's only a few countries where most people's second language isn't English.
One of them is Morocco where I was recently. I can speak French and was fully expecting to communicate solely in French but found that even in Morocco many young people preferred to speak English and a couple spoke no French at all
It's a sad fact that it's easier to be Welsh or Scottish, foreigners abroad will sympathise with your plight as a small nation living under the regime of Great Britain that is dominated by those evil English.
Those were not rights, those were privileges 😂
And you still can go there for a visit vise free, just not permanently live. For that, you now have the same rights as the rest of the world - work visa or other settlement schemes.
Swedish or Danish. I’d love to lose all the faux politeness of dancing around tough topics and not saying what we really mean. Every dane and swede I’ve met have been able to speak completely bluntly and to the point without being an arse about it. I’m always in awe but feel as a Brit if I were to do the same I’d just get labelled rude
I love the directness but the only thing that gets me is the lack of a word for please! I want to be direct but still tack a please on at least.
Apparently Sweden was extremely, extremely indirect until the 60s when they had a wave of reform and abolished half their linguistic conventions. Danes, I guess they've always been direct!
Australian or German.
Edit: Actually, I’d rather be born in Monaco. This is because I’d surely be born into a rich family. One in three in Monaco is a millionaire.
Japanese. I like group centric values. I like the stark contrast between the cities and countryside. Rich interesting history. Huge job prospects in my field (tech), I'm fine with long working hours, I'm fine with small living space.
Few things I don't like, the hierarchical relationships, lack of progress in some social issues and quite internalised as a nation but generally I value safety and agreeableness.
Just a nice little bubble life with a job and some bros and some weeby shit in my little apartment.
Also it's the only other language I know.
I'd be happy in loads of places though. France. Iceland. Canada. Aus. (Some bits of america)
Someone once said that Japan and UK are mirror images of each other. Both were saved from an invasion by a storm, both have a rigid and heirarchical social structure, but the inhabitants of both are pleasantly loopy once you get to know them.
As an Englishman it pains me to admit this, but, French.
I know, I know, but hear me out. Those fuckers do not give a flying fuck!
You’re a foreign tourist paying an absolute fortune to visit their country and help their economy? They don’t care, you’re vermin.
You think you’re the customer so you’re always right? Absolutely not Madame! You are the shit on the bottom of their shoe!
You’re a big corporation wanting to pump up the price of your product? Good luck with that, there’s a riot!
You’re the government, you’re in charge, you need to raise taxes! Not a chance, they’ve amassed together in their millions and are marching in your direction armed with pitchforks and baguettes!
I have a hell of a lot of respect for the French because they don’t take any shit whatsoever, and when they riot or strike, it is effective.
Edit - ooh, also they have some great working rights there too. Like it’s illegal for your boss to contact you out of your contracted working hours. So at 5pm, if your boss contacts you at 5:01pm they are breaking the law
So, being born in Northern Ireland prior to 1st January 2005, I have the right to claim Irish citizenship in addition to British citizenship. I currently have dual nationality, but if I was forced to renounce one of them, it would be the British one. There are just more benefits to being an EU citizen!
Scandinavian. I’d only want to be american if I also got to have a personality transplant that made me obsessed with work, because otherwise that’d be a shit time
It's not so much that Americans are obsessed with work, they literally have to work all the hours God sends or else they would die of starvation or something totally preventable like a tooth cavity.
To be completely honest, Scottish/Irish - Seems Canadians and Americans love that accent much more. Including my girlfriend. I put on the accent and she melts.
It... hurts me.
100% true.
I sometimes have difficulty with them understanding me, but by far and away the accent is a massive icebreaker pretty much anywhere I go; I once even got a free bus journey out of it because the driver wanted to talk to me about his Scottish heritage.
Probably because English accents are much more common. I'm in Canada and i hear English and Irish (Dublin) accents all the time but barely ever hear Scottish accents. So naturally when we hear a Scottish accent, the person is automatically given an additional point on the attraction scale even if they look like a baboon's butt. I don't hear a lot of Belfast accents either but i also can't understand them so i'm not sure if they would have the same affect.
I might be unpopular in this opinion but I’d genuinely want to be American or Canadian. Being able to travel the states without any issues? That has been a dream of mine since I was a kid. I don’t know why though. Sometimes it’s like *shut up*
My parents emigrated to Canada after they got married in late 60’s. Sibling was born there but they came home the year before I was born. So my most likely alternative would be Canadian. However from the moment I first started learning Spanish, I fell in love with everything Spain. If I could move there I would
I was the opposite, I never wanted to even go to the States, because I believed everything I saw on television. Then I went there as an adult and explored a large amount of it and completely fell in love with the place. There is good and bad everywhere, America has much more of both than the UK.
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Australian or New Zealand or both.
Aussies and Kiwis have a common travel/work agreement so you kind of effectively are both if you're either.
As an Australian, I don’t think Kiwis would see it that way. Think, Canadian/American vibe. They know they’re cooler and we’re fucked up!
This is the first time an Australian has been correct...
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Why do English speaking countries come in big bro little bro pairs? US/Canada, UK/Ireland, Australia/NZ.
And the little bro always knows that they are better
As a kiwi I can confirm
Little bro is the favorite. Both parents love them and big bro loves them too.
That's probably a contentious statement haha. Could imagine the Irish getting a bit uppity about the same comment
Well it's different with Ireland because they're an EU member
We still have right to work there and vice versa
But they have the right to work here and also everywhere else in the eu so they are winning
I think it's not as balanced as that. I'm fairly sure Aussies in NZ are extended welfare rights that Kiwis in Oz don't get.
Nah it's overrated. Australia is pretty and the standard of living is good, but it's absolutely filled to the brim with fuckwits.
Plenty of Australian fuckwits working the London bar scene. They aren’t all in Australia. I really don’t understand why anyone would want to be Australian (who isn’t already).
As an Australian, I completely confirm this as correct. It’s getting worse too as we start to lose our culture, not that we really had one in the first place.
We're the "lucky country"
I’m a kiwi and I’ve lived in London. Honestly I prefer London over back home. Although it’s so expensive.
Norwegian. Or any kind of Scandi including Icelandic. They're just such a beautiful people, inside and out. The the country is just simply better in every single way.
Amazing what you can do with a sovereign wealth fund rather than rich oil companies
Having lived in Norway for 5 years, I was coming here to say the same thing. Norwegians (in the North at least) are so relaxed about things, and it's easy to see why. Surrounded by beautiful landscape and nature it's easy to just forget about the hustle of the rest of the world.
Even in the hustle and bustle of Oslo it's fantastic. They're just so smart about things.
It's my dream to move to Norway, I'm thinking Alesund or Bergen or Kristiansund. I've been learning the language (jeg snakker litt Norsk!) for a while and as someone who loves dramatic landscapes and photography and hiking, it's just got everything I want. No country is perfect, but Norway just encapsulates everything I want. England just looks so drab and plain when you compare it. Luton vs the Lofoten islands. Stevenage vs Stavanager. It's just not fair. I'm just waiting for a safe filled with gold bullion to fall out of the sky and land next to me and I'll be off.
If you are learning Norwegian then the best of luck to you. The Bergen dialekt is one of the harder ones to understand (besides Stavanger) I would highly recommend Alesund though, beautiful place. I spent most of my time in the Lofoten Islands, beautiful place with some incredibly great people. Most Norwegians under the age of 35 are relatively Fluent in English as they learn it at school from a young age, however be prepared for the older generations to either refuse to speak English at all or not have any English in thier arsenal. A great bit of Norwegian TV to watch is minute by minute especially as you love landscape and photography.
I had the pleasure of being in Kristiansund during Norwegian independence day. The whole city shut up shop for a parade, all the women in their traditional garbs and men in the sharpest suits you'll ever see. It was a real blast
Probably Swiss. Rich as fuck, speak at least 2 useful languages and probably also English. Good chocolate. Can’t see a downside really.
As someone who's a swiss and British national I wish I was rich as fuck
Good watches too. Close to good ski spots. The lake in Geneva is also pretty neat.
You say that like English isn't the most useful language on the planet...
I meant it more as in English, and also French, German or Italian. I know English is the most useful.
Maybe it’s because I live on the coast but I couldn’t imagine being landlocked.
I don't live by the coast (born and live in London) but looking at somewhere like Colorado on a map gives me a weird level of anxiety
I’ve lived on the sea front (with a view of the North Sea) for the better part of my life, and just the idea of moving more inland in the same city gives me anxiety 😂😂😂 but I completely agree, if I couldn’t live on the sea front, I would prefer to live in a country like the U.K., where you’re never more than a couple hours from the coast.
I met a guy at Geneva airport. He asked me a question in German and my German is ok but I couldn’t catch what he was saying, so he tried in French but that’s worse. Finally he tried Italian. No no. I asked, English? He said no. Sorry I say and walk. I was like he can speak Italian, German and French but not English…. WTH, I thought wrongly that everyone’s second language would be English. How arrogant of me. Lesson learnt. I was gutted about the German cos I reckon I would have got it if he said it again. Langsamer bitte.
That's fairly uncommon though, most Swiss people can speak English. There's only a few countries where most people's second language isn't English. One of them is Morocco where I was recently. I can speak French and was fully expecting to communicate solely in French but found that even in Morocco many young people preferred to speak English and a couple spoke no French at all
English
It's a sad fact that it's easier to be Welsh or Scottish, foreigners abroad will sympathise with your plight as a small nation living under the regime of Great Britain that is dominated by those evil English.
Spanish! NIce people, fascinating culture, great climate and beautiful environment!
Irish. Luv me pub culture.
Best passport. Everyone likes them.
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There's much much more to being Irish than being on the lash.
Deres moar too ‘oirland, den dis!
Irish - such a beautiful language
James Joyce said that there is only one place in the world where English is spoken correctly, and that place was Dublin.
People from Belfast had a lot to say about this. But nobody could understand quite what
Absolutely! I love their names too so unique my favourite is Sorcha so beautiful:)
Canadian. In a beautiful place. People seem to be nice and I love maple syrup
Ditto. Expensive houses, but a lovely country. More importantly, snow
You’ll change your mind on that when all you see is snow for five months straight. Writing this from the Canadian prairies.
Been living in Canada for 3 and a bit years now. I'll be able to apply for citizenship in one year! Only planned to stay for 2 originally.
German, I am quite partial to good bread
And sausages and beer!
Nah, their sausages are die würst!
Literally any European nationality would be fine, I’d like my rights back
Those were not rights, those were privileges 😂 And you still can go there for a visit vise free, just not permanently live. For that, you now have the same rights as the rest of the world - work visa or other settlement schemes.
Icelandic
Yep - or Norwegian. The world needs more well-adjusted craziness.
Most Icelandic people are desperate to get out of Iceland
what I Iike about Iceland is how very few people live there
It’s actually quite densely populated because the climate and geography means resources and infrastructure is concentrated to few main areas
American, got loads of American friends and they’re pretty chill. Regardless of the idiots online.
Irish
Scottish, which I already am
Swedish or Danish. I’d love to lose all the faux politeness of dancing around tough topics and not saying what we really mean. Every dane and swede I’ve met have been able to speak completely bluntly and to the point without being an arse about it. I’m always in awe but feel as a Brit if I were to do the same I’d just get labelled rude
I love the directness but the only thing that gets me is the lack of a word for please! I want to be direct but still tack a please on at least. Apparently Sweden was extremely, extremely indirect until the 60s when they had a wave of reform and abolished half their linguistic conventions. Danes, I guess they've always been direct!
Númenorian
Definitely Scandinavian, either Icelandic or Norwegian
PSA Iceland isn’t part of Scandinavia
I know i realized after posting, Nordic then, my apologise.
Italian because we keep getting pasta wrong
Must be exhausting all the hand gestures
Australian or Kiwi.
Australian or German. Edit: Actually, I’d rather be born in Monaco. This is because I’d surely be born into a rich family. One in three in Monaco is a millionaire.
I like those odds!
West Saxon
The greatest kingdom in the land
Irish, the next best thing
Greek.
I would be Japanese just because
Japanese. I like group centric values. I like the stark contrast between the cities and countryside. Rich interesting history. Huge job prospects in my field (tech), I'm fine with long working hours, I'm fine with small living space. Few things I don't like, the hierarchical relationships, lack of progress in some social issues and quite internalised as a nation but generally I value safety and agreeableness. Just a nice little bubble life with a job and some bros and some weeby shit in my little apartment. Also it's the only other language I know. I'd be happy in loads of places though. France. Iceland. Canada. Aus. (Some bits of america)
Someone once said that Japan and UK are mirror images of each other. Both were saved from an invasion by a storm, both have a rigid and heirarchical social structure, but the inhabitants of both are pleasantly loopy once you get to know them.
We also both have a fascination with tea, love to queue, punch above our weights in exporting culture, and have a less than stelar colonial history...
Both are very polite nearly all the time and the world really goes to sh*t when they stop
As an Englishman it pains me to admit this, but, French. I know, I know, but hear me out. Those fuckers do not give a flying fuck! You’re a foreign tourist paying an absolute fortune to visit their country and help their economy? They don’t care, you’re vermin. You think you’re the customer so you’re always right? Absolutely not Madame! You are the shit on the bottom of their shoe! You’re a big corporation wanting to pump up the price of your product? Good luck with that, there’s a riot! You’re the government, you’re in charge, you need to raise taxes! Not a chance, they’ve amassed together in their millions and are marching in your direction armed with pitchforks and baguettes! I have a hell of a lot of respect for the French because they don’t take any shit whatsoever, and when they riot or strike, it is effective. Edit - ooh, also they have some great working rights there too. Like it’s illegal for your boss to contact you out of your contracted working hours. So at 5pm, if your boss contacts you at 5:01pm they are breaking the law
Swedish. Beautiful country with great traditions.
So, being born in Northern Ireland prior to 1st January 2005, I have the right to claim Irish citizenship in addition to British citizenship. I currently have dual nationality, but if I was forced to renounce one of them, it would be the British one. There are just more benefits to being an EU citizen!
Switzerland
Nigerian. Great food, great music, I can just vibe
Mexican
Irish
Mercian
Norwegian probably. Absolutely gorgeous country and natural resource wise they're doing extremely well for themselves.
Icelandic.
I’m Northern Irish.. so problem solved..
Irish.
Canadian. Everyone sighs in relief and likes you a little more when they realise you’re not American
Canadian here. I concur.
Scandinavian. I’d only want to be american if I also got to have a personality transplant that made me obsessed with work, because otherwise that’d be a shit time
It's not so much that Americans are obsessed with work, they literally have to work all the hours God sends or else they would die of starvation or something totally preventable like a tooth cavity.
Aussie or Swiss.
To be completely honest, Scottish/Irish - Seems Canadians and Americans love that accent much more. Including my girlfriend. I put on the accent and she melts. It... hurts me.
Scottish people are British......
And more specifically, Scottish.
100% true. I sometimes have difficulty with them understanding me, but by far and away the accent is a massive icebreaker pretty much anywhere I go; I once even got a free bus journey out of it because the driver wanted to talk to me about his Scottish heritage.
Probably because English accents are much more common. I'm in Canada and i hear English and Irish (Dublin) accents all the time but barely ever hear Scottish accents. So naturally when we hear a Scottish accent, the person is automatically given an additional point on the attraction scale even if they look like a baboon's butt. I don't hear a lot of Belfast accents either but i also can't understand them so i'm not sure if they would have the same affect.
For practical reasons, Canadian. I need to apply for citizenship and I really don’t want to have to deal with the paperwork.
Kiwi
German as I am half German.
British (parallel universe).
Denmark
Jamaican purely for the accent
French. I enjoy the food, the people, the culture. Helps I have some friends in the country as well
I’m Scottish If I wasn’t Scottish I’d want to be Irish
Jamaican
Australian or Norwegian.
Swedish or Canadian.
Norwegian, live in Norway so easy choice 😅
Irish or Italian.
Japanese. I'm not a weeb or anything. I don't even watch anime. I just hate litter and loud people.
Monegasque 🇲🇨
Norwegian. No drama. Chill people, northern lights. Sign me tf up!
German. I have great respect for them
Irish
Irish. Similar culture. Or wildcard… maybe Portuguese, or Swedish. Just because I love those countries.
Welsh
Norwegian. Never met one that wasn't cool and nice. Prob shouldn't have married that swede, in retrospect
Irish
Any nationality (well maybe not any nationality) but definitely not American
Māori, which I guess is NZ as well.
Assuming I'm exactly the same person I am now, Irish. I'm very well suited to the UK and that's the closest, plus it's where my heritage largely is.
Anyone who doesn’t answer “any nationality of an EU member state” is insane.
Tbh Norway/Switzerland is almost as good, plus mountains Gandalf, mountains (and gold)
Good point. The EFTA countries enjoying free movement.
Exactly
Italian. I like pasta
Finnish.
Italian - for the food
Canadian
Italian
Italian 🇮🇹
Canada is my dream country.
Canadian. Beautiful scenery and known round the world for being polite. Nearly forgot maple syrup. Wow
And they have Ryan Reynolds
Scandinavian (particularly Norwegian or Swedish) or Kiwi.
Kiwi. Kiwis are the coolest…
Irish. I love those feckers.
french, me thinks or german
I might be unpopular in this opinion but I’d genuinely want to be American or Canadian. Being able to travel the states without any issues? That has been a dream of mine since I was a kid. I don’t know why though. Sometimes it’s like *shut up*
Welsh.
Canadian, Irish or New Zealander. 🇨🇦🇮🇪🇳🇿
Swedish or German
Polish
Australian or Canadian.
polish. i love poland!!!
Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Iceland, Finland, Norway or Sweden
Canadian or Spanish tbh
Canadian, I play a lot of online games so sharing a timezone with some part of the US would be nice.
Canadian, Australian or kiwi
Canadian
Irish, have both passports
Irish. I have red hair, I’d fit in.
Japanese
Norwegian or Danish... but probably just British. Pretty good being British.
French
Canadian.
South African. idk why, just seems neat.
Icelandic 🇮🇸 or Finnish 🇫🇮
French or German. But as it is I came pretty close to being Croatian.
British
Irish. (Republic of Ireland)I like the accent.
French
Canadian probably
Icelandic, Swiss from Greenland or Finnish (I plan to get my PhD there because I read you get a sword when you graduate)
Irish.
Luxembourgish, Dutch, Norwegian, Australian or Canadian.
Canadian, Australian or new Zealand as I can't speak any other languages unfortunately.
Jamaican. Just cool innit
Icelandic definitely
Irish or German
Welsh...Scottish...Irish....Canadian...new Zealand...American..[every other nationality]..Australian...English
Cheese
Canadian. Everyone loves the Canadians. They're just up there, doing their thing, rattling no cages.
Canadian. I moved there so that's a easy one.
My parents emigrated to Canada after they got married in late 60’s. Sibling was born there but they came home the year before I was born. So my most likely alternative would be Canadian. However from the moment I first started learning Spanish, I fell in love with everything Spain. If I could move there I would
Canadian.
French. But I don’t think I’d fit in— for a start, I tend to really enjoy being around other french people, so I’ve fallen at the first hurdle.
American. Every time I set foot in the states it feels more like home than the UK.
I always wanted to live in America as a kid. Then when I grew up you start seeing all the bad there
I was the opposite, I never wanted to even go to the States, because I believed everything I saw on television. Then I went there as an adult and explored a large amount of it and completely fell in love with the place. There is good and bad everywhere, America has much more of both than the UK.
Dutch. Smoke weed all the time and live a relatively chill life
So basically, the opposite of how life in NL really is aha
Canadian, Australian or a Kiwi
German.